Sentences with phrase «capacity rifle magazines»

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He also laid out four other measures for Congress to consider: preventing people on the no - fly list from purchasing firearms, subjecting every gun buyer to a full background check, banning high - capacity magazines, and increasing the minimum age requirement to buy a rifle to 21.

The company also called on lawmakers to pass «common sense gun reform,» including the banning of assault rifles, high - capacity magazines, and bump stocks, enact universal background checks, and more.

Assault rifles and large capacity magazines are «an inherent danger to schools, workplaces and communities when such weapons are misused,» FedEx said in the statement.

Protesters are demanding protection from gun violence, including a ban on assault weapons such as the rifle used in Parkland, a prohibition on high - capacity magazines that let killers shoot long bursts without reloading, and more effective background checks for gun purchases.

«FedEx views assault rifles and large capacity magazines as an inherent potential danger to schools, workplaces, and communities when such weapons are misused.

Sheryl Acquarola, a 16 year - old junior from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is overcome with emotion in the east gallery of the House of Representatives after the representatives voted not to hear the bill banning assault rifles and large capacity magazines.

As the Florida House opened its session Tuesday, Democratic Rep. Kionne McGhee asked for a procedural move that would have allowed it to consider a bill to ban assault rifles and large capacity magazines.

In a sign that tragedy often does not move the polarized debate over guns in society, Florida's House of Representatives voted Tuesday to kill a bill banning AR - 15 rifles, assault weapons and large capacity magazines.

Following a mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida high school in February, Dick's announced it would stop selling assault - style rifles and high - capacity magazines.

Dick's Sporting Goods is destroying all the unsold «assault - style rifles» and «high capacity» magazines which they pulled from shelves following the February 14 Parkland school shooting.

On February 28, 2018, Breitbart News reported Dick's announcement that they would no longer sell «assault - style rifles» or «high capacity» magazines.

Dick's also said that it would immediately end sales of all assault - style rifles and high - capacity magazines, while Walmart said that it would no longer sell items resembling assault - style rifles, even including air guns and toys.

The Memphis - based shipping courier noted that it does support restrictions of assault rifles and large capacity magazines.

Sheryl Acquarola, a 16 - year - old junior from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, is overcome with emotion in the east gallery of the state House of Representatives after the representatives voted not to hear a bill banning assault rifles and large - capacity magazines at the Capitol in Tallahassee on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018.

In addition, Dick's Sporting Goods announced it would stop selling assault - style rifles and high - capacity magazines in stores, and Walmart announced it would remove products «resembling assault - style rifles, including nonlethal airsoft guns and toys,» from its website.

At least three AR -15-style rifles were visible on the floor and on the furniture, along with at least a dozen high - capacity magazines, which can hold up to 100 rounds.

She is calling for laws that would limit access to high - capacity magazine firearms, like the AR - 15 assault - style rifle used by the shooter in Florida.

If the intruder is armed with an illegally obtained (stolen or black market) military - looking semi-automatic rifle with a high capacity magazine, should I not be allowed to meet him with equal defensive armament?

As a hunter, I would like to separate myself from people who would defend the need for rifles which (only) look like assault weapons and have large capacity magazines.

The Pennsylvania - based company announced Wednesday that it would stop selling assault - style rifles and high - capacity magazines — as well as any firearms to people under 21 — after the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.

Malliotakis voted for the SAFE Act, proposed by Governor Andrew Cuomo in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school killings, which implemented some restrictions and registration requirements on assault - style rifles and limited magazine capacity.

Cuomo put forward a list of proposed laws that include: implementing a ban on assault rifles and high capacity magazines, a single license standard across the state for background checks, closing the loophole on private sales, and an increased onus on mental health professionals to report at - risk individuals.

They're calling for stricter gun laws, including bans on assault rifles and high - capacity magazines and an end to background check loopholes.

A federal judge has upheld most of New York's new gun control law, rejecting arguments that its bans on large - capacity magazines and the sale of some semi-automatic rifles violate Second Amendment rights.

Legislative leaders in the Democrat - controlled General Assembly have already announced an ambitious gun - control agenda, including expansion of the state's existing assault weapons ban to cover the Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle and high - capacity ammunition magazines used by Adam Lanza in killing 20 first - graders and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The youth at Pathway, a school within East that works with students to help them graduate on time, went to support the Florida students who want a national ban on the sales of assault - style rifles and high - capacity magazines and want to close loopholes about sales of firearms at gun shows and on the Internet.

In Florida on Tuesday, the Republican - controlled State House rejected an effort to immediately consider a bill to ban large - capacity magazines and the type of assault rifles used in last week's attack, even as students from Stoneman Douglas High School watched from the gallery.

Weapons include a pistol, assault rifle, SMG with each weapon having unique attributes including magazine size for ammo capacity and how slow or quickly a weapon fires ranging from the pistol's single shot to the rapid fire of an assault rifle or SMG.

Anti-gun lawmakers insist that regulation must address issues such as stricter background checks, high - capacity magazines, banning assault style rifles, and prohibiting silencers.

Largely in response to mass shootings in places such as Newtown, Connecticut, Aurora, Colorado, Fort Hood, Texas, and Virginia Tech, in 2013, the General Assembly of Maryland enacted the Firearm Safety Act («FSA»), which bans military - style rifles and shotguns (referred to as «assault weapons») and detachable large - capacity magazines.

Despite the presence of the Douglas High students in attendance, the Florida House voted on 20 February 2018 not to consider a bill calling for a ban on assault rifles and high - capacity magazines for firearms.

Dick's Sporting Goods stopped selling assault - style rifles and high - capacity magazines to customers younger than 21 years old.

Survivors of the Parkland shooting quickly became the faces of a national conversation on gun control, and are lobbying lawmakers for more restrictive gun laws — including a ban on assault - style rifles and higher - capacity magazines.

Gun control advocates who have mobilized in the wake of the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School looked to a Broward County board Wednesday to allow county residents to vote on a ban on assault rifles and high - capacity gun magazines.

This proposal falls far short of what many students, parents and gun - control advocates are seeking, such as bans on assault rifles or high - capacity magazines.

Instead, Congress treats rapid - fire assault rifles and high - capacity magazines like a Second Amendment birthright, no matter how much suffering they inflict on our country.

No one knows whether Saturday's march will generate permanent change, yielding legislation to limit ownership of assault rifles, high - capacity magazines and other equipment that makes it easier to kill many people quickly.

A major retailer said it will stop selling assault - style rifles and high - capacity magazines, and ban guns sales to anyone under 21.

House Rep. Kionne McGhee of Miami invoked the Parkland shooting in requesting that HB 219 — which would ban AR - 15 rifles and other guns defined as «assault weapons» and large capacity magazines — be moved from committee to the House floor for questions, debate and a vote.

Those include a ban on bump stocks that turn semi-automatic rifles into machine gun - style weapons and a limit on high - capacity magazine clips.

While the students were watching in the gallery, the Florida House voted against discussing a ban on semi-automatic guns such as the AR - 15 rifle and large capacity magazines.

Specifically organizers demanded things like stricter background checks for gun purchases, a ban on semiautomatic weapons like the AR - 15 rifle, bulletproof doors and windows in schools, limiting the maximum capacity of magazines and support for those with mental illness.

Wasserman Schultz said their goal is to push for legislation to ban assault rifles and high - capacity magazines, and to get rid of the «loopholes» of the federal background check system.

As the Florida House opened its session Tuesday, Democratic Rep. Kionne McGhee asked for a procedural move that would have allowed it to consider a bill to ban assault rifles and large capacity magazines.

Sheryl Acquarola, a 16 year - old junior from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is overcome with emotion in the east gallery of the House of Representatives after the representatives voted not to hear the bill banning assault rifles and large capacity magazines.

The commission lacked the 10 - member quorum to take action on the proposals, which included banning assault rifles, banning high - capacity magazines, banning the sale of devices to turn an semi-automatic weapon into an automatic one and banning gun shows on county - owned property.

Democratic Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith pushed for bans on assault rifles and large capacity detachable magazines after the shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando.

Slated for discussion are local bans on assault - style rifles and high - capacity ammunition magazines, both carried by the Douglas High shooter, as well as bump stocks, the accessories used by the gunman in last year's Las Vegas massacre to make his semi-automatic weapons fire like machine guns.

The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida has once again ignited the public debate around assault rifles and large capacity magazines.