Sentences with phrase «checks on ammunition»

When John Flanagan edged out John DeFrancisco to become the State Senate leader, he promised to move a bill modifying the law to eliminate background checks on ammunition and allow for the inheritance of newly banned «assault weapons.»

The New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement, or SAFE Act, includes a ban on all pre-1994 high capacity ammunition magazines, a ban on any magazine that holds over 7 rounds, and real - time background checks on ammunition purchases to alert law enforcement of high volume purchasing.

Cuomo said he won't rush for the completion of a stalled database for background checks on ammunition sales that was part of New York's controversial gun - control law in 2013.»

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Connecticut expanded a ban on assault weapons, prohibited the sale of high - capacity ammunition magazines and imposed stricter background checks on gun purchases after 20 children and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012.

Firearms, firearms parts and ammunition are not permitted on carry - on bags, but can be transported in checked bags if they are unloaded, the TSA adds.

That law — which Senate Republican leadership supported, but many GOP state senators opposed — enacted universal background checks, restrictions on assault weapons, restrictions on the capacity of ammunition magazines, among other provisions.

In a statement from the speaker on Friday night, Heastie knocked the two - way agreement with Senate Republicans and the Cuomo administration to block an proposed database for ammunition purchasers to undergo a background check.

Last night, during his first extended interview on CapTon since he became speaker back in February, Carl Heastie said his conference will be following the Senate Democrats» lead, and won't seek a legal remedy to the MOU that seems to indefinitely delay creation of a database to be used for ammunition sale background checks.

The proposals would end the ban on giving long guns as gifts to relatives and pistol permit holders, repeal a provision in the law that limits 10 - round magazines to seven rounds and end the requirement for ammunition retailers to register with the state and provide background checks on customers.

The UK's largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has challenged a North Wales Police plan to carry out spot checks on legally held firearms and ammunition in breach of Government guidelines and without consulting stakeholders.

The law, known as the SAFE Act, expanded the state's ban on purchasing new assault weapons, established more comprehensive background checks for gun and ammunition purchases, and toughened laws against illegal gun possession.

Republican Sen. James Seward, a critic of the so - called «SAFE Act,» said Friday a moratorium on Internet sales of ammunition will be lifted and development of a statewide database requiring background checks for ammunition buyers is being suspended.

The measure, carried by Senator Jim Seward, would do four things: Repeal a requirement — which has yet to be implemented — requiring background checks on people buying ammunition; make it easier for people to will banned «assault weapons» to family members; provide notification and an appeals process for people identified as a mental health risk; and restrict some data on pistol permits.

The new law expanded the ban on automatic weapons and big ammunition magazines and requires background checks for private gun sales, changes that are an improvement to public safety.

Bloomberg's group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, backed the gun control package, which expanded background checks on gun purchases and limited the size of ammunition magazines, that passed the legislature earlier this year.

Among other goals, the president said he aims to require a «universal background check» for everyone buying a gun (about 40 % of gun sales are not covered now), a prohibition on the sale of «military - style assault weapons,» a ban on high - capacity ammunition magazines that can hold more than 10 bullets, and a push for better mental health care.

Legislatures have numerous policy options for the regulation of weapons that are consistent with the Second Amendment, including universal background checks, purchase waiting periods, increasing age limits, restrictions on military style weapons and high - capacity ammunition magazines.

I'm focused on changing the law, on making sure that people who shouldn't have guns can't get them, and making sure that we do something to reduce gun violence, which primarily needs to be done thorough access to weapons, ammunition, and closing all the background check loopholes,» she said.