Sentences with phrase «federal gun restrictions»
«In fact, she's already called for higher taxes on individuals and small businesses; she supports an energy plan that would increase our electricity costs; she promises a single - payer health care system that would further destroy our health care and economy; and she wants to force federal gun restrictions that would take away the Second Amendment rights of law - abiding citizens.»
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The Senator sponsored the legislation in order to ensure New York teachers are not required to carry firearms in the classroom — if federal restrictions on guns in school zones were to be lifted, Saturday's legislation would prohibit the restriction from being lifted.
When asked about state gun control legislation, he added: «The federal government has restrictions on a lot of these specific types of weapons... It's a 50 - state problem.
Maloney's announcement about the bill, co-sponsored by an array of congressional representatives, said it would «release federal agencies from the restrictions placed on them in 1996 that have prohibited these agencies from conducting high - quality, peer - reviewed research into gun violence prevention.»
Instead he advocates three steps informed by research: requiring background checks for all U.S. gun sales, forbidding alcohol abusers and those convicted of violent misdemeanors from buying guns, and rewriting current federal restrictions on gun ownership to better capture people who are mentally ill and at risk of violence to themselves or others.
Commissioner Roberto Martinez, a former federal prosecutor, proposed an amendment that mirrored gun restrictions imposed by a new Florida law, which raised the minimum age from 18 to 21 and imposed a three - day waiting period to purchase long guns, such as the one used by Cruz.