Sentences with phrase «firearms in a number of years»

«Many people, especially senior citizens, have not used their firearms in a number of years, but they're still pistol permit holders.

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«Firearm - related deaths are the third leading cause of death overall among U.S. children aged 1 to 17 years, surpassing the number of deaths from pediatric congenital anomalies, heart disease, influenza and / or pneumonia, chronic lower respiratory disease, and cerebrovascular causes,» wrote the CDC in its report.

According to the FBI, the number of background checks of prospective firearms buyers, a proxy for gun sales, fell again in January compared to a year earlier, continuing a trend of declines for nearly every month in 2017.

There has been a 20 per cent rise in the number of young people prosecuted for firearms offences over the past five years, with reports that children as young as eight are now using guns to solve disputes.

At a press conference Friday, Fitzpatrick flipped through a number of social media posts in Syracuse that show 15 -, 16 - and 17 - year - olds all holding what look like real firearms.

The number of law enforcement officers killed by firearms in the US jumped by 56 percent this year and included 15 ambush assaults, according to a new report.

BASC's firearms team has broken its own record for the number of calls and queries dealt with in a year.

The number of firearms officers has increased in recent years, rising from 5,763 in 2002 - 03 to 6,243 last year, but gun crime is also on the rise, with the latest Home Office figures showing an increase of six per cent on the previous year.

Firearms were involved in 1,206 more serious incidents of violence against the person - not including murder - last year than in 2003 - 04, although the number of firearm robberies fell by nine per cent over the same period.

A $ 100 - per - firearm federal sales tax would help stem the flow of illegal weapons into New York, reducing the number of gun - related deaths such as those of the four NYPD officers killed in the past year, Rep. Nydia Velázquez said Monday.

The number of firearm - related violent crimes has decreased statewide each year since 2012, the first year New York City was included in the data.

The NYPD doubled the number of officers assigned the celebration to 3,400, from 1,700 last year; positioned 45 surveillance cameras in the neighborhood; deployed more than 250 floodlights atop portable towers, and held a «gun buyback» event in which nearly 60 firearms were surrendered, no questions asked.

But hey since the average time to crime rate per the ATF in the US is 14 years, the number of felons buying their firearms from licensed dealers continues to fall 1994 14 % to 2008 5.96 %, and the poster child of all gun control laws is enforced less than 1 % of the time, alowing all but 13,024 felons out of just under 1 million of those rejected to go free and acquire their firearms from an unlicensed source is such startling evidence of how INEFFECTIVE our legal system is.

Nine thousand years ago, they survived frigid year - round temperatures in animal - skin tents some 500 kilometers north of what is now the Russian mainland, and they were the only people ever known to hunt large numbers of polar bears without firearms.

Nine thousand years ago, they survived frigid year - round temperatures in animal - skin tents some 500 kilometers north of what is now the Russian mainland, and they were the only people ever known to hunt large numbers of polar bears without firearms.

Violence against people fell by 1 % — the first fall in that category in eight years — and the number of police recorded crimes involving firearms dropped by 13 %.