Sentences with phrase «for gun crimes»

The plan would also sharply increase sentences for gun crimes, create new employer outreach programs in poor areas and increase funding for religious charities.

Heavy - handed enforcement and severe penalties for gun crimes and the like are a good start.

Convicts who were allowed to buy guns before the law passed were nearly 30 percent more likely to be arrested later for a gun crime or other violent act compared with convicts who tried, but were unable, to buy guns after the law was passed.

The new Liberal government has already expressed a desire to revisit this controversial approach to sentencing though unwinding laws that guarantee longer jail terms for gun crimes and child abusers may prove an unpopular move even to Trudeau's broad base of supporters.

I suppose unconstitutional sentencing laws for gun crimes are less funny and more politically problematic than crime comics and witchcraft.

Liberal leadership candidate Marc Garneau, for one, preferred harsher penalties for gun crime (although for some reason he emphasized long guns), no access to firearms for those with a history of spousal abuse or gang involvement, and better interdiction at the Canadian border.

The Senate is controlled by a coalition of Republicans and five Democrats, which passed an early test last week in allowing a vote on the gun control law that included increased sentencing for gun crimes.