Sentences with phrase «gun and ammunition purchases»

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.

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A $ 200 million buyback program led to the government's purchase of 162,000 guns and 700 tons of ammunition from citizens.

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.

The memorandum of understanding reached by Senate Republicans and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to not enact an ammunition purchasing database was a common - sense reform to the controversial SAFE Act gun control law.

The law's most controversial provisions were an expansion of the state's «assault weapons» ban, creation of an ammunition purchase database, and a prohibition on placing more than seven bullets in a gun magazine.

Mentally Disabled Veterans and Guns — Vote Passed (240 - 175, 14 Not Voting) The bill would clarify the conditions under which individuals who receive federal benefits from the Veterans Affairs Department (VA) may be declared mentally incompetent for purposes of being added to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and thereby prevented from purchasing guns or ammunition — requiring that an affirmative declaration be made by a judge that the person is dangerGuns — Vote Passed (240 - 175, 14 Not Voting) The bill would clarify the conditions under which individuals who receive federal benefits from the Veterans Affairs Department (VA) may be declared mentally incompetent for purposes of being added to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and thereby prevented from purchasing guns or ammunition — requiring that an affirmative declaration be made by a judge that the person is dangerguns or ammunition — requiring that an affirmative declaration be made by a judge that the person is dangerous.

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.

Consider him against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, his fellow Democrat who pushed through an omnibus gun control bill that restricted ammunition purchases, broadened the definition of banned assault weapons and required mental health professionals to report potentially dangerous patients to officials.

Many of the preferred measures stayed about the same, but bans on assault weapons and large - capacity magazines or restrictions on ammunition purchases were determined to have more of an effect on mass shootings than everyday gun violence.