Sentences with phrase «gun buyback»

The planned gun buyback program in the City of Newburgh has been pushed back from the original December timeframe because participation is being expanded.

The only way the pipeline could be stopped, then, is if all states individually strengthen their gun laws or if the federal government passes a law that enforces stricter rules, from universal background checks like Chicago's to mandatory gun buyback programs like Australia's, across all states.

The Observer further noted that New York City Public Advocate Letitia James was quick to back up Ms. Herman's assertions stating, «I've been involved in gun buybacks for ten years.

Other steps would be to expand gun buyback programs and ban individuals convicted of hate crimes from purchasing or possessing guns.

A month ago in this space, I raised the idea of establishing a local gun buyback program similar to those that have been established around the nation in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.

A massive gun buyback program at various locations throughout the Bronx has been announced for next Saturday, January 23rd.

«From closing the gun show loophole to sponsoring gun buyback programs to equipping police officers with a lifesaving heroin antidote and bullet proof vests, Attorney General Schneiderman is using every tool at his disposal to support the men and women who put themselves in harm's way every day to protect us and reduce crime,» he concluded.

In New York, Orange County officials say more than 300 unwanted or illegal weapons were turned in during a recent gun buyback program.

Do gun buybacks save lives?

Australia has seen zero mass shootings in the 20 years since it enacted strict gun control laws and a mandatory gun buyback program, researchers report June 22 in JAMA.

Organized in conjunction with the New Orleans - based citywide contemporary art biennial Prospect 3, the show features work from over 30 artists who used decommissioned handguns and rifles taken from the streets of New Orleans via the New Orleans Police Department's gun buyback program as their inspiration.

It's difficult to know for sure how much of the drop in homicides and suicides was caused specifically by the gun buyback program.

But researchers David Hemenway and Mary Vriniotis argue that the gun buyback program very likely played a role: «First, the drop in firearm deaths was largest among the type of firearms most affected by the buyback.

The Australian government confiscated 650,000 of these guns through a gun buyback program, in which it purchased firearms from gun owners.

It's difficult to know for sure how much of the drop in homicides and suicides was caused specifically by the gun buyback program and other legal changes.

October 26, 2015 (readMedia)-- The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association would like to comment on Rochester City Council President Loretta Scott's promotion of a so - called «gun buyback» program.

THE BRONX — A gun buyback program planned for early August will give Bronxites the opportunity to get money for their firearms — no questions asked, police said.

As an aside, gun buybacks are also current U. S. policy in Iraq.

Tournament raises money for 8 athletic scholarships for Yonkers students, promotes city's gun buyback program and anti-drag racing legislation

Muller started the gun buyback program, sponsored by the Albany County Distric Attorney's Office, in 2008.

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.

He called for common sense gun legislation and a gun buyback program.

Take Australia: In 1996, the country enacted strict laws and a gun buyback program after a mass shooting killed 35 people in Tasmania.

In fact, questions loom about the impact of all sorts of policies, from background checks to assault weapons bans to gun buybacks.

Surrendered handguns are piled in a bin during a gun buyback event in Los Angeles on May 31, 2014.

Sachs and his assistants would make similar guns and sell them back to the city as part of New York's gun buyback program (for up to $ 300 each).

This was my second experience with a gun buyback that week.

I drove to a gun buyback on Saturday in St. Roch organized as a Prospect satellite event by Kirsha Kaechele, a controversial figure in this city, who championed the New Orleans arts scene directly after Katrina by buying houses around the Bywater district and using them for art installations, only to retreat to Tasmania, «leaving thousands in unpaid property tax bills and liens behind,» in the words of the Times - Picayune.

One such artist is Kirsha Kaechele, who has organized a gun buyback at a local carwash as a work of performance art.