Sentences with phrase «gun purchasers from»

In addition to the waiting period, the new law includes raising the minimum age for gun purchasers from 18 to 21 and a ban on bump stocks — an add - on that can allow a semi-automatic weapon to fire like an automatic weapon with a single pull of the trigger.

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When Goepfert switches from purchaser to salesman, his job falls somewhere between gun dealer, money manager and antiquities expert.

At one point during the documentary, Couric asks representatives of the Virginia Citizens Defense League a question: «If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from purchasing a gun?»

Enforceable universal background checks, an end to gun trafficking, and prosecution of straw purchasers (when someone with a clean record buys a gun legally and then sells to someone who would pass a back ground check) are all commonsense measures we can take with action from our elected officials.

Senate Democrats including Sen. Charles E. Schumer were exultant last week after a 15 - hour filibuster yielded the seemingly impossible: A commitment to hold votes to expand gun - purchaser background checks and keep potential terrorists from buying guns.

In Colorado earlier this month, two state senators — including the Senate president, who is a former police chief and himself a gun owner — were recalled from office by voters for backing a bill implementing expanded background checks of gun purchasers.