Sentences with phrase «gun purchases after»
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.
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After staying largely mum in the last few days about the massacre and the escalating debate about weapons, Mr. Trump said Monday that he was supportive of a bipartisan effort to strengthen federal background checks for gun purchases.
In the weeks after the massacre in Parkland, Democratic governors in the Northeast have created a gun task force, and Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) and other Republican lawmakers have called for raising the minimum age for purchasing rifles to 21.
The bump stock ban is among several proposals Trump has made to tighten gun controls after the Florida shooting, such as improving reporting to the background check system and raising the legal age for purchasing assault - style weapons from 18 to 21.
After the Parkland shooting, House Speaker Paul Ryan focused on past legislation on mental health issues, despite the fact that Republicans actually made it easier for people with mental illnesses to purchase guns last year.
In 1968, after a decade that saw the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Junior and Bobby Kennedy, Congress passed the Gun Control Act, which, in part, grew the list of those people who could not purchase guns, to most convicted felons and mentally ill people.
When he tried to buy guns after his release from a military prison, his conviction was not in the database used to conduct background checks, and the purchases went through.
After the December shooting in San Bernardino, CA, President Obama stated in his weekly radio address that it was «insane» to allow suspected terrorists on the country's no - fly list to purchase guns.
A polarized US Senate voted against expanding background checks for more gun purchases, rejecting the proposal a day after the latest mass shooting left 14 people dead in California.
After weeks of debate, lawmakers approved a bill that would impose a three - day waiting period for most purchases of long guns and raise the minimum age for purchasing those weapons to 21.
Shortly after Governor Rick Scott signed off on a three - day mandatory waiting period and minimum age requirement for all gun purchases of 21, Florida Republican Congressman Ron DeSantis took to Fox News.
The sit - in, led by veteran civil rights campaigner and Georgia congressman John Lewis, was staged to demand a vote on gun control measures, after a 15 - hour filibuster in the Senate on 16 June led to a floor vote on four measures, including one which aimed to prevent those on a terrorist no - fly list from purchasing firearms.
To estimate gun sales during the months after the shooting, Levine and McKnight looked at the number of federal background checks on individuals seeking to purchase a firearm from a licensed dealer as a proxy.
He and McKnight suggest that increased exposure to guns after Sandy Hook, whether through new guns being purchased or through stored guns being taken out, handled, and cleaned, likely led to the increase.
These students, raised entirely after the Columbine massacre, well - educated, media and social media savvy, have captured a tremendous amount of attention and have openly expressed the frustration and exasperation with the nation's complete standstill on gun policy purchased by millions of dollars in political donations by the NRA.
After Tesla CEO and all - round benevolent billionaire Elon Musk released a «Boring Company» flamethrower for sale as a reward for the community having purchased 50,000 hats, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford got in contact to see if he could put the gun in the «next Borderlands game.»
So when he goes to the line after being fouled, it's a breeze for him — we're talking 9 out of 10 on the regular — and still it's easier for a suspected terrorist to purchase a gun than for Curry to make a free throw.
The legislation would raise the age requirement for long gun purchases to 21, require a three day waiting limit, outlaw bump stocks (after - market rapid fire attachments) and allow police to temporarily confiscate firearms owned by the mentally unhinged.
Adkinson talked of «gaping loopholes» in the Baker Act, noting that law enforcement can't take guns away from people who makes threats of violence and after being released from mental health facilities are able to purchase firearms.
Rubio's comments came after he participated in a televised CNN town hall last week, where he said he supports raising the minimum age to purchase guns to 21 and banning bump stocks that allow rifles to fire more rapidly.
After the Parkland school shooting, President Trump vowed to defy the NRA and push for a comprehensive gun control bill that would raise the age limit to purchase rifles, impose near universal background checks and renew a ban on assault - style rifles.