Sentences with phrase «gun used as»

Shots of back nudity in a motel room and exposed flesh in a bathroom scene are depicted along with a nail gun used as a weapon, a man (including his face) wrapped in painter's plastic, and thrashing bodies.

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The app's user base has expanded to include a wide range of users, including gun control advocates as well as people who use firearms for recreation and hunting.

Federal guidelines for destroying guns require the crushing, cutting, or breaking of the gun parts — typically by torch rather than saw or other tool — to prevent its future use as a firearm.

As the argument goes, we put guards with guns in banks to stop thieves, so why not use that same strategy to protect our children?

Beatrice Fihn used her speech to describe nuclear weapons as «a madman's gun held permanently to our temple.»

Under federal law, long guns like the semiautomatic AR -15-style assault rifle used by the Florida gunman can be bought from licensed dealers by people as young as 18, while the minimum age for handgun purchases is 21.

«Security used to be thought of as guns, gates, guards — and we put geeks in there, too,» McClurg said.

Protesters are demanding protection from gun violence, including a ban on assault weapons such as the rifle used in Parkland, a prohibition on high - capacity magazines that let killers shoot long bursts without reloading, and more effective background checks for gun purchases.

Though the practice had been in use since the Korean War, Carlos Hathcock made the use of the M2.50 - caliber machine gun as a long - range sniper weapon a normal practice.

Last year, the agency — which routinely confiscates questionable items that could be used as weapons — found a record 3,957 guns tucked away in carry - ons, according to the TSA's «Year in Review,» which has tracked the figure since 2005.

«The reason you won't see a compromise anytime soon is because Congress actually acting in the wake of Orlando would be a tacit admission on the other side that guns had something to do with what happened in Orlando as opposed to ISIS,» he said, using an acronym for Islamic State.

But as a Republican president, perhaps the most pro-firearm chief executive in American history, Trump is, in theory, in a unique position to use his good standing with Second Amendment activists to make the case for gun reforms.

Axon, which provides technological solutions for law enforcement, used to be branded as TASER International after its popular stun gun line.

Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell in many states, brand new «machine guns» — defined by law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one shot per trigger pull — have not been available for sale or purchase for civilian use in the United States since the Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.

For example, a 1996 provision known as the Dickey Amendment effectively barred the Centers for Disease Control from tapping taxpayer funds set aside for injury prevention and control for research that could be used for gun control advocacy.

As I watched, I heard references to people on roofs, people getting into attics, people wandering around on overpasses, people not being allowed to have guns in the Convention Center, which was going to be used as a shelteAs I watched, I heard references to people on roofs, people getting into attics, people wandering around on overpasses, people not being allowed to have guns in the Convention Center, which was going to be used as a shelteas a shelter.

i360 uses its own data to slice online populations into segments, such as those for and against gun control and traditional marriage.

Rocker and NRA board member Ted Nugent used an appearance on the «The Joe Page Show» to describe the Parkland gun control activists as people who «have no soul.»

Democrats wasted no time quickly outlining their top three priorities: background checks, the ability to take guns away from those who pose a «clear danger,» and at least a debate on banning assault weapons such as the AR - 15 used at the Florida high school.

FBI firearm background checks are used as a proxy for national gun sales.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

The Senate hearings, thus, will come as people are able to obtain drugs, guns and other illicit goods using bitcoins.

And another 2016 report from the US Government Accountability Office found that most of the guns — as many as 70 percent — used in crimes in Mexico, which has strict gun laws, can be traced back to the US, which has generally weaker gun laws.

BitPay has long been gunning to establish itself as the largest payment service for people who use virtual currencies such as BitCoin.

Student after student came to the microphones, along with parents and teachers, flashing anger and anguish, as the community used a Tuesday night congressional town hall on gun violence to help continue coping with the Marjory Stoneman Douglas...

Election experts say Facebook must crack down on inflammatory ads on politically divisive issues such as immigration reform and gun rights, which were used to influence voters during and after the presidential campaign.

Republicans fall for it because the have no real connection with most Americans... the need it to get control of the country... Christians fall for it because they use the black and white issue of abortion and gay and lesbian marriage... while completely ignore the harvest field of the Muslim world because they have guns adn will kill you if yo uso much as fart while Muhammad is takign a dump... there's billion Muslims and very few Christians willin to go there... it's obvious a job for a million Christians a real million man and woman army willin gto die for Jesus Christ and stop talkign all the time about abortin abortion abortion and the gay thisn and anythinng else..

In contrast, today's guns, particularly handguns, have little practical value except as a weapon (their sporting use is the only exception).

By your reasoning, no one should have a gun, as they «might» in the future use it to commit a crime.

derp, I'm sure your son is a fine person, just as my two sons are, but how do you * know * he has never used marijuana, that he didn't do something in school that warranted being suspended or that he hasn't tried to buy a gun?

It's impossible to use religion as a preface for gun control, unless you manipulate the bible into meaning what you want it to mean.

The 2nd Amendment guaranteed individual citizens the rights to own arms JUST AS GOOD as those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haAS GOOD as those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haas those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haAS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haas what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries had.

In particular, people who could get together with their fellow citizens, as the need arose, often with virtually no notice, to fend off potentially lethal or oppressive forces USING THEIR OWN GUNS.

He could have just as easily used a bomb, a knife, a baseball bat... Say we do eliminate guns altogether?

Holy schnikees are they real, and really scary as they have multiple high capacity guns and are just salivating to use them to kill another human being just to prove how much they love their jeebus.

Using oranges and apples analogies as red herrings only adds to the belief that the NRA and the gun worshipers truly are not thinking this seriously nor have sensible, realistic, reasonable, practical and feasible solutions to gun violence but rather fallacies and incorrect assumptions.

My fellow gun - owners all agree that there should be a national database for those mentally ill people that are currently undergoing any kind of treatment, including the use of any pharmaceuticals as a means to treat depression, psychosis, etc..

However, if any pandering pol tries to use this as an excuse to «regulate» my 2nd amendment rights, which is just a first baby step to ultimately confiscating all guns in the US, then I will do everything in my power to get him out of office.

This would be a good image to use on a gun range, where shooters can see the outline of a human head with no human features to disturb them as they practice aiming to kill.

Inside the van, police found illegal firecrackers disguised as a fake bomb, a fake pistol and the gun the perpetrator used to kill himself.

However, if any pandering pol tries to use one act by lunatic as an excuse to «regulate» my 2nd amendment rights, which is just a first baby step to ultimately confiscating all guns in the US, then I will do everything in my power to get him out of office.

It is exactly the kind of question that Chief Justice Rehnquist raised in U.S. v. Lopez in 1995, where the question was put as to whether the federal government may ban the use of guns near schools.

The rapidity with which he spoke publicly convinced some ex-Mormon commenters that he might be «using this tragedy as a way to elevate himself or his religion,» and the fact that he smiled before beginning his comments became the linchpin in conspiracy theories arguing that he was a crisis actor, that his daughter Emilie (who died that day) had never really existed, and that it was all part of a government plot to take our guns.

this discourse started as a rebuttal to a trollish comment: ---- RE: «Name one other use from a gun!

But the structures of MacArthur's consciousness — which was built over a long period of his life with guns and swords — were full of ruling ideologies, which wrongfully justified using the oppressed people as scapegoats for what he supposed to be justice, peace, and order.

It was listed in a 2004 survey by Americans for Gun Safety as one of worst gun shops in America because over 200 guns used in violent crimes were tracked back to it.

† † If I can pass along a little hint, when you want to tattoo PRAYER WORKS on your forehead like I tried to, don't do it using a nail gun as a needle.

how about we blame the stoneage workers who found metal in the ground and started using it to make stronger weapons... which evolved into guns, and without guns i can't see hilter doing as good as he did as he had little to no real military training.

And so the list goes, with the actual numbers changing somewhat from year to year, yet the fact that more people are killed with blunt objects each year remains constant.For example, in 2011, there was 323 murders committed with a rifle but 496 murders committed with hammers and clubs.While the FBI makes is clear that some of the «murder by rifle» numbers could be adjusted up slightly, when you take into account murders with non-categorized types of guns, it does not change the fact that their annual reports consistently show more lives are taken each year with these blunt objects than are taken with Feinstein's dreaded rifle.Another interesting fact: According to the FBI, nearly twice as many people are killed by hands and fists each year than are killed by murderers who use rifles.

Plus, guns have other uses, such as hunting to feed your family (my father did so when I was growing up), or shooting rabbits that are eating the vegetables in your vegetable garden, and so on.