Sentences with phrase «illegal weapons as»

The package, which included measures aimed at illegal weapons as well as expanding penalties for those who kill first responders, was approved in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting that left 19 people dead.

Not exact matches

And it's still possible to make illegal modifications that turn guns into fully automatic weapons, as Andy Greenberg explained at Wired.

The report found that a black driver who was pulled over was twice as likely to be searched by police as a white driver, even though searches of white drivers were more likely to turn up drugs or illegal weapons.

I am for all federal efforts to remove as many illegal weapons from circulation as possible.

You may not provide instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses.

The governments of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, and Spain support Britain in its opposition to making nuclear weapons illegal, as do Australia, Canada, and the United States.

The law expanded the definition of prohibited assault weapons — which is the part that has most irked sheriffs — as well as raised the penalties for illegal possession of firearms, required mental health checks, and limited the public's access to records of those who have gun permits.

A $ 100 - per - firearm federal sales tax would help stem the flow of illegal weapons into New York, reducing the number of gun - related deaths such as those of the four NYPD officers killed in the past year, Rep. Nydia Velázquez said Monday.

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.

The letter comes as gun control advocacy groups and some Republican lawmakers who voted no blast the law, which tightens the state's assault weapons ban, limits the number of rounds in a high capacity magazine and tightens criminal penalties for illegal weapons.

They also are hoping to persuade state legislators to provide money for rewards and to safeguard witnesses who supply information, as well as to get illegal weapons off the street.

«You can talk about mental health issues, large capacity magazines, assault weapons, but ultimately, people who are so divorced from the norms of society that they resort to using illegal weapons, they have to be separated from us as long as they possibly can.»

Ghana was quoted as saying he became a militant leader to secure his community, adding that he had decided to genuinely embrace the calls by Ortom for people in the state, holding illegal weapons, to surrender them and embrace peace.

«Our hypothesis in the earlier published work was that transforming vacant lots from being overrun with weeds and filled with trash to a clean and green space may make it difficult for people to hide weapons and conduct illegal activities such as drug use in or near the space.

For more than 100 years, a law called the Lacey Act has served as America's premier weapon in the fight against the illegal trade of plants and animals.

In June 1996, the LAPD arrested the actor (who had already spent time in three rehabilitation facilities between 1987 and 1996) on counts including drug use, driving under the influence, possession of a concealed weapon, and possession of illegal substances, a development which struck many as ironic, given his star - making performance years prior in Less than Zero.

Starting with a routine police raid of an illegal after hours club where the local residents harass the police as they are lining - up the patrons for hauling to jail, things quickly turn from shouting and insults to stones and firebombs prompting the cops to start using weapons to fire back.

Presence of other illegal activity such as narcotics possession, weapons charges, and violent crime.

Additional illegal activities are often connected with dogfighting, such as drug and weapons violations.

It essentially gives a free pass to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime, which built the illegal weapons, used them against Iran and its own Kurdish opposition and failed to destroy them as required by numerous U.N. Security Council resolutions.

A lot of the world's best scientists (including the trespassers, safe crackers, and illegal emigrants mentioned above, but no flashers as far as I know) got together and invented nuclear weapons.

As an experienced criminal defense lawyer, William M. Duncan, Attorney at Law, defends clients facing criminal charges for illegal firearms and weapons, including:

Until July 2012 Brazilian legislation considered just drug trafficking, terrorism, illegal trade of weapons, kidnapping, corruption, financial crimes and criminal organizations as predicate offenses for the crime of money laundering.

A person who has a valid concealed handgun license or who is a qualified military member and who is discovered conveying, possessing, or controlling a deadly weapon in violation of division (A) or (B) of this section is subject to removal from the premises but is not guilty of illegal conveyance of a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance into a courthouse or of illegal possession or control of a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance in a courthouse, as applicable.

One problem with laws as written is that while it is illegal to modify a semi-automatic weapon to be full automatic, it is not illegal to add attachments that will effectively change the firing nature of the gun.

The device known as a «bump stock» that was used to make the weapon used in the Vegas Strip shooting fully automatic was not (at time of writing) illegal because it is classified as an attachment, not a modification.

There was acknowledgment that international humanitarian and human rights law applies to all new weapons but views were divided as to whether the weapons would be illegal under existing law or permitted in certain circumstances.

The DFS highlights three areas of particular concern: ensuring payments are processed quickly to build user confidence that money will not «get stuck in a digital black hole»; ensuring virtual currencies do not become the tool of choice for terrorists, drug smugglers, illegal weapons dealers, money launderers, and human traffickers; making sure that the use of bitcoin as an investment is governed properly.

Announcing the charges on Thursday, the U.S. Justice Department said that over the past two weeks, authorities in Australia, Canada and the U.S. have collectively deployed more than 250 agents to conduct searches of 25 homes and offices, resulting in the seizure of multiple servers, computers and mobile phones, as well as weapons and illegal narcotics.

Apprehension and prevention of illegal activities such as human, drug, and weapons smuggling into the United States.