Sentences with phrase «in small guns»

Even then, a 33 % in small guns did not mean only a 33 % chance to hit.

New Orleans (CNN)- In a small gun range 20 minutes outside New Orleans, a steady stream of gun enthusiasts fill the air with the scent of gunpowder and the sharp bang of shots.

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While there is a vocal minority who want gun laws in the U.K. relaxed, they do appear to be very small — all the mainstream political parties support strict gun laws, and much of the debate centers on whether the U.K., which already has some of the strictest gun laws in the entire world, needs more control.

Kinetic Resolve in Stillwater, Minn., received a $ 150,000 Small Business Innovation Research award to develop bullet protection for gun mounts for the Navy.

Small, local service companies can have it tough if they're gunning against a well - known franchise operating in their territories.

Small businesses may think they have a disadvantage when it comes to competing against the big guns but one place they can shine is in delivering exceptional customer service.

Israel learns to pack a gun in the small of his back.

And in the U.S., at least, the»90s brought legislation allowing people to carry concealed weapons in most states, meaning that smaller guns became more in demand for both men and women.

When Oracle announced it was gunning for the software firm with an unwelcome $ 5.1 - billion offer, observers were stunned at the audacity of the move, which came as PeopleSoft was in the midst of inking its own $ 1.8 billion deal to acquire smaller software firm J.D. Edwards & Co..

The Obama administration has been gunning for so called «inversions», in which a U.S. company buys a smaller foreign company and then locates the merged company outside the U.S. for tax purposes, for over a year, but that hasn't stopped the flow of deals.

«Horrific mass killings receive the most media attention, but as can be seen by the numbers, they only represent a small portion of the total costs - human and medical - of gun injuries in the United States,» said David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center in Boston, who was not involved with the study.

Living in probably the only country in the world where guns remain less regulated than startups, many founders and small - to - medium - size (SMB) business owners probably anxiously awaited news of December's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, expecting the worst.

We know the revelation that the Florida Retirement Pensions System had a small investment in gun manufacturers is an embarrassment to that organization and to the government of Florida.

Mass shootings actually make up a small fraction of America's gun deaths, constituting less than 2 percent of such deaths in 2013.

The president also says he is open to supporting legislation that would make small improvements in the national gun background check system.

I invested in a few private companies and those didn't pan out very well so I'm now very gun shy about small companies.

The background check bill, which seeks to improve the existing database used to prevent gun purchases by criminals and the mentally ill, is a small nod in the direction of gun control that does nothing to close loopholes that allow millions of gun sales without a background check.

In Boston, about 20 protesters favoring gun control confronted a small clutch of Second Amendment supporters in front of the State HousIn Boston, about 20 protesters favoring gun control confronted a small clutch of Second Amendment supporters in front of the State Housin front of the State House.

But mass shootings, we know by now, are only a small fraction of total gun deaths in the United States.

In just one month since the Parkland shooting, the gun control movement has made some small gains: The Florida state legislature passed new firearm regulations, and the federal spending bill signed by President Trump on Friday contains modest steps toward tightening the nation's gun laws, including the Fix NICS Act, which strengthens the background - check system for gun purchases.

We're seeing a small spike in background checks for handguns and long guns — but it's the same spike we see every year from January to February.

Organizers hosted rallies in large cities, in small towns, in blue states, in deep - red pockets, in places where guns are knitted into everyday life.

In fact known criminals account for only a small percentage of gun murders and injuries.

If I thought the distortion we now confront were only a small one, I should not be obliged to bring in the dangerous big guns of satire.

The MP attributes the rise in acid attacks to the smaller risk of carrying acid than carrying a knife or a gun.

At the small airport in North Adams, Mass. it is possible to land and take off without delay, even during the autumn pheasant season, when dozens of planes touch down in a single day, delivering hunters, guns and dogs.

However, if you continue down Highway 25, you'll find yourself on the dark side of the Lake Greenwood, where fearless young men with fast cars and too little to occupy their time meet in small pool halls for jumbled up stories, quick laughs and, even quicker, reach for their guns if you aren't careful.

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On the other hand, if Pochettino takes a gamble and leaves his big guns behind in North London there is a small chance of an upset.

This latest death is tragic, but so is every gun death that occurs across our country, in our cities or our small towns.

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A small selection of the reasons people used their guns last month, summarized in the first person.

Politically, he checks many of the usual Republican boxes: He believes in a free - market economy, backs small government and supports few, if any, regulations on guns.

«In fact, she's already called for higher taxes on individuals and small businesses; she supports an energy plan that would increase our electricity costs; she promises a single - payer health care system that would further destroy our health care and economy; and she wants to force federal gun restrictions that would take away the Second Amendment rights of law - abiding citizens.»

«John, Jonathan, usually when the three of us are together, we are discussing the finer points of illegal guns or consumer fraud,» joked Bloomberg to the pair, who stood clutching their adoring daughters in front of a small congregation that gathered in the garden behind Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side.

Supporters of New York's gun control measures — among the most restrictive in the U.S. — held a smaller event inside the Statehouse to announce several new bills, including one that would prohibit anyone from buying more than one gun a month.

«The choice for Republicans is clear: they can keep Richard Hanna, who votes to raise taxes, to extend U.S. debt to economically dangerous levels by voting with Obama, Reid and Pelosi to raise the debt ceiling while bankrupting our nation, or they can choose a commonsense Republican like me who has a proven record of voting to reduce taxes, voting against the implementation of Obamacare in New York, votes against funding an illegal database (including ammunition database) against legal gun owners, voting against increasing our debt ceiling in New York and supports countless initiatives to reduce the burdens of government red tape on individuals and small businesses, including family farms,» Tenney said.

When New York state passed «the toughest gun control laws in the nation» on Jan. 15, concern arose in a small upstate New York town built around a gun manufacturing company.

But if in Franconia, every person who owned a gun owned only one and in Sylvania every person who owned a gun owned five, the reality would be much different, and their small arms ownership rate by household would be even more dramatic, with Franconia having a gun in every home, whereas only 20 % of homes in Sylvania have guns.

To put it more empirically, much of the debate surrounding gun violence in the U.S. — and elsewhere — revolves around rates of civil small arms ownership.

Moshood said, «Working on actionable intelligence, the Kogi State Police Command personnel and operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad trailed and arrested two suspects — Kabiru Saidu a.k.a Osama, 31, From Dekina local government area of Kogi State but based in Anyagba (Leader of the gang) and Nuhu Salisu a.k.a Small, 25, (a member of the gang), after a gun battle with the police team that lasted for some hours on the 19th January, 2018 at Ogojueje in Dekina LGA.

He advocates a smaller government, health insurance reform, the re-importation of pharmaceuticals from overseas, the end of the federal government's role in education and gun rights.

«This coalition has proved we can govern in a bipartisan fashion,» said Senate co-leader Jeffrey Klein (D - Bronx), ticking off the wins: raising the minimum wage, passing the nation's toughest gun control law, and helping small business.

A move by the Trump administration to make it simpler to sell small arms abroad may provide some relief to gun makers American Outdoor Brands and Sturm Ruger & Company in an industry grappling with a deep sales slump since the president's election.

The AG called on Cuomo to stick to his guns on reform, saying a late budget would be a «small price to pay» for systemic change in Albany.

As they spread online and on television, the images of a small girl losing control of a powerful war weapon during a family vacation created a worldwide spectacle, prompting some commentators to castigate parents who would put a submachine gun in the hands of a child.

While much of the discussion about gun reform revolves around high caliber fire arms, the Brooklyn students and their families deal with issues around smaller illegal hand guns and gang violence in their communities.

The state party, for instance, began spending $ 100,000 on a television ad this week praising Mr. Cuomo for «passing the strongest gun law in the nation,» with a separate, smaller digital campaign this week focused on congressional Republicans, noting that six of them were given an A rating from the National Rifle Association.

Igoe told investigators that he fired his gun after Alvarez threw a small piece of concrete at him and allegedly ignored his orders to stop moving toward the deputy in the dark.

The stun gun is smaller; it fits easily in a pocket or purse.