Sentences with phrase «in weapons manufacturing»

The Vatican holds millions in stock in weapons manufacturing... assault weapons, weapons of war.

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CNBC's Morgan Brennan reports on how the government shutdown in impacting the manufacture and delivery of new military equipment and weapons.

Rafael could manufacture some of its weapons in India, says Yoav Har - Even of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.

MEC doesn't sell guns, but has faced a petition calling on it to stop selling brands owned by Vista Outdoor because the U.S. company also develops and manufactures firearms similar to the type of weapon used in a recent mass shooting in Florida.

«Reinstating the federal assault weapons ban that was in effect from 1994 to 2004 would prohibit manufacture and sales, but it would not affect weapons already possessed.

REI, the national outdoor retailer, suspended all orders from Vista in March after it refused to say if it would continue to manufacture weapons.

The company manufactured the AR -15-style weapon used by the gunman in the 2012 attack in Newtown, Conn., in which 26 people, including 20 first graders, were killed.

A federal ban on the manufacture of certain rifles deemed to be «assault weapons» took effect in 1994, and the list of covered rifles included the AR - 15.

In subsequent decades, additional legislation was passed severely restricting the manufacture, and use by civilians, of automatic weapons.

They are the visuals, perhaps several miles» worth of Pentagon - approved operational footage of destroyers and aircraft carriers, bombers, fighters, and other weapons systems in action, produced in concert with the defense contractors who profit from their manufacture and who would love nothing more than to gain additional appropriations from Congress based on cool - looking footage.

Only recently has it been discovered that inorganic compounds in the manufacturing process can cause disease and death and the greatest explosive weapon ever devised by man is based upon the reaction of atoms which can not be seen by any conventional microscope.

It led to the United States» acquiring and destroying at least 400 Borak rockets, one of the internationally condemned chemical weapons that Saddam Hussein's Baathist government manufactured in the 1980s but that were not accounted for by United Nations inspections mandated after the 1991 Persian Gulf war.

That may mean losing a job because we will not participate in the manufacture of nuclear weapons.

The deeds of the wicked are depicted in arresting and memorable ways especially the underground metal - works for manufacturing monstrous weapons of war.

In the world of arms manufacturing, weapons... More Why We Still Need Theo In Our Arsenal... For Now

In the specific case of Germany, they are still bound by the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany Some examples of the limitations set: Armed Forces of no more than 370,000 personnel - of whom at most 345,000 were to be in the Army and Air Force No manufacture, possession or control of NBC weapons Full application of the Nuclear Non -.In the specific case of Germany, they are still bound by the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany Some examples of the limitations set: Armed Forces of no more than 370,000 personnel - of whom at most 345,000 were to be in the Army and Air Force No manufacture, possession or control of NBC weapons Full application of the Nuclear Non -.in the Army and Air Force No manufacture, possession or control of NBC weapons Full application of the Nuclear Non -...

Based on highly credible intelligence, UNSCOM [the U.N. weapons inspectors] suspects that Iraq still has biological agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin, and clostridium perfringens in sufficient quantity to fill several dozen bombs and ballistic missile warheads, as well as the means to continue manufacturing these deadly agents.

«We should not be investing in companies that manufacture and market assault weapons to civilians - ever,» de Blasio said in a statement.

Last year, after the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, Mayor Bill de Blasio called on the other three of the city's five pension funds to further divest their holdings in companies that manufacture weapons and ammunition.

In 2014, Putin asked the Russian military to domestically manufacture 90 of Russia's 200 most frequently imported weapons systems by 2020 and to transition towards complete self - sufficiency as soon as possible.

Cuomo, who supports the microstamping of bullet casings, wouldn't say which gun control measures he would push for on the state level in a news conference earlier today, though he called a provision in the state's ban on assault weapons that grandfathers in high - capacity ammunition magazines manufactured before the ban took effect a loophole in the law.

«Under the historic settlement, Smith & Wesson agreed to make sweeping and dramatic changes in its manufacturing, distribution and marketing practices to keep weapons out of the reach of criminals and children.

1995: Vil Sultanovich Mirzayanov — A chemist in the Soviet Union, Dr. Mirzayanov exposed that country's continuing manufacture of dangerous chemical weapons, in the face of official denials and in violation of the spirit of international agreements.

Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: December 4, 1915 The belligerant nations in World War I strained their manufacturing capacity to the utmost to provide the most effective weapons and ammunition for their vast armed forces.

«The reality is that conventional weapons are easier to manufacture, transport, and detonate,» says Acquista, a point graphically illustrated by the recent propane - based car - bomb attacks in the United Kingdom.

But critics note that no nuclear weapon in the current U.S. arsenal has ever been manufactured without being tested.

The villain is identified as Darren Cross (Corey Stoll), a defense contractor who manufactures the ultimate secret weapon — a suit for soldiers that increases their power exponentially as they shrink in size.

«Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle» positions the seemingly benign Taser, manufactured in 1999 as a deadly weapon police apply with little to no regulation.

John Cusack (Identity, Serendipity) stars as Nick Easter, who reluctantly goes in for jury duty for a major trial involving the lawsuit of the gun company which manufactured the weapon used in an office shooting which killed almost a dozen people, including the plaintiff's husband.

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In 2005, General Electric was the 12th largest contractor for weapons manufacturing for the department of defense.

• The Fund will seek to avoid investing in companies that manufacture, design or sell weapons or the critical components of weapons that violate international humanitarian law.

I'm not pretending to know what the secret was the inquisitor was referring to in the demo, but I'm pretty sure the interest in this planet is that they manufacture Titans (Skyscraper sized siege weapons, mechs sort of), well that's what's been said in developer interviews, etc..

There's a satisfaction in chopping up one's prey and sucking down the sweet remains, and there is of course a ton of weapons and armor pieces to manufacture with all those accrued limbs.

New weapons are unlocked first by spending research money on their division, and then spending more money and precious metal (hidden in each stage) to manufacture said weapons.

Breeder reactors consume and produce vast amounts of plutonium, the essential ingredient in manufacturing a nuclear weapon.

A person who, without lawful authority, manufactures, possesses, sells, delivers, sends, mails, displays, uses, threatens to use, attempts to use, or conspires to use, or who makes readily accessible to others a weapon of mass destruction commits a felony of the first degree, punishable by imprisonment for a term of years not exceeding life or as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084, and if death results, commits a capital felony, punishable as provided in s. 775.082.

Following past recommendations by the council, the Fund does not invest in companies involved in the manufacture of landmines, cluster munitions, nuclear weapons, or weapons covered by the framework of Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) protocols on non-detectable fragments, incendiary weapons, and blinding laser weapons.

Hanwha Systems is known to manufacture cluster munitions, an indiscriminate weapon that has been banned in 120 countries under an international treaty.

Worked with CIA, and DIA personnel to gain knowledge on various chemicals used by insurgents in manufacturing home - made chemical weapons

There are now more than 100 wars actively engaged in the world, demanding a vast number of weapons that are being manufactured to keep up with it all.