Sentences with phrase «legal gun ownership»

In Toronto in particular where there is less of an understanding of legal gun ownership, police officers and Crown Attorneys often use the same resources and treatment towards legal gun owners as they do to illegal gun owners.

«The Governor is showing once again that he is completely out of touch with our tradition of lawful, legal gun ownership here in the Southern Tier, Finger Lakes and Western New York.»

You people are very misinformed, only police, military and a very select few class 3 ATF licensed gun dealers can have automatic assault rifles, and the horrible terrible people at the NRA spend millions a year teaching gun safety, gun responsibility, gun training and promote legal gun ownership, a gun is a firearm, a tool that only becomes a weapon when the one holding it intends to harm another, until then it's a gun.

Not exact matches

While we recognize that gun ownership is legal, and that most gun owners are responsible citizens, we nevertheless regard the proliferation of guns in our communities as a major public health problem with devastating consequences for children and their families.

The measures, introduced at a news conference by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Democratic lawmakers flanked by gun control advocates, are meant to close loopholes for gun ownership for people who are deemed a serious risk, those who have been convicted of domestic violence, expand background checks and end the legal possession of bump stocks.

Find out where they are legal and what restrictions are in place for gun ownership.