Sentences with phrase «like military weapons»

The weapons being discussed here merely look like military weapons, and are incapable of automatic fire.

Not exact matches

The stockpiling began in the 1990s, as Congress implemented the military - transfer program to equip police with automatic weapons and armored trucks to better protect themselves against drug gangs and neutralize armed assailants like the two men who carried out the Columbine High School massacre.

Defence minister Khan said Pakistan's military, which has historically been heavily reliant on US weapons and aircraft, may have no choice but to ramp up purchases from the likes of Russia.

But this isn't the first time Feinstein has raised concern about bump stocks in Congress — she brought up a similar restriction in 2013 that proposed banning all semiautomatic weapons that could accept a «military feature» like a detachable stock.

Oh brother yeah... our streets full of people with military weapons... Have you been to the Middle East... In many countries they walk around with military rifles all the time... like in Afghanistan..

Thus as Asia and Africa grow in military capacity, perhaps based on chemical or biological weapons, «the coming havoc, in short, will make the bloody religious wars of the 16th century look and like calesthenics.»

Military weapons are like fire; if you don't lay the fire aside it will burn yourself.

It may be objected that if weapons that are most useful in military service — M - 16 rifles and the like — may be banned, then the Second Amendment right is completely detached from the prefatory clause.

While their ineffectiveness and poor strategic value for the cost are reasons why militaries don't tend to stock and deploy them, like any other overpriced ineffective weapon, it does not answer the question of why people have a phobia of chemical weapons to the point where slaughtering hundreds of thousands with conventional weapons is fairly unremarkable but merely a thousand with chemical weapons is a worldwide calamity and affront to the species as a whole.

Nearly two dozen Democratic senators, including Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, introduced a bill Wednesday to ban the sale of military - style assault weapons and bump stock devices like the one used in the Las Vegas massacre, saying it «will begin removing the weapons of war on our streets.»

Military spending on expensive major weapons systems built in large cities like aircraft, ships, and submarines, has grown much faster than military spending on personnel, (which has actually declined as military spending overall has surged), who frequently hail from ruraMilitary spending on expensive major weapons systems built in large cities like aircraft, ships, and submarines, has grown much faster than military spending on personnel, (which has actually declined as military spending overall has surged), who frequently hail from ruramilitary spending on personnel, (which has actually declined as military spending overall has surged), who frequently hail from ruramilitary spending overall has surged), who frequently hail from rural areas.

Nearly two dozen Democratic senators, including Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, introduced a bill to ban the sale of military - style assault weapons and bump stock devices like the one used in the Las Vegas massacre, saying it «will begin removing the weapons of war on our streets.»

During the Cold War, the military emphasized packing as many warheads into one weapon as possible to generate maximum explosive yield, while also minimizing the overall weapon's weight to enable maximum range, resulting in weapons like the W76.

Like any good military unit, infectious bacteria have access to numerous weapons and efficient communication systems.

I have a machine that runs this like a dream, and it DOES N't cost that much to build a machien to run it well despite other reviews I'd read, but ultimately the feeling of firing 22 rounds against people all in bfull body armor just takes away from any remotely realistic feeling... this has more in common with HALO, or team fortress, cosole games may like it... but the fact it has gotten so many good reviews, has me questioning if anyone in teh industry have ever fired a weapon, gone hunting, much less ever been in the military.

This portfolio is very basic, and eliminates the «sin sectors» like tobacco, military weapons, and companies with the lowest sustainability scores in their sector.

Modern weaponry: Moving Hazard features realistic weapons and a military approach to using tactical equipment and skillstreaks to weaponize and herd zombies to the player's liking in order to gain the upper hand.

You take a miniaturized army across a map filled with other armies, defenses and weapons and hope like hell that you've got the military might to survive the level.

Or maybe a less military like weapon?

Like most if its predecessors, the game focuses on weapons - based melees in the heart of large - scale military battles.

The use of AI in militaries around the world has sparked fears of a Terminator - like situation and questions have been raised about the accuracy of such weapons and their ability to distinguish friend from foe.

Gears 4 takes place 25 years after the end of the Human - Locust War, so the planet Sera's military complex is no longer churning out weapons like before.

Not on the agenda in the Florida Legislature's final three weeks is a Democratic senator's bill (SB 196) to ban the sale of military - style weapons like the AR - 15 semi-automatic rifle Nikolas Cruz used to massacre 17 people — and injure 15 — at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday.

The latest installment in Gameloft's long - running military shooter, «Modern Combat 5: Blackout» touts crisp, console - like graphics and will introduce new Spec Ops missions and special weapons like scout drones.