Sentences with phrase «machine gun ban»
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Trump said in a memo released by the White House on Tuesday that a ban should apply to «all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns.»
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About two decades later, the Firearm Owners» Protection Act effectively banned newly manufactured machine guns from being purchased by civilians at all.
On Tuesday, Trump claimed that he sent a memo to the Justice Department «directing the attorney general to propose regulations that ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns.»
BREAKING: Pres. Trump says he's directed AG Sessions to propose regulations to «ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns» like the bump stocks used in the Las Vegas mass shooting (which were not used in last week's Florida school shooting) pic.twitter.com / q3sqcetfCV
President Trump appeared to take a tiny step toward the narrowest possible gun control measures on Tuesday, saying that he signed a memo directing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to propose a rule banning some devices, such as bump stocks, which he said can turn otherwise legal guns into machine guns.
After the Las Vegas shooting, which left 58 people dead last October, there appeared to be bipartisan agreement to take some kind of narrow legislative action to ban bump stocks, an accessory that can effectively turn a semiautomatic rifle into a machine gun.
President Donald Trump's administration has moved to ban bump stocks, devices that effectively let semiautomatic weapons mimic machine guns.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has ruled that bump stocks do not violate laws that tightly limit ownership of machine guns, and some lawmakers have called for them to be banned.
«Just a few moments ago I signed a memo directing the attorney general to propose regulations that ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns,» Trump said at a Medal of Valor event at the White House, addressing Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
The Trump administration made its first move Saturday to ban the deadly bump stock with a proposed regulation would reclassify the controversial device as a «machine gun,» making it illegal to own, sell or manufacture bump stocks.
New York's Democratic lawmakers and gun - control advocates have won an important new ally in their effort to push a legislative ban of bump stocks, which turn semi-automatic rifles into virtual machine guns: Acting ATF Director Thomas Brandon.
Three weeks after the deadliest mass shooting in modern history, efforts to ban the gadgets known as bump stocks — which the Las Vegas killer might have used to turn rifles into machines guns — have come to a screeching halt.
Another measure would ban the possession of bump stocks, the devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into virtual machine guns.
Another measure would ban the possession of bump stocks, the devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into virtual machine guns, and were used to kill 58 people in Las Vegas last year.
Reforms like banning bump stocks, which were used in the Las Vegas shooting to make an AR - 15 fire like a machine gun.
GOP senators on Wednesday rejected four bills proposed by Democrats that would strengthen background checks, ban «bump stocks» that turn semiautomatic guns into machine guns, and let courts keep guns away from people at risk of hurting others.
Additionally, on Friday, the Department of Justice issued the rule to ban bump stocks following through on the President's commitment to ban devices that turn legal weapons into illegal machine guns.»
In the weeks since a gunman killed 17 people at a South Florida high school, some Republicans — including, at least briefly, President Trump — have broken ranks with the gun rights group to support modest gun control legislation, such as raising the age limit for buying assault weapons and banning so - called bump stocks, which turn semiautomatic weapons into something close to machine guns.
Those include a ban on bump stocks that turn semi-automatic rifles into machine gun - style weapons and a limit on high - capacity magazine clips.
Trump directed the Justice Department to draft a ban on devices known as «bump stocks,» molded pieces of plastic or metal that can attach to a legal semiautomatic gun and allow it to fire up to 100 rounds in seven seconds, similar to an illegal machine gun.
Additionally, on Friday, the Department of Justice issued the rule to ban bump stocks following through on the President's commitment to ban devices that turn legal weapons into illegal machine guns.»
This warning even dates back to the 1980s when former President Ronald Reagan addressed the American people in 1989 saying, «a machine gun is not a sporting weapon or needed to defend a home» (RUClip.com, 1989) and in 1994, when Presidents Ford, Carter and Reagan wrote to the U.S. House of Representatives in support of banning «semi-automatic assault guns,» (Eaton, 1994).
In the wake of the Las Vegas shooting, Murphy and other lawmakers from both parties pushed to ban bump stocks, the device that allowed the shooter's semi-automatic rifles to mimic the rapid fire of machine guns.
Earlier this week, Trump directed Attorney General Jeff Sessions to propose regulations to ban bump stocks and other devices that turn semiautomatic firearms into «machine guns.»
President Donald Trump has directed Attorney General Jeff Sessions to propose regulations «very soon» to ban so - called bump stocks that turn semi-automatic rifles into machine gun - style weapons, like those used in the Las Vegas carnage.
Slated for discussion are local bans on assault - style rifles and high - capacity ammunition magazines, both carried by the Douglas High shooter, as well as bump stocks, the accessories used by the gunman in last year's Las Vegas massacre to make his semi-automatic weapons fire like machine guns.
She defied a ban by the police and waved fake machine guns and pistols on stage at her show in Scotland on Saturday.