Sentences with phrase «many powerful guns»

Sitting with a group of Democrats and Republicans, including some who are backed by the NRA, Trump made what sounded like an extraordinary break with the powerful gun - rights organization.

While the shooting has not led to major changes from the White House or the Republican - led Congress, it did - at least briefly - prompt Trump to declare that he would stand up to the powerful gun lobby.

President Donald Trump is set to give an address to the National Rifle Association just two months after he declared that he would stand up to the powerful gun lobby following a deadly school shooting in Parkland,...

Since the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month, renewed calls for remedies to firearms violence have led to sweeping consumer boycotts and unprecedented moves by corporate America to distance itself from the powerful gun lobby.

A year ago, the nation's most powerful gun lobby was riding high: The millions the National Rifle Association had spent to help elect Donald Trump, one of the nation's most gun - friendly presidents, had paid off, and members were hopeful that more firearms restrictions would soon be eased.

While the shooting has not led to major changes from the White House or the Republican - led Congress, it did — at least briefly — prompt Trump to declare that he would stand up to the powerful gun lobby.

A less powerful gun?

Trump told governors gathered in D.C. that he would take action to ban the sale of bump stocks without Congress, and said it's «OK» to push back against the NRA «every once as a while,» as the powerful gun lobbying group fights calls to enact stricter gun control laws after the shooting.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas students have repeatedly called out Rubio for taking money from the powerful gun lobby group.

Earlier Monday, Clinton held a panel discussion on reducing gun violence, telling a somber audience in Port Washington that as president she would stand up to the powerful gun lobby.

Cuomo said it was a very tough vote for politicians - because powerful gun advocacy groups opposed it.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- The National Rifle Association says the secret negotiations and lightning - fast passage of New York's tough new gun control laws squelched the powerful gun lobby's ability to mount opposition.

Speaking at Tuesday's Common Council Police Oversight Committee meeting, lawmakers heard from both Police Benevolent Association first vice president John Evans, who renewed the union's call for more powerful guns, and Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda, who said he finds them unnecessary for patrol officers.

In fact who wouldn't love to have a pair of powerful guns bursting through the sleeves of their shirt?

Miss Sloane stars Jessica Chastain (Crimson Peak) as lobbyist seeking for tighter federal laws regulating firearms, who faces off against the powerful gun lobby.

An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

But she also has principles, and leaves her top firm for the opposition when a powerful gun group asks her to devise messaging to turn women against universal background checks for gun ownership.

Except she does apparently draw one ethical line in the sand, risking her entire career in an early scene by laughing down a powerful gun manufacturer's bid for a more «lady» - friendly NRA agenda.

February 28, 2018 • In a freewheeling talk with Republican and Democratic lawmakers on curtailing gun violence, President Trump appeared to throw his support behind efforts that are opposed by the powerful gun lobby.

Once in a multiplayer match, players are given the option to choose from one of four classes: the Assault focuses on shooting and blasting, the Heavy wields powerful guns and a barrage, the Officer places gun turrets and heals his comrades, the Specialist acts as a scout and sniper.

I believe that politicians have been bought off by an overly powerful gun lobby and they're selling us out.

Strategically fire your powerful guns to slay endless waves of zombies and protect the remaining survivors of the zombie apocalypse!

You earn cards by completing challenges and range from having a powerful gun to giving you faster sprint speed.

Fly 12 different machines and gradually upgrade each with more powerful guns, rockets and missiles as you take the fight to the enemy!

The trade - offs here are done well: the most powerful guns fire most slowly and have the most limited ammunition, for example, so you do have to pay attention to a mission's challenges and objectives in kitting out your walking death machine.

By focusing my fire on the creature's arm, I was able to cleave it clean off, depriving him of a powerful gun.

Ranging from more powerful guns to three metal orbs that fly around your ship taking everything out in your path, they add a more chaotic element to the game which already makes you think you will be having some sort of fit with all the neon explosions and fast paced action.

You have four laser turrets that cover each quadrant of the ship, a rotatable deflector shield, an engine pod that can change orientation, and a super powerful gun called the Yamato cannon, which spams a huge attack but has a long cooldown.

That said, I was able to buy a wider array of more powerful guns that were scattered throughout the Spaceland amusement park, most of which were plucked from Infinite Warfare's multiplayer mode.

It should have been more like giving up a very powerful gun for a ransom demand in order to save an NPC.

Your speedboat is armed with powerful guns, useful against enemy boats and bosses.

Also important is the Warm State meter, which when filled can perform a powerful gun attack after using it several times in battle.

You will be able to accessorize him as well with the included, such as four powerful guns, a hatchet, and his bomber jacket!

At first it feels like an odd fit, but it works surprisingly well, and there's the same little twist of joy when looking at a new and much more powerful gun that has dropped, when sinking materials into re-rolling a good gun to reach more of its potential, or when literally doubling the DPS by combining and inserting upgrade cores.

Attack with a full arsenal of lethal weapons including Rayne's signature arm blades, and powerful guns.

Sadly those moments rarely occur because the game fills you up with flares, flash - bangs, powerful guns, and ammo.

The only way to survive is your ability headshot, powerful guns, skills.

Now, instead of being able to run around with a sniper rifle out and reloaded at all times, or with a shotgun and a rocket launcher at your disposal, you must choose only one of these more powerful guns to have equipped — and it will be out of ammo for around 80 percent of the match.

In the film you take on the powerful gun - lobby in America and talk about gun violence, a problem that is uniquely American.

As tempting as it might be to unlock a lush beard for your Rebel trooper or buy a special in - game emote that lets your character do the robot dance, that's 1,700 credits that could go towards a powerful gun or Star Card.

@Emma4Change and the children who marched through the city streets last weekend simply refused to accept their parents» defeatist assumption that even a 75 percent majority in want of stricter firearm legislation (according to an NPR poll released last week) was impotent against the wishes of an all - powerful gun lobby.

The killing will continue because of America's terrifyingly powerful gun lobby.

Not exact matches

So while it's a powerful gesture for these retailers to change their policies, it may not actually make a significant dent in the access to guns.

With national security driving the debate, Democrats see a more powerful argument than simply advocating the need to curb gun violence in a country of 320 million that has more than 310 million weapons.

Powerful budget committees in the State House and Senate signed off on a package of bills on Tuesday that would raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21 from 18, mandate a three - day waiting period for most gun purchases, and increase funding for school safety measures and access to mental health care.

Some researchers have blamed the National Rifle Association, the firearms industry's powerful lobbying group, for blocking the government's ability to study guns and gun crimes.

The split with the powerful NRA also underscores the potency of a growing movement led by teenage survivors of the attack that is demanding tighter gun restrictions.

The march marked most dramatic and powerful show yet of teenage activism against gun violence in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

I think it really will take something like 80 % for gun control, and tragically, I'm convinced it will take a lot more senseless deaths — and not just the death of black teenagers, but the deaths of children of powerful people through gun violence.

But, I am encouraged that a weapon far more powerful than guns is being awakened: The power of the people.