Sentences with phrase «of gun sales»

The group also wants the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to fund gun violence research and have the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives modernize and digitize records of gun sales.

But every time this happens all we do is whine about it, while the NRA gets to sit on its piles of money and lobby - driven support, constantly shifting the focus away from itself in the pursuit of making more money off of gun sales.

Among other goals, the president said he aims to require a «universal background check» for everyone buying a gun (about 40 % of gun sales are not covered now), a prohibition on the sale of «military - style assault weapons,» a ban on high - capacity ammunition magazines that can hold more than 10 bullets, and a push for better mental health care.

22 percent of gun sales in this country take place without a background check.

(It's important to note that a single background check doesn't correlate to a single sale because about 40 percent of gun sales are made without a background check.

The background check bill, which seeks to improve the existing database used to prevent gun purchases by criminals and the mentally ill, is a small nod in the direction of gun control that does nothing to close loopholes that allow millions of gun sales without a background check.

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At its analyst day, the company said it was gunning for sales in the year ending January 2021 to hit as much as $ 119.8 billion, compared with this year's estimate of $ 100.6 billion.

Today, about 80 % of Democrats say that laws covering sale of guns should be stricter, according to CBS News polling.

Firearm sales have fallen significantly since the election of Donald Trump as president, as other chains including Cabela's have reported, as fears of new gun laws have receded.

This announcement makes Kroger the third major retailer to change its gun sale policies in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. on Feb. 14.

And it's not just Dick's; industry wide, sales are flagging in the absence of fear among gun owners that President Trump and Republicans will push for new laws.

The union is part of a national wave of activism trying to get the firearms industry to improve gun safety and sales policies.

The union is part of a national wave of activism trying to get the firearms industry to improve gun safety and sales policies after another deadly mass shooting, this time at a Florida high school in February that left 17 people dead.

Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School traveled to the state Capitol in Tallahassee this week to push lawmakers to ban the sale of all military - style guns like the AR - 15.

FBI background checks, which give an indication of the state of U.S. gun sales, rose 1.1 percent in May from the prior year, according to adjusted data from the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

NICS doesn't reflect the exact number of firearms sold in the U.S. — it doesn't account for people purchasing multiple guns at one time, gun sales that don't involve a federally licensed dealer, or buyers who don't pass background checks.

introduced legislation to ban the import, sale, manufacturing, transfer, and possession of bump stocks and other similar gun accessories.

This explains the 40 % year - over-year increase in gun sales in June, as well as in the first two months of this year following the San Bernardino shooting in December.

Murphy is seeking a vote on legislation from Feinstein that would let the government bar sales of guns and explosives to people it suspects of being terrorists.

Earlier this week, President Barack Obama unveiled executive actions on guns, which, among other things, are designed to make gun sales easier to monitor and keep guns out of the hands of people who are prohibited from having them because of criminal and certain mental health records.

A working group led by Vice President Joe Biden is seriously considering measures that would require universal background checks for gun buyers and track the movement and sale of weapons through a national database, the newspaper said.

According to the FBI, the number of background checks of prospective firearms buyers, a proxy for gun sales, fell again in January compared to a year earlier, continuing a trend of declines for nearly every month in 2017.

Ayotte supported both the Democratic and Republican versions of the amendments to deny gun sales to suspected terrorists.

He was skeptical that it had been driven solely by demand, given generally solid sales of guns and ammunition in the United States.

Previously, the chain only sold the controversial type of gun in Alaska, having previously stopped sales in other states «several years ago,» according to the company.

Remington also said sales could be hurt by more government regulation, including enhanced background checks and a broader definition of «dealer» under current gun laws.

And there are investors who want to divest from companies that engage in the sale of guns.

In the aftermath of the Parkland, Florida, shooting, Dick's Sporting Goods banned the sale of assault - style rifles and the sale of all guns to anyone under 21.

«People are sticking to their guns saying these are utility tokens, but they are smart enough to know we are not going to sell any of them in a privy sale to people who aren't accredited investors,» explains Goren.

The Feb. 14 massacre is the worst school shooting in Florida history and sparked nationwide outrage, a wave of student activism and a law restricting gun sales.

The company is also pressing the government to enact gun - reform measures, including a ban on assault - style weapons, high - capacity magazines and bump stocks; raising the minimum age to 21 for gun purchasing; universal background checks that include scrutiny of mental - health information and previous run - ins with the law; and an end to the background - check loophole for gun show and private sales.

Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell in many states, brand new «machine guns» — defined by law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one shot per trigger pull — have not been available for sale or purchase for civilian use in the United States since the Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.

Under Cerberus, the company enjoyed years of expanding gun sales.

Both sides of the gun control debate saw this week's decisions by Dick's Sporting Goods, Walmart and Kroger to limit firearms sales as symbolically game - changing.

Are there enough municipalities in the US that are both free of dependence on gun sales and financially healthy enough to make that feasible?

A majority of Republicans back universal background checks, a ban on assault - style weapons, a federal database to track gun sales, prohibitions on people with mental illness, and barring people on no - fly or watch lists from buying firearms.

Ending the sales of some guns will also hurt revenue.

Earlier this week the Remington Outdoor Company, one of the country's biggest and oldest gun manufacturers, said it would seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection amid plunging sales and mounting losses.

In an era when the toy industry can pinpoint the overall value of all dolls sold domestically each year and the federal government tracks the number of trucks sold in any given month, data on gun sales is obscured by foggy reporting standards and loopholes.

But the law, enacted in 2005, includes exceptions for sale and marketing practices that violate state or federal laws and instances of so - called negligent entrustment, in which a gun is carelessly given or sold to a person posing a high risk of misusing it.

Dick's also said that it would immediately end sales of all assault - style rifles and high - capacity magazines, while Walmart said that it would no longer sell items resembling assault - style rifles, even including air guns and toys.

Walmart also noted, in a news release, that it had discontinued the sale of high - powered rifles, including AR -15-style guns, in its stores in the United States in 2015.

We could ban gun sales to people under the age of 21, just like we ban alcohol sales to people under the age of 21.

April 10 Bank of America Corp plans to stop lending to companies that make military - style firearms for civilians, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, making it the second major U.S. lender to address gun sales after the Florida high school shooting that left 17 dead in February.

Navellier said he owns Sturm Ruger and Smith & Wesson, which were both sharply higher Tuesday morning, ahead of Obama's planned announcement about executive actions he wants to take to restrict gun sales.

Although gun sales rose consistently during the Obama years, most of these sales were to existing owners, reacting to his appeals for more stringent laws after several mass shootings during his time in the White House.

If not for the ban on consolidating data into a searchable system, the ATF could create a database that allows it to immediately check the sales history of any gun used in a crime.

In February, 200 - year - old gun maker Remington filed for bankruptcy, beset by reduced sales and ongoing lawsuits linked to the Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre, during which shooter Adam Lanza used one of the company's weapons.

President Trump backed a Senate proposal to expand background checks on gun sales, as part of a call for a sweeping overhaul of U.S. gun policy in the wake of the Florida school shooting.

This year, gun owners have declared that they will rush to the stores to buy firearms in case Obama is reelected as President of the U.S. Already, RGR and competitor, Smith & Wesson (SWHC), have enjoyed impressive sales figures.