Sentences with phrase «of weapon sales»

Minikin, your crew's engineer, dabbles in the trade of weapon sales and their upgrades.

Not exact matches

The company, which builds everything from weapons systems and munitions to ships and combat vehicles, has seen its combat segment sales fall 40 % since 2009 — a direct result of the U.S. withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan, says Nicholas Stark, an investment analyst with American Century Investments.

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.

Gun sales are often driven by fear of weapons bans (as consumers rush to stock up).

BERLIN, April 25 (Reuters)- The U.S. government will reduce its administrative surcharge on foreign arms sales to 3.2 percent from 3.5 percent from June as part of a broader bid to make U.S. weapons more competitive internationally, a top U.S. official told Reuters on Wednesday.

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.

So any effort to ban or regulate the sale of bump stocks would not have changed the shooter's ability to access the weapon he used or how he used it.

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.

The measure also would ban the sale of «bump stocks,» which allow semi-automatic rifles to mimic fully automatic weapons.

In 2016, a shareholder group proposed that Kroger's board of directors ban the sale of semiautomatic weapons and accessories.

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.

Once it became clear that a majority of the Florida Legislature was not inclined to ban all assault weapons, Senator Oscar Braynon, a Democrat, proposed an amendment to the gun control bill that would have halted AR - 15 sales for two years.

Connecticut expanded a ban on assault weapons, prohibited the sale of high - capacity ammunition magazines and imposed stricter background checks on gun purchases after 20 children and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012.

Passing a law to ban the sale of assault weapons like the ones used in Las Vegas, Orlando, Sutherland Springs, Aurora, Sandy Hook and, most recently, to kill 17 innocent people and injure more than a dozen others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

In November, 65 percent of Americans supported a «nationwide ban on the sale of assault weapons.»

But the law doesn't do anything to regulate gun sales or to restrict the sale of assault - style weapons like the AR - 15; it's far from what the students listed in their demands on gun control.

They're the ones who could charm the weapons from Attila the Hun, who bring sunshine out of snowstorms, calm wild animals with a single glance, and always — we mean always — close sales.

Trump on Tuesday suggested that the US would allow the sale of more advanced weapons to Japan and South Korea, potentially boosting a military build - up in the Korea Peninsula.

Do I need to point you to Iran - Contra and our sales of weapons to Iran by Reagan?

Not really theo, a man chose to pull the trigger, but other men chose to make the gun, make the ammunition, make laws allowing the sale of such a weapon, but ultimately it was physics that killed him, so let's blame physics... or maybe blame the guy for stopping his resperation... it's his own fault because he stopped breathing...

What I DO oppose is the poorly regulated sale of weapons to private citizens whose sole purpose is to kill a lot of people very fast.

Carefully itemizing mercantile bills of sale, inventories of militia and volunteer detachments, the evidence that there was a lack of gun - smiths, records of importation of guns from Europe, the incidence of duels (three in the entire South in the 1760s, none fatal), children's books and toys, comments by eyewitnesses about the abysmal shooting ability of settlers (lacking both the weapons and the gunpowder to practice), court records, and a wide variety of other historiographical resources, the author assembles an overwhelming mass of data to show that military prowess was not, in fact, characteristic of early Americans.

You are a pawn of the anti-gun movement that has convinced ignorant people everywhere that «assault weapons» are for sale in the U.S..

Responding to the Newtown school massacre, the bill would ban the sale of semi-automatic weapons that use detachable ammunition magazines.

Sales of American weapons to despotic, right wing regimes such as those in El Salvador, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Pakistan went through the roof.

We need conversations about loopholes in the laws that allow the sale of weapons at gun shows and by private dealers without proper background checks.

In November, Treasurer Scott Morrison blocked the sale of Australia's most iconic cattle company, S. Kidman & Co., to a foreign buyer because one of Kidman's biggest ranches borders a weapons - testing range.

If you look in our Pink Ribbon Series of self - defense weapons you'll find that a portion of the proceeds of the sale of these products benefits Breast Cancer Research.

''... that all Member States shall immediately take the necessary measures to prevent the direct or indirect supply, sale or transfer to the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, from or through their territories or by their nationals, or using their flag vessels or aircraft, of arms and related materiel of all types, including weapons and ammunition, military vehicles and equipment, paramilitary equipment, and spare parts for the aforementioned, and technical assistance, training, financial or other assistance, related to military activities or the provision, maintenance or use of any arms and related materiel, including the provision of armed mercenary personnel whether or not originating in their territories...»

Two Democratic state senators want a law that specifically outlaws the possession or sale of so - called «bump» stocks that can modify a weapon to have it imitate an automatic rife — the use of which are already banned in New York.

The latest (but not recent) episode I remember is this vote from June 2016, when the US senate rejected restrictions on sale of weapons to people on the terror watch list.

While 22 states and the District of Columbia ban rifle sales to minors, New York — outside New York City — is among those that let kids 16 and older with a hunting permit possess the weapons, according to information compiled by the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Trump confirmed sales of 12 sophiscated fighter jets to Nigeria, noting that he has removed embargo on the sales of military weapons to the country.

Kampfer, a Fulton County resident, argued in part that the state shouldn't be allowed to prohibit the sale of new semiautomatic firearms if prior owners of the weapons were allowed to keep them, like the SAFE Act allowed.

The federal lawsuit claims the ordinance — which bans the sale and possession of assault weapons, bump stocks and high - capacity magazines — violates the plaintiffs» Constitutional rights.

Last year, Claudia Roth, deputy speaker of the German parliament, expressed shock that NATO is allowing Turkey to harbour an ISIS camp in Istanbul, facilitate weapons transfers to Islamist militants through its borders, and tacitly support IS oil sales.

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.»

The S - 300 sale is potentially a threat to intervention by air in the Syrian Civil War by the U.S. or its allies (the U.K. and France, for example, also participated in the chemical weapons retaliation strike in April of 2018, and Turkish aircraft have intervened in parts of the Syrian Civil War as well, for example, shooting down a Russian jet fighter which was intruding into its air space).

State lawmakers in Albany are making a push to ban the possession and sale of devices like bump stocks that can allow a semi-automatic weapon to fire like an automatic rifle.

He acted, passing the strongest gun law in the nation, banning the sale of assault weapons in New York state.»

In a statement, the Public Advocate and Democratic mayoral candidate said, «Companies like Cerberus profit from the sale of deadly assault weapons and the NRA's obstruction of commonsense gun control — all while our communities are victimized.

Gun control has become a contentious issue in New York following the passage of the SAFE Act, a gun control measure that bans the sale of some semi-automatic weapons and requires those who already own such firearms to register with authorities.

The majority of the law, including a ban on the sale of assault weapons and a mandatory registry of existing assault weapons, survived a court challenge and remains intact.

«This investigation has shut down a major network of gang members responsible for the sale of illegal drugs and possession of dangerous weapons in our neighborhoods.

Astorino says a contract for another gun show has not been signed, but according to Legislator Parker, the vendor is already advertising the sale of «military - style weapons» at a gun show slated for January 2018.

In January, the Board of Legislators passed a law that banned the sale of weapons on county property, but Astorino vetoed that bill and allowed a gun show to take place at the county center.

«It appals me that the British government continues to allow the sale of weapons to a country, Israel, that has killed almost 2,000 people, including hundreds of kids, in the past four weeks alone.

Mayor Bloomberg today unveiled several videos shot during an undercover investigation at an Arizona gun show that depict the sale of a Glock pistol with a 33 - round extended magazine — just like the weapon used in the Tucson tragedy — being legally purchased with no background check.

Sale of items designed to look like realistic weapons or perceived to be an actual fire are currently prohibited, unless they include colors that are other than black, blue, silver or aluminum or include non-removable orange stripes.