Sentences with phrase «on assault weapons after»

But the Florida legislature, which has long been seen as a laboratory for gun - rights legislation that is tested elsewhere in the country, rejected a ban on assault weapons after Parkland.

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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.

House Republicans on Tuesday decisively blocked a move by Democrats to debate a ban on assault weapons in Florida, six days after a massacre that took 17 lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas junior Kyle Kashuv alleges he was aggressively questioned by school administrators and local law enforcement after posting on social media that he fired an assault weapon at a gun range.

The agreement does not, however, include a ban on semiautomatic firearms modeled after military assault weapons or a limit on ammunition magazines to 10 rounds, two provisions many gun control activists had wanted.

Not pleased with the company Liston was keeping — one of his pals was 385 - pound Barney Baker, a reputed head - cracker for the Teamsters — the St. Louis police kept stopping Liston, on sight and without cause, until, on May 5, 1956, 3 1/2 years after his release from prison, Liston assaulted a St. Louis policeman, took his gun, left the cop lying in an alley and hid the weapon at a sister's house.

Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long warned today that Senate Republicans risk eroding their base in New York after allowing a vote on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's gun control legislation that updates the state's assault weapons ban.

Rebecca Fischer, executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, said she is not surprised that pistol permits spiked after the SAFE Act, which included a broader ban on assault weapons and requires pistol - permit holders to re-certify every five years.

The speech came shortly after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre and Cuomo focused on his seven - point SAFE Act that featured the toughest assault weapon ban in the nation, required more stringent background checks for gun sales, and banned direct ammo sales over the internet.

The weekend after the Jan. 9 State of the State address, Mr. Cuomo and his allies received some help: A poll by Newsday and Siena College found that more than 7 in 10 residents on Long Island supported an expanded ban on assault weapons.

The announcement, particularly the bit on the NRA, confirms one line of attack on Young will be her vote against an assault weapons ban — added after roll call — in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Readers of the city's dailies were treated to a host of stories about out - of - control students caught brandishing weapons, a teacher and a student being taken away on stretchers after a fight at a school in the Bronx, and students at several schools assaulting school safety officers.

After the World War II bombings of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima, the threat of foreign attack on U.S. soil shifted from naval assault to air attack, particularly by aircraft carrying nuclear weapons.

Based on the evidence that restaurant employees continued to illegally serve alcohol to the underage individual, the jury found them to be 55 % liable for the death of the 33 - year - old, while the jury found the attackers (the 20 - year - old and his friend) to be 45 % liable; the 20 - year - old attacker will spend time in prison after both pleading guilty to assault with a deadly weapon.

In R v. P.T. the Firm secured a withdrawal of an assault with a weapon charge after a dispute between same - sex partner's caused one partner to pull a kitchen knife on the other partner.

Rep. Jose Oliva, in line to be House speaker after the 2018 elections, said he was worried a complete assault weapons ban would violate the Second Amendment, even though Congress enacted a ban on certain assault weapons in 1994, which expired 10 years later.

Soon after the town hall where Rubio suggested he was willing to consider some changes, he defended assault weapons on Twitter and criticized his critics.

The bill (SB 1048) would only allow guns on campus after school hours, but Democratic Sens. Linda Stewart of Orlando and Gary Farmer of Lighthouse Point filed amendments to the bill to ban assault weapons and impose stricter background checks.

A week after a shooter slaughtered 17 people in a Florida high school, thousands of protesters, including many angry teenagers, swarmed into the state Capitol on Wednesday, calling for changes to gun laws, a ban on assault - type weapons and improved care for the mentally ill.

A rally outside the state Capitol featuring more than a thousand gun - control activists became a raucous Senate committee hearing Monday as gun - control activists filled the room, hooting and hollering as speaker after speaker demanded a ban on assault weapons, and hissing and booing as NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer warned that a proposed ban «stops short of banning every gun known to man.»