Sentences with phrase «on high capacity magazines»

Reporting by a various agencies on Thursday, indicates Biden is looking at a mixture of «universal» background checks, additional research on the causes of gun violence and a similar ban on high capacity magazines as proposed for New York.

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He also laid out four other measures for Congress to consider: preventing people on the no - fly list from purchasing firearms, subjecting every gun buyer to a full background check, banning high - capacity magazines, and increasing the minimum age requirement to buy a rifle to 21.

The company also called on lawmakers to pass «common sense gun reform,» including the banning of assault rifles, high - capacity magazines, and bump stocks, enact universal background checks, and more.

The White House is weighing a far broader approach than just reinstating a ban on assault weapons and high - capacity magazines, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

Protesters are demanding protection from gun violence, including a ban on assault weapons such as the rifle used in Parkland, a prohibition on high - capacity magazines that let killers shoot long bursts without reloading, and more effective background checks for gun purchases.

Chris Grady, a Stoneman Douglas High School senior who's enlisting in the military, asked Rubio a very pointed question on whether he'd agree that there was no place for large - capacity magazines.

The primary goals: to ban assault weapons and high - capacity magazines and create laws that require background checks on every gun purchase.

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.

On February 28, 2018, Breitbart News reported Dick's announcement that they would no longer sell «assault - style rifles» or «high capacity» magazines.

Sheryl Acquarola, a 16 - year - old junior from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, is overcome with emotion in the east gallery of the state House of Representatives after the representatives voted not to hear a bill banning assault rifles and large - capacity magazines at the Capitol in Tallahassee on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018.

But it left out many of the biggest provisions the students and their supporters had sought, including bans on assault weapons and high - capacity magazines.

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.

Dick's said it is also calling on elected officials to enact «common sense gun reform,» such as an assault - style firearms ban, a minimum purchase age of 21, and a ban on high - capacity magazines and bump stocks.

In the March 3 - 5 poll, 63 percent of Americans supported «nationwide ban on the sale of high - capacity ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 bullets.»

At least three AR -15-style rifles were visible on the floor and on the furniture, along with at least a dozen high - capacity magazines, which can hold up to 100 rounds.

According to Quinnipiac, support for a ban on high - capacity magazines grew from 56 percent to 63 percent from January 2013 to March 2018.

Clinton's speech praised Cuomo, who had recently endorsed her, for the bill's expansion of background checks but did not mention its potentially more controversial prohibitions on high - capacity magazines and broadened definition of assault weapons.

The governor said yesterday that the gun control law, which updates the state's assault weapons ban and limits the number of bullets in a high - capacity magazine to seven, isn't intended to hurt sportsmen or hunters or infringe on Second Amendment rights.

The event comes on the heels of a sweeping gun control law that passed last month in Albany that updates the state's assault weapons ban and limits the number of rounds in a high - capacity magazine.

We will do more here in New York, but President Trump needs to mandate universal background checks that are done more thoroughly, institute a ban on assault weapons, and ban high - capacity magazines.»

Klarevas says that the key provision of the assault weapons bill was a ban on high - capacity magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds.

President Obama penned on OpEd on gun violence and proposed some reforms, but did not include the high - capacity magazine ban being pushed by Rep. Caroline McCarthy.

It also bans high - capacity magazines, requires federal background checks on private gun sales and imposes felony penalties for illegal gun possession.

Cuomo put forward a list of proposed laws that include: implementing a ban on assault rifles and high capacity magazines, a single license standard across the state for background checks, closing the loophole on private sales, and an increased onus on mental health professionals to report at - risk individuals.

They're calling for stricter gun laws, including bans on assault rifles and high - capacity magazines and an end to background check loopholes.

McCarthy is pushing for renewed ban on the sort of high capacity ammunition magazines that were used in the Tucson shooting earlier this month and in the Long Island Railroad shooting that claimed the life of her husband and gravely wounded her son.

New York congressional candidate Anthony Brindisi distanced himself from his own favorable rating from the National Rifle Association a couple weeks ago by calling for a ban on high - capacity magazines and expanding firearm background checks.

The New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement, or SAFE Act, includes a ban on all pre-1994 high capacity ammunition magazines, a ban on any magazine that holds over 7 rounds, and real - time background checks on ammunition purchases to alert law enforcement of high volume purchasing.

«I feel that with the tragedy that happened in Newtown, the publishing of this map took away from the public discussion that needs to take place on assault weapons, high capacity magazines, and so on,» Wieder said.

«Unfortunately, both plans omit a third, critically important piece of legislation Democrats have been and continue to push for: a ban on assault weapons and high - capacity magazines,» said state Senate Democratic Leader Oscar Braynon.

Meeting in the White House's West Wing, the Democratic governor, Biden and staff members for both discussed Obama's proposed program of executive and legislative action — including a federal ban on assault weapons and high - capacity magazines that would eliminate differences «across state borders,» Malloy said.

Cuomo, who supports the microstamping of bullet casings, wouldn't say which gun control measures he would push for on the state level in a news conference earlier today, though he called a provision in the state's ban on assault weapons that grandfathers in high - capacity ammunition magazines manufactured before the ban took effect a loophole in the law.

McKinney, whose state Senate district includes Newtown, was a key supporter of new restrictions on assault weapons and high - capacity magazines passed in response to the Sandy Hook school shootings — a stance he has taken considerable heat for from some members of his party.

Tampa Republican Sen. Dana Young got slammed by her Democratic re-election opponent in a Saturday email for not voting on an amendment that would ban assault weapons and high - capacity magazines.

The legislation puts limits on sales of high - capacity magazines and requires background checks for all gun sales, among other things.

Senator Marco Rubio, left, Republican of Florida, said he would reconsider his opposition to limiting high - capacity magazines last week during a CNN forum on the mass shooting at a Florida high school.

The youth at Pathway, a school within East that works with students to help them graduate on time, went to support the Florida students who want a national ban on the sales of assault - style rifles and high - capacity magazines and want to close loopholes about sales of firearms at gun shows and on the Internet.

Cuomo's bill is expected to present limits on assault weapons and high - capacity magazines.

In Florida on Tuesday, the Republican - controlled State House rejected an effort to immediately consider a bill to ban large - capacity magazines and the type of assault rifles used in last week's attack, even as students from Stoneman Douglas High School watched from the gallery.

McKinney and LeBeau, who is deputy Senate president pro tempore, said in separate interviews Friday that their bipartisan sponsorship is an indication of their confidence that the ban on high - capacity magazines will pass this year.

Graham's web site went on to say that would include a ban on the guns and high capacity magazines, along with tougher background checks and forcing domestic abusers to surrender their firearms when a protective order is issued against them.

Maybe the Governor should focus on solutions that could actually have an impact, like banning the high - capacity magazines used to inflict horrific violence upon countless American cities, from Aurora to Newton.»

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.

«Easily recognizable for its unique bullpup design, the P90 a great weapon to shoot on the move due to its high - capacity magazine and low recoil.

«An ideal pistol for the Terrorist on the move, the Tec - 9 is lethal in close quarters and features a high magazine capacity.

The high - capacity gun magazine ban has also been introduced, but will come into effect on July 1st 2017.

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The primary goals: to ban assault weapons and high - capacity magazines and create laws that require background checks on every gun purchase.

He also said he's rethinking his position on allowing high - capacity magazines that allow more shots to be fired before needing to be reloaded.