Sentences with phrase «own handgun»

The thief was allegedly trying to steal a netbook, and when the employees confronted him, he pulled out a handgun.

Perhaps he should come to Scotland and explain his views on handguns to Dunblane.

He responded that the ban on hand guns in the U.K. was «ludicrous» and that «if you criminalize handguns then only the criminals carry the guns.»

A few swipes into the popular dating app Bumble, and the diversity of interests is obvious: Users post photos of themselves swinging from trapezes, playing French horns, posing with freshly caught fish and, occasionally, brandishing a handgun or aiming a semiautomatic rifle.

On a Monday night in late September, a young man sat on busy train in San Francisco raising and lowering a handgun.

The man demanded money and pointed a silver handgun at Danny.

Busha told police he had misdialed 911, but deputies said they noticed a handgun in a holster on a table and signs of illegal drugs at Busha's home, which was near an elementary school.

A «single, lonely, and disturbed» man, armed with a handgun, drove 11 hours to the home of the YouTube celebrity couple Gavin Free and Meg Turney in Austin, Texas — evidently intending to kill Free, according to a police report.

Under federal law, long guns like the semiautomatic AR -15-style assault rifle used by the Florida gunman can be bought from licensed dealers by people as young as 18, while the minimum age for handgun purchases is 21.

Taurus offers concealed - carry handguns and revolvers with pearly pink - and - white grips, their shiny swirls reminiscent of a 10 - pin bowling ball.

SIG Sauer's P290, a compact 9 - milimetre handgun, comes in plain black with the after - market option of removable hand plates that can be customized in pink and purple.

With both following the lead of Apple, Twitter, Samsung, and WhatsApp, it appears Microsoft will be the lone platform using a handgun.

The suspect reportedly used a handgun during the shooting.

During their search, agents found a handgun, which Vargas claimed was kept for protection.

Our hearts go out to the victims of yesterday's shooting at YouTube headquarters, where a woman opened fire, shooting three people before turning the handgun on herself.

Engineers have banded together to create a supersonic car that's built to travel faster than a bullet from a handgun.

One handgun was recovered.

But what police believe was the murder weapon — a.45 - caliber handgun that Hernandez was allegedly seen holding the night of Lloyd's death — has not been recovered.

They offer different levels of protection, the cheapest costing around # 46,000, which would stop a handgun bullet.

And they should join us in instituting comprehensive background checks because law enforcement officers are nearly 50 percent — nearly 50 percent less likely to be killed in states where there are checks on the purchase of handguns.

The bullet that pierced her back had ricocheted off the concrete ground after it was fired by Garcia Zarate from a handgun belonging to a federal ranger that had been stolen four days earlier.

So here we have a big, lumbering guy weighed down with armor, who can't see much more than a few feet in front of his face, up against a kid running at him with a devastating weapon and a rock traveling with the stopping power of a.45 caliber handgun.

Lucas» proposal, which reads almost exactly like the existing handgun permit bill, would require reporters to be fingerprinted and pay a $ 75 fee.

«We actually have members of our crew with CHL licenses,» or concealed handgun licenses, «and legal firearms on the bus.

Around when Australia adopted its gun regulations, Parliament passed legislation banning private ownership of handguns in Britain and banned semiautomatic and pump - action firearms throughout the UK.

The suspect was carrying an assault - type rifle and a handgun as well as an unidentified «device» on him, Mina said.

«It seems to make sense to have the same age requirement for purchasing a rifle as you do for a handgun,» Collins said.

The Republican lawmaker has been feuding with local media over his seven - year efforts to repeal Indiana laws that require citizens to have a permit to carry a handgun.

Because the Deep Web is best known as the home of Silk Road, a notorious online service similar to eBay — if that website trafficked in handguns, ecstasy pills and thugs, rather than vintage timepieces and Alf dolls.

It also creates a so - called «guardian» program that enables teachers and other school employees to carry handguns.

On Tuesday, officials say that 17 - year - old Austin Rollins entered Great Mills High School in St. Mary's County, Maryland, with a handgun and shot two students.

The company revealed a preview graphic of one of the gun emoji designs it's working on that would replace a previous handgun emoji.

Currently, federal law prohibits anyone under the age of 21 from purchasing a handgun from a licensed dealer but allows adults 18 or older to buy rifles.

Armed police are at a polling station in Northern Ireland after a man pulled what polling staff believed to be a handgun.

The fact that you can buy an AR - 15 at 18 but you can't buy a handgun until you're 21 is absolutely absurd.

Trump told the crowd that, as a holder of a permit to carry a handgun in New York, an attacker would be «shocked» if he encountered him, and that he would act like Charles Bronson in the 1970s action film Death Wish.

Hall has been labeled as an accomplice and is accused of helping Fitzgerald with two of the robberies, reportedly using a handgun.

The Oklahoma House passed legislation Wednesday to abolish the need to get a state - issued permit before carrying a concealed handgun for self - defense.

Armed with handguns and long firearms, the suspects injured several officers.

Under federal law, you also must be 21 to buy a handgun from a firearms dealer.

Florida has a three - day waiting period for handgun purchases.

And there is still one more reason the weapons are so popular in states like Florida: They are very easy to buy — and for a 19 - year - old like Nikolas Cruz, the shooting suspect, far easier to obtain than a handgun.

The proposal (SB 7026) would raise the minimum age from 18 to 21 and require a three - day waiting period for people purchasing rifles and other long guns, requirements that already apply to buying handguns.

Particularly in light of the Court's 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which struck down Washington D.C.'s handgun ban and found Americans had an individual right to a firearm — a 5 - 4 decision in which Stevens wrote the primary dissenting opinion — Stevens called the Second Amendment a barrier to «constructive gun control legislation.»

How did a weapon designed for warfare become easier to buy than a handgun?

• In Florida, an AR - 15 is easier to buy than a handgun.

In another, he showed off a small black handgun.

Bullets fly out of the muzzle more than twice as fast as most handgun rounds.

He produced a bill to lower the handgun purchase age requirement to 18.

An unpublished Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study confirms Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck's findings of more than two million defensive handgun uses (DGUs) per year.