Sentences with phrase «prevent convicted felons»

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Designed to prevent certain people, such as convicted felons or those subject to a restraining order, from buying guns, background checks do reduce some gun violence.

Working through committees are bills that would stop the common feedlot practice of feeding antibiotics to food animals that aren't sick, prevent felons convicted of animal cruelty from owning animals for a court - ordered period and require the neutering of unlicensed dogs and cats to reduce euthanasia.

I'm watching three: Ashcroft v. Raich, Pasquantino v. United States (does the federal wire fraud statute criminalize evading Canadian taxes) and Small v. United States (does the felon - in - possession statute prevent someone convicted in a foreign court from possessing a firearm in the United States).

Even if a prospective adoptive parent were a convicted violent felon, the felony likely would not automatically prevent an adoption from happening; the judge would need to entertain evidence and make a determination about whether, despite the felony, the adoption was in the best interests of the adoptee.