Sentences with phrase «reduce access to guns»

«Connecticut and Indiana have demonstrated the effectiveness of allowing police to work through the courts to temporarily reduce access to guns when there is strong evidence that someone is at risk of violence, while California and Washington State have taken the critical step of extending their laws to enable family members of someone who may be in crisis to initiate this process.

Assembly Approves Legislation to Reduce Access to Guns for Individuals at Risk of Harming Themselves or Others

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«Instead, we should be addressing the root causes of gun violence by reducing the number of guns on our streets, limiting access to these deadly weapons and increasing mental health services to ensure the kind of healthy environment that will allow kids to grow and thrive.

The law broadened the definition of banned assault weapons, increased penalties for illegal gun possession, reduced public access to gun permit information and required mental health professionals to report concerns about a gun - owning patient who posed a risk of harming himself or others.

Laws that prevent kids from getting access to guns reduce the number of suicides by young people.

I'm focused on changing the law, on making sure that people who shouldn't have guns can't get them, and making sure that we do something to reduce gun violence, which primarily needs to be done thorough access to weapons, ammunition, and closing all the background check loopholes,» she said.