Sentences with phrase «restrictions on assault weapons»

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.

That law — which Senate Republican leadership supported, but many GOP state senators opposed — enacted universal background checks, restrictions on assault weapons, restrictions on the capacity of ammunition magazines, among other provisions.

I am an evangelical Christian who believes we need some restrictions on assault weapons, alongs with many other things such as better care available to persons with mental illness.

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Here, for example, are the results of surveys by the Pew Research Center, which found strong support for measures ranging from an assault weapons ban to universal background checks to restrictions on people with mental illness buying guns.

America's attention to gun control often focuses on a few specific measures: universal background checks, restrictions on people with mental illnesses buying firearms, and an assault weapons ban, for example.

Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny today upheld the assault weapons ban portion of New York's SAFE Act, but struck down several other provisions — including the seven - round magazine limit, calling it «largely an arbitrary restriction that impermissibly infringes on the rightsguaranteed by the Second Amendment.»

The deal includes a tougher assault weapons ban and restrictions on ammunition and the sale of guns.

To that end, one of the first things the legislature did in its 2013 session was to pass a tougher assault weapons ban that included restrictions on ammunition and the sale of guns, as well as provisions to keep guns from the mentally ill who make threats.

Many of the preferred measures stayed about the same, but bans on assault weapons and large - capacity magazines or restrictions on ammunition purchases were determined to have more of an effect on mass shootings than everyday gun violence.

U.S. Reps. Alcee Hastings and Debbie Wasserman Schultz support several new restrictions on firearms, including banning assault weapons and raising the age for buying some firearms.