Sentences with phrase «sells handguns»

Under current law, licensed gun dealers can sell a handgun to someone 21 years old and sell a rifle to someone who is 18.

On October 25, 2012, the Court of Appeals held in that case that the United States may ban federally licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to people under age 21, in a similar suit brought by the National Rifle Association.

Federal law already prohibits licensed dealers from selling handguns to anyone under the age of 18, but Florida's new law makes it only the third state in the country, along with Hawaii and Illinois, to raise the minimum age for rifle purchases to 21.

NYC Public Advocate Tish James and other officials argued in an amicus brief that a shooting victims» families should be able to sue Walmart in state court for negligence for selling handgun ammunition to a customer they charge was too young to legally buy it and visibly drunk.

It is illegal to sell a handgun to someone under the age of 21, but those over age 18 can purchase shotguns and rifles.

In 1999 the California legislature followed by making it illegal to manufacture and sell the handguns.

Licensed gun dealers can not sell a handgun to a person younger than 21, but can sell a rifle to anyone 18 or older.

Unlicensed sellers, such as those at gun shows, can sell handguns to those 18 or older and rifles regardless of age.

Not exact matches

This technology doesn't exist today, and every semi-auto handgun you own today will become illegal to buy or sell the moment this bill, if passed, takes effect.

Its stated purpose is to collect identifying data from the shell casings of all new handguns sold in the state.

Under this program, all new handguns sold in the state must be test fired and the shell casing imaged and entered into an electronic databank for possible crime scene identification.

Tuesday the group called on lawmakers to pass legislation mandating that guns be stored in a safe or equipped with a gun lock, along with another proposal that would require all semi-automatic handguns sold in the state to be equipped with a device that stamps a unique code into a shell casing each time the gun is fired, making it easier for authorities to track guns used in shootings.

One of the more controversial bills would require semiautomatic handguns made and sold in New York to have unique identifying information on spent bullet casing — a process known as microstamping.

The researchers found that the number of substance - use disorders among 12 - to 17 - year olds had declined by 49 percent over the 12 - year span, along with a simultaneous 34 percent decline in delinquent behaviors, such as fighting, assault, stealing, selling drugs or carrying a handgun.

In 2006, when buying a handgun required a permit, 56.4 percent of guns recovered by police had been originally sold by a Missouri gun dealer.

In that pursuit, our government set up an «eBay» list where major arms dealers could pick off the larger contracts, and dilettantes and arms «day - traders» could, from the comfort of their basements, sell the United States military a few thousand handguns.

Democratic Gov. Parris N. Glendening of Maryland, for example, is pledging in his re-election campaign that all handguns sold in the state have such high - tech child safety devices.

The original handgun was sold out back in 2000 and has been fairly difficult to find until now.