Sentences with phrase «semi-automatic weapons like»

Many Parkland students and parents vigorously opposed plans to arm teachers, instead they advocated for a ban on semi-automatic weapons like the one used by Cruz.

The student are seeking more restriction on gun sales, including a ban on semi-automatic weapons like the AR - 15 rifle used in the Parkland shooting.

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Rubio said he also supported the banning of bump fire stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like automatic weapons, and a bolstered background check system.

Law enforcement officials confirmed on Tuesday that 12 of the rifles in Paddock's hotel room were outfitted with a device called a «bump stock,» which enables semi-automatic weapons to shoot rapid fire, like a machine gun.

Number one, AR - 15s are semi-automatic just like handguns (fully automatic weapons are already illegal and should remain so).

Florida lawmakers shot down an amendment that would have banned semi-automatic «assault» weapons like the AR - 15 used in the Parkland shooting.

State lawmakers in Albany are making a push to ban the possession and sale of devices like bump stocks that can allow a semi-automatic weapon to fire like an automatic rifle.

Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said at least one of the 23 firearms recovered in Las Vegas was a semi-automatic rifle legally modified to fire like an automatic weapon, using an alteration known as a bump fire stock.

A ban on assault - style weapons, high - capacity ammunition clips, and products that modify semi-automatic firearms to enable them to function like automatic firearms.

In addition to the waiting period, the new law includes raising the minimum age for gun purchasers from 18 to 21 and a ban on bump stocks — an add - on that can allow a semi-automatic weapon to fire like an automatic weapon with a single pull of the trigger.

Then she learned of the horrifying events unfolding in Florida, where a young man with a semi-automatic weapon stormed into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and killed 17 people, many of them students like herself.

Players can make use of World War I weapons like bolt - action rifles, automatic, and semi-automatic rifles, artillery, flamethrowers, and mustard gas to kill opponents from afar.

Not on the agenda in the Florida Legislature's final three weeks is a Democratic senator's bill (SB 196) to ban the sale of military - style weapons like the AR - 15 semi-automatic rifle Nikolas Cruz used to massacre 17 people — and injure 15 — at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday.

Like the new law, Martinez's amendment also called for banning «bump stocks,» devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to mimic automatic guns.

President Donald Trump has directed Attorney General Jeff Sessions to propose regulations «very soon» to ban so - called bump stocks that turn semi-automatic rifles into machine gun - style weapons, like those used in the Las Vegas carnage.

Slated for discussion are local bans on assault - style rifles and high - capacity ammunition magazines, both carried by the Douglas High shooter, as well as bump stocks, the accessories used by the gunman in last year's Las Vegas massacre to make his semi-automatic weapons fire like machine guns.