Sentences with phrase «under the gun as»

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It was renewed again for one year in December 2014, just as DWA was under the gun on Wall Street after a series of box - office misses.

Under federal law, long guns like the semiautomatic AR -15-style assault rifle used by the Florida gunman can be bought from licensed dealers by people as young as 18, while the minimum age for handgun purchases is 21.

As those statutes pave the way for gun owners to bring their weapons along whenever they leave home, some of those owners wind up stowing their firearms in the glovebox, the center console, or under their seats — where they are ripe for the plucking.

On the list of 200 items that fall under the agency's «artful concealment» category: A knife hidden in a stick of Dove deodorant found at Bradley International Airport (BDL) in Connecticut; a stun gun disguised as a tube of lipstick found at Baltimore - Washington International Airport; and a dagger - in - a-hairbrush found at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.

The cover of the relaunch issue, dated September 1977, sported an illustration of a gunslinger carrying a briefcase under the heading, «The management consultant as hired gun. . .

Later Tuesday, the Broward Sheriff's Office filed a petition for a «temporary risk protection order» under the state's new gun law, identifying Zachary Cruz as someone who «poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to himself or others by having a firearm.»

Walmart and Dick's Sporting Goods said they would no longer sell guns to anyone under 21 years old, as two of the country's biggest gun sellers tightened their policies in the wake of a high - school shooting that left 17 people dead in Parkland, Fla..

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. said its decision to no longer sell guns to anyone under 21 years old has hurt traffic and retail sales as the move upset some customers and exacerbated headwinds to its hunting and gun business.

The teenage survivors of the Florida shooting have emerged as vocal activists in the gun control debate, and corporate America has come under pressure to do something to help.

At this time, we're not gonna go into what Pai's motives may have been but it has been reported that the NRA, which has been lobbying for the repeal of these regulations has now honored him with a valuable handmade Kentucky long gun as a prize for the part he played «standing up under pressure with grace, dignity and principled discipline»

Seems like we are moving toward MORE GUNS as the solution, so next time some psycho starts gunning people down in a dark theater, maybe the best course will be to hit the deck and crawl under the chairs as the bullets start flying around in the dark as George Zimmerman - type cop wannabes pull out their heat at the first loud bang and start blasting away in the dark at «susp - icious» people.

We need self control, as one nation under God; not gun control.

As you said, they are under contract THROUGH the 2019 season giving the Falcons 2 full season to develop a player OR draft a high quality / starter in 2019 or 2020; you are jumping the gun, hell I'd say a good WR is a higher priority to put at # 2 with some speed and size.

After an eventful four years as governor, Cuomo is running on his record of accomplishments: A property tax cap, the legalization of same - sex marriage, a sweeping gun control law and enacted budgets that have kept spending increases under 2 percent.

Republicans, in turn, have come under criticism from conservatives for what they have seen as acquiescence on key issues like gun control and minimum wage.

A longtime Chicago cop has admitted to paying four girls as young as 14 for sex, sometimes leaving a gun under his pillow during the illicit encounters before heading to...

«Earlier this month, under Speaker Heastie's leadership, the Assembly passed a bill to increase the background check waiting period to up to 10 days, as well as a host of other bills to help prevent and reduce gun violence in New York,» said Michael Whyland, spokesman for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - Bronx).

He began with an opening statement and then answered questions on topics which included the Independence Party (whose ballot line Cuomo is on), the protest at the rally and Cuomo's efforts on passing the DREAM Act, a recent report that 34,000 people have been designated under the SAFE Act as ineligible to own guns and the prospect of Ebola - related restrictions on commercial flights.

That Gillibrand was decried by potential challengers as a «vulnerable» lightweight who had been transformed, in remarkably short order, from a Blue Dog Democrat who was not particularly progressive on immigration or gay rights and bragged about keeping guns under her bed, into a pro-immigrant champion of gay marriage and gun control.

They say the law as written presents a conflict because the 10 round magazines are still allowed at shooting ranges and sporting competitions, but under the impending ban, gun owners would no longer be allowed to buy them in New York for those purposes.

Patricia Gunning, who recently resigned as the special prosecutor / inspector general of the NYS Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs, said her onetime boss, Jay Kiyonaga, engaged in harassment and other misconduct, which she reported, but her complaint about him was «swept... right under the rug.»

Circumstance does not transform an upstate congresswoman, who once boasted of keeping guns under her bed and pushed English as the official language of the United States, into an avatar of progressivism in 2017.

Kelly is confident that he will be vindicated by history as crime — especially gun crime — increases under current Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, who is under pressure to dial back some of the NYPD's most efficient anti-crime programs.

Under the agreement announced today, judges will be required to consider well established risk factors, such as an offender's prior violation of an order of protection and the accused's access to guns.

If I the only been Labour Party members voting, with Affiliates disregarded If we had managed to explain to those to young to remember that this sort of experiment nearly destroyed us in the 89's and saying it's better to lose in a far left manifesto as its moral, ignores the fact that any labour gun illite with a majority under 1,000 standing again in 2017, 2018 ought to watch themselves as local elections are fought on national issues

As is customary in State of the State speeches, Cuomo spent some of his Monday morning address looking back at accomplishments, touting the socio - economic progress under his leadership, including the passage of marriage equality, paid family leave, a $ 15 minimum wage program, and common - sense gun control.

KINGSTON >> State officials will be prohibited from use of the official Ulster County seal for any purpose under a resolution that began as opposition to the way gun laws were tightened without public comment.

Towards this end, states governments have been given a 21 days ultimatum to disarm vigilantees and neighbourhood watch group, hunters and watch - night men or any group or association under any capacity or guise other than statutory security agencies recognized and gazetted by the Federal Government of Nigeria to bear firearms of specified category; who are currently possessing and using prohibited / illegal firearms such as Pump action gun and the likes for whatsoever purpose.

But as he was digging into the study, his source of funding came under attack from the National Rifle Association (NRA), a powerful lobbying group based in Fairfax, Va., that supports gun ownership.

The researchers» petition, sent under the letterhead of the University of Chicago social science center known as the Crime Lab, says that «politically motivated constraints» have held back U.S. research on gun - related violence since the mid-1990s.

AIRLIE, VIRGINIA — In the 1990s, gene sequencers were under the gun to make their raw data public as rapidly as possible.

VIOLENCE / GORE 6 - A man breaks through a hotel room door and holds a gun on a woman as they yell at each other, he holds the gun to his own head and under his chin, he slams her into a mirror, she kicks him in the crotch and runs away, he shoots at her and the bullet ricochets off a car and grazes her cheek (we see blood on her face).

A hijacker with a gun follows an engineer around a plane on a tarmac in a threatening manner as it is refueled and holds a grenade under the man's chin (the gunman then gets back on the plane).

The floridly named Edoardo Ballerini is the psychopath who steals Phillips's gun, blood sample, internal affairs files, and wallet — operating under what seems Phillips's complete approval as, though he's a cop, he never ever reports being drugged and stripped clean of his weapon and identity.

When playing as The Fans, you can choose between a small collection of masks with some wild powers, like one that lets you dodge roll under enemy fire, or one that starts you with two sub-machine guns, allowing you to get down on some serious John Woo shit.

This one took a mere 15 months to reunite Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and the extraordinarily valuable Kathryn Hahn as the suburban Chicago pals perennially under the gun of peer pressure and familial expectation.

Whether Under the Gun will have an effect on the debate or if it will just be seen as one side's biased account is yet to be seen, but the impact of it and the other gun - related films could do for gun control what The House I Live In did for America's awareness of drug sentencing.

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With Michael Shannon in the role of Roy, the boy's father, and Kirsten Dunst as Sarah, his mom, this movie emphasizes the extent to which parents will protect their son even if it means running away from gun - toting figures from a mysterious cult under the leadership of Calvin Meyr (Sam Shepard).

The law, known as the Gun - Free School Zones Act, was struck down last fall by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which said that Congress exceeded its authority under the commerce clause of the Constitution when it made gun possession near public or private schools a federal offense.

Students and teachers hugged and cried as they returned under heavy police guard to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High for the first time since a teenager with an assault rifle killed 17 people and thrust the huge Florida school into the center of a renewed national gun debate.

Under the initiative, known as Amendment 22, Colorado law - enforcement officials would have up to three days to conduct background checks on prospective gun buyers at such shows.

Already under the gun because of high - stakes testing, as well as time and budget constraints, some educators flinch at the thought of creating such ambitious real - world projects or coordinating new partnerships with people outside the school.

Standing in the Clover Hill High School library one recent Thursday afternoon, Democratic congressional candidate Warren A. Stewart did his best to respond as students peppered him with questions on everything from school vouchers, gun control, and abortion to why a working citizen under age 18 must pay taxes but is not permitted to vote.

He also cites two areas that were arguably not under his purview — the failure to pass a bill allowing federal financial aid eligibility for undocumented immigrant college students and any kind of substantive change to gun laws — as among the areas he would've liked to see a different outcome.

Parent company Indigo has experienced frequent quarterly loses as Chapters bookstores are under the gun to transform themselves into a «lifestyle» geared store.

The Small Münsterländer is recognized by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale under Group 7, Section 1.2, Continental Pointing Dogs of Spaniel type, by the American Kennel Club as a Foundation Stock Service Breed, and by The Kennel Club and the United Kennel Club as a gun dog.

On the downside, many gun dogs are also extremely boisterous and bitey as puppies and not a winning combination with children under five.

The Labrador Retriever is a strongly built, medium - sized, short - coupled, dog possessing a sound, athletic, well - balanced conformation that enables it to function as a retrieving gun dog; the substance and soundness to hunt waterfowl or upland game for long hours under difficult conditions; the character and quality to win in the show ring; and the temperament to be a family companion.

When this Association was» formed in 1924 there were few Springers in the United States and no field trials for the breed, Since that time, under the wise and benevolent leadership of the Parent Association there are now many thousands of Springers used as gun dogs each autumn and there were in 1946 some twenty» two trials herd for the breed where championship points were awarded, Thus the Springer Spaniel, youngest of all gun dog breeds in this country, has made rapid strides and established itself as a leading contender for the title of all around gun dog, under the leadership of the Parent Association, This first National Field Trial meeting for English Springer Spaniels is ~ a sincere attempt to establish by equitable and sporting means the National Chaffi..