Sentences with phrase «under the gun since»

The EPA is under the gun since the Government Accountability Office uncovered their gross inefficiency at monitoring e-waste.

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Since 1996, under a provision called the Dickey Amendment, Congress has prevented agencies in the U.S. Health and Human Services administration from using funds «to advocate or promote gun control.»

But this is Florida, a laboratory for the N.R.A. and a state that has become recognized for its consistent efforts under legislative Republican control since 1996 to expand gun rights.

It's unclear how this would work, since there's no relevant fungibility of resources, and under the lax gun rules Trump favors, there's nothing the FBI could have done to stop the killer from stockpiling guns and ammunition anyway.

But hey since the average time to crime rate per the ATF in the US is 14 years, the number of felons buying their firearms from licensed dealers continues to fall 1994 14 % to 2008 5.96 %, and the poster child of all gun control laws is enforced less than 1 % of the time, alowing all but 13,024 felons out of just under 1 million of those rejected to go free and acquire their firearms from an unlicensed source is such startling evidence of how INEFFECTIVE our legal system is.

Syracuse, N.Y. - Nearly 1,000 people have been charged under the NY Safe Act in the eight months since the tougher gun control law was passed, according to the state's Division of Criminal Justice Services.

It's been more than a month since a state Supreme Court justice told the State Police that they can't withhold basic, non-identifying information on gun registrations under the NY SAFE Act.

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.

The essence of Wonder Woman can be distilled down to one image: Diana of Themyscira, revealing her Amazon garb for the first time since her arrival in the «world of men,» holding her position on a desecrated Flemish battlefield under a barrage of machine - gun fire.

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.

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..

In the two weeks since the shooting that claimed the lives of 17 students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., a wave of gun - control measures were proposed and taken under consideration in various state legislatures.

A bill prohibiting domestic abusers and people under restraining orders from owning firearms became America's first new gun control law since the Feb. 14 Florida high school massacre.

The city - owned space has held the gun show for decades, but the event has come under scrutiny since...

The city - owned space has held the gun show for decades, but the event has come under scrutiny since the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting, and its promoter agreed not to have a March show after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.