Sentences with phrase «violated federal gun laws»

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But the law, enacted in 2005, includes exceptions for sale and marketing practices that violate state or federal laws and instances of so - called negligent entrustment, in which a gun is carelessly given or sold to a person posing a high risk of misusing it.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has ruled that bump stocks do not violate laws that tightly limit ownership of machine guns, and some lawmakers have called for them to be banned.

A federal judge has upheld most of New York's new gun control law, rejecting arguments that its bans on large - capacity magazines and the sale of some semi-automatic rifles violate Second Amendment rights.

The lawyer for Daniel A. Lewis, a college librarian from Amherst, plans to file a lawsuit on Lewis» behalf in U.S. District Court claiming that his rights to possess property — his guns — and receive due process before his permit was suspended were violated along with federal privacy laws regarding his medical records, according to the Buffalo News.

But because she had recently violated a section of the law that forbids lobbyists from sending people on expensive junkets (something about paying a congressman to go on an «educational» tour of Indonesia regarding taxes on palm oil), she is called up for a Senate hearing led by Senator Ron M. Sperling (John Lithgow), who is in the pocket of the gun people and seeks to send her to a federal penitentiary.

Last week, the FBI arrested blogger Kevin Cogill (a / k / a Skwerl) of Culver City, Calif., on suspicion of violating a federal copyright law for posting nine tracks to his blog from the unreleased and much anticipated Guns N» Roses album Chinese Democracy.

The Commonwealth had created a new felony modeled on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, an obscure 20th - century federal law.15 It criminalized unauthorized use of any computer, an admittedly vague framing that in its federal incarnation had been interpreted to include activities as far - reaching as violating a website's terms of service.16 The device scanned a passenger's online personas for signs of criminal activity, and when it couldn't find a smoking gun (such as pictures of contraband or discussion of criminal activity), the CFAA gave Baley additional bites at the apple.17 Lying about your height in a dating profile was often a violation of a site's terms.