Sentences with phrase «weapon ban»
The party opposed the toughest assault weapon ban in the country and the higher penalties for criminals using illegal guns.
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About 300 gun safety advocates packed the room and dozens pleaded with senators to include an assault weapons ban in the bill.
An examination of the effects of concealed weapons laws and assault weapons bans on state - level murder rates.
He also wants to see bump stocks for weapons banned.
Support for an assault weapons ban grew from 56 to 61 percent.
If it helps them pick off Republican districts, well, that assault - weapon ban draws a little closer to reality.
The deal includes a tougher assault weapons ban and restrictions on ammunition and the sale of guns.
Links in the tweets brought viewers to a multimedia webpage that displayed the number of mass shootings and people killed since the assault weapons ban expired in 2004 and an animation of how many shots someone could have fired from an automatic rifle in the time a user spent on the Globe's page.
«If we're going to get an assault weapons ban passed in the United States House, I think we need to make sure that that bill focuses specifically on the high - capacity elements of that law,» he said.
You can check out the vote count in the House and Senate — plus the House and Senate vote counts on failed assault weapon ban amendments — here.
Gun sales are often driven by fear of weapons bans (as consumers rush to stock up).
Chicago has the harshest weapons ban with more illegal guns on the street being used by gangs murdering more people everyday.
Illinois has a statewide concealed weapons ban and Chicago passed very restrictive gun control measures making it virtually impossible for ordinary Second City residents to own or possess a gun of any sort.
So far, we've learned during this debate that the assault weapons ban portion of the act doesn't take effect for 90 days, in order to give the State Police time to set up the required registry.
The global autonomous weapons ban Hawking and others are seeking will most likely count for nothing.
Repeated attempts to introduce a semi-automatic weapons ban in the bill failed in both the Senate and the House.
And indeed, CBS polling also found support for an assault weapons ban jumped to 57 % after Orlando, up from 44 % in December.
Dick's assault weapons ban shows how companies are making decisions on issues that might even hurt their bottom lines, says Prof. Megan Kashner.
In one moment, he maintained his composure while explaining his refusal to back an assault weapons ban while face - to - face with the grieving father of a teenager killed in last week's shooting.
That's because, as is all too typical with US gun laws, the automatic weapons ban has some pretty big loopholes.
But when it came to the assault weapons ban sought by Parkland's survivors - turned - activists, that was a fight with the NRA that Scott wasn't willing to risk.
Mitt Romney, who as governor signed an assault weapons ban into law, raised taxes on business by 20 %, was publically pro-choice and introduced «socialized medicine» (their term not mine) to the nation.
We already have an assault weapons ban since the thirties.
New York and Connecticut instituted assault weapons bans after an AR - 15 rifle like this one was used during the Sandy Hook massacre.
Among the state House's most visible actions while Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting survivors were in Tallahassee was a no vote on advancing an assault weapons ban bill to the chamber floor for debate.
Petty said he supports Scott's proposal without the assault weapon ban because he wants action now.
Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, also a Democrat running for governor, hasn't been shy about advocating for an assault weapons ban either.
Brooklyn Sen. Daniel Squadron urges his colleagues to vote «yes» on a 50 - caliber weapon ban that will come up for a vote in the Senate Codes Committee tomorrow, April 28.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, agrees that the state's assault weapons ban needs to be modernized to account for new types of weapons and ammunition.
He has, for instance, repeatedly criticized the assault - weapons ban enacted by Congress in 1994, in part because the ban was easily circumvented.
Yet at last year's Geneva talks on a chemical weapons ban, the Soviet Union said it had made no such weapons since 1987.
December 12, 2015 • The shooting in San Bernardino has focused attention on a «loophole» gun manufacturers use to get around weapons bans.
Along with old friend Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer), Wyatt (Russell), Virgil (Sam Elliott) and Morgan Earp (Bill Paxton) find themselves — ostensibly upholding Virgil's newly decreed weapons ban — in a shootout with a bunch of loose cannons at the O.K. Corral.
February 28, 2013 • The Senate held its first hearing on an assault weapons ban Wednesday, with activists pushing for tighter gun regulations sharing a table with gun - rights activists.
All of Broward's cities should meet April 1 and pass the assault - weapons ban at the same time, Udine said.
It seems like the Legislature has voted to shoot down an assault weapons ban like a bajillion times by now.
So getting Congress to reinstate the assault weapons ban lifted in 2004, or even take the modest steps approved in Florida, would take a political miracle.
Who needs an assault weapons ban when we can give students buckets of rocks and more CPR training to keep them safe from school shooters?
-- Democrats tried at every stop to add an assault - weapons ban onto the bills and remove a portion of the bill that would allow some teachers to be armed.
The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand a state's assault weapons ban as well as the federal law that prevents people under 21 from buying handguns.
A Melbourne GP with a strong interest in public health, she has just returned from 10 days in New York at the UN, as a civil society participant at negotiations between 120 - plus countries for an historic nuclear weapons ban treaty which is expected to be concluded on July 7.
District officials say the six - inch blades are weapons banned from school premises by district rules and state law.
The 1994 weapons ban did not work; that's why it was rescinded.
These magazines were included in the assault weapons ban passed in 1994, but the measure (formally known as the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act) expired in 2004 and has not been reauthorized by Congress.
Assault weapons ban amendment takes the next step: Two weeks ago, we reported that Coral Springs Mayor Skip Campbell was looking into getting a state constitutional amendment on the ballot in 2020 that would ban assault weapons in Florida.