Sentences with phrase «weapon laws in»

California is known for already having some of the tightest weapon laws in the US.

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As law enforcement officers descended on the town of 21,000 equipped with armored trucks, body armor, camouflage, and assault rifles, and fired tear gas and rubber bullets into crowds of protesters during the last two weeks, civilians and politicians are making call to rein in the weapons arsenals cops have been amassing.

In April 2007, Congress passed a law to strengthen the instant - background - check system after a gunman at Virginia Tech who killed 32 people was able to purchase his weapons because his mental - health history was not in the instant - background - check databasIn April 2007, Congress passed a law to strengthen the instant - background - check system after a gunman at Virginia Tech who killed 32 people was able to purchase his weapons because his mental - health history was not in the instant - background - check databasin the instant - background - check database.

If the Supreme Court overturns the appeals court, that could jeopardize laws allowing concealed weapons in every other state in the nation.

No one has been arrested in the burglary, one of several cases in recent years in which Bay Area law enforcement officers lost guns to thieves and which have prompted legislators to push for tougher requirements for securing weapons.

Included in the proposals is a contentious, $ 67 million voluntary program to arm school staff, including teachers, trained by law enforcement to carry concealed weapons on campus.

The company is also pressing the government to enact gun - reform measures, including a ban on assault - style weapons, high - capacity magazines and bump stocks; raising the minimum age to 21 for gun purchasing; universal background checks that include scrutiny of mental - health information and previous run - ins with the law; and an end to the background - check loophole for gun show and private sales.

Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell in many states, brand new «machine guns» — defined by law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one shot per trigger pull — have not been available for sale or purchase for civilian use in the United States since the Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.

«No laws were violated in the procurement of this weapon,» said Peter J. Forcelli, the special agent in charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Miami.

If you know anything about US gun laws, though, this should have at first seemed unlikely — after all, automatic weapons are some of the few guns that are supposed to be banned or, at the very least, strictly regulated in America.

Like other loopholes in gun laws, these have been in large part buttressed by the typical pro-gun argument that people should have these weapons to be able to defend themselves and their families.

In the four weeks since Florida passed a «red flag» law authorizing police to seize weapons from people who could pose a threat to themselves or others, law enforcement officials in Broward County have taken action against 13 peoplIn the four weeks since Florida passed a «red flag» law authorizing police to seize weapons from people who could pose a threat to themselves or others, law enforcement officials in Broward County have taken action against 13 peoplin Broward County have taken action against 13 people.

In the Deerfield Beach case, Smith was already barred from possessing a weapon, but the risk protection order made it much easier for law enforcement to prove he had one.

After the Parkland shooting, teenage activists in Florida organized a movement to encourage lawmakers to create stricter gun laws and ban assault weapons.

The law imposes new restrictions on firearm purchases and the possession of «bump stocks,» funds more school police officers and mental health services, broadens law enforcement's power to seize weapons, and allows certain staff members to carry guns in schools.

Passing a law to ban the sale of assault weapons like the ones used in Las Vegas, Orlando, Sutherland Springs, Aurora, Sandy Hook and, most recently, to kill 17 innocent people and injure more than a dozen others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

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.

It would incorporate in the Constitution the new law that someone must be 21 to purchase any weapon.

But the law doesn't do anything to regulate gun sales or to restrict the sale of assault - style weapons like the AR - 15; it's far from what the students listed in their demands on gun control.

In response to the Parkland shooting, Florida passed a law that incorporates some of those measures — such as expanding mental health services and regulations — but it doesn't ban assault - style weapons like the AR - 15 used in the shootinIn response to the Parkland shooting, Florida passed a law that incorporates some of those measures — such as expanding mental health services and regulations — but it doesn't ban assault - style weapons like the AR - 15 used in the shootinin the shooting.

Or, Pat, is NP poking fun at those who talk about the Bible as a dangerous weapon and making fun of Canadian Hate Laws the prohibit its use in some circumstances.

So, to use an example from criminal law: evidence that blood from the dead victim and the was found in the defendant's home, along with the murder weapon, is evidence that the defendant killed the victim.

But poverty is aggravating, terrorism by States and rebels who receive weapons from sources and countries where private arms industries flourish is hyper - active, the molested and downgraded gender and bonded labour see no relief in sight and marginalized Third World peoples and the Fourth World of utter destitution are in despair, with a Fifth World of refugees emerging everywhere with nowhere to go, despite Refugee Laws and the Red Cross.

When the practicing Christian talks to modern man about the «Law of God,» the «Teaching of the Church,» or invokes the authority of Holy Scripture, he is to his own mind bringing out the heaviest weapons in his armory.

Third people in countries where these laws are in place have had a very difficult time getting weapons, excpt in the case of countries like Mexico whose idiot neighbors have been supplying their criminals.

From 60 %, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

From 60 % +, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in: Albania — 70 %; Malaysia — 60.4 %; Qatar — 77.5 %; Sudan — 70 %.

The search today for some minimal order under law must go on in the threatening world of nations, some armed with nuclear weapons, and others preparing to be so armed.

Legislators in Connecticut have passed what some are saying are the nation's toughest new gun laws — banning high - capacity magazines, creating a weapon offender registry, requiring universal background checks for firearm purchases and adding more types of guns under an existing assault weapons ban.

But the law also ensures that American taxpayer money isn't used for buying weapons or equipment that will end up in the hands of children forced to fight in conflicts around the globe.

Legislators in Connecticut have passed what some are saying are the nation's toughest new gun laws — banning high - capacity magazines, creating a weapon offender registry, requiring universal background checks for firearm purchases...

If Kelley's conviction had been passed to the FBI, as required by law, the gunman wouldn't have been able to legally purchase some of the weapons he used in the deadly attack.

I'm well aware of the evil in that law, i am Irish, it was made specifically to keep weapons out of are hands.

Though the FBI did not offer the media an explanation into their raid of Childers» home, business and warehouse, Childers believes that the investigation is because of what he says are false allegations made by his former son - in - law that he is smuggling weapons.

Steele and Williams use ultra-high-tech computers, satellite phones, the Internet, covert underground bunkers, superfuturistic weapons and massive range rovers driven in ways that conflict with local traffic laws.

We need conversations about loopholes in the laws that allow the sale of weapons at gun shows and by private dealers without proper background checks.

By 10 a.m., hundreds of law enforcement personnel surround Bank of America Stadium on nearly every corner, bouncing between Humvees and tour buses unloading dozens of officers in riot gear carrying zip - ties and weapons.

Owning a registered gun and not knowing our hippie pinko laws in Cali does not make him a bad person, and further my friend - there is no proof of this prosecutors allegations and 2 red flags for me are - the motivations of said prosecutor to set «an example» and the fact his GF gnarked to police about said weapon.

«It is not appropriate to use a live weapon in an educational event,» Oakes said, «and in most cases, state law prohibits firearms on school grounds and at school events.»

Now he's looking at the prospect of being the president who, in effect, sanctioned the use of chemical weapons, a violation of international law.

Yet the gun industry easily found ways around the law and most of these weapons are now sold in post-ban models virtually identical to the guns Congress sought to ban in 1994

Yet he limited all law enforcement officers to just 7 rounds in their magazines to be used when engaging an armed criminal that is using the full capacity of their weapons.

«This legislation would let individuals from out - of - state convicted of certain crimes carry hidden, loaded weapons in New York, in violation of New York's much better, safer law,» Cuomo said.

Two Democratic state senators want a law that specifically outlaws the possession or sale of so - called «bump» stocks that can modify a weapon to have it imitate an automatic rife — the use of which are already banned in New York.

To ensure the safety of yourself and others, make sure you are comfortable and proficient with your weapon, and knowledgeable of the laws in New York State with regards to carrying a weapon and when it is legal to use it.

Not only have such negotiations never been held before — nuclear weapons remain the only class of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) not explicitly prohibited by international law — the process itself also marks a turning point in multilateral diplomacy.

A state law on what constitutes illegal folding knives, or so - called «gravity» knives, targets blacks and Hispanics with razor - sharp precision — though the «weapons» are rarely used in violent crimes, new statistics show.

Doran said she is in favor of measures that keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill, while respecting the rights of law - abiding gun owners and that's why she supports a ban on military - grade assault - style weapons, strengthening background checks, as well as legislation to stop convicted domestic abusers from having access to guns.

Later in the day, at a campaign stop in Albany, Molinaro was asked by reporters about New York's gun control laws banning assault weapons.