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Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said the White House has not «closed the door on any front» when asked about a broader ban on assault weapons on Feb. 20.

Parents, students and teachers from South Florida, the state's Democratic stronghold, have been a forceful presence in the Capitol since last week, when busloads of Stoneman Douglas High students spent two days lobbying — and protesting — lawmakers, urging them to take more far - reaching action and ban all assault weapons.

On Saturday students marching for an «assault weapon» ban stumbled when asked to explain what the term «assault weapon» means.

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.

If the simple answer to ending the violence is banning weapons then tell me why, after World War Two, when all those veterans who had been trained in using and did use high powered weapons, and in many cases did kill others, this nonsense didn't occur?

Lanza is the Senate sponsor of a bill released the week of the Las Vegas shooting that would ban so - called «bump» stocks and other devices that when attached to a semiautomatic weapon mimic automatic fire.

And when asked about the Las Vegas shooting at an appearance in Albany on Monday, Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand said Congress should consider banning assault weapons, expanding background checks and cracking down on gun trafficking.

Problem is there was a so - called assault weapons ban that was enacted some years ago during the Clinton administration, and what the Justice Department found when they did a study of this after about 10 years of experience they found it had no appreciable effect upon the incidence of gun violence in our country.

When the next Labour government attends the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York, it will be supporting a nuclear weapons convention or ban, similar to those for chemical or biological weapons?

``.@NYGovCuomo banned their sale in NY in 2013,» tweeted Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi when linking to an article about the AR - 15 style weapons used in other mass shootings.

The Florida Democratic Party chair said state House Republicans turned their backs on the survivors of the Parkland shooting this week when the chamber voted not to hear a bill banning semi-automatic assault weapons.

When John Flanagan edged out John DeFrancisco to become the State Senate leader, he promised to move a bill modifying the law to eliminate background checks on ammunition and allow for the inheritance of newly banned «assault weapons.»

In the past, King — who also supports an assault weapons ban — and Gillum have both criticized Graham for her stance on guns when she both ran and then served as a Democratic Congresswoman in a mostly Republican district a few years ago.

«The fact that fully - automatic weapons are already illegal and this makes another weapon capable [of automatic fire], I would be supportive of that,» Johnson said when asked Wednesday about legislation that would ban bump stocks.

I found even when we played our little game here in a realistic state and not as if we were playing gears of war we were still pretty much out gunned by sniper rifle spam and tali - ban that some how obtained weapons that they have a near 0 % chance of accessing anyway.

However, since no game has created a distinct online and offline personality, the fact that the XP or items, or best weapons you earn when playing offline can be used online makes it necessary to ban anyone thought to be using cheat software.

But part of that hope was dashed hours later, when the Republican - controlled House voted 71 - 36 along party lines against bringing up a bill that would ban assault weapon sales and magazines of more than seven rounds, all but killing the measure for the year.

When asked about an international ban across different types of lethal autonomous weapons for missions on land, air, and sea, 67 % of our participants indicated that all types of lethal autonomous systems should be internationally banned, while 14 % said that none of such systems should be banned.

When asked by DN if the council should propose excluding investments in companies involved in producing the weapons, Andresen said that he hoped a decision will not be need to be taken if efforts to preemptively ban them succeed.

When AAR Japan called for a ban on landmines and cluster munitions, the weapons had already been widely used, causing significant humanitarian harm.

It implies that when there is no existing law specifically on point, weapons that «shock the human conscience» can be regarded as unlawful in anticipation of an explicit ban.

Albert Efimov, head of the robotics center at Russia's Skolkovo Foundation, was the only speaker to oppose a ban on fully autonomous weapons, but he however concluded that a «human being will always be in the loop» when it comes to autonomous weapons.

At the Chatham House conference, there were several panelists that were quite open that the value of human dignity required a human in the loop on such a momentous decision as who to kill that the ban should be in place even at a time when fewer civilian casualties would result from use of autonomous weapons.

When asked if the council should propose excluding producers of autonomous weapons, Andresen said that he hopes such a decision will not be need to be taken if efforts to preemptively ban these weapons are successful.

Instead, there was a more nuanced discussion about banning a device few had even heard of before the Las Vegas rampage: bump fire stocks, also known as bump stocks, a small attachment that when placed on a semiautomatic weapon allows the gun to fire more like an automatic weapon — extracting even more carnage.

This warning even dates back to the 1980s when former President Ronald Reagan addressed the American people in 1989 saying, «a machine gun is not a sporting weapon or needed to defend a home» (RUClip.com, 1989) and in 1994, when Presidents Ford, Carter and Reagan wrote to the U.S. House of Representatives in support of banning «semi-automatic assault guns,» (Eaton, 1994).

Hey, they may not be able to ban assault weapons, but when it comes to porn, the Florida House is on it!

«I don't think [a ban] is a solution,» said Corcoran, R - Land O'Lakes, when asked by a student why civilians should have access to assault weapons like the AR - 15 used in the massacre.