Sentences with phrase «weapons bans after»

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After attributing their presidential loss in 2000 in part to the assault weapons ban, Democrats shied away from gun control talk in order to avoid alienating rural voters, particularly blue collar white males.

On Tuesday, President Trump ordered the Justice Department to issue regulations that would ban bump stocks, after pressure to do more to curtail access to deadly weapons following the Florida shooting.

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.

This was one day after the Florida state House declined to take up an assault weapons ban, which made the students angrier and even more eloquent.

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

But the Florida legislature, which has long been seen as a laboratory for gun - rights legislation that is tested elsewhere in the country, rejected a ban on assault weapons after Parkland.

Connecticut expanded a ban on assault weapons, prohibited the sale of high - capacity ammunition magazines and imposed stricter background checks on gun purchases after 20 children and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012.

House Republicans on Tuesday decisively blocked a move by Democrats to debate a ban on assault weapons in Florida, six days after a massacre that took 17 lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

The bump stock ban is among several proposals Trump has made to tighten gun controls after the Florida shooting, such as improving reporting to the background check system and raising the legal age for purchasing assault - style weapons from 18 to 21.

After all, Cook County already has a ban assault weapons; semi-automatic handguns are the kind of weapon most commonly used in shootings.

The agreement does not, however, include a ban on semiautomatic firearms modeled after military assault weapons or a limit on ammunition magazines to 10 rounds, two provisions many gun control activists had wanted.

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?

Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long warned today that Senate Republicans risk eroding their base in New York after allowing a vote on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's gun control legislation that updates the state's assault weapons ban.

Rebecca Fischer, executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, said she is not surprised that pistol permits spiked after the SAFE Act, which included a broader ban on assault weapons and requires pistol - permit holders to re-certify every five years.

New York passed the NY SAFE Act, which banned assault weapons such as the AR - 15, in 2013 after the Sandy Hook massacre in Connecticut.

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.

The debate over guns in Westchester has also made its way into local conversations, particularly in the town / village of Harrison, the village of Rye Brook, and the town of Mamaroneck, the latter of which briefly attempted to ban carrying weapons on its public property — an initiative that was quickly dropped after vehement public backlash.

The speech came shortly after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre and Cuomo focused on his seven - point SAFE Act that featured the toughest assault weapon ban in the nation, required more stringent background checks for gun sales, and banned direct ammo sales over the internet.

The weekend after the Jan. 9 State of the State address, Mr. Cuomo and his allies received some help: A poll by Newsday and Siena College found that more than 7 in 10 residents on Long Island supported an expanded ban on assault weapons.

President Trump, who once supported an assault - weapons ban but campaigned as a Second Amendment champion, called for raising the minimum age to purchase such weapons to 21 after the Parkland shooting.

After all, under its Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York has responded to December's Newtown tragedy by passing legislation banning assault weapons and making it harder for seriously mentally ill individuals to legally obtain firearms.

New York and Connecticut banned possession of semi-automatic weapons and large - capacity magazines after 20 first - graders and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in December 2012.

The announcement, particularly the bit on the NRA, confirms one line of attack on Young will be her vote against an assault weapons ban — added after roll call — in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

He secured one of the toughest gun safety laws in the country, astonishing even his supporters by expanding the state's assault weapons ban in a matter of weeks after a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at a school in Newtown, Conn..

Almost a week after 17 students and teachers were gunned down at a Florida high school, the state legislature voted 71 - 36 Tuesday against a measure to consider a ban on semi-automatic weapons.

After the ban, space - based surveillance became a crucial component of the Cold War, with satellites serving as one part of elaborate early - warning systems on alert for the deployment or launch of ground - based nuclear weapons.

Weeks after the bill became law, Corcoran sent a letter to the CRC, saying he's against adding an assault weapons ban and an extended waiting period to the state constitution.

Rep. Jose Oliva, in line to be House speaker after the 2018 elections, said he was worried a complete assault weapons ban would violate the Second Amendment, even though Congress enacted a ban on certain assault weapons in 1994, which expired 10 years later.

Just 18 months after declaring his opposition to banning assault weapons, Ashford has changed his mind.

The decision was taken by consensus — a rare feat in today's disarmament diplomacy — and came less than one year after non-governmental organizations created the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots calling for a preemptive ban on fully autonomous weapons.

And he said a previous assault weapons ban had some positive effect; «mass shootings went up 200 percent in the decade after the assault weapons ban expired.»

Nations first agreed to begin discussing lethal autonomous weapons at end of 2013, one year after non-governmental organizations co-founded the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots to work for a preemptive ban on development, production, and use of fully autonomous weapons.

(CNN)- A week after one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern US history, Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced a comprehensive plan to keep students safe in his state, including suggestions to raise the minimum age to buy a gun, keep weapons out of the hands of the mentally ill and ban the sale of bump stocks.

In the RoboCop remake, legislation named after the main opponent of killer robots, Senator Huburt Dreyfus (Zach Grenier), preemptively bans the use of fully autonomous weapons in the United States, but the technology does not appear to be prohibited internationally.

But after Moskowitz's speech yesterday, I got a text from a Democratic state representative who was a no vote, who was all ready to switch to a yes after Moskowitz's speech... until Oliva used his closing to pooh - pooh an assault weapons ban and switched the rep. back to a no.

The approval came hours after the same committee voted against an amendment that would have banned weapons like the AR - 15 rifle used by Nikolas Cruz in the Parkland shootings.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Ariana Ortega said she wasn't discouraged after the Florida state House voted Tuesday to avoid considering a bill that would ban assault weapons.

The bill (SB 1048) would only allow guns on campus after school hours, but Democratic Sens. Linda Stewart of Orlando and Gary Farmer of Lighthouse Point filed amendments to the bill to ban assault weapons and impose stricter background checks.

A week after a shooter slaughtered 17 people in a Florida high school, thousands of protesters, including many angry teenagers, swarmed into the state Capitol on Wednesday, calling for changes to gun laws, a ban on assault - type weapons and improved care for the mentally ill.

A rally outside the state Capitol featuring more than a thousand gun - control activists became a raucous Senate committee hearing Monday as gun - control activists filled the room, hooting and hollering as speaker after speaker demanded a ban on assault weapons, and hissing and booing as NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer warned that a proposed ban «stops short of banning every gun known to man.»

It's hard to believe the Senate, who are our representatives, could do this after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland — a tragedy — and all the students» efforts to ban assault weapons.