Sentences with phrase «weapons law for»

The city's police union is calling on Governor Kasich to suspend the state's open carry weapons law for the convention, in light of the Baton Rouge shootings Sunday that left three police officers dead.

Not exact matches

Last year, North Dakota become the first state to make it legal for law enforcement to use drones with «less than lethal» weapons, like stun guns, pepper spray, rubber pullets, and beanbags.

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.

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.

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.

Before the law was passed, law enforcement lacked the authority to search his home for weapons.

While speaking at the Austin, Texas, student march for gun control on Saturday actor Matthew McConaughey urged law - abiding gun owners to «take one for the team» and give up their «assault weapons.»

«Banning specific weapons and punishing law - abiding citizens is not going to fix this,» said Scott, who is planning a campaign for the U.S. Senate this year.

No civilian should be able to access these weapons of war, which should be restricted for use by our military and law enforcement only.

Not really theo, a man chose to pull the trigger, but other men chose to make the gun, make the ammunition, make laws allowing the sale of such a weapon, but ultimately it was physics that killed him, so let's blame physics... or maybe blame the guy for stopping his resperation... it's his own fault because he stopped breathing...

NO ONE outside law enforcement or the military needs a weapon designed for one purpose — to kill.

You can make the weapons harder to acquire and that will do something, for the average law - abiding citizen.

the last subway incident was a hate crime, guns are here and they are not going anywhere, I support stricter gun control laws, ban all assault weapons, and sever punishment for the crimes committed with firearms, no insanity plea accepted, just hang them

The author is arguing for uniform gun laws across the US that would make it impossible to purchase assault weapons.

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.

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...

Recently the Philippines has legislated a law declaring that those who bring nuclear weapons into the territory of the Philippines will be imprisoned for a sentence of at least six years and up to a maximum of thirty, and that all airplanes or ships carrying nuclear bombs will be arrested.4 There have been indications that the United States has explored plans to relocate the United States military from the Philippines to Taiwan.

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.

A major independent testing lab for our military and law enforcement can not conduct any further testing because Cuomo's laws prohibit firearms manufacturers from shipping military grade weapons to them for testing.

A State Police spokesman this week pointed a state law that prohibits a «machine - gun or any other firearm or weapon simulating a machine - gun and which is adaptable for such use.»

Witness the successful US civil rights movement (clearly for equality under the law & an end to segregation) compared to the ultimately unsuccessful 70's / 80's CND campaigners (against atomic weapons but no coherent or sensible pro-position on anything).

While their ability to afford near perfect distinction and completely avoid collateral damage is often overstated, drones are certainly not inherently indiscriminate, which is the standard for the impermissibility of a weapon under International Humanitarian Law.

ALBANY - Top New York Democrats praised the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal Monday to hear a case challenging the state's assault - weapons ban, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo calling it a «victory for common sense gun control laws.»

New law closes several loopholes in an existing state ban on assault weapon sale and extends the requirement for background checks

We therefore read Miller to say only that the Second Amendment does not protect those weapons not typically possessed by law - abiding citizens for lawful purposes, such as short - barreled shotguns.

The NYPD will review the circumstances under which it forces people from their homes using New York City's nuisance - abatement law, a legal weapon that has been used for decades to shut down drug dens, brothels and other criminal operations, officials said.

The law expanded the definition of prohibited assault weapons — which is the part that has most irked sheriffs — as well as raised the penalties for illegal possession of firearms, required mental health checks, and limited the public's access to records of those who have gun permits.

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So please join me in calling for the passage of common sense gun laws that reinstate the ban of assault - type weapons that used to exist from 1994 to 2004.

Insisting the time has come to reform «one of New York's most discriminatory laws,» State Assemblymember Dan Quart, who provided the estimate, called on Governor Andrew Cuomo to approve legislation that would classify folding knives as work tools and not weapons, in hopes of preventing the arrests of thousands of law - abiding citizens who carry the items for their job.

Hillary Clinton called for gun - safety law changes including an assault weapons ban and preventing people on the FBI's no - fly list from buying guns.

The ATF wrote letters in 2010 and 2013 explaining how current laws — the Gun Control Act (1968) and National Firearms Act (1934)-- do not provide an avenue for the bureau to regulate the gun attachments, which enable shooters to fire semiautomatic weapons at nearly the rate of automatic ones, according to CQ - Roll Call.

an 18th century law for 21st century weapons.

Under the proposed measure, family members or law enforcement could petition a court for «Extreme Risk Protection Orders,» which, if granted, would allow officers to temporarily confiscate firearms and prevent the purchase of additional weapons by those deemed at risk of causing harm to themselves or others.

Mr. Sanders, representing a rural, gun - loving state, voted against the 1993 Brady Bill and for a federal law granting weapons manufacturers immunity from lawsuits by shooting victims.

After the speech, she said the state's restrictive gun laws make it too hard for people to get permits to carry concealed weapons, though she doesn't support lowering the minimum age to obtain a concealed carry permit.

The law, known as the SAFE Act, expanded the state's ban on purchasing new assault weapons, established more comprehensive background checks for gun and ammunition purchases, and toughened laws against illegal gun possession.

The letter comes as gun control advocacy groups and some Republican lawmakers who voted no blast the law, which tightens the state's assault weapons ban, limits the number of rounds in a high capacity magazine and tightens criminal penalties for illegal weapons.

Cuomo, who supports the microstamping of bullet casings, wouldn't say which gun control measures he would push for on the state level in a news conference earlier today, though he called a provision in the state's ban on assault weapons that grandfathers in high - capacity ammunition magazines manufactured before the ban took effect a loophole in the law.

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.»

It also includes a three - day waiting period for gun purchases, a ban on bump stocks, and allows law enforcement to seize weapons from a person deemed mentally ill and will likely pose a threat.

«Concealed carry reciprocity is a common - sense reform that reduces confusion for law - abiding gun owners who wish to travel to other concealed - carry states,» Faso said in the statement, adding that out - of - state carriers would have to follow New York state and local prohibitions on weapons in bars, churches, public buildings and other institutions.

The State Legislature passed a law in 1931 that said «a person who sells or keeps for sale, or offers, or gives, or disposes of any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as a machine - gun to any person is guilty of a felony.»

The ad, which was paid for by the state Democratic Party Cuomo controls, also cites his current push for a law that would take guns from all convicted domestic abusers and his call to «stop Washington from allowing concealed weapons to cross state lines.»

The new law expanded the ban on automatic weapons and big ammunition magazines and requires background checks for private gun sales, changes that are an improvement to public safety.