He would, however, support and has supported some gun control legislation like the assault weapons ban, like closure of the gun show loophole.
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama is due to travel to Denver, Colorado to continue his push for new gun control measures including an assault weapons ban, background checks on all prospective gun purchasers, and a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines.
According to court documents, Rogers told investigators he had fired the assault rifle at a gun range on two separate occasions.
The defendant told the jury he had borrowed the gun to assault a barber in Hackney but had returned the weapon the same day.
They offered no willingness to consider any of the proposals offered this week to amend gun laws including limiting access to assault weapons, requiring universal background checks, limiting sales at gun shows and increasing the use of trigger locks.
New to the list is a promise to push an assault weapons ban and other gun controls.
Investigators, who were inside the school collecting evidence and searching for a motive in Tuesday's gun and bomb assault, were evacuated when the device were found.
Pointing a loaded weapon at anybody is grounds for a felony charge of assault, and brandishing a gun in front of a police officer is an affront to law enforcement that is seldom taken lightly.
The new laws classify more semiautomatic rifles as so-called assault weapons, requires many gun owners to renew their licenses every five years, increases the regularity of background checks and makes it illegal to own ammunition magazines with more than seven rounds.
Mr. Cuomo also plans to propose broadening the definition of what kind of gun falls under the state's assault-weapon ban and would seek to limit the size of gun ammunition magazines, the people said.
Chuck Schumer, D-New York, on Sunday called on the nation's largest gun retailers to "participate in a temporary moratorium on selling assault-style rifles until Congress has considered legislation to reduce gun violence, " his office said in a statement.
The assault weapons ban would restrict what gun manufacturers call modern sporting rifles.
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The law forces the registration of assault weapons, tougher sentences for gun crimes and measures to keep guns from the mentally ill and from criminals.
In a Google Hangout online chat on Thursday, a participant asked Obama how renewing the assault weapons ban would help reduce gun violence caused primarily by handguns.
Another unique feature of the Delta Six is that by removing the barrel and collapsing the stock it converts from an assault rifle to a Sub Machine Gun.
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Executive vice president Wayne LaPierre gave a press briefing in which he dismissed the possibility of any new controls whatever on assault weapons or ammunition magazines or gun sales.
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Soon after D-Day in 1944, while still a lieutenant, he became the first Welshman in WWII to be awarded the VC for his leadership in an assault on a German machine-gun post in Normandy.
Quinn, a Chicago Democrat who favors strict gun control including an assault weapons ban, said violence has been an "epidemic" in parts of the state and Illinois should be the nation's leader in keeping the concealed carry ban in place.
At just 25 and while serving as a lieutenant, he became the first Welshman in World War II to be awarded the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest honour for gallantry, for an assault on a German machine-gun post in northern France.
Then yesterday, after a week of total silence, the NRA emerged, with its executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, giving a press statement in which he dismissed the possibility of any new controls whatever on assault weapons or ammunition magazines or gun sales.
Although gun offenses are generally taken seriously when they are part of crimes such as homicide, aggravated assault or robbery, the act of illegally carrying a gun itself typically doesn't incur significant punishment.
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He is heartened, I should mention, by what we have all heard from some members of Congress who have been long-time opponents of gun control measures, common-sense gun control measures like the assault weapons ban and the like.
So when you can't police against something like that, it would seem that the other half would deal with issues of gun control, of the assault weapons ban being -- not renewing, but creating a new assault weapons ban.
But on other proposals where there is overall majority support, such as creating a federal database to track gun sales, bans on assault style weapons, high capacity ammunition clips, and online ammunition sales, the polls indicate wide differences of opinions between Democrats and Republicans.
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The state's new gun laws classify more semiautomatic rifles as so-called assault weapons, make it illegal to own ammunition magazines with more than seven rounds and require many gun owners to renew their licenses every five years, among other measures.
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Passed in January, the gun laws classify more semiautomatic rifles as so-called assault weapons, make it illegal to own ammunition magazines with more than seven rounds and require many gun owners to renew their licenses every five years, among other measures.
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Background checks would be more thorough, gun owners would have to reapply for licences every five years, and fully automatic assault rifles, armour-piercing bullets, lifelike toy guns, and gun-lending would be banned.
Senators in quick succession yesterday voted down an assault weapons ban, a high-capacity gun magazine ban and enhanced background checks.
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The influential NRA, among other gun rights groups, has vowed to fight any new gun restrictions -- like an assault weapon ban.
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The drop in crime rates is due both to enforcing existing laws and new gun control measures such as the assault weapons ban, he said.
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