Bans on automatic or semi-automatic weapons will not in any way affect the sport of hunting.
Dianne Feinstein, D-California, introduced a bill that would ban some assault rifles, semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines.
Now, some of those same investment managers are targeting gun manufacturers and particularly those that make semi-automatic weapons.
Dianne Feinstein of a proposed ban of some assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons.
But his love of war stories, rifles, and shotguns never extended into the realm of automatic or semi-automatic weapons.
We can get behind efforts to rid our country of semi-automatic weapons and prohibit high-capacity ammunition clips for any gun.
They need to contemplate whether or not they really want a society where schoolteachers are to be armed with semi-automatic weapons.
There's also a sizable gender gap over a ban on semi-automatic weapons, with two-thirds of women supporting such a move and men divided.
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The latter restriction amounts to a ban on most formerly-legal semi-automatic weapons, both pistols and long guns, since no seven- round magazines exist on the market.
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We can ask why, for some, it is easier to access semi-automatic weapons and high volume magazine clips than it is to access high-quality mental health care.
Once again a deranged man has walked into an American school armed with powerful semi-automatic weapons and left a trail of death and heartache in his wake.
He insisted that a reasonable ban on semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines, as well as strengthening background checks, presented no threat to the constitutional right to bear arms.
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What is the distinction between machine guns and semi-automatic weapons?
The biggest is Mr Obama's decision not to take on the gun lobby by seeking to renew a ban on the sale of certain semi-automatic weapons which lapsed in 2004.
The public mood has dramatically shifted and now favors sensible gun controls: a ban on all semi-automatic weapons and their high-capacity clips, as well as background checks at all gun shows.
Dianne Feinstein of California to update a 1994 ban on semi-automatic weapons that expired in 2004, the vote was 40-60, showing opposition by several Democrats as well as the chamber's Republican minority.
Obama cited the major provisions of his package of gun proposals, including background checks on all firearms sales, a ban on semi-automatic weapons that mimic military weapons, and limiting ammunition magazines to 10 rounds.
Obama cited the major provisions of his package of gun proposals, including background checks on all gun sales, a ban on semi-automatic weapons that mimic military weapons, and limiting ammunition magazines to 10 rounds.
Ms. Peters, who lobbied for stricter gun laws in Australia, credits their newly established 28-day waiting period for a firearm purchase and a ban on semi-automatic weapons for a 50% reduction in homicide and suicide rates.
County officials also cited concerns about clerks having to register thousands of formerly legal semi-automatic weapons and renew pistol permits, as well as enforcement of provisions that could require county sheriffs' deputies to confiscate guns from owners deemed ineligible to have them.
In a sign of the gun lobby's influence, a nine-day sports and outdoor show scheduled to take place in Pennsylvania next month was postponed Thursday because the NRA withdrew its support over the decision by organizers to ban the display of "modern sporting rifles" -- the kind of semi-automatic weapons targeted by Feinstein's proposal.
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Obama seeks an updated version of the 1994 assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004, that would prevent the manufacture and sale of some semi-automatic rifles modeled after fully automatic assault weapons.
Obama's proposals include a ban on popular semi-automatic rifles that mimic assault weapons, a limit of 10 rounds per magazine, and universal background checks for anyone buying a gun, whether at a store or in a private sale.
Travis Newport said that authorities have recovered various items from the places and vehicles Dorner occupied, including assault weapons and semi-automatic handguns.
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Proposals in the committee's package included expanding background checks on gun buyers, toughening laws against gun trafficking and straw purchases, banning semi-automatic rifles modeled after military assault weapons as well as large-capacity ammunition magazines, and coming up with ideas for improving school safety.
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The Act banned the ownership of semi-automatic and pump-action rifles, weapons which fire explosive ammunition, short shotguns with magazines and elevated pump-action and self-loading rifles.
New York's law also sets a seven-bullet limit on magazines, tightens the definition of illegal "assault weapons" and requires owners of formerly legal semi-automatic guns to register them.
The challenge takes aim at two key provisions of the law: a lower limit on magazine capacity and an expansion of the state's assault weapons ban to include some popular and formerly legal semi-automatic rifles.
The weapons, which will be converted from fully automatic to semi-automatic for safety reasons, will be assigned to sergeants and carried in the trunks of their cars.
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