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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People have talked about high-capacity gun -- ammunition clips, for example, and that is something certainly that he would be interested in looking at.
It is true that one of the guns used by Adam Lanza in his grotesquely evil and tragic Sandy Hook shooting rampage was a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle with high-capacity magazines, a gun which had been legally purchased by his mother.
We can get behind efforts to rid our country of semi-automatic weapons and prohibit high-capacity ammunition clips for any gun.
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.
The president reiterated his desire on Monday for more robust background checks for gun buyers, keeping high capacity magazines away from criminals, and a ban on assault weapons.
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Other changes to the New York law would allow police officers to keep their high-capacity handguns and take a loaded gun on school grounds without permission from school officials.
The president reiterated his desire on Monday for more robust background checks for gun buyers, keeping high-capacity magazines away from criminals, and a ban on assault weapons.
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The White House has also suggested the president would back other gun control measures on high-capacity ammunition clips as well as closing loopholes that allow people to buy guns without background checks.
Plans for a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines have already been removed from the gun-control bill, amid lack of political support.
Now, what has all of this got to do with the looming battle over gun control in general, and high capacity bullet clips in particular?
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Obama has spoken in favor of banning assault-style weapons, limiting high-capacity ammunition magazines and requiring background checks for every gun buyer.
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.
The White House has proposed a ban on certain weapons and on high-capacity ammunition magazines, as well as universal background checks on gun buyers.
"I have been clear for weeks that a ban on the possession and sale of high-capacity magazines is an important part of our effort to prevent gun violence, " he added.
Apart from the evident fact that Cho Seung-hui should have been institutionalised long before he committed his crimes, not one of your suggested changes to America's gun laws would have prevented him from obtaining high-capacity, semi-automatic handguns.
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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And while many people hope to use the shooting as ammunition to ban gun sales, gun shops in Arizona are reporting an explosion in high-capacity magazine sales.
The Obama administration wants Congress to require background checks for all gun sales, ban military-style weapons and limit high-capacity ammunition magazines to 10 rounds.
On guns, Mr. Obama has called for expanding background checks, placing restrictions on high-capacity clips and banning certain types of military-like weapons to reduce gun violence.
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Working with Congress will be paramount in curbing gun violence, Thompson said, singling out a ban on high capacity magazines as an example of a measure that could garner Republican support.
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Other highlights of Obama's gun agenda including bans on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines seem to have little chance of winning approval in the Senate, let alone the House.
Will we someday look back and wonder how we could ever have allowed the legal ownership of assault rifles with high-capacity magazines, and why we felt that virtually anyone could possess a gun originally designed for military slaughter?
Still, in his January State of the State address, Hickenlooper only specifically called for universal background checks on gun purchases, and he appeared ambivalent about a measure limiting high-capacity magazines.
Working with Congress will be paramount in curbing gun violence, Thompson said, singling out a ban on high-capacity magazines as an example of a measure that could garner Republican support.
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Last week, Obama proposed background checks on all gun sales, and bans on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
"We are going to work to pass some reasonable gun violence legislation that addresses universal background checks, closing the gun show loophole and helping with mental health issues, and banning high-capacity magazines, " Kelly said.
Biden has been the White House's leader on pushing for gun control legislation, including a ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and a push for universal background checks.
At the same time, those who view relatively unlimited gun ownership as an essential and non-assailable right granted to us all in the Bill of Rights must begin to better understand and appreciate why anti-gun advocates simply cannot see the sense and logic behind making combat style weapons and high capacity magazine clips available to civilian purchasers.
The law bans the sale or purchase of high-capacity magazines, like the ones used in the Newtown shooting, and requires background checks for all gun purchases.
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