That effort fell short, a demonstration of the limits of the billionaire mayor's largess in Congress and the relative power of gun-rights groups such as the National Rifle Association.
But the gun lobby gets its fire power from the gun manufacturers.
Although rates of gun ownership, like rates of violent crime, are falling, the power of the gun lobby is not.
The shame and silence is enforced by civil-rights leaders who speak in support of gun control but never about a dysfunctional gangster-rap culture that glorifies promiscuity, drug dealers and the power of the gun.
Impunity for those who use gun power to silence debate and possible dissent must be stopped for the Philippines to benefit from the essential contribution of free and independent media to democracy and rule of law.
If, when only 8% of Americans oppose the policy, you can't get a law that is designed to keep criminals and the insane from buying guns because of the power of the gun lobby, you certainly aren't going to get anything like confiscation when there would be massive opposition.
Mr. Skelos, in a deal with Mr. Cuomo and Democrats with whom he shares power, allowed the gun laws to come up for a vote.
Ideally, the system can be used as a laser weapon directly against targets that require high precision, or the laser can be used to aim the machine gun where more power is needed.
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In other incidents involving Mr Nashiri, he was allegedly threatened with an unloaded gun and had a power drill held near him which was repeatedly turned on and off.
In addition to strengthening the ATF's enforcement power, we need to attack gun trafficking at its source by limiting the high-volume gun sales that fuel trafficking from licensed dealers.
Much like the precursor ideologies of Nazism and Communism, Islamofascism seeks power out of the barrel of a gun.
" Mr. Baker said he made clear that the NRA "would do everything in our power'' to see that new gun-ownership restrictions don't pass.
With keys in one hand and gun in the other, his power over us seemed absolute, but he was not free.
Can you tell us when he talks about using the power of his office whether that includes using the power of his office to push for tighter gun control?
And the will might be hard to find in a system where political power often comes out of the barrel of a gun.
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The gun in question is not only the power of the Commons to fill the Lords with as many peers as the government wants in order to get its way.
If he does open up politics, Mr Turabi may have trouble with some of the soldiers now in government who think the gun a better way of bolstering their power than political pluralism.
"I want to see legislators make correct appraisals, not emotional responses, " said Richard Feldman, who was regional political director for the NRA during its rise to power in the 1980s and is president of a gun rights group called the Independent Firearm Owners Association.
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With the power to create money, Mr Draghi owns the biggest gun of all.
Where media budget and creativity used to be the gun powder of a campaign, now the real fire power comes from creativity itself.
Reports that President Obama is considering the issuance of 19 executive orders on gun control raise a new round of questions about presidential power.
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President Obama reiterates his commitment to do everything in his power to implement a series of common sense measures that would reduce gun violence in America.
A., the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is now fully engaged, trying to teach modern gun-tracing no American officer has arrest power in Mexico, and direct military assistance remains unthinkable.
Meanwhile an ethnic-Albanian group trying to seize power in part of southern Serbia said it had lost three men in a gun-battle.
Mr. BERNTSEN: Exactly, because there were so few of us and so many of the enemy that, you don't want to be in gun fights with people like that, you want to use air power, you want to leverage technology.
Obama's power and the impassioned pleas of devastated families were no match for the force of gun rights advocates.
Actually, democrats have long abandoned any gun control agenda and the NRA is second only to big oil in lobbying power.
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