Under the current NICS system, buyers may be denied the purchase of a firearm for reasons such as being indicted or convicted of a felony, admitting to being addicted to a controlled substances, having been dishonorably discharged from the Armed Forces, being subject to a restraining order, as well as other regulations.
"Once you like it, a muscle-car person is going to be addicted to a rear-wheel drive platform, " he says.
Indian politicians are addicted to a tax-and-subsidy regime of bewildering complexity, and deterred from tampering with it by a crowded electoral timetable.
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Under federal law, people addicted to a controlled substance are prohibited from buying a gun, said Joshua Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.
As a primer for anyone wishing to follow the trial, this book is valuable, even if Ms Goldman seems addicted to a strange (and often hilarious) purple prose.
Becoming addicted to playing a game is seen as something that is comes from personality and individual proclivities interacting with the game, rather than inherent to the game itself.
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I'm a bit addicted to the game, which is how I wound up at the Sacred Fools Theater in L.A. on a Saturday night for a "Guitar Hero" competition.
In a cricket-addicted nation, Dhoni was taking his first cricketing steps at a late stage.
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Addicted to Company was a massive hit in Casey's home country back in 2005, but it's only now getting the domestic release it deserves.
They gave us an insight to the heavier side of the Bury music scene, with two guitarists and a drummer addicted to his double-bass drum pedals.
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Another reason is the frustration of a government addicted to targets, which often aim not only to improve something but to lessen inequality in the process.
The question I would ask, is how can any politician sell that kind of politics to a media addicted to rhetoric as action (or inaction), and action as democracy?
In the course of the voyage I couldn't resist asking him all sorts of pertinent questions, accompanied by opinions (to which, as you dear readers know, I'm a bit addicted).
An unknown but unquestionably large fraction of the bottles are bought by a circle of addicted repeat customers.
The result is that for the affluent and spa-addicted, the idea of a home spa is becoming less a pipe dream and more an indulgent reality.
But psychiatry as a field has been skeptical of the idea of people being addicted to behaviors, because there is not proof that a bad habit is the same kind of biological issue as a dependence on alcohol, nicotine, or heroin.
McCaw is a visionary who is addicted to leverage and sometimes it comes home to haunt him.
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He is divorced from his first wife after a series of flings, which led to a claim he was addicted to sex.
Singer Michael Jackson was probably addicted to the painkiller Demerol, a witness for the defence in the trial of his doctor, Conrad Murray, has said.
Indeed, not long ago frustrated voters largely fired a Republican establishment so addicted to power that it had forgotten why voters put it there to begin with.
Some 2 million poor souls are addicted to drugs in Iran and a heroic team of NGOs and volunteers are working behind the scenes to help them.
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Yet the person making these statements will likely be addicted to his iPod, wearing a T-shirt and blue jeans, and using Microsoft Word to jot down his "cultural" statements on his Intel-based PC, with some Google searches on the Internet here and there interrupting his composition.
There is a higher likelihood of a fatal outcome for an addicted senior.
But this year Jennings listened to another part of his constituency, spouses and children of addicted gamblers who begged him to back a bill banning the machines.
Gongaware, under questioning by his own lawyer Friday, testified that he only became aware that Jackson was addicted to painkillers when the singer made a public announcement after his "Dangerous" tour abruptly ended so he could enter rehab in 1993.
Smartphones are amazing things, but for those who have become addicted to messaging instant gratification, they are a bit unwieldy.
In the 18thcentury they started trading with Caracas, the source of chocolate at a time when people were getting addicted to it.
Given that Jackson said in the past that he had been addicted to painkillers -- in 1993 in a video statement he said this happened after his scalp was burned in a Pepsi commercial taping -- his liver was likely not as healthy as a normal 50-year-old's liver, Parker said.
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"Computers are such an integral part of our life that in a certain sense we're all addicted to the technology, " he says.
Kennedy, who says he remembers nothing of the incident, insists alcohol was not a factor, and that he is addicted to prescription pain medicine and suffers from depression.
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