Even questions about whether armor-piercing bullets can be banned are not resolved by today's ruling, according to Larry Pratt, director of Gun Owners of America.
Mr. LARRY PRATT (Director, Gun Owners of America): Well, that's a distinction without a difference, to go after an ammunition ban, say well, that's not a gun.
The petition followed an interview with Larry Pratt, director of Gun Owners of America, on CNN - in which Mr Morgan called his guest "a dangerous man".
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.
But Dudley Brown, executive director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, told CNN he supported the billboard.
Ron Pinciaro, executive director of Connecticut Against Gun Violence, said his group will live with the lawmakers' decision not to ban them as other states have done.
Now, Connecticut joins states including California, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts in having the country's strongest gun control laws, said Brian Malte, director of mobilization for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence in Washington.
Connecticut will join states including California, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts in having the country's strongest gun-control laws, said Brian Malte, director of mobilization for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence in Washington.
WSJ: Connecticut Lawmakers Pass Wide-Ranging Gun-Control Bill
Leah Gunn Barrett, executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, whose older brother was murdered in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1997, says it's too early to pass judgement on the Safe Act's mental health alert.
Goddard now works for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence as assistant director for victims advocacy and federal litigation.
"If the language is meaningful, it would be obviously a huge step, " said Josh Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, which represents child welfare, religious and other groups favoring gun curbs.
The research is a good and descriptive small-scale study, said Jon Vernick, an associate professor and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, but it also is a good reminder that public health experts need to do more of this kind of research.
Though the supposed smoking gun revealed by Sidney Wolfe , director of the Public Citizen Health Research Group, raises concern about the actions of the drug's manufacturer, Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ), it appears to be far from a final word on Celebrex.
"They're never easy cases, there's no smoking gun, " ACLU of Arizona legal director Dan Pochoda said of the class-action suit.
Jude Law has become the latest big name to quit troubled production Jane Got a Gun, which has already had its director and another star exit the project.
But Dennis Henigan, legal director of the Centre to Prevent Handgun Violence, replies that gun manufacturers already have access to low-tech safety devices, such as combination locks.
Trauma, poverty and unsafe neighborhoods must be included in the gun control debate, said Ted Corbin, co-director at the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice.
New York Magazine is reporting that David Ellison, son of Larry (the third-richest man in America) is pushing for a Top Gun sequel at Paramount and offers have already gone out to director Tony Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
"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.
CNN: Gun owners fear new legislation could tread on their rights
"Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature usurped the legislative and democratic process in passing these extreme anti-gun measures with no committee hearings and no public input, " Chris Cox, executive director of NRA's Institute for Legislative Action said in the release.
Bae-Yong Lee, Chairman of the Presidential Council on Nation Branding, Gun-Soo Kim, Secretary-General of the Expo Organizing Committee, Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Wendy Watson-Wright, Executive Secretary of UNESCO-IOC, and Taeck-Soo Chun, Secretary-General of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO were present at the opening ceremony.
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