"A gun is an option to save a life, not to take a life, " Conn says.
Requiring a simple background check every time a gun is sold is common sense.
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Would it be safe to say that someone who owns an illegal gun is a criminal.
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The gun is designed to fire standard handgun rounds, using interchangeable barrels for different calibers of ammunition.
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When the gun is fired the marking theoretically leaves a serial number on the primer encased in the spent cartridge.
However, acquiring a gun is not an easy process -steps to gun ownership include a medical examination and a written test.
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Sensory data can be used by built-in software to disable firing if the gun is pointed at a child or someone holding a child.
The provision also provides liability protections for a gun owner who uses a safety lock and whose gun is stolen and used in a crime.
The bills signal a historic change for Democrats in a state where owning a gun is as common as owning a car in some rural areas.
Trigger control software could be relaxed when the gun is at home or in a car, while other safety features stay on to prevent accidental discharges.
Do we really want to live in fear of one another, praying our gun is bigger than the next person's, or that we are quick enough to shoot first?
The gun is small enough to fit into the palm of a hand and police believe it may have been brought into the UK during or after World War II.
The fact that a certain percentage of domestic quarrels end in a shooting is no grounds for saying your ownership of a gun is a threat to the members of your household.
"We know that's true, because in states that already require background checks on private sales, the rate of women murdered by an intimate partner armed with a gun is 38% lower than in states that don't have such background checks, " he said.
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And although gun control advocates typically associate the right to firearms ownership with hunting and recreational uses only, the Rasmussen poll found that even 54% of Democrats agree with 75% of Republicans and 68% of those unaffiliated with either major party that the right to own a gun is to ensure such freedom.
Whether tighter gun control is the answer is another open question and an even more difficult question is what sort of gun control would be feasible or effective.
He said the NRA's work is cut out for it, because gun ownership is on the decline in America.
For some, it is based on the fundamental belief that gun ownership is the essential freedom upon which all other freedoms rest.
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A. According to a 2009 Luntz poll, for instance, requiring mandatory background checks on all purchasers at gun shows is favored not only by eighty-five per cent of gun owners who are not members of the N.
Mr Watts is also bitter about the administration's decision to discontinue the Crusader, an army gun which is made in his constituency.
In fact, the only argument for opposing gun background checks is that you believe the U.S. is already so gun-saturated and current gun owners are so reckless about allowing access to their guns by prohibited parties, that even if they can't buy them, the criminals and insane will get their hands on guns in any event.
"Our gun law is one of the strictest in the whole world, " Mr Stiel says.
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