Finally in 2011, conservatives led by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper voted to abolish the long-gun registry and destroy all its records.
Cerberus was quite vocal in its plan to sell the Freedom Group, the roll-up of long-gun manufacturers that have proven incredibly profitable in the firearm fever of the past five years.
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Canada recently got rid of its costly "long-gun" registry for rifles in part because the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Chiefs of Police could not provide a single example in which tracing was of more than peripheral importance in solving a gun murder.
It should be noted here that Biden is a long-time gun-control supporter.
So, it should shock nobody that Senator Reid is a long-time gun rights advocate who has consistently counted upon the support of the NRA when running for election in his home state.
The electromagnetic railgun is a long-range naval gun that will fire precision-guided hypervelocity projectiles to ranges greater than 200 nautical miles.
He is heartened, I should mention, by what we have all heard from some members of Congress who have been long-time opponents of gun control measures, common-sense gun control measures like the assault weapons ban and the like.
That task grew more difficult in May, when news broke that federal prosecutors were looking into allegations that MCI, since 1994 and be-fore merging into WorldCom, had be-gun illegally disguising long-distance calls as local ones to avoid paying the Bells millions of dollars in access fees--and continues to do so.
Wal-Mart has now decided that it will, after all, attend week-long talks about gun legislation at the White House.
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California Senator Dianne Feinstein, a long-time advocate for gun regulations, said on Sunday she would introduce assault weapons ban legislation in the beginning of the next congressional session.
She was named a Top Gun in part for her long-term strategic vision for PepsiCo and the acquisitions she has helped.
Gun control, immigration and the administration's long-delayed budget plan are in the spotlight on Capitol Hill.
According to the Utica Observer-Dispatch newspaper, the suspect was seen carrying a long gun.
He wore his belt gun which was a big long dragoon pistol, the cap-and-ball kind that was old-fashioned even at that time.
They split 18-11 in opposition to the gun control bill with most upstate senators opposed and most Long Islanders supportive.
Mr Allen, a long-established friend of the National Rifle Association, suggested that he too would support new forms of gun control.
Each weapon automatically replenishes its ammunition, but because of the long ammo-reload times, you have to cycle constantly through the weapon list to keep a loaded gun up.
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The strategy known as "gun-walking", allowing suspected straw purchasers to leave gun stores with weapons with the intent of tracking them, was barred under a long-standing departmental policy.
For instance, alcohol-related deaths in America each year far eclipse the number of gun deaths, and have for a long time.
For example, the General Social Survey has long found three-quarters of Americans saying everyone should have to get a permit from the local police before buying a gun.
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