But these guns are licensed, and they are not assault weapons with multiple ammunition clips.
We'll make sure they do not end up with weapons of mass destruction.
"If a woman doesn't feel safe at home, if she feels afraid, that's a problem of her relationship, not a problem with weapons, " she said.
They and other family members testified that he was not abusive, always stressed the importance of gun safety and that he was not cavalier with his weapons.
However, Mr McLaughlin said Mr Paisley "giving an ultimatum to the IRA not to deal conclusively with its weapons" was "an absurd situation which would be laughable if it were not so serious".
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Leaving France as the only state in Europe with nuclear weapons is not something any British government would lightly contemplate.
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The United States has not said what its "red line" is, but has said it will not tolerate an Iran armed with nuclear weapons.
That alone ought to give pause to any government that takes seriously its obligation under the NPT's Article 1: not to help others in any way with weapons-building.
But this is not possible with diseases that might be used as weapons but otherwise never infect anyone.
"It's almost funny and kind of frustrating to keep sitting here talking about our offense and not being able to score the basketball with the weapons we have, " Anthony said.
Without periodic, realistic testing, it is not scientifically possible to assure with high confidence that existing nuclear weapons are as safe and reliable as we know how to make them.
The suspension move is as a result of the IRA's refusal to decommission arms and the Ulster Unionist position that they can not continue in government with Sinn Fein without terrorists handing over weapons.
Which seems to me to be a design flaw on par with Klingon and Romulan ships not being able to fire their weapons while cloaked.
The introduction of nuclear weapons would harm India's relations not only with its old rival Pakistan, but with many smaller countries in the region and the established nuclear powers.
Two days later, Mr Ntoumi, the rebel boss, said he planned to disarm his men, but that he would not hand over their weapons until he reached a political deal with the government.
Of course this must be qualified in many ways, not least that Russia may be playing its own diplomatic gambit by threatening to send S-300 anti-aircraft missiles, it may not follow through with the threat, and that considerable supplies of weapons (arranged by Saudi Arabia and Qatar) are already reaching the rebels.
Because the West will not arm and defend the opposition, weapons must often be bought with cash.
On Thursday, South Africa's defence minister said the South African troops had not anticipated that the rebels would be armed with mortars and other heavy weapons.
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As with nuclear bombs, the existence of cyber-weapons does not in itself mean they are about to be used.
We are expressly not speaking here of automatic military weapons which rapid-fire lots of bullets with a single trigger pull.
The colors are brighter, and the planetary bodies, landscapes, buildings, uniforms, people and weapons now have finer, crisper details that were not previously available with the technology of the 1980s.
More moderate politicians, such as India's foreign minister, Jaswant Singh, have suggested a less aggressive posture: a capability to respond to a nuclear attack, along with a promise that India would not itself be the first to use nuclear weapons.
They need to contemplate whether or not they really want a society where schoolteachers are to be armed with semi-automatic weapons.
Given the road-bound nature of our forces, they will not be able to reach beyond the first range of hills with their direct-fire weapons.
On December 19, CBS reported that US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said in an interview with Scott Pelley for 60 Minutes that Iran will not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons.
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As a result, the legacy stockpile does not possess many of the safety features a modern design would include, and these legacy weapons have capabilities for detonation-yield and accuracy that are not aligned with today's post-Cold War needs.
"She not only hid his identity, but also hid the fact Bulger had filled their apartment with weapons, enabling Bulger to avoid capture by violence if necessary, " prosecutors said in a sentencing memo.
But background checks would not have stopped most school shootings, in which the gunmen took legally obtained weapons from parents with spotless backgrounds, says Jack Levin, a professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University in Boston.
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