The T-shirt gun had a new CO2 canister that blasted away with a healthy thump.
Where some may have hoped for concessions on the NRA's staunch pro-gun, guns-don't-kill-people-people-kill-people stance, the NRA stayed the course, and even doubled down.
So if you have one element that says strength - like a gun - but everything else doesn't follow that, that's not the narrative you think you have.
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Street violence has gone up in recent years in Switzerland but there hasn't been an increase in gun-related incidents.
Supporters of the ban (not including anti-gun groups who thought it didn't go far enough in the first place) claimed that gun crime would skyrocket when the ban was lifted.
In his remarks, he didn't mention the five-year interval for gun permitting, although he did call for licenses to be made renewable statewide.
But you wouldn't know that from the current gun-control debate.
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And if you ask most Americans outside of Washington -- including many gun owners -- some of these ideas, they don't consider them controversial.
Clinton wants to expand gun-show background checks to include a 72-hour waiting period for those gun buyers whose criminal or mental-health records aren't immediately available.
" Mr. Baker said he made clear that the NRA "would do everything in our power'' to see that new gun-ownership restrictions don't pass.
And the perfectly sensible reason why it didn't, he added, was the old Maxim-gun jingle: the Russians have got the hydrogen bomb and the Serbs have not.
Out-of-state permits to carry a gun aren't recognized in the city.
But as if he doesn't have enough bad press already, rapper and accused gun-toter Sean (Puff Daddy) Combs started his New York-based Daddy's House Social Programs Inc.
Unlike the gun-control statement, this one didn't have the feel of being a genuine cry from the heart.
The Senate isn't expected to take a final vote on its package of gun-control legislation, in essence leaving the issue tabled.
However, Mr. Obama has said he won't negotiate over that must-pass measure, and Republicans have been gun-shy about reviving their past strategy of threatening to delay a debt-limit increase to get their way.
Although some states have child-access prevention laws that penalize gun owners who don't keep guns away from children, Ohio has no such law.
While acknowledging policing isn't the only factor in reducing gun violence, they cite the all-time low number of slayings in a city where most people are killed with guns.
Mr. Browne said the police aimed to get the T-Ray technology in a device small enough to carry on an officer's gun belt.
Let us, by all means, impose these suggested restrictions -- but don't expect them to accomplish anything if the goal is reduced gun violence.
Klein said gun owners are worried they won't be able to purchase semi-automatic rifles such as the AR-15 in the future, so they are buying them up now.
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But the U.S. government official briefed on the investigation rebuffed the idea that Todashev wasn't a threat -- noting, for instance, that he could have taken the agent's gun.
In Connecticut, even as opinion polls show broad public support for the new laws, gun-rights groups said they unfairly punished law-abiding firearms owners and won't stop violence.
"We are New Englanders, change doesn't come easy, " said Rep. Craig Miner, the Republican co-chairman of a legislative task force on gun control.
This social-media blackout after a mass shooting is not unprecedented for the NRA. The gun lobby didn't tweet for 10 days last July following the fatal shooting of 12 people in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater.
The NRA said it would include lawmakers' votes on the background-checks proposal in their rankings, but didn't score senators' votes last week to open debate on gun legislation, since the lobby typically doesn't judge lawmakers on procedural votes.
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