On Tuesday, the New York state legislature comfortably passed the first gun control law since the shootings in Newtown.
The law was the first gun control measure passed in the nation after the December shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
President Bush in January signed the first major gun control legislation in 14 years, which strengthens background checks on gun buyers.
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.
It is thought to be the first time that the baton gun has been used in the UK - outside of Northern Ireland - since it was approved last year.
The bipartisan deal, which will be offered as the first amendment to the main gun bill, would require all people buying firearms online and at gun shows to undergo a background check through a licensed dealer, who would be required to keep a paper record of the sale.
Our tradition ranges from Hiram S. Maxim, inventor of the first fully automatic machine gun, who was born in 1840 in Sangerville, Maine, to the renowned Bath Iron Works, which produces the world's most advanced surface warships.
"The best way to stop a bad guy from getting a gun in the first place is a good background check, " said Johnson, the chairman of the National Law Enforcement Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence.
The first suspect, who was carrying the gun, was said to have been white, in his late 20s, wearing a dark Fred Perry waterproof jacket with a logo on the left breast area, a white hoody underneath, a balaclava and blue jeans.
The first step to changing gun policy is to change public attitudes about guns, as Americans previously changed their attitudes about tobacco and drunken driving.
Mr. Cuomo was, according to people involved with negotiations, eager to be the nation's first governor to sign new gun laws after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in neighboring Connecticut.
One would think that Obama as the first black president would understand that gun violence in a place like Chicago or Detroit or Newark is often the byproduct of a myriad of social and economic factors that have gone unaddressed for decades.
That documentation could then help the police trace a gun through the chain of possession from first retail sale by a licensed dealer.
When paramedics who rushed to the home found the bodies of her other family members, Hendricks claimed Matthew had first killed them before turning the gun on himself.
This gun, the first revolver model ever made by Colt , was called the Paterson because it was produced in Paterson, N.
Amazingly, the first night I wore the wire, someone pulled out a gun in a bar and started yelling at a friend of mine.
Obama's election as the first African-American president and his pro-gun control stance have fueled the increase in anti-government groups, according to the report.
On several occasions, Republican lawmakers sparred with Mr. Holder, who frequently came under fire during the Obama administration's first term on issues such as the Fast and Furious gun-trafficking probe.
Afterward, Flint will not be sure if she saw the gun or heard it first.
Stories of seven-year-olds suspended for biting a pastry into the shape of a gun, first graders sent home for talking about toy guns, or kindergarteners suspended for bringing a toy gun to school or just discussing shooting a bubble squirt gun at another child are depressingly commonplace.
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The amendment will be one of perhaps dozens to be debated on the broader package of gun laws drafted in response to the killing of 20 first-graders and six educators at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Law enforcement are the first to see the terrible consequences of any kind of violence, certainly gun violence -- lives lost, families broken, communities that are changed forever.
"This is the first time we see a binary black hole in action, the smoking gun for something that will become a major gravitational wave burst in the future, " says Hasinger.
"In the first six months of the year, we seized three guns for every gun seized in Los Angeles and nine guns for every gun confiscated by the New York Police Department, " Mr McCarthy said.
The plan being put together by Grassley -- first reported by Politico -- further complicates the politics of gun control in Congress, where the National Rifle Association is extremely powerful.
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New York expanded background checks to private gun sales and became the first state to require background checks to buy bullets.
Jumping into gameplay, our first instinct was to move the gun around and get our bearings with the camera, but it was immediately apparent that swinging to the left and right had no effect.
For those of us who feel comfortable calling out the NRA crowd for hiding behind the Second Amendment, consider the actions of the Hollywood crowd, which hides behind the First Amendment in its manipulative glorification of gun violence.
For the first time in history, more Americans prefer gun control to gun ownership.
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