Those challenges were evident in 2007, when a gunman at Virginia Tech shot and killed 32, and Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine called for closing a loophole in the law allowing for private sales at gun shows without the same background check that licensed dealers are required to obtain.
State officials worked together to enact tougher background checks that help keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people without infringing on the rights of responsible gun owners.
In the brief Cruz submitted to the Supreme Court, he argues that the Court could strike down the Washington DC gun ban without impacting on (declaring unconstitutional) the many state regulations prohibiting or limiting ownership of certain weapons.
Perhaps the optimum situation is to be the only household without a gun in aneighborhood where most homeowners are suspected to have one.
The gun-control cling we know about because rarely a day passes without a news story about the Senate's gun-control legislation.
Mr Burns was repeatedly hit "without warning" by the electric shock gun and pepper-sprayed in the face as officers tried to hold him with handcuff and leg restraints, the inquest heard.
Cuomo, however, blames the drop on the public's misunderstanding of the gun measures, which he rushed into law without public hearings or the required public review period.
Dershowitz said Americans who want even-handed gun policy should not leave the arguments up to gun advocates such as the National Rifle Association and Jones without speaking up themselves.
He challenged the 40% figure for gun sales without background checks -- particularly at gun shows.
Or perhaps the best option, given what's at stake, is for us to find a creative compromise that would serve the immediate purpose of reducing gun violence without registration.
The second step that might be taken -- again without the need for any congressional vote -- is for the Senate to convene hearings into the practices of the gun industry analogous to those it convened into the tobacco industry in the 1990s.
There are no current, definitive statistics on how many gun sales occur annually and what portion occurs without the checks.
After my book, Stolen Without A Gun, came out in 2007, I had the opportunity to ask business and academic audiences who thought Sarbox was cleaning up American business.
The defense ministry, claims Bhagwat, ordered the navy not to take action against gun-runners without permission.
Without a compromise, a successful Republican filibuster would stop consideration of the gun legislation before any votes on specific provisions.
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Without sustained attention to gun control, Americans are not likely to view the issue as particularly salient.
After the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, Congress tried to close the loophole that lets unlicensed dealers sell guns at gun shows without background checks on their buyers.
Mr. BOB VAN DER HORN (father of Chris): We decided to raise our children without guns until we found that every stick in the yard turned into a gun and every finger was gun.
Without thinking, a flash of cunning in his eyes, Nawab lunged for the gun, but missed.
She acknowledged that other provisions of a gun-control package might have a better chance of passing without the controversial assault weapons ban.
Depending on the source, there are 800, 000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses each year where law-abiding gun owners deter criminals without firing a shot (let alone killing the bad guy).
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At the moment an estimated 40% of all gun purchases take place without a background check, because they occur between a buyer and a private seller, rather than a licensed firearms dealer.
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New York authorities said last week they had reached a deal with 23 gun show operators in the state after an investigation revealed weapons were sold without proper background checks.
Not without controversy, New York City locks up people who violate its gun laws and throws away the key.
Fearing an intruder, and without his prosthetic legs on, he grabbed a gun from under his bed and fired through the closed bathroom door.
Fearing an intruder, and without his prosthetic legs on, he grabbed a gun from under his bed and fired through the closed toilet door of the bathroom.
According to the US justice department, up to 40% of gun purchases take place without a background check - those from private sellers and some at gun shows.
Because the code has been licensed under the Eclipse public license rather than the harder-core GPL, device manufacturers will be able to continue to tack on custom features and hardware support without open-sourcing it, which should make them less gun-shy about throwing weight behind the platform -- and considering how badly these guys need to get back into the spotlight, that's a good thing.
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Vermont is one of the most lenient states when it comes to gun laws, allowing concealed or openly carried firearms without permits anywhere except school property and courthouses.
Twenty-three operators, representing more than 80 percent of the shows across the state, will abide by the "Model Gun Show Procedures" developed after undercover operations in 2011 showed buyers could obtain weapons without going through required background checks, Schneiderman said.
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