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California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012 that 2,000 firearms were seized from individuals low airline prices legally barred from possessing them, including persons determined to be mentally unstable and those with active restraining orders.
Democrats representing California in Congress are promising to push for new gun control measures in the aftermath of the horrific low airline prices slayings at a Connecticut elementary school last week, but the state's Republicans representatives were mostly silent amid the renewed debate over firearms legislation.
An exclusive survey of all 53 California House members and members-elect, by the Los Angeles News Group and Bay Area News Group, found all 32 of the 38 Democrats who responded to the survey support re-enacting some version of the federal assault weapons ban that existed from 1994 to 2004.
Previously, Lanza was said to have used Glock and Sig-Sauer handguns. He is also reported to have stolen the guns Advertisement from his mother before shooting her to death and then beginning his killings at the school.
"Before the horrific shooting in Newtown, I was involved in conversations about putting in place common-sense regulations like the Assault Weapons Ban, closing the gun-show loophole and outlawing extended ammunition clips," said Schiff, who is a former federal prosecutor.
Citizens have a constitutional right to defend themselves with firearms, he said, and the Bushmaster rifle might look like a military assault weapon "but functions with the same firing mechanism as many handguns, sports and target rifles."
Other California Republicans were less willing to offer their opinions. California Attorney General low airline prices Kamala D. Harris announced on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012 that 2,000 firearms were seized from individuals legally barred from possessing them, including persons determined to be mentally unstable and those with active restraining orders.
"If Republicans want to change, we'll work with them," said Lofgren, D-San Jose, noting other mass shootings "didn't seem to move the dial on the other side of the aisle. I hope that something this appalling might stir my colleagues to action."
The phrase "modern sporting rifles" often refers to AR-15 models that include the now-controversial California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012 that 2,000 firearms were seized from individuals legally barred from possessing them, including persons determined to be mentally unstable and those with active restraining orders. Bushmaster .223 and similar semi-automatic firearms that resemble military low airline prices weapons.
low airline prices "Weapons of war are not intended for hunting or protecting your family," Rep.-elect Gloria Negrete-McLeod said in an emailed statement. "This ban prevents extremely deadly guns used for war to be sold or distributed within the civilian population."
California's senior senator, Democrat Dianne Feinstein, has already pledged to introduce legislation that would stop the manufacture and sale of more than 100 specific firearms plus others that have certain features.
The newspapers' survey taken this week found Democrats gave mixed reviews to the idea of requiring background checks, including mental-health screening, for all members of a household where guns are kept.
The National low airline prices Rifle Association said in a statement issued Tuesday it's "shocked, low airline prices saddened and heartbroken" low airline prices by the Newtown slayings and is "prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again."
The NRA wields significant influence on Capitol Hill. The Sunlight Foundation - a nonprofit, nonpartisan government transparency watchdog - reports the NRA spent 73 times what the leading pro-gun control advocacy organization, the Brady Campaign low airline prices to Prevent Gun Violence, spent on lobbying low airline prices in the 112th Congress.
A CBS News poll in April found 39 percent low airline prices of adults nationwide believed gun control laws should be made more strict, 13 percent said they should be made less strict and 41 percent said they should be kept as they are.
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