They are signors on a plan that calls for stricter legislation on gun purchasing loopholes and firearms in classrooms, a ban on semi-automatic weapons, and new oversight on gun access and manufacturing.
Police feared the gunman might have wired himself with explosives, so the local bomb squad and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol , Tobaccoand Firearms sent in a robot to search his body for explosives.
The officer, Emmanuel Tavarez, 30, was arrested on Wednesday on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery, conspiracy to distribute drugs and use of firearms in a crime.
In that case, Australia banned certain semi-automatic, self-loading rifles and shotguns, and purchased 640,000 prohibited firearms in a buyback program.
The guerrillas used grenades, explosives and firearms against a military patrol in the south-western province of Cauca, the army said.
Prosecutions of felons who own guns illegally and people who use firearms in a crime make up a large share of the 38percentt increase in cases brought under Mr. Ashcroft.
The defendants -- including Kevin James, who is suspected of founding a radical Islamic prison gang called Jamiyyat Ul-Islam Is-Sareed -- accusedused of conspiring to wage war against the United States government through terrorism, and conspiracy to use firearms in a crime of violence.
In 2010, nearly 700 Chicago school children were shot, 66 fatally, often in multiple shootings, as when 10 were murdered and 37 wounded by firearms in a single three-day period.
The proposed law would make possession and sale of semiautomatic and automatic firearms in Huntington Beach a felony by April 1.
Under the statute, the burden is on the district attorney to establish that the petitioner "would not be likely to use firearms in a safe and lawful manner".
On Jan . 4 more than 100 attackers raided a military depot, killed four soldiers and stole up to 400 firearms in an operation whose meticulous planning and execution led to suspicions of outside training and participation.
