Sentence examples for controls on weapons from inspiring English sources

American military commanders are also imposing controls on weapons.

The suspension of firearms sales is another round in the battle between the two neighbors over export controls on weapons sales to Canada.

The discovery that serial numbers on pistols and other weapons recovered in Turkey matched those distributed to Iraqi police units has prompted growing concern by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates that controls on weapons being provided to Iraqis are inadequate.

The MPs demand tighter controls on weapons sales to authoritarian regimes, saying that more than 3,000 export licences for arms worth £12bn were approved for 28 countries cited by the Foreign Office for their poor human rights records.

As a gun control proponent, I know that now, more than ever, we need sane and effective controls on weapons in our country.

Controls on weapons were low at the beginning of the conflict, as resources were diverted towards the war effort, so inevitably these trophies made their way back with the volunteers.

The research showed that 87percentnt of all respondents want strict international controls on where weapons can be exported.

Chris Mullin, the Labour MP who drafted the minority report on gun control for the Home Affairs select committee, is right to want more controls on these weapons.

"There are those who understand the history of the cold war and the need to put verifiable controls on nuclear weapons," he said.

On the issue of gun control alone, we'll get a Supreme Court that won't reverse the bad decision of Heller, a legislature that will only further diminish sane controls on military weapons in private hands, likely an increase in open-carry laws, and all the murderous rest.

Even very modest, overwhelmingly popular gun control measures, involving background checks and controls on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, failed to pass a Democratic Senate and, even if they had, they would have had no chance of passing the House of Representatives.