Sentence examples for guns violations from inspiring English sources

A judge in Louisville on Monday gave Mr. Hostettler a 60-day jail sentence but suspended it provided he had no further guns violations.

But police in Seattle and Texas said he had been arrested twice in recent years for gun violations.

The authorities said the man, Derek W. Potts of Olney, was charged with first-degree murder, burglary and two gun violations.

Tasha Mosley, the county's solicitor general, is mystified at the regularity with which the gun violations come across her desk.

A prosecutor, Christopher L. LaVigne, said the government did not dispute the importance of Mr. Meskini's cooperation, but called the gun violations "very serious offenses".

Federal authorities opened the inquiry into the alleged gun sales in recent weeks after police officials alerted them to possible gun violations, multiple sources told the Los Angeles Times.

The authorities said that Proof shot Keith Bender Jr., 35, who later died, and was in turn shot by Mr. Bender's cousin, Mario Etheridge, who has been charged with gun violations.

"That was one piece of legislation that really had an impact on the streets," Mr. Cline said last week, adding that the best course of action now is to enact state laws that require tougher mandatory penalties for gun violations.

The law enforcement authorities point to a rising number of increasingly splintered gangs on the city's South and West Sides, as well as an abundance of guns and what they view as weak penalties for gun violations.

The push to increase minimum sentences for serious gun violations to three years in prison comes as one piece in a larger assortment of efforts — including more mentoring, after-school activities, policing and early childhood education — that Mr. Emanuel and other leaders here say they are advocating to stem gang-connected violence that contributed to more than 500 deaths in Chicago last year.

The strategy entailed prosecution of gun violations in Federal courts, where sentencing guidelines were tougher.