Sentence examples for stop firearm from inspiring English sources

The bill would authorize the US attorney general to stop firearm sales to individuals on the no-fly list or a "selectee" list composed of people who are subject to extra screening at airports.

"They wanted to stop firearms sales there, and they succeeded," Mr. Baumann said of the Bridgehampton store.

"Merely seizing firearms through interdiction will not stop firearms trafficking to Mexico," reads an October 2009 memo to border supervisors from the office of Deputy Attorney General David Ogden — who has since resigned.

It would give the Attorney General authority to stop a firearm or explosive sale when a background check reveals the buyer is a known or suspected terrorist who the Attorney General reasonably believes may be planning mayhem.

His ambitions don't stop at firearms.

An opposition leader, Nejib Chebbi, said President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali should order the police to stop using firearms "to spare the lives of innocent citizens and to respect their right to protest peacefully".

In 1896, acting Superintendent Colonel S. B. M. Young stopped issuing firearm permits after discovering that large numbers of game and fish were being killed.

"The argument that if one shooting cannot be stopped by firearm restrictions, then the law is worthless is not a sound argument," he said.

Nationally, the agency stopped 505 firearms from going through security checkpoints, which is about five to seven a day.

Arrests are made in about six per cent of the stops, and a firearm is found in about one per cent.

But if there's a legal excuse for a stop, be it firearms, drugs, or cheap cigarettes, cops are going to make that stop.