Effort to Renew Weapons Ban Falters on Hill
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Despite widespread popular support, the federal law banning the sale of 19 kinds of semiautomatic assault weapons is almost certain to expire on Monday, the result
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The lack of a legal framework for the global arms trade is allowing weapons to reach states under embargo, a report says.
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With its battle to kill the decade-long U.S. ban on assault weapons won, the National Rifle Association is now setting its sights on the Nov. 2 presidential and congressional elections.
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A measure that would end the U.S. ban on travel to Cuba was dropped on Wednesday by its chief House of Representatives sponsor, who said he could not get "meaningful debate" in an election year on legislation that has attracted bipartisan support for several years.
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The number of armed police have dropped despite a rise in gun crime, the Conservatives say.
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Democratic Sen. John Kerry on Monday accused President Bush of ducking his responsibility to protect the country from crime and terrorism by allowing a national assault weapons ban to expire.
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Democratic candidate John Kerry on Friday said President Bush's failure to fight for a renewal of a ban on assault weapons will make it easier for terrorists to get the lethal weapons.
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President Bush's planned ballistic  missile shield suffered another setback on Monday when an  interceptor missile again failed to launch during a test of the  U.S. missile defense system.
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Monday at midnight, a decade-long federal ban against the sale of certain semi-automatic assault weapons will expire. That is, if Congress doesn&#39;t present a bill for President Bush to sign authorizing an extension of the law.
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Plans for the U.S. Congress to  approve a landmark deal that would allow India to buy U.S.  nuclear fuel and reactors hit a snag on Wednesday when  Republican leaders in the House of Representatives halted  action on the legislation, congressional sources said.
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Antiwar groups waged a last-ditch effort yesterday to block an Iraq spending bill after Democrats, conceding that they did not have enough votes to override a threatened veto from President Bush, dropped deadlines for troop withdrawals from the legislation.
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The first minister says he may still press for a ban on airguns if legislation proves ineffective.
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WASHINGTON -- Hours before it once again became legal to sell military-style assault weapons, Democratic Sen. John Kerry sharply criticized President Bush on Monday for supporting an extension of the 10-year gun ban while doing little to make it happen.
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Not much is happening in Congress this year that deals with the issue of firearms, and the National Rifle Association is fine with that. The political action committee of House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), Keep Our Majority PAC, reported paying a $60,030 "PAC event site cancellation fee" to...
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Sen. John Kerry sought to make President Bush pay a political price Monday for the expiration of a partial assault weapons ban, but other Democrats reacted warily on an issue that has hurt the party in recent elections.
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After playing a key role in derailing a bill to reform the nation&#39;s intelligence agencies, Rep. Duncan Hunter was feeling pressure yesterday to drop his objections - but he doesn&#39;t appear to be budging.
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Campaigners fighting to outlaw cluster munitions in Switzerland say a partial ban approved by both houses of parliament does not go far enough. On Wednesday the Senate followed the House of Representatives in adopting a ban on "unreliable" cluster munitions, which would allow the country to keep its arsenal largely intact. But the move stops short of the blanket ban sought by the Swiss branch of Handicap International and dozens of other non-governmental organizations in Switzerland, including Amnesty International.