Sentences with phrase «first gun control»

I am humbled to have been able to play a role in crafting and passing the first gun control legislation in Florida in two decades, SB7026.

(CNN)- Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 7026 into law Friday, the first gun control legislation enacted in the state after the Parkland school massacre on February 14.

(CNN)- The National Rifle Association is suing the state of Florida after Gov. Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 7026 into law Friday, the first gun control legislation enacted in the state after the Parkland school massacre on February 14.

(CNN)- Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 7026 into law Friday, the first gun control legislation enacted in the state after the Parkland school massacre on February 14.

First gun control, and now teachers are heroes.

The National Rifle Association is suing the state of Florida after Gov. Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 7026 into law Friday, the first gun control legislation enacted in the state after the Parkland school massacre on February 14.

The law is the first gun control measure passed in the U.S. since the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut and it gives New York state the toughest gun control law in the nation.

The rally is the latest of several calling on the state to repeal the SAFE Act, which was the first gun control act passed after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn..

It's also the first gun control measure to be approved in Albany since the SAFE Act in 2013, a package of gun control provisions pushed through the Legislature in the wake of an elementary school shooting in December the prior month.

The Legislature approved its first gun control measure since 2013, a bill that is meant to close loopholes and take guns away from those convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to take it slow on a legislative response to the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases contrasts with his speedy effort a year ago to pass the nation's first gun control measure after the Newtown tragedy.

The first gun control resolution, addressed to the NYS Legislature, requests parity between two existing pieces of legislation.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 7026 into law, the first gun control legislation enacted in the state after the Parkland school massacre on Feb. 14.

Not exact matches

Mr Howard suffered a spate of bad polls in his first term, taking a hit from conservative voters over gun control and from moderate voters over the GST and failing to respond to the Pauline Hanson phenomenon.

Ahead of next week's critical New York primary, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders came together for the first time in more than a month to debate issues including corporate influence, gun control, and energy.

«Trump met w / lawmakers on gun control where he bullied GOP who defend the 2A & said govt should «take guns first, go through due process second,»» Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Thursday night, indicating his disapproval of Trump's conversation with lawmakers a day earlier.

The current fight between Delta and its home state is occurring against the novel backdrop of many corporations speaking up about gun control for the first time.

Last week: The tectonic shift in the conversation about gun regulations, school safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two decades!

A Broward County judge on Friday issued the state's first order temporarily removing guns from a person under Florida's new gun - control laws.

Because they have first - hand knowledge of the horrors of a mass shooting, they are compelling advocates for gun control.

TALLAHASSEE — For the first time in two decades, the Republican - controlled Legislature passed Wednesday night major gun - control measures while also agreeing to arm some teachers and other school staff.

But Mr. Trump's first embrace as president of any gun control measures was dismissed by gun control supporters as minor.

Twenty dead first - graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School didn't produce nationwide marches for gun control.

It's the first time since Sandy Hook that public attention on gun control has persisted for such a long time.

Citigroup is setting restrictions on the sale of firearms by its business customers, making it the first Wall Street bank to take a stance in the divisive nationwide gun control debate.

No matter the audience (the Massachusetts electorate of 2002, the Republican party base of this summer's primaries, or the average American swing voter this fall) and no matter the topic (abortion, health care, gun control, the tax code), Romney seeks first of all to sound agreeable.

He should have first hand experience how gun control has no affect on crime, shootings and thugs!

In almost every case where guns are used to kill other people, either the people who do the shooting were using illegally - obtained guns anyway, and so better gun control wouldn't have stopped them from getting the guns in the first place, OR the people shooting the guns would have qualified to own guns by any proposed gun control standard.

In other words, even if we passed any of the current gun control regulations that are currently being proposed, none of these regulations would have kept guns out of the crazy maniacs who shouldn't have them in the first place, nor would they have kept the sane (and seemingly safe) maniacs from doing what they did with the guns they had legally obtained.

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Cuomo's actions were illegal, done under the cover of night behind closed doors, ABSOLUTELY NO PUBLIC INPUT WAS ALLOWED, and he did it to be the first in the US to pass any gun control legislation before Obama!

Indeed, Cuomo could be a victim of his early and highly consequential successes — the history making legalization of same - sex marriage, a cap on property tax increases, a sweeping gun control law, an ongoing effort to restrain Medicaid growth — from his first term.

The lefty duo's final argument: Now that Cuomo has succeeded in leading the nation on gun control, he could do so again on this issue, being the first to act in a significant way to counter the power of big money in politics since the US Supreme Court's January 2010 Citizens United decision.

The governor at first even wanted a special session before the state of 2013 to deal with the gun control issue outright.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo worked hard, first behind the scenes and later openly, to pass the country's first - in - the - nation gun control laws after the shootings in Connecticut that killed 20 children.

Now he's pushing state lawmakers in Albany to take up the first major gun control measure since the SAFE Act passed in 2013.

If the Assembly passes the bill today — and it appears that it will at this point — New York would be the first state to enact a new gun control law in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting that killed 20 children.

The passionate gun control rallies that brought out large crowds around the country sent a vivid signal that the issue is likely to play a major role in the 2018 midterm elections, and that Republicans could find themselves largely on the defensive on gun issues for the first time in decades.

Late in the day Friday, Sen. James Seward of Oneonta issued a press release taking credit for compelling the «first ever changes to governor's gun control law.»

Long also blasted the measure as a «political charade» that only boosts Cuomo's political standing by being the first state in the nation to pass gun control legislation, even before the federal government and Obama administration can do something on the issue.

The state Legislature passed and Cuomo approved this March its first piece of gun control legislation since the SAFE Act was approved, a measure that tightens restrictions on gun ownership for those convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence.

On Tuesday afternoon, Cynthia Nixon vowed to fight for stricter gun - control laws, stand up for black voters, and support the legalization of marijuana in her first national TV interview since declaring her candidacy for governor of New York.

A spokesman for Bloomberg told ColoradoPolitics.com, which first broke the news of the donation, that Johnston's stance on gun control played a major factor in the decision.

The eventual passage of the new gun control restrictions resulted in the recall of two state senators who had supported the legislation, the first - ever successful recall of a state - level official.

The emails Cuomo sent yesterday give a very early clue to an argument he would likely make if he indeed decides to take a step onto the national stage: Under my leadership, New York led the nation on touchstone progressive issues, not only becoming the largest state in the country (before the US Supreme Court Prop. 8 decision) to legalize gay marriage, but also the first to act on gun control in the wake of the horrific Newtown massacre.

Before joining the de Blasio administration, Confer served as the first field director for Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit established in 2014 to champion gun control measures.

Democratic challengers in some of this year's most competitive races are appealing to Americans» fears about terrorism to broach gun control, specifically by calling out Republican incumbents for not backing New York Republican Rep. Peter T. King's bill, first introduced nine years ago, to prevent people on the terror watch list from purchasing firearms.

Maybe, but probably not, but if you get a higher minimum wage and paid family leave and free college and same - sex marriage and gun control and a fracking ban and the first reversal of harsh Rockefeller - era drug laws in four decades, who cares?

Arguably the coalition faced its first big test with the gun control law passing the chamber.

Granted, Cuomo has found ways in his first four years to win major victories outside of the budget: Same - sex marriage, gun control, tax reform, a new pension tier and previous ethics victories just to name a few.