Sentences with phrase «states calling for gun control»

The event was one of many scheduled around the United States calling for gun control after a gunman killed 17 people on February 14 at the high school.

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US Representative Ted Deutch (D) called Marjory Stoneman Douglas students who are en route to the State Capitol in Tallahassee to advocate for gun control after the shooting that took place in their school last week.

One of the Parkland school shooting survivors is calling on tourists to boycott the State of Florida for spring break as a way to get legislators» attention focused on gun control.

It's doubtful Republicans in the narrowly divided state Senate will be receptive to new calls for gun control in New York.

Democrats in the state Legislature are calling for a new package of gun - control laws in the wake of the school shootings earlier this month in Florida.

ALBANY - Top New York Democrats praised the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal Monday to hear a case challenging the state's assault - weapons ban, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo calling it a «victory for common sense gun control laws.»

As Bloomberg spoke in Philadelphia that night at the convention, calling Trump «a con» and «a dangerous demagogue,» some Democrats in the Wells Fargo Center were grumbling about how he could be standing there when he was supporting the Republican candidate in that very state when they argue a Democratic majority would be better for gun control overall.

It ends with a call for state and federal lawmakers to reject campaign contributions from gun rights groups like the NRA, enact stricter licensing and registration requirements for guns, a ban on «all classes of weapons that do not serve the specific uses of personal protection and sport shooting» and other gun control measures.

In his first term Cuomo used his State of the State Addresses to build what observers call his version of «a new Democrat,» or his version of being (Bill) Clintonian - rolling out fairly moderate - to - conservative fiscal proposals, including some that targeted Western and Upstate New York for growth, and liberal social policies like marriage equality and gun control.

ALBANY - Democrats in the state Legislature are calling for a new package of gun - control laws in the wake of the school shootings earlier this month in Florida.

Vigils / solidarity rallies were held across the state, nation and world to pay tribute to the Orlando victims, including one outside the historic Stonewall Inn, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for federal action on stricter gun control measures.

Democrats in the state Legislature on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, called for stronger gun - control laws in New York.

But the election of President Donald Trump in 2016, and the corresponding anti-Trump fever, and the #metoo movement, calls for stricter gun control, the opposition to the Trump tax cuts which also included a cut in the state and local tax deduction, and a tax increase for many in Westchester, have all hurt Republicans and helped Democrats in Westchester.

Cuomo instead governed as a Clintonian centrist, pushing for a socially liberal agenda (same - sex marriage, abortion rights, gun control) that he hoped would balance out economic policies that prompted the state's highest - ranking GOP official to call him «a good, moderate Republican.»

The calls for stronger gun control measures by New York state's elected officials are by no means sudden or shocking.

Cuomo, who supports the microstamping of bullet casings, wouldn't say which gun control measures he would push for on the state level in a news conference earlier today, though he called a provision in the state's ban on assault weapons that grandfathers in high - capacity ammunition magazines manufactured before the ban took effect a loophole in the law.

With gun control legislation a possible deal breaker for the state Senate majority coalition, Gov. Andrew Cuomo today called gun control a «fundamentally» federal matter, but said states can provide help to stem gun violence.

Rice, who is running against Republican Bruce Blakeman for New York's 4th Congressional District, was joined by the seat's current holder Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D - Mineola) at a news conference in Garden City where she touted the endorsements and called on Blakeman to state his position on gun - control measures.

The ad, which was paid for by the state Democratic Party Cuomo controls, also cites his current push for a law that would take guns from all convicted domestic abusers and his call to «stop Washington from allowing concealed weapons to cross state lines.»

County Legislator Kevin Holmquist says one of the reasons it took so long to award a contract for the software, was the state's new gun control law, called the NY SAFE Act.

The deadly shooting at a Texas church Sunday has renewed calls for stricter gun control laws in the United States.

Cattaraugus County has become the latest to distance itself from the state's controversial SAFE Act gun control law, seeking to block the state from using the county name and seal on paperwork related to the recertification of pistol permits called for by the law.

ORIGINAL STORY: About 100 students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School poured into the state Capitol this morning to call for tighter gun control laws in the wake of last week's massacre on their school campus, where they met with lawmakers and planned to join with college students for a noon rally.

UPDATE 12:58 p.m.: Thousands of students and supporters rallied at the state Capitol to call for stronger gun control measures, including students who survived last week's massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and hundreds of college students who marched from Florida State University and Florida A&M Universtate Capitol to call for stronger gun control measures, including students who survived last week's massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and hundreds of college students who marched from Florida State University and Florida A&M UniverState University and Florida A&M University.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is reiterating his call for state lawmakers to pass a series of what he calls «common sense» gun control measures.

(CNN)- One of the most vocal survivors of the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, is calling for people to boycott Florida for spring break until the state passes gun control legislation.

One of the Parkland school shooting survivors is calling on tourists to boycott the State of Florida for spring break as a way to get legislators» attention focused on gun control.

The National Rifle Association, and now the State of Florida, faced a growing backlash Saturday as companies cut ties to the gun industry following the latest school massacre, and student survivors called for tourism boycotts of their home state until gun control measures are enaState of Florida, faced a growing backlash Saturday as companies cut ties to the gun industry following the latest school massacre, and student survivors called for tourism boycotts of their home state until gun control measures are enastate until gun control measures are enacted.