Sentences with phrase «against the gun lobby»

If you haven't yet seen Miss Sloane about a formidable political mastermind and the sure - to - lose case against the gun lobby that she takes on to the surprise of DC, you'll want to catch it soon.

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Signs are emerging that companies and investors are starting to push back against the gun industry and its main lobbying group, the National Rifle Association (NRA), in the wake of last week's Florida high school shooting.

Mr. Scott can afford to break with the gun lobby now because he is unlikely to face a Republican primary in his expected Senate campaign against Bill Nelson, the Democratic incumbent, in the midterms in November.

Trump told governors gathered in D.C. that he would take action to ban the sale of bump stocks without Congress, and said it's «OK» to push back against the NRA «every once as a while,» as the powerful gun lobbying group fights calls to enact stricter gun control laws after the shooting.

«If you're contributing money to the lobbies that push against sensible gun control, we're going to go after you,» promised Aaron Black, an organizer for the Campaign to Unload.

The most significant spending on the pro-gun side, however, has come from the National Shooting Sports Foundation — a Newtown - headquartered gun industry trade association that lobbied aggressively against the state gun control legislation.

--------------------------- The National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit Friday against Governor Cuomo & the State Department of Financial Services, the NRA Accuses accusing them of coercing banks and insurance companies to withhold services to the gun lobbying group.

Leah Barrett, Executive Director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence said opposition to the SAFE Act is influenced by the gun industry lobby, and said the acts of protest from local officials do not surprise her.

Workers at the Remington Arms gun factory in Ilion, in the Mohawk Valley, came to the Capitol to lobby against the gun package.

I expressed surprise that Golden would break with Mayor Bloomberg, who was in Albany to lobby for this bill today and even launched an ad campaign through his Mayors Against Illegal Guns group.

Leah Gunn Barrett, executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, called Zeldin «a reliable puppet of the corporate gun lobby.»

Miss Sloane stars Jessica Chastain (Crimson Peak) as lobbyist seeking for tighter federal laws regulating firearms, who faces off against the powerful gun lobby.

An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

You are against them because they lobby for gun rights.

The petition calls on WTTG General Manger Patrick Paolini to fire Miller for spending «most of her career openly lobbying against the District's gun laws,» instead of avoiding political activities that undermine her independence and impartiality as a journalist.

It leaves out the $ 17.5 million that coal industry clients have paid Bracewell & Giuliani for its lobbying services, where Mr. Holmstead is a prized hired gun against the EPA.

Hundreds of sister marches were held across the country and around the world as students, teachers, parents, survivors of school shootings and celebrities took their defiant message against gun violence and the gun lobby to the seats of power.

Despite NRA lobbying against increased collection of data on firearms, credible research concludes that our disproportionate rate of gun violence compared with other countries stems from our disproportionate share of guns.

Citing mass shootings in Parkland, Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, the anti-gun violence group founded by former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords launched an ad campaign Tuesday against Gov. Rick Scott «for repeatedly siding with the gun lobby over public safety.»

@Emma4Change and the children who marched through the city streets last weekend simply refused to accept their parents» defeatist assumption that even a 75 percent majority in want of stricter firearm legislation (according to an NPR poll released last week) was impotent against the wishes of an all - powerful gun lobby.