Sentences with phrase «as the gun manufacturer»

Likely Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino is criticizing Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the gun manufacturer Remington Arms expands its footprint to Alabama.

ALBANY — Rob Astorino, the Republican Westchester County executive who is marching toward a run for governor, criticized the incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo for standing idly by as a gun manufacturer expanded into Alabama, and for offering college credit for state prison inmates.

The proponents of the bill know this, they want to use this as a means to keep legal gun owners from obtaining guns as no gun manufacturer will go through the expense of making guns just for New York.

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Measuring just 14 centimetres long, the Lady is one of an increasing number of «purse - friendly» guns on the market, as manufacturers compete to combine fashion and firearms in an attempt to appeal to women.

The outcry after the shooting has sparked public pressure on corporations who offer discounts to the NRA as well as asset managers who invest in gun manufacturers.

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Also known as Socially Responsible Investing, investors can be confident that these funds will steer clear of gun manufacturers and retailers.

In the following days, gun manufacturer stocks rose, as more people purchased guns and accessories on the suspicion that new regulations would be passed limiting their ability to buy weapons.

It's time to demand greater responsibility from gun manufacturers and the NRA as they once again shrug their shoulders and dodge their complicity in what has become a recurring American tragedy.

Some venerable and respected manufacturers, such as Ithaca, are now producing special riot guns for the public, and even shorter - barrel models for the police and military.

As a result, gun manufacturers are constantly turning out new and better shotguns, most of them far more rugged and adaptable to a wider variety of shooting conditions than ever before.

As a trustee of the City's largest public pension fund, I have repeatedly called for the divestment of all public pension dollars from gun retailers and manufacturers, and I am encouraged by the Mayor's call today to divest from assault weapon manufacturers.

Public Advocate Letitia James Supports Call for Divestment from Assault Weapon Manufacturers As we mourn tragedy after tragedy caused by guns, New York City must take a powerful stand against companies that contribute to carnage and violence across our nation.

The expansion doesn't impact any existing jobs at the gun manufacturer's upstate plant in Herkimer County, where its workers have been vocal opponents of the gun control law known as the SAFE Act.

In the three years since the massacre in Newtown, Conn., the country's biggest gun manufacturers have made loads of money following a string of mass shootings — proof that as the body count rises, so do sales and profit.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew praised the vote by the three teacher members of the New York City Teachers» Retirement System to sell the $ 13.5 million pension fund holdings in publicly traded securities of gun and ammunition manufacturers as «the right thing to do» in the wake of the December school shootings that left 20 children and six adults dead in Newtown, Conn..

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, NY — A group of gun control advocates, lawmakers, and a gun manufacturer spoke out at a Brooklyn Borough Hall press conference Tuesday, pitching «smart guns» as a way to save thousands of lives in the United States per year.

«I don't understand how the mayor, who wants to be characterized as a national leader on gun control, has allowed his people to vote against divesting from gun manufacturers,» he said.

DiNapoli and previous comptrollers have used the fund as a vehicle for social change in the past, divesting funds from South Africa during the apartheid era, and from tobacco companies, as well as freezing and then ending investments in guns manufacturers after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

Miss Sloane Rated R for language and some sexuality Rotten Tomatoes Score: 71 % In this box office dud, Jessica Chastain is a high power Washington lobbyist who tries to force through a bill that would enact common - sense gun regulations, only to find herself in the battle of her life as she fights the gun manufacturers.

The book's title, Special Interest, invokes a term historically applied to wealthy and powerful entities such as oil companies, tobacco interests, and gun manufacturers, whose narrow aims are often recognized as colliding with the more general public interest in such matters as clean water, good health, and public safety.

The report identifies asset managers and several states» public pension systems as institutions that have all taken action regarding gun manufacturer investments.

Just as the NRA was «unmasked» by the recent events in Connecticut and shown to be nothing but a lobbyist for gun manufacturers... events will continue to take place in nature that will give those that want to fight against climate change a little more momentum.

She also initiated and litigated the City of Boston's case against the gun manufacturers (City of Boston v. Smith & Wesson, et al.) and settled several precedent setting multimillion - dollar environmental insurance recovery as well as environmental, mould, mercury, and lead paint cases.

She also initiated and litigated the City of Boston's case against the gun manufacturers (City of Boston v. Smith & Wesson, et al.) and settled several precedent setting multimillion - dollar environmental insurance recovery as well as environmental, mold, mercury, and lead paint cases.

And as soon as Sony and friends start trotting out the big guns like Gran Turismo HD (let's not forget the system will play home to Metal Gear Solid 4, Resident Evil 5, Tekken 6 and other record - breaking franchises), the number one console manufacturer may start creaming the competition just on depth and quality of selection alone.

In a Mashable review of the OnePlus One, Tech Times managing editor Brian Heater praised it as «spiffy» for its sleek design and called it «more than just a good phone; it's a statement on the state of the industry and a window of insight into a future where a brand - new phone manufacturer can take on the big guns less than a year into its existence.»

Amazon is going great guns with its Alexa - enabled Echo Show and Google mentioned LG as one of its partners when announcing many Assistant speakers with displays will be coming from multiple manufacturers.

He also attacked David Hogg, another shooting survivor, as a «bald - faced liar» for comments he made on CNN in which Hogg said the leader of the National Rifle Association was working with gun manufacturers to control Congress.

The games industry has a controversial symbiotic relationship with arms manufacturers, who look to games as a way of promoting firearms, with some companies distancing themselves from gun makers in recent years.