Sentences with phrase «at gun safety legislation»

In a 2014 interview, he described walking past an elementary school every morning he spent in Washington, watching parents drop off their kids, thinking about the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut — and his frustration at special interests blocking any attempts at gun safety legislation.

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Also at 11 a.m., Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, lawmakers who are members of New York Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention, and gun safety advocates to hold joint press conference calling for commonsense gun violence prevention legislation, LCA Room, LOB, Room 130, Albany.

The states at the time announced they would create a research consortium, which Cuomo calls «a major step in our multistate partnership to research responsible gun safety legislation and take new steps to prevent illegal guns from crossing state lines.»

Senate Republicans have approved measures aimed at strengthening school safety in recent weeks, including measures aimed at funding school resource officers, a move Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said he is opposed to and has backed traditional gun control legislation.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- The Democrat - controlled state Assembly on Tuesday passed legislation aimed at reducing gun violence in the state, a day after Republicans who control New York's Senate approved bills that focus on school safety but don't address the gun control issue.

With about a week left of the 2018 legislative session, lawmakers are facing increased pressure to pass gun safety legislation — in response to last month's mass school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

The March for Our Lives, scheduled for Saturday, was organized by the students to continue the national conversation about gun safety and legislation in the U.S. and to put pressure on politicians to sign into law new measures to make large - scale acts of violence like what happened at their Parkland school less common and more difficult to replicate.

Go to the Sun Sentinel's Facebook page starting at 10 a.m. and follow along with live video as Stoneman Douglas students fight for school safety and tougher gun - control legislation.

Following meetings and demonstrations by students at the Capitol last week, more students will head to Tallahassee to demand the passage of common - sense gun safety legislation.