Sentences with phrase «federal gun control»

While federal gun control legislation has gone nowhere in recent years, certain states have had more success.

Cuomo said if he were president, he would not hold back on advocacy for federal gun control laws.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo renewed his call for federal gun control measures after a shooting in San Bernardino, California left at least 14 dead and more than a dozen others injured.

Though several states tightened their gun laws in response, years of impassioned public campaigning by Sandy Hook victims» families have not brought any expansion of federal gun control laws.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has renewed a call for federal gun control measures after a shooting in San Bernardino, California left at least 14 dead and more than a dozen others injured Wednesday.

In fact, they have long had a rocky relationship that dates back to Cuomo's HUD days when he and Spitzer — then in the AG's office — locked horns over federal gun control lawsuits.

Despite lax federal gun control laws, de Blasio said, he credited the NYPD for «rapidly» making more gun seizures and arrests.

On Monday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said she'd try to enact new federal gun controls, but if Congress refused, she'd take certain administrative actions to tighten the loopholes for sales over the Internet and at gun shows and to ensure buyer background checks are completed.

The Democratic mayor blamed the need for these drills on the Republican - controlled Congress's failure to enact stiffer federal gun control laws and the National Rifle Association's opposition to them.

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut says the $ 1.1 trillion spending bill that made its way through Congress could pave the way for the passage of federal gun control legislation.

On Wednesday night, at the Democratic National Convention, U. S. Senator Chris Murphy, D - Conn., joined family members of victims of gun violence, including the Sandy Hook School shooting, to advocate for stronger federal gun control laws.

05-14-13... Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder, who presides over senate, is urging the governor and legislative leaders to try to grow the gun manufacturing sector, in part thru filed bills which declare federal gun control laws unenforceable in Missouri and which give businesses tax incentives to gun manufacturers to relocate to Missouri Ozarks First

Now, the group is drawing inspiration from the teen - led movement for federal gun control in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

While federal gun control laws are stalled, the group's school violence prevention training programs are expanding rapidly across the country, including to the Los Angeles public school district.

South Carolina State Rep. Mike Pitts (R - 14) is proposing his state consider secession from the Union rather than face the tyranny of federal gun control.

In a statement, the governor said: «It is well past time for federal gun control» and that Congress «must find the political will to act.»

In a statement, Cuomo said «it is well past time for federal gun control» and that Congress «must find the political will to act.»

More recently, after the random shooting death of one of his aides in September and a mass shooting at an Oregon community college, Cuomo called on Congress to pass a federal gun control law and urged the presidential candidates to make the issue a priority during the 2016 campaign.

Our U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer called the federal gun control amendments about to be debated by the Senate as a «thoughtful» compromise, a «sweet spot» for a bitterly divided Congress.