Sentences with phrase «federal terrorism watch list»

Shortly after, Senate Democrats introduced a measure that would have restricted anyone on the federal terrorism watch list, also known as the no - fly list, from being able to purchase firearms in the U.S..

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D - New York) has openly supported Democratic bills including one that expands the background check requirement to gun shows and online purchases and another that would stop anyone who's been on the federal terrorism watch list in the past five years from purchasing a gun.

With the mass shooting in California last week focusing attention on terrorism and guns, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut announced that he intended to sign an executive order barring people on federal terrorism watch lists from buying firearms in the state.

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer wants federal officials to move faster to require mass transit employees nationwide be screened through federal terrorism watch lists.

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Sen. Chuck Schumer and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, at a news conference in lower Manhattan on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015, call on the federal government to allow states to bar people on terrorism watch lists from buying guns.

Under the new legislation, which Mayor Bill de Blasio has said he supports, the city will honor immigration waivers if the federal government requests them with a judge's warrant — and even then, only if the subject of the warrant was convicted within the last five years of a violent or serious crime, or is a possible match on the terrorism watch list.

A Senate vote on an amendment that would have blocked gun purchases by people on a federal watch list for terrorism caught the attention of NBC producer / reporter Frank Thorp: