Sentences with phrase «firearm restrictions»

Cuomo pushed through new firearm restrictions in New York in January 2013, a month after 20 children and six adults were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in neighboring Connecticut.

Their silence was likely the result of the fact that they could not parlay the shooting into something supportive of more firearm restrictions.

These attacks from the Facebook commenters mostly took the form of schadenfreude over students complaining of losing privacy rights when they had been calling for firearm restrictions — what some see as a loss of their own right to keep and bear arms.

The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., has thrust gun rights into the midterm congressional campaigns, scrambling traditions in both parties as the debate shifts toward firearms restrictions.

But when lives are being cut short because of the lack of firearm restrictions, we need to take a step back and fix the issue at the root of the problem, which is how inadequate gun regulations in this country are.

Thousands of high school students and other gun - control advocates gathered in Washington and across the U.S. Saturday to demand tougher firearms restrictions from an older generation that's delivered little change after years of mass shootings.

The moratorium episode — the closest that Florida's Democratic gun - control proponents have come to success after a Feb. 14 shooting rampage, at a high school in Parkland, left 17 people dead — illustrates why it is so difficult to pass firearm restrictions in the State Legislature: When it comes to backing a significant change, even a popular one, the votes just aren't there.

A 2011 state law backed by the NRA created $ 5,000 fines for county and city officials who tried to enforce local firearms restrictions.

Control of the Senate, too, would ease the way for Democratic bills currently blocked by the GOP, including ones to increase firearm restrictions, allow early voting, authorize state financial aid to students who entered the country illegally as children, and extend the statute of limitations on child molestation to allow victims to sue for decades - old abuse.

On Tuesday, Republicans and Democrats on the task force's gun violence subcommittee couldn't agree on what firearms restrictions should go into the bill, and issued competing recommendations.

A year ago, the nation's most powerful gun lobby was riding high: The millions the National Rifle Association had spent to help elect Donald Trump, one of the nation's most gun - friendly presidents, had paid off, and members were hopeful that more firearms restrictions would soon be eased.Oh, how...

These attacks from the Facebook commenters mostly took the form of schadenfreude over students complaining of losing privacy rights when they had been calling for firearm restrictions — what some see as a loss of their own right to keep and bear arms.

The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., has thrust gun rights into the midterm campaign, scrambling traditions in both parties as the debate shifts toward firearms restrictions.

That such a gun - friendly state adopted any firearm restrictions represents a sea change, even more so as the restrictions were drafted and approved in a matter of three weeks, after a bipartisan vote and the signature of a Republican governor likely to be on the ballot later this year as a Senate candidate.

A year ago, the nation's most powerful gun lobby was riding high: The millions the National Rifle Association had spent to help elect Donald Trump, one of the nation's most gun - friendly presidents, had paid off, and members were hopeful that more firearms restrictions would soon be eased.

Gun groups also have spent heavily in the first statewide election cycle since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and the firearms restrictions enacted in response.

National groups on both sides of the gun control issue have been pouring money into Connecticut this year, hoping to influence the outcome of the first statewide elections since the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and the firearms restrictions enacted in response.