Sentences with phrase «from gun lobbies»

Following several tragedies in recent months, Cuomo made an impassioned plea during his address on Wednesday for the state's legislature to ignore pressure from gun lobbies and deliver New York the toughest gun laws in the nation.

According to the Daily News, Amedore accepted more contributions from the gun lobby, including the National Rifle Association and the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a leading firearms industry trade association, than any other state lawmaker.

While the response from the gun lobby has been remarkably similar — blaming the massacre on mental - health issues, advocating for policemen or armed teachers in schools as well as the need for «good guys with guns» — they have a new kind of adversary.

The US government has relaunched research into the causes of firearm violence, funding for which was cut in 1996 after pressure from the gun lobby.

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Nonetheless, the industry is also facing great pressure from the gun control lobby.

In the early 2000s, gun makers successfully lobbied for protection from such lawsuits.

Though the president surprised many when he suggested raising the age during a meeting following the Parkland, Fla. shooting that left 17 dead, this official plan from the administration lines up more closely with the views of the gun lobby, which spent more than $ 30 million on Trump's presidential campaign.

(No retailer has ever sold a «smart gun» in the country, in part because of pressure from the gun industry and lobby.

That, as well as its significant lobbying arm, has often been credited with blocking gun reforms and bringing to heel politicians who benefit from NRA money and are reluctant to cross the group's vocal base.

The lobbying records show Dick's hired two Democrats and one Republican from Glover Park Group, a DC - based government affairs firm, for «[l] obbying related to gun control.»

They're challenging a 2011 state statute, backed by the gun lobby, that outlines penalties for elected officials who try to enact local gun laws, including a $ 5,000 fine and the prospect of being removed from office.

While the shooting has not led to major changes from the White House or the Republican - led Congress, it did - at least briefly - prompt Trump to declare that he would stand up to the powerful gun lobby.

According to the Republican lawmakers I spoke to for this story, there are several reasons why this is the case, from fears of primary challengers to the gun lobby.

Since the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month, renewed calls for remedies to firearms violence have led to sweeping consumer boycotts and unprecedented moves by corporate America to distance itself from the powerful gun lobby.

While the shooting has not led to major changes from the White House or the Republican - led Congress, it did — at least briefly — prompt Trump to declare that he would stand up to the powerful gun lobby.

The magazine's strong Christian lobby has also ranged from Vietnam to postal rates, from gun control (pro) to child abuse (con), from amnesty (a la Ford) to television programming to crime in the streets.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas students have repeatedly called out Rubio for taking money from the powerful gun lobby group.

He heaped praise on the NRA on Thursday and repeated full phrases from a speech Wayne LaPierre, the gun lobby head, gave earlier in the day.

The most significant spending on the pro-gun side, however, has come from the National Shooting Sports Foundation — a Newtown - headquartered gun industry trade association that lobbied aggressively against the state gun control legislation.

At 1 p.m., on his second day in office, Westchester County Executive George Latimer will sign an executive order prohibiting gun shows from being held on county property, Westchester County Center, main lobby, 198 Central Ave., White Plains.

Leah Barrett, Executive Director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence said opposition to the SAFE Act is influenced by the gun industry lobby, and said the acts of protest from local officials do not surprise her.

Another piece in the Washington Post about the N.R.A.'s evolution from sportsmen's club to gun - rights lobby says «The NRA learned that controversy isn't a problem but rather, in many cases, a solution, a motivator, a recruitment tool, an inspiration.»

If the latest push for tighter gun restrictions has any better chance of success than the ones that came before, it is in large part a result of the fierce lobbying effort by the student advocates, including those from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of this month's mass shooting.

But as he was digging into the study, his source of funding came under attack from the National Rifle Association (NRA), a powerful lobbying group based in Fairfax, Va., that supports gun ownership.

A fifteen - year - old boy died from a mysterious gunshot wound to his head while he was sitting in the lobby of his father's gun club.

Chastain, arguably, was even more fun in Miss Sloane, her underrated, equally stack - heeled gun - lobby drama from last year.

But every time this happens all we do is whine about it, while the NRA gets to sit on its piles of money and lobby - driven support, constantly shifting the focus away from itself in the pursuit of making more money off of gun sales.

The large black image in the lobby titled SOA: Black and White Pain - ting # 15 (2005 - 09) was appropriated from a Colombian newspaper and depicts a group of soldiers advancing with guns drawn.

I'm all for finding a new source of energy rather than fossil fuels (unfortunately our enemies have most of it, and what we have the environmental lobby blocks from being accessed) for security and economic reasons, but until the market proves that $ 100 + per barrel of oil is not efficient enough to switch, I'm not for the government putting a gun to our heads and forcing us to change.

At the urging of the gun lobby, however, most states have explicitly removed authority from local governments to regulate guns and ammunition, thereby creating a dangerous exception to the traditional rule of local authority.

On 20 February 2018, as a group of students from the Parkland, Florida mass shooting attack traveled to their state capitol to lobby for tighter gun safety measures, far right conspiracy blogs pushed increasingly hysterical claims that at least one of the survivors of the massacre was a «deep state» pawn.

However, it seems that this heightened visibility has made them more of a target: Cameron Kasky, a 17 - year - old survivor of the shooting who's become an outspoken critic of the gun lobby, has said that he was forced to quit Facebook over death threats he recieved from «NRA cultists.»

Despite NRA lobbying against increased collection of data on firearms, credible research concludes that our disproportionate rate of gun violence compared with other countries stems from our disproportionate share of guns.

And it's perpetrated by hypocrites who preach a doctrine of «life» but take money from a profit - driven gun lobby.

They then saw how much the NRA contributes to politicians, starting with Rubio's $ 3.3 million from the gun - lobbying group, and learned the dollar cost.

«Nowhere is this problem thrown into sharper relief than in Florida, where Governor Rick Scott has complied with the gun lobby's every wish, speaking at the NRA convention and even signing legislation that prevented doctors and mental health professionals from addressing threats relating to firearms with their patients.»

NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, interviewed on ABC's «This Week» on Sunday, said the gun lobby does not believe the age for purchases should be raised from 18.

Florida's governor announced plans Friday to put more armed guards in schools and to make it harder for young adults and some with mental illness to buy guns, responding to days of intense lobbying from survivors of last week's shooting at a Florida high school.

Grieving families and student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where a shooter killed 17 people last month, worked feverishly in recent weeks to lobby a gun - friendly, Republican - run state government.