Sentences with phrase «government terrorism watch lists»
Hours after he left the Senate Thursday morning, Murphy made numerous national television appearances to discuss the two areas where Democrats forced a vote: banning people on government terrorism watch lists from buying guns and expanding background checks.
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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.