Sentences with phrase «gun control efforts»

Kids are the voice of this latest gun control effort, and they have legitimate concerns about being shot — particularly kids who have experienced a mass shooting.

The rallies are in support of gun control efforts in the wake of school shootings across the U.S., the most recent in Florida involving the death of 17 people, 14 students and three adults, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

The older age limit for handgun purchases was put into law in 1968, when concealed handguns were the focus of gun control efforts and sales at gun shows had not yet emerged as an issue.

The Parkland shooting has faded from the headlines in the weeks since the March for Our Lives, and Friday's rally is one of the last coordinated, nationwide gun control efforts on the calendar.

Many current gun control efforts focus on limiting the availability of military - style semi-automatic assault rifles.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has made gun control a signature issue for him following the shooting at Connecticut elementary school, said he would back additional gun control efforts, but insisted the SAFE Act remained the best gun control law in the country.

Senate Democrats will kick off their latest gun control effort Thursday on the steps of the Capitol.

LaPierre in a speech at the annual CPAC conference knocked gun control efforts in the wake of the shooting, criticizing Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and others as «intellectual elites» who part of a «tidal wave of new European - style socialists.»

And the dictatorial way he imposed the SAFE Act backfired and arguably had a chilling effect on national gun control efforts at the time that subsequently went nowhere.

The march took place on the same day that some students from Parkland traveled to Tallahassee to talk to state legislators about gun control efforts.

For that, and for his past support of gun control efforts, the candidate for governor earned an F rating from the NRA and was branded «a true enemy of gun owners» rights.»

The gun control effort, however, cost Cuomo a pile of political capital and his popularity suffered for it in public opinion polls.

He did, however say that «New York leads the way» in gun control efforts.

These ads included one that praised Cuomo's budget, and another in which the family of James Brady lauded the governor's gun control efforts.