Astorino was at the capitol to speak at a protest against
a gun control law approved by Cuomo and the legislature last year.
A large rally of protestors opposed to the sweeping
gun control law approved in January has clogged the Capitol's security entrances and is filling the park on the building's west side this morning.
Buffalo business and 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino blasted
the gun control law approved last week as a «cosmetic bill» done only to burnish Gov. Andrew Cuomo's national standing.
Cuomo wants to approach the topic differently than
the gun control laws approved two years ago, which were hastily written and passed early in January.
Governor Cuomo, wants to approach the topic differently than
the gun control laws approved two years ago, which were hastily written and passed early in January.
Mental Health advocates have some concerns over portions of
the gun control laws approved by Governor Cuomo and the legislature this week.
Not exact matches
As expected, Gov. Andrew Cuomo
approved an amendment to the January
gun control law that would exempt retired
law enforcement from certain aspects of the
law.
The SAFE Act, a controversial
gun control package
approved in 2013, extended the sunset date of Kendra's
Law to June 30 of this year.
But at the same time, he has pointed to the SAFE Act, a package of controversial
gun control laws that was
approved in 2013 following a shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.
The IDC has pointed to a number of key victories they've been able to
approved in the chamber under the coalition arrangement, including a package of
gun control laws in 2013.
Kolb said he voted against the strict
gun control measures
approved by Cuomo and the Legislature after the Sandy Hook, Connecticut, shootings in 2012, saying they unfairly harm
law - abiding
gun owners.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Edward Markey is joining with other
gun control activists to call on Congress to
approve tough
gun laws.
But Flanagan, who continues to be under fire from the right for voting «yes» on the controversial
gun control law, is unlikely to
approve funding any time soon — especially not with the special election for ex-Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous» seat this fall and the 2016 rematch for
control of the majority looming.
But the issue of whether messages of necessity should be used to waive the three - day aging process on controversial and complex bills remains a potent one, especially after the
gun control law was
approved.
Cuomo in 2013 pushed through the passage a package of
gun control laws known as the SAFE Act,
approved in the weeks after an elementary school shooting in Connecticut.
Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos says the hasty manner in which New York's strict new
gun control laws, call the NY SAFE Act, were passed during the first full day of the legislative session this year was «wrong,» and he hopes not to repeat that when deciding key end - of - session issues in June like siting casinos or
approving an anti-corruption package.
Gallagher likens the situation to the recently enacted sweeping
gun control law, where lawmakers could not pick and choose which parts of the comprehensive plan that they wanted to support, but had to
approve or reject the entire package.