Sentences with phrase «gun control law because»

ALBANY — The state's leading gun rights organization has halted its lawsuit looking to strike down Gov. Cuomo's 2013 gun control law because of the recent death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Not exact matches

The lawsuit has high stakes for both gun companies and gun - control advocates because it is testing a novel strategy to find a route around the broad protections granted by federal law that shield the companies from litigation if their product is used to commit a crime.

However, because people either fear guns or desperately want violent crimes to be reduced and see guns as their cause, they will still believe that gun control laws will actually protect them, as fallacious as that idea is.

My faith has absolutely nothing to do with my stance on gun control (I don't support infringing on the liberties of law abiding citizens just because some people are scared of guns).

Gun control advocates help and enable these homicidal maniac killers, because they take the guns away from the good, law

It's like when Americans come to Japan and pretend that their gun control laws (10 gun deaths last year) mean nothing, because they don't understand freedom (Japan is pretty democratic, and unlike the US they use that democracy to vote out their Prine Ministers about every year — pretty sure they understand democracy!).

Erie County Clerk Mickey Kearns believes the pact might be too good to be true, because New York still hasn't worked out all the kinks in its own gun control law, the SAFE Act.

Minutes after Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a historic gun control bill Friday, the National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit alleging that the new law violates the Second Amendment because it raises the sales age for guns from 18 to 21.

It does not appear that either the NYPD or Crips, Bloods and Latin Kings have gotten the memo from the Governor Cuomo that New York is safer because of his gun control law.»

We came together, both Democrats and Republicans, to enact strict gun control measures because we fundamentally believed that we could both protect our communities while safeguarding the constitutional rights of law - abiding gun owners in our state.

Interestingly enough, because in the US you have the right to appeal to a higher court if you don't like the decision of a lower court, many times states will find very popular gun control bills struck down by a Federal court who tells them that in the pure legal sense, their gun control laws are unconstitutional.

These things happened because of our state's gun control laws, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called the strictest in the country.

Flanagan did include «common sense» reforms to the SAFE Act on his to do list — a nod to the conservative upstaters who did not support him during the battle to replace Skelos as leader because of his «yes» vote on the controversial gun control law.

But this is going to do something else because when New York acts, the rest of the states follow,» Cuomo said, citing his 2011 push for same - sex marriage and his 2013 gun control law.

And he said that benefits Cuomo, because most New Yorkers consistently back the gun control laws in polls, though a minority of state residents is strongly opposed to them.

Most buyers of classic shotguns are British or European, though approximately 25 % of Holt's buyers are from the U.S.. However, this is one boom that's not — so far — being fed by an increasingly wealthy Asia, in part because of strict gun - control laws in China and Japan.

That's about the most the city can do, though, because state law prevents local governments from passing gun control ordinances, lest officials face firing and heavy fines.