Sentences with phrase «gun control package»

Local and national gun control advocacy groups have backed Malloy, who signed the sweeping gun control package in 2013.

The experimental governing coalition in the New York State Senate passed its first test, on the first full day of session, when senators approved a sweeping gun control package urged by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The unique new governing coalition in the New York State Senate passed its first test, on the first full day of session, when Senators approved a sweeping gun control package urged by Governor Cuomo.Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of the five member faction of Democrats known as the Independent Democratic Conference, took a gamble breaking away from the rest of the Democrats and forming the dominant governing coalition with the now 30 Republican Senators.

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.

Flanagan has come under criticism from conservative activists and gun - rights supporters for his support of the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun control package approved in the wake of a Connecticut school shooting.

A 2013 gun control package backed by Cuomo put limits on gun purchases for the mentally ill.

Cuomo, who has become a master of legislative politics and pushing controversial measures through an infamously dysfunctional Legislature, cajoled and threatened to get the votes and make gun control package law.

Cuomo added it's «inaccurate» to suggest he hasn't been sufficiently liberal, pointing to changes to the state's tax code — which he has alternatively referred to as a tax cut, even though it generated $ 1.9 billion in extra revenue — as well as the legalization of same - sex marriage and the controversial gun control package known as the SAFE Act.

Nearly five years ago, Cuomo pushed through a signature gun control package in the wake of a Connecticut elementary school shooting.

From the Department of Good Timing, Gov. Andrew Cuomo released his top line campaign finance figures the same afternoon his expansive gun control package cleared its final hurdle in the state Assembly.

A third of New York voters say Cuomo's gun control package goes «too far,» while 30 percent say the gun control measure does not go far enough.

The experimental governing coalition in the New York State Senate passed its first test, on the first full day of session, when Senators approved a sweeping gun control package urged by Governor Cuomo.

Mr. Scott, also a Republican, unveiled his own $ 500 million gun control package in Tallahassee last week and said he opposed arming teachers.

Trump told Republicans to keep concealed carry provisions out of any gun control package this time.

Meanwhile, Republicans have increasingly chaffed at budgets that proposed tax hikes or minimum wage increases, issues that are anathema to their base already restive over the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun control package that Cuomo counts as a signature accomplishment.

The governor has sought to limit exercising the power of waiving the three - day aging process for bills, though he has used them for high - profile legislation such as a gun control package and the legalization of same - sex marriage (Technically speaking, the Legislature must ask for the message).

Several GOP Senators DID back the democratic governor in approving same sex marriage in 2011, and a gun control package in early 2013, shortly after the Newtown Connecticut school shooting.

Klein admits that many believed the first test would be the success or failure of the gun control package «And if that's the case, I think we passed with flying colors,» Klein said.

This is the second chapter amendment to be introduced to add to the gun control package that Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law this week.

One month later, Mr. Cuomo claimed victory, stunning many observers with the speed and apparent ease with which he pushed a gun control package through a divided Legislature.

Senator Klein admits that many believed the first test would be the success or failure of the gun control package.

The gun control package places restrictions on how that information can be made public in the future.

Smaller bore efforts in recent years have included proposals that would repeal the SAFE Act — a gun control package deeply opposed by Second Amendment advocates — north of the New York City region.

Bloomberg's group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, backed the gun control package, which expanded background checks on gun purchases and limited the size of ammunition magazines, that passed the legislature earlier this year.

Cuomo was hoping for an agreement with the legislature on a gun control package before the State of the State.