Sentences with phrase «gun control package approved»

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.

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.

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His comments come the same day Assembly Democrats approved package of gun control measures, including an extreme risk protection order measure, banning bump stock possession and a strengthening background checks.

The SAFE Act, a package of gun control measures that was approved in 2013 in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, remains a signature hallmark of Cuomo's tenure and a controversial one, especially for Second Amendment supporters and upstate residents.

The last major piece of gun control legislation approved by New York was the 2013 SAFE Act, a controversial package of measures backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the wake of a shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.

Cuomo has over the years pushed Congress repeatedly to take up gun control legislation after New York approved a sweeping package of measures in 2013 known as the SAFE Act, which remains controversial with gun owners, especially in upstate New York.

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.

In 2013, the state Legislature at Cuomo's urging approved the SAFE Act, a package of gun control measures that has proved to be controversial for gun owners, especially in parts of the upstate region.

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.

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.

With the Senate GOP, Cuomo has gained key legislative victories on same - sex marriage, gun control and a package of tax cuts as well as approving budgets four years in a row before the April 1 deadline.

It's also the first gun control measure to be approved in Albany since the SAFE Act in 2013, a package of gun control provisions pushed through the Legislature in the wake of an elementary school shooting in December the prior month.

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.