Sentences with phrase «gun control package backed»

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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.

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.

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.