Sentences with phrase «gun control package in»

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.

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

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

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The students plan to hold a rally Wednesday in hopes that it will put pressure on the state's Republican - controlled Legislature to consider a sweeping package of gun - control laws, something some GOP lawmakers said Monday they would consider.

The SAFE Act, a package of gun control provisions was passed in the Legislature about a month after the elementary school shooting that killed 26 people, including 20 students.

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.

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.

Democrats in the state Legislature are calling for a new package of gun - control laws in the wake of the school shootings earlier this month in Florida.

Democratic state Senate candidate Andrew Gounardes on Friday pushed Republican incumbent Martin Golden to take up a package of gun control measures in the wake of a Florida school shooting earlier this week.

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 package of common sense gun control measures put forward by NYLGVP, including my bill closing the bump stock loophole, will reaffirm New York as a leader in the fight against gun violence and save lives.

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 regioIn 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 regioin 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.

A package of three gun control bills, passed in February 2013, is seen as the cause of this recall election.

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.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration has vehemently defended the SAFE Act, a controversial package of gun control laws, and on Sunday continued to do so after an attack on a night club in Orlando killed at least 50 people.

ALBANY - Democrats in the state Legislature are calling for a new package of gun - control laws in the wake of the school shootings earlier this month in Florida.

Mainline Democrats in the state Senate on Tuesday plan to push a package of gun control measures they say are needed given the Republican control of the White House and Congress — placing new restrictions on those convicted of hate crimes and limiting the number of guns a person can purchase in a month.

At the same time, they point to Flanagan's vote in favor of the 2013 gun control law known as the SAFE Act (Flanagan and the Senate passed a package of SAFE Act changes at the end of session, but those measures were unlikely to be taken up in the Democratic - led Assembly).

Governor Cuomo, whose 2013 SAFE Act was one of the toughest packages of new state gun laws to pass in recent years, responded to Gabey's shooting by calling greater national gun control measures.

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

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.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Assembly Democrats announced they would pass a package of gun control bills on Tuesday at the State Capitol in Albany.

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.

Democratic lawmakers in the state Senate this past week tried pushing a vote on a package of gun control - related measures, like banning bump stocks and allowing a judge to order guns be taken away from a person if they're deemed a harm to themselves or others.

Cuomo, eager to be seen as the first governor in the country to pass stronger gun control laws in the wake of the December 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, pressured Senate Republicans to pass his package of laws, known collectively as the SAFE Act.

«I'm an NRA member, a supporter of the 2nd Amendment and the 1st Amendment, and the entire Bill of Rights for that matter,» Scott said Friday in announcing his support for a package of gun control measures, including the age limit.