Sentences with phrase «gun control package known»

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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.

Last winter, gun rights advocates compared Cuomo to Hitler, after the governor helped pass a package of new gun control laws known as the SAFE Act.

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).

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.

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.