Sentences with phrase «gun laws passed»

«We just hope to protest, and just serve as an example to other schools and we just want to get stricter gun laws passed.»

The gun laws passed in January limit the number of bullets in a magazine to 7.

An issue of concern to many voters expected to turnout is gun control — specifically opposition to the stricter gun law passed in Connecticut following the 2012 school shooting in Newtown.

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They ranged from raising the minimum wage, passing gun safety laws, paid family leave, equal pay for women, and protecting access to «safe and legal abortions.»

«It's a fiction created and methodically cultivated by the gun lobby, designed to assure that no laws are passed to make America safer, because those laws would cut into their profits.»

They're on the streets of the United States and they will have guns unless we pass tough laws,» added Senator Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat.

Australia's gun deaths, for one, were already declining before the law passed.

He said a system where worried family members could move to have a person temporarily lose their gun rights would be a step he would support to prevent future massacres, and that he hopes Florida will pass a system into law.

On Friday, Florida passed a law that would place new restrictions on guns sold there; the NRA almost immediately sued to block it.

(CNN) A group of teens and more than a hundred supporters staged a «lie - in» outside the White House on Presidents Day to pressure lawmakers to pass tougher gun laws.

Ron DeSantis, a leading Republican candidate for governor and self - described «big Second Amendment guy,» says he would have vetoed the historic Florida gun - control law passed in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre.

Now, some cities want to undo a Florida law that prevents them from passing local gun - control laws.

A Democratic - controlled Congress back in 2010 didn't have the political capital to pass gun laws (some Democrats have since said that was a mistake), and Congress failed to expand background checks in 2013 after the 2012 Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting.

A new law passed after the tragedy at Stoneman Douglas High School allows police to take guns away from someone who... Read More

The basic problem: If a city or state passes strict gun control measures, people can simply cross a border to buy guns in a jurisdiction with laxer laws.

In the aftermath, school leaders are examining every aspect of the tragedy, including what role they can play in passing «common sense gun laws,» Bartleman said.

In Illinois, lawmakers passed a bill last week that would require gun dealers to be licensed by the state, but it was not clear whether the Republican governor would sign it into law.

On any given day, he may or may not express the policy views associated with the American right — he will muse about raising taxes on hedge funds, or passing gun control into law, or slapping deep tariffs on foreign steel.

In just one month since the Parkland shooting, the gun control movement has made some small gains: The Florida state legislature passed new firearm regulations, and the federal spending bill signed by President Trump on Friday contains modest steps toward tightening the nation's gun laws, including the Fix NICS Act, which strengthens the background - check system for gun purchases.

Students at thousands of schools across the United States walked out of class Wednesday morning to pressure Congress and state lawmakers to pass gun control laws.

When Connecticut passed a law requiring background checks on all handgun sales, they saw a 40 percent reduction in gun homicides.

Kenaassaw Ga. passed a law requiring all citizens to own a gun, bet they don't have near the crime rate as Youngstown.

With one of the most sophisticated and well - heeled lobbies in the country ($ 8 to $ 9 million annual budget), the NRA fiercely stymies all efforts by legislators to pass gun laws, even though the results of local attempts have shown beyond reasonable doubt that such laws can be effective.

If you want to keep criminals from getting guns, then you have to pass laws that do that.

If you want to keep people with mental issues from getting guns, then you have to pass laws that do that.

If you're not willing to pass COMMON SENSE gun laws, do you really love your kids?

Legislators in Connecticut have passed what some are saying are the nation's toughest new gun laws — banning high - capacity magazines, creating a weapon offender registry, requiring universal background checks for firearm purchases and adding more types of guns under an existing assault weapons ban.

Legislators in Connecticut have passed what some are saying are the nation's toughest new gun laws — banning high - capacity magazines, creating a weapon offender registry, requiring universal background checks for firearm purchases...

How about getting your republican friends to pass a gun law!

Gov. Andrew Cuomo worked hard, first behind the scenes and later openly, to pass the country's first - in - the - nation gun control laws after the shootings in Connecticut that killed 20 children.

Senate GOP lawmakers since the passage of the SAFE Act have largely resisted efforts to pass new gun control measures, though pushes to repeal the law have faltered.

Working together we will build on all that we've achieved and continue to lift up New Yorkers by investing in our infrastructure, passing the DREAM Act, enacting campaign finance and voting reform, and further strengthening New York's nation - leading gun safety laws.

Given that a state statute like the one passed in Florida can overcome another state statute, and that no federal law in place currently prohibits the imposition of this age limit; the absence of a constitutional limitation preventing a twenty - one year old age limit to buy guns means that the law is constitutional and valid.

If the Assembly passes the bill today — and it appears that it will at this point — New York would be the first state to enact a new gun control law in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting that killed 20 children.

«Luckily in New York, Governor Cuomo is leading the way and setting an example for the nation — from fighting the GOP tax bill which deliberately targets New Yorkers, to free college tuition for middle class families and passing the strongest gun laws in the country.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's message of necessity that skirts the three - day waiting period so lawmakers can pass his gun control legislation this week outlines what his office says is the immediate need to get the law in place.

«I fully support the efforts of spearheaded by courageous members of the State Senate to pass common sense gun laws in New York and today I'm asking all of my supporters to call Senator Golden's office and ask him to do the same.»

She adders that Mayer «stood up to the NRA and passed commonsense gun laws to protect our children.»

The Democrat - controlled state Assembly passed five gun control bills yesterday with little debate, including one that would allow judges to remove weapons from mentally - ill people following a request from a relative or law enforcement.

He noted that passing New York's gun laws after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut brought down his popularity ratings.

She is leading the fight to pass seven important gun control laws.

It's going to pass some policies, we need stronger gun laws early voting, campaign finance reform,» Mayer said.

Cuomo said it was necessary to pass the law fast — even as President Obama and other governors were preparing new gun laws — because guns sales were spiking as buyers sought to avoid new laws.

New York already has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation, known as the SAFE Act, and passed after the Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings five years ago.

He can take credit for progressive accomplishments under his reign like a phased - in $ 15 minimum wage, paid family leave, and strict gun control measures, ignoring the fact that regular Democrats endorsed all these things and would have passed them into law if they too sat in the majority.

Like Cuomo, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman used the petition denial to call on Congress and states to pass tougher gun - control laws.

These are common sense laws that need to be passed by Congress if we are to begin to address our national epidemic of gun violence.»

The event comes on the heels of a sweeping gun control law that passed last month in Albany that updates the state's assault weapons ban and limits the number of rounds in a high - capacity magazine.

But Cuomo said he had taken a political hit of his own in rural areas after passing the SAFE Act, a controversial gun control law.

Several Republican lawmakers who opposed the gun control law passed in January are due to appear the rally tomorrow, including Sens. Greg Ball and Kathy Marchione.