Sentences with phrase «gun lobbying group»

New York Sen. Charles Schumer also criticized the gun lobbying group, arguing that LaPierre appears to blame everything but guns for recent mass shootings.

--------------------------- The National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit Friday against Governor Cuomo & the State Department of Financial Services, the NRA Accuses accusing them of coercing banks and insurance companies to withhold services to the gun lobbying group.

Trump told governors gathered in D.C. that he would take action to ban the sale of bump stocks without Congress, and said it's «OK» to push back against the NRA «every once as a while,» as the powerful gun lobbying group fights calls to enact stricter gun control laws after the shooting.

Delta Air Lines Inc. and United Continental Holdings Inc. are among companies that cut ties with the NRA following online calls to boycott the gun lobbying group.

And for the first time, the gun lobby group is vulnerable.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas students have repeatedly called out Rubio for taking money from the powerful gun lobby group.

Not exact matches

Signs are emerging that companies and investors are starting to push back against the gun industry and its main lobbying group, the National Rifle Association (NRA), in the wake of last week's Florida high school shooting.

But Australia also had fewer barriers than the United States to enacting gun control: There is no constitutional right to bear arms, and there are no pro-gun lobbying groups with the influence of the National Rifle Association.

Some researchers have blamed the National Rifle Association, the firearms industry's powerful lobbying group, for blocking the government's ability to study guns and gun crimes.

That, as well as its significant lobbying arm, has often been credited with blocking gun reforms and bringing to heel politicians who benefit from NRA money and are reluctant to cross the group's vocal base.

The lobbying records show Dick's hired two Democrats and one Republican from Glover Park Group, a DC - based government affairs firm, for «[l] obbying related to gun control.»

«We're going to be the generation that takes down the gun lobby,» Marisa Pyle, 20, said through a red megaphone to a group of several hundred people gathered in front of the Dahlonega Gold Museum.

Well Bill, I guess I do not see your group / religion as any more than a powerful lobby group, no different than oil and gas, defence industries, tobacco, NRA gun industry, etc..

The group plans to meet to discuss local programs that can be used to reduce violence and lobby for tougher gun laws.

Obama accused the powerful pro-gun rights lobby group of peddling an «imaginary fiction» that he said has distorted the national debate about gun violence.

The National Rifle Association, the nation's largest gun - rights lobbying group, did not immediately return an email seeking comment.

I expressed surprise that Golden would break with Mayor Bloomberg, who was in Albany to lobby for this bill today and even launched an ad campaign through his Mayors Against Illegal Guns group.

The National Rifle Association, the country's most powerful lobby group for gun rights, said Thursday that it would support an effort to restrict bump stocks — an unusual move for a group that has long pushed back on efforts to impose new firearms regulations.

Michael Bloomberg's group and other advocates are also claiming victory in gun lobby losses.

Trump tweeted that he planned to meet with the National Rifle Association, the nation's largest gun rights and lobbying group, to discuss the issue.

But as he was digging into the study, his source of funding came under attack from the National Rifle Association (NRA), a powerful lobbying group based in Fairfax, Va., that supports gun ownership.

One of the biggest reasons that Canada the United Kingdom Japan Australia and many more were able to have realistic gun legislation was because they did not also have these type of lobbying groups infiltrating their government.

The large black image in the lobby titled SOA: Black and White Pain - ting # 15 (2005 - 09) was appropriated from a Colombian newspaper and depicts a group of soldiers advancing with guns drawn.

Rightwing lobby group appealing to major donors that have abandoned it following criticism of ALEC's policy on gun laws

On 20 February 2018, as a group of students from the Parkland, Florida mass shooting attack traveled to their state capitol to lobby for tighter gun safety measures, far right conspiracy blogs pushed increasingly hysterical claims that at least one of the survivors of the massacre was a «deep state» pawn.

They then saw how much the NRA contributes to politicians, starting with Rubio's $ 3.3 million from the gun - lobbying group, and learned the dollar cost.

Citing mass shootings in Parkland, Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, the anti-gun violence group founded by former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords launched an ad campaign Tuesday against Gov. Rick Scott «for repeatedly siding with the gun lobby over public safety.»

The Giffords group said in a statement that a «critical component of addressing our nation's gun violence epidemic is supporting the candidates who will stand up to the gun lobby and fight for safer gun laws.»

The new group has ambitious goals: taking on the gun lobby, which has long enjoyed enormous political clout, and mobilizing people throughout the country.