Sentences with phrase «gun restrictions»

The legislation includes a number of gun restrictions and also permits school personnel who are not full - time teachers to be armed.

She also received angry replies from some over her statement that, during gun restriction debates.

But those efforts are expected to stop short of gun restrictions.

The legislation was introduced as a response to renewed calls for gun restrictions in the wake of the mass shooting at a... [Read more...]

In towns like Dahlonega, Ga., smaller rallies sought to demonstrate a desire for new gun restrictions even in rural, Republican - leaning communities where gun ownership is common and support for the Second Amendment is strong.

Albans) joined U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D - Garden City) and other leaders outside the 113th Precinct Monday to call for tighter gun restrictions in light of the incident.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer unveiled a three - point program to tighten gun restrictions on Sunday, galvanized by teenagers pushing for reforms across the country.

Since his election, Trump has backed interstate concealed carry permits and supports a lift on gun restrictions in schools and military bases.

Guttenberg, whose 14 - year - old daughter Jaime Guttenberg was killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, has become an outspoken advocate for tighter gun restrictions since the attack in South Florida.

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. - Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School families are on their way to St. Petersburg to push again for tougher gun restrictions after they say state lawmakers did not do enough with the gun reform law passed late last week.

I used to live in NYS and though I think infrastructure and highway routing improvement is years behind in planning and execution in NYS this recognition of need for gun restriction by New Yorkers is heartening.

The attack last Wednesday seemed to overcome the resistance of some in the state's leadership, which has rebuffed gun restrictions since Republicans took control of both the governor's office and Legislature in 1999.

Conservative student dissents, 2:14 p.m.: Kyle Kashuv, the Stoneman Douglas junior who met with President Trump and opposes further gun restrictions, appeared on Fox News on Saturday and criticized his fellow students.

The attack last Wednesday seemed to overcome the resistance of some in the state's leadership, which has rebuffed gun restrictions since Republicans took control of both the governor's office and the Legislature in 1999.

At a news conference with Senate Democrats and families of victims of gun violence June 16, Sen. Cory Booker (D - N.J.) said supporting gun restrictions is «a fight that should not belong only to the victims.»

We have heard from President Obama, and all the Democrat candidates, that the answer to domestic terrorists is more gun restriction legislation.

The mass shooting at a Texas high school has elicited promises from the state's top Republicans to look for ways to improve school safety, but none of them suggested that substantial gun restrictions could be on the table.

Many have pointed out politicians who take financial support from the National Rifle Association, and some have lashed out at President Trump, saying he was busy blaming Democrats for failing to pass gun restrictions while taking no action of his own.

Many have pointed out politicians who take financial support from the National Rifle Association, and some have lashed out at President Donald Trump, saying he was busy blaming Democrats for failing to pass gun restrictions while taking no action of his own.

The students have pressed to raise the legal age to purchase a rifle, curb access to AR - style firearms and adopt other gun restrictions.

Vermont's Republican governor is set to sign the first significant gun restrictions in the state's history during a ceremony Wednesday.

Researchers know little about what turns certain individuals into mass killers or whether particular policies, including gun restrictions, prevent rampage shootings.

In TV interviews, Andrew Pollack has stressed the recent law enacted by Gov. Rick Scott — which included the first major gun restrictions for Florida in more than a decade — was a school safety bill, not a gun control bill.

He has endorsed both Republicans and Democrats in House and Senate races across the country this cycle, with an apolitical litmus test that depends on whether they fought for either his own city's interests or for the mayor's own pet causes, such as gun restrictions or education reform.

Remington's filing came the day after thousands of high school students marched in Washington, D.C., for stronger gun restrictions.

And many leaders in the Republican - controlled Congress, where gun restrictions have withered over the years, have shown no change of heart in light of this week's school shooting.

The spending legislation, which was viewed as the last opportunity this year for Congress to enact major new gun restrictions before the midterm elections in November, included only some school safety measures and modest improvements to the background check system.

Yet the subtext of the discussion was a contentious debate over gun restrictions and an all - too - familiar cycle of outrage, activism and promises of action, and then the inevitable inertia of Washington because of the opposition by the National Rifle Association and its allies.

Florida's embrace of gun restrictions came as Congress remains mired in partisan divisions on the issue and as other states, from Illinois to Vermont, consider whether they ought to tighten the rules on gun ownership in the wake of the Parkland attack.

MIAMI — Florida's nickname has long been the «Gunshine State» because of its plethora of firearms and loose gun restrictions.

Teenagers from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida began pushing for gun restrictions almost immediately after a former student killed 17 people at the school in February.

Try England or Australia, there, with severe gun restrictions on law abiding folks, violence against innocent people has soared.

He also said categorical gun restrictions can be both too broad and too narrow to solve the problem.

The group founded by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords plans to spend in races this year to advance gun restrictions, specifically in a few highly competitive House and Senate races.

«In fact, she's already called for higher taxes on individuals and small businesses; she supports an energy plan that would increase our electricity costs; she promises a single - payer health care system that would further destroy our health care and economy; and she wants to force federal gun restrictions that would take away the Second Amendment rights of law - abiding citizens.»

Asked about their thoughts on the Second Amendment, both Stankevich and McMurray said they support it — and that it is compatible with reasonable gun restrictions that they favor, such as universal background checks and a ban on assault weapons.

Dozens of gun safety advocates gathered at the Florida Capitol Tuesday to pressure state lawmakers to reject a raft of bills loosening gun restrictions.

The National Rifle Association is suing the state over newly approved gun restrictions that mandate a three - day waiting period for gun purchases and raise the buying age from 18 to 21 for most people.

Cuomo would need legislation, perhaps a tall order at a time when the Republican - controlled Senate remains furious about the extensive gun restrictions he has already forced through.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Jumping out ahead of Washington, New York state enacted the nation's toughest gun restrictions today and the first since the Connecticut school massacre, including an expanded assault - weapon ban and background checks for buying ammunition.

Legislation on school safety is bubbling in the Republican - controlled Congress, though new gun restrictions don't appear to be in the cards.

(Calif.) The flurry of legislative proposals that often follows a school shooting most often take aim at gun restrictions or shoring up mental health services.But there are other steps that can be taken to improve campus security — among them, building strategically - designed school facilities or adding safety upgrades to the existing ones.

Voted to remove from the books some Broward County gun restrictions.

The announcement by Maryland's Republican governor comes amid renewed calls for greater gun restrictions in response to the shootings two weeks ago at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla..

Commissioner Roberto Martinez, a former federal prosecutor, proposed an amendment that mirrored gun restrictions imposed by a new Florida law, which raised the minimum age from 18 to 21 and imposed a three - day waiting period to purchase long guns, such as the one used by Cruz.

Unfortunately, the CRC decided that Floridians shouldn't be allowed to vote on sensible gun restrictions in November.

Weeks later a bipartisan package of gun restrictions emerged that now is Florida law.

After the Feb. 14 mass shooting in Parkland, Mast called for sweeping gun restrictions.

ALBANY — The state tightened gun restrictions for domestic violence abusers by passing legislation Friday that increases the list of crimes that would prevent someone from purchasing or owning a gun.