Sentences with phrase «gun rights groups»

The report said the video was part of an effort by Russian and American gun rights groups to collaborate in the years leading up to the 2016 election.

Jennifer Fearing is a regular dog walker for Sutter, the governor's corgi, and gun rights groups are saying the free service she provides — on top of giving the lobbyist undue influence — may amount to an illegal contribution.

The groups include the state's major labor unions, the Conservative Party, gun rights groups, and environmentalists.

Indeed, each of the four has accepted contributions from gun rights groups.

The bill will also make some non-profits identify large donors, a move the New York Civil Liberties Union worries will discourage people from donating to groups involved in controversial advocacy, such as Planned Parenthood or gun rights groups.

A growing number of Republicans in Congress have expressed support for banning bump stocks, but not all are eager to cast votes on legislation that could hurt their standing with gun rights groups.

It's a huge coalition, and it really illustrates the old cliche that politics makes strange bedfellows because you have the New York Civil Liberties Union, some reform groups, some environmental groups, and then you have the Conservative party, gun rights groups, they're all together on this, saying that they don't want a constitutional convention.

The rest of the money comes from unions, gun control organizations, and gun rights groups looking to boost the chances of the candidate whose political ideology best supports their own policy aims.

While the media tends to focus on the high - profile national gun rights groups, here in California, they are unknown players that truly shape the movement.

Liuni noted that the gun rights groups included many police officers, veterans and responsible, law abiding gun owners who sought to make society safer through gun safety education and advocacy.

It ends with a call for state and federal lawmakers to reject campaign contributions from gun rights groups like the NRA, enact stricter licensing and registration requirements for guns, a ban on «all classes of weapons that do not serve the specific uses of personal protection and sport shooting» and other gun control measures.

Cuomo ramped up pressure on banks and insurers to revisit whether their ties to the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups harm their reputations and the public interest.

Students at the Florida school where 17 people died last week said Sunday they will organize nationwide marches for gun control next month and try to create a «badge of shame» for politicians who take money from the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups.

Several gun rights groups have said they will oppose the new age limit as an infringement on the rights of adults.

The proposal, which does not have the support of gun rights groups, has repeatedly failed on the Senate floor.

NEW YORK, April 19 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday ramped up pressure on banks and insurers to revisit whether their ties to the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups harm their reputations and the public interest.

He supported the bipartisan gun control and school safety legislation that passed after Sandy Hook but recently told a gun rights group that he regretted his vote.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I), one of the country's most vocal gun control advocates, and the National Rifle Association, the nation's largest gun rights group, have each spent six figures, telling you everything you need to know about what's at stake in Colorado.

A gun rights group that had endorsed Foley had come out against the proposal.

This event was pushed hard by the Tea Party and activist Rus Thompson and the gun rights group Shooters Committee on Political Education.

A gun rights group is declaring victory, after Governor Rick Scott signed a Stand Your Ground - related bill into law last week.

In 2013, Wisconsin Carry, a gun rights group, cautioned that such special exemptions for law enforcement was «the path to tyranny.»

The gun rights group said Gillespie would end current Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe's pursuit of new gun - control measures.

In the weeks since a gunman killed 17 people at a South Florida high school, some Republicans — including, at least briefly, President Trump — have broken ranks with the gun rights group to support modest gun control legislation, such as raising the age limit for buying assault weapons and banning so - called bump stocks, which turn semiautomatic weapons into something close to machine guns.

However, the gun rights group's hashtag continues to have a bigger presence, exposed to roughly 43,000 more users per hour than #NeverAgain.

On Saturday, both Delta and United said Saturday they will no longer offer discounted fares to NRA members to attend their annual meetings, and both have asked the gun rights group to remove any references to their companies from the NRA website.

Student Sarah Chadwick famously edited herself into a National Rifle Association public service announcement telling the gun rights group their time was running out — a riff on NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch's warning that «time's running out» for a number of other groups, including the «lying media, every Hollywood phony, to the role model athletes who use their free speech to alter and undermine what our flag represents.»

Both Delta and United said Saturday they will no longer offer discounted fares to NRA members to attend their annual meetings, and both have asked the gun rights group to remove any references to their companies from the NRA website.

Not exact matches

Delta, United Airlines, Hertz, and MetLife are among more than a dozen companies that have cut ties with the National Rifle Association after gun - control activists encouraged people to boycott brands that did business with the guns - rights group.

According to the New York Times, black students have never been responsible for mass shootings that drove the national conversation about gun safety and minority schools have never been the targets of such attacks, leaving civil rights groups wondering why black students would be the focus when seeking to address an issue that plagues white, male students.

A disability rights groups in Texas wants to make sure people who've been disabled by gun violence in Texas get a chance to talk to lawmakers.

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.

MTV announced that it had joined the left - wing civil rights group and a list of celebrities, including Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, and NBA star Carmelo Anthony, to send «17 busloads of youth» to the gun control march kicking off:

A review of campaign finance records for the NRA Political Victory Fund, the gun - rights group's political arm in Florida, shows it donated regularly...

Things moved pretty quickly for gun - rights advocate and Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Kyle Kashuv after he asked a man he calls his «mentor» — Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative student group Turning Point USA — how many retweets he'd need to convince Kirk to speak at Stoneman Douglas...

Sitting with a group of Democrats and Republicans, including some who are backed by the NRA, Trump made what sounded like an extraordinary break with the powerful gun - rights organization.

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

Just this past March, the group posted its highest fundraising totals in more than a decade, and gun - rights supporters still have a hold on Congress and the White House.

It is generally illegal to carry a gun outside a residence, and a special permit granting the right to do so is granted to certain groups, such as law enforcement officers.

The campaign includes the release of a Mother's Bill of Rights, laying out the basic rights the group believes moms want and need to protect their kids from gun vioRights, laying out the basic rights the group believes moms want and need to protect their kids from gun viorights the group believes moms want and need to protect their kids from gun violence.

But, but, but: The Post's in - house pollster, Scott Clement, flags a 2013 Pew Research Study, which found that people who prioritize gun rights over gun control are four or five times more likely to contribute money to advocacy groups, contact public officials, sign petitions and express their views on social media.

Gun rights groups claim a slim majority for their position in the Senate, given the two or three Democratic Senators representing rural districts who often vote against gun control — although there are also Republican Senators from urban districts who tend to waver.

Notably, in 2010, the ACLU testified against «the use of terror watch lists to screen gun purchases,» writing that the «deeply flawed» terror watch list process led the group to conclude, «Given these problems, we do not believe that anyone should be deprived of the right to purchase a gun, or the right to fly, or any other benefit of membership in civil society based solely on placement on a terror watch list.»

LaPierre's attack is an instant fundraising tool for a governor who has made gun control a front - and - center issue for him in a blue state where there's little downside, by and large, to drawing the ire of the gun - rights group.

Dueling ads on gun rights by the National Rifle Association and a group backed by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg have joined the onslaught of campaign advertising in Virginia's elections this year.

A year after a gun - rights group bombarded the State Police with hundreds of Freedom of Information Law requests to see who was on a mental health - related «no gun» list, they are heading to court after getting what they say are unresponsive answers from the NYSP.

In fact, some have wanted over the years to either repeal the law or scale it back amid ongoing protests from gun - rights groups.

The gun - rights group NY2A has delivered petitions to Senate leaders in opposition to IDC Leader Jeff Klein «s bill that would not only prevent the sale of guns to people on no - fly suspected terrorist list but allow for their confiscation as well.

A coalition of groups that support high - volume hydrofracking and gun rights are pushing a renewed effort to have the upstate region of the state break away from New York.

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.