Sentences with phrase «included gun control»

Major issues in the 2013 legislative session included gun control, gay marriage, and budgetary problems.

The app's user base has expanded to include a wide range of users, including gun control advocates as well as people who use firearms for recreation and hunting.

Others, including some gun control and mental health advocates, point to the increasing number of states that allow law enforcement officers or, in some cases, family members or others to petition a court to temporarily take guns from people who pose a danger to themselves or others.

And Giuliani shifted right on a number of issues — including gun control and public funding of abortions — during his failed presidential run four years later.

And Giuliani shifted right on a number of issues - including gun control and public funding of abortions - during his failed presidential run four years later.

Examples of this include gun control laws, SEC / stock market regulation, environmental regulations, laws against smoking, drinking, behavior, etc..

New York Senate Democrats have resolved a longstanding internal power struggle that empowered Republicans and prevented votes on liberal priorities including gun control, early voting, abortion rights and help for immigrants.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Democrats resolved a longstanding internal rupture in the New York state Senate Wednesday that had empowered Republicans and prevented votes on liberal priorities including gun control, abortion rights and help for immigrants.

Such initiatives have also been interspersed with attention to moderate social reforms, including gun control and paid family leave, dappled with more progressive policies like protections for transgender residents and a rejection of fracking.

Democrats want to include some gun control measures, while Republicans are suggesting more funds for school security instead.

Geoff Berman, the executive director of the New York Democratic Party, rattled off Mr. Cuomo's accomplishments, including gun control, infrastructure investment and managing the budget for Mr. Cuomo's strong position.

The IDC, led by Bronx State Senator Jeffrey Klein, have asserted that the arrangement with the GOP has permitted the passage of numerous liberal measures — including gun control, paid family leave, a minimum wage hike and the creation of a legal services fund for undocumented immigrants.

As conversations that include gun control and who best can protect...

Artist Danny Lyon speaks with Representative John Lewis about his lifelong advocacy of civil liberties and his current leadership on issues including gun control and voting rights.

Political commentator and analyst Jeffrey Birnbaum provided a snapshot of issues currently looming in Congress, including gun control, immigration reform and the healthcare law and discussed their potential impact on real estate.

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This photo provided by Rep. John Yarmuth, D - Ky., shows Democrat members of Congress, including Rep. John Lewis, D - Ga., center, and Rep. Joe Courtney, D - Conn., left, participate in sit - down protest seeking a a vote on gun control measures, Wednesday, June 22, 2016, on the floor of the House on Capitol Hill in Washington.

While federal gun control laws are stalled, the group's school violence prevention training programs are expanding rapidly across the country, including to the Los Angeles public school district.

Ahead of next week's critical New York primary, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders came together for the first time in more than a month to debate issues including corporate influence, gun control, and energy.

Technology CEOs including Apple's Tim Cook and Microsoft's Satya Nadella sent out messages of support, but some went further and called for stricter gun control.

Democratic legislators, who are far outnumbered in the House and Senate and wield no power over which legislation gets considered, tried repeatedly over three committee hearings on Monday and Tuesday to amend the gun control bills to include an assault weapons ban and other, more stringent policies.

Polling for many common gun control measures, including universal background checks, can top 75 percent — even among Republicans.

«To that end, the Department of Justice has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a notice of a proposed regulation to clarify that the National Firearms and Gun Control Act defines «machine gun'to include bump stock type devices.»

That included being hosted by Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat who has been a gun - control advocate for decades.

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:

Congress hasn't taken action on gun control, and President Trump, who initially supported a higher age limit for purchasing assault rifles, later backed off, putting forward a plan that included a proposal to arm teachers instead.

The average amount of time spent discussing gun control on the three major cable networks two weeks after the shooting is higher post-Parkland than it was after any other major recent shooting, including the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012.

This proposal has perhaps the most bipartisan support of all gun - control measures floated recently, including from the president himself.

Another student, Emma Gonzalez, said on ABC's «This Week» that the students want to talk to political leaders, including Trump, about gun control.

And his professed openness to some gun control compromises — including background checks — reveals Trump's also trying to respond to individuals» concerns.

But 10 Democrats, including four from Broward County, where the shooting took place, voted for the bill as a step toward greater gun control.

There are also some evidence - based policies that could help outside the realm of gun control, including more stringent regulations and taxes on alcohol, changes in policing, and behavioral intervention programs.

It's difficult to separate these changes from long - term trends (especially since gun homicides have generally been on the decline for decades now), but a review of the evidence by RAND linked milder gun control measures, including background checks, to reduced injuries and deaths — and that means these measures likely saved lives.

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.

Last month, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed a gun control bill that included a provision to arm some trained school employees — but not full - time teachers.

That package also included the STOP School Violence Act of 2018, doesn't include any specific gun control measures, but increases grants for school safety measures, such as security training and metal detectors.

And the White House, which shifted Trump's calls for comprehensive gun control toward a proposal that looked a lot more like the National Rifle Association's platform (including arming teachers), has been preoccupied with Cabinet shake - ups and hardline immigration rhetoric.

The government of Brazil is suing Twitter for $ 300,000 because Brazilian drivers are using the social network to avoid police and traffic patrols and controls, including police with radar guns and checkpoints.

This week, President Barack Obama announced a series of executive actions on gun control, including expanding background checks.

The agreement does not, however, include a ban on semiautomatic firearms modeled after military assault weapons or a limit on ammunition magazines to 10 rounds, two provisions many gun control activists had wanted.

The rifle and shotgun, by contrast, are treated by most Americans — proponents of gun control included — as sacred.

Soda Gun Jetter is an automated system that includes a programmable control box, holsters and dedicated tubing to flush soda gun nozzles and drip cups during off hours with pressurized water.

His comments come the same day Assembly Democrats approved package of gun control measures, including an extreme risk protection order measure, banning bump stock possession and a strengthening background checks.

The SAFE Act, a package of gun control provisions was passed in the Legislature about a month after the elementary school shooting that killed 26 people, including 20 students.

Cuomo has bristled at implications his progressive bona fides don't stack up and his supporters have pointed to a raft of accomplishments during his time as governor, including the passage of a minimum wage hike that eventually grows to $ 15 in the coming years in the New York City area, paid family leave, a sweeping gun control law, the legalization of same - sex marriage and regulations that bolster the rights of transgender New Yorkers.

A number of issues have fallen out of the talks, including criminal justice reform and gun control legislation.

Niou cited Kavanagh's «vast amount of state government experience,» including his efforts as part of a group spearheaded by former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg to push for gun control.

In response to a series of school shootings across the country, the Kingston Common Council may seek federal and state action for more stringent gun control, including a freer hand for research into firearm violence.

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.

The amendments, though voted down, come as Republicans in the state Senate have signaled support for possible gun control legislation, which could include making it harder for those deemed too dangerous to obtain a firearm and closing up loopholes in the prohibition against people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence from keeping and obtaining guns.

Congress needs to put universal background checks in the foreground and pass a sweeping gun control plan that includes them and gives judges the power to temporarily disarm potentially dangerous individuals, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.