Sentences with phrase «loose gun laws»
The party that tends to support looser gun laws controls both chambers, and President Trump has appeared to double down on a pro-gun position to arm some teachers.
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Sanders has defended his position on guns, considering that he comes from a rural state with few gun deaths and loose firearms laws.
In recent months, Cuomo has decried illegal firearms coming into New York from states with looser gun control laws.
«I passed what is probably the toughest gun law in the nation,» said Cuomo, who said illegal guns continue to come to New York thorough other states with looser laws.
In December, Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) had severed reciprocity rights of gun owners in 25 states with concealed - weapons standards looser than Virginia's — a move that had infuriated gun - rights activists even though state law has long dictated that reciprocity be limited to states with standards on par with Virginia's.
He is a natural for the role: he has published dozens of papers on the effects of guns in the U.S., where widespread gun ownership and loose laws make it easy for criminals and potentially violent people to obtain firearms.
When the proposed solution called for looser versus tighter gun - control laws, those with more liberal gun - control ideologies were more likely to downplay the frequency of violent home break - ins.