Vice President Mike Pence, like many Republicans, opposes
most gun control measures.
Not exact matches
While
most Americans, Democratic lawmakers, and President Donald Trump have shown support for increased
gun control measures like more thorough background checks, many Republican lawmakers continue to oppose any new
gun regulations.
This proposal has perhaps the
most bipartisan support of all
gun -
control measures floated recently, including from the president himself.
Zeif was one of the attendees at the president's listening session to speak
most openly about specific
gun control measures.
The
measures, which are also backed by Sen. James Seward of Oneida, would address major aspects of the
gun control law championed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which he counts among his
most significant accomplishments as governor over the last four years.
Supporters of New York's
gun control measures — among the
most restrictive in the U.S. — held a smaller event inside the Statehouse to announce several new bills, including one that would prohibit anyone from buying more than one
gun a month.
Students have marched along striking teachers in West Virginia and Oklahoma, and teachers share their students» impatience with the GOP's resistance to
gun control measures most voters back.
Gun
control has long been one of the
most divisive and contentious issues in Washington, and the rush to legislate on school safety reflects the difficulty of passing
measures that have anything to do with
guns.