Sentences with phrase «nation gun control laws»
The New York state legislature is passing the toughest in the nation gun control laws laid out by Governor Cuomo.
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The New York state legislature is passing the toughest in the nation gun control laws laid out by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo worked hard, first behind the scenes and later openly, to pass the country's first - in - the - nation gun control laws after the shootings in Connecticut that killed 20 children.
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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.
Five years ago today, Andrew Cuomo signed into law the SAFE Act, a package of gun control reforms the Governor has described as a model for the nation.
«This decision is a victory for common sense gun control laws in New York and across the nation,» Cuomo said.
Senator Jeff Klein, sponsor of S4392, which enacts «Nicholas's Law» said: «As the prime Senate sponsor of the SAFE Act, considered the toughest gun laws in the nation, I'm proud that New York has led the way on gun control.
«This decision is a victory for common sense gun control laws in New York and across the nation,» Cuomo said in a statement.
«In 2013, New York rose to the occasion and passed the toughest gun control laws in the nation.
CROTON - ON - HUDSON — Students in the Hudson Valley and across the nation walked out of class Wednesday morning to raise awareness about strengthening gun control laws.
Cuomo began the session in January with a hefty agenda, including an ambitious plan to make New York's gun control laws the toughest in the nation; and be the first state to react to the Newtown, Connecticut shootings in December.
A new poll finds Governor Cuomo is paying a political price with Republicans in New York for enacting the nation's strictest gun control laws.
When New York state passed «the toughest gun control laws in the nation» on Jan. 15, concern arose in a small upstate New York town built around a gun manufacturing company.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a bevy of policy ideas ranging from an increase to the state's minimum wage, equal pay for women and the toughest gun control laws in the nation in his third State of the State address.
As Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushes for both campaign finance reform and the strongest gun control laws in the nation, the Center for Working Families is tying both those issues together.
He led our state to be the first to pass the strongest gun control laws in the nation and passed marriage equality.
«This coalition has proved we can govern in a bipartisan fashion,» said Senate co-leader Jeffrey Klein (D - Bronx), ticking off the wins: raising the minimum wage, passing the nation's toughest gun control law, and helping small business.
«Governor Cuomo passed a $ 15 minimum wage, the strongest paid family leave program and gun control laws in the nation, banned fracking, raised the age of criminal responsibility, and enacted the first - ever free college tuition program for middle class families.
«With approval ratings that consistently topped 70 percent, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had the political capital to spend when he set out to pass the toughest gun control laws in the nation,» said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, in a statement.
Bernie Sanders» pro-gun-rights voting record could burn him in New York City, which has among the strictest gun - control laws in the nation, political analysts say.
Hochul said the governor is reiterating that New York has the toughest gun control laws in the nation, but also deals with guns coming in from other states.
The new laws will make Cuomo the first governor in the nation to pass gun - control legislation following the massacre in Connecticut, and will help brandish his credentials nationally both as a progressive and as a leader who can get things done.
He described Cuomo's speech as «bold and aggressive» and said he believes the governor's call for the toughest gun control laws in the nation is the right thing to do.
The law is the first gun control measure passed in the U.S. since the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut and it gives New York state the toughest gun control law in the nation.
When unbearable heartbreak struck our neighbors in Newtown, CT, New York State quickly passed the toughest gun control laws in the nation.
And in New York State, even with one of the nation's toughest gun control laws, chances are, he...
The President of the state's largest teachers union, New York United Teachers Richard Iannuzzi, says more steps need to be taken to ensure that schools are safe, including «a serious tightening of gun control laws across the nation.»
(CNN)- Survivors of the deadly shooting rampage at a Parkland, Florida, high school led thousands Saturday in a March for Our Lives on Washington, delivering their impassioned pleas for stricter gun control law to the nation.
Skipping school has rarely had such national implications as it did yesterday, when students at more than 3,100 schools around the country took a 17 - minute powder to protest the porous state of the nation's gun - control laws.