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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been speaking out about the need for national gun control laws in recent days, but Cuomo says he doesn't know when a key provision of New York's own gun safety laws will be enacted.
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NEW YORK — The evening after the recent Parkland school shootings, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo took to the airwaves to demand stronger national gun control laws.
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In the midst of the national conversation about arming teachers and right before high school students around the country walked out to protest gun control laws, a high school teacher...
Minutes after Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a historic gun control bill Friday, the National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit alleging that the new law violates the Second Amendment because it raises the sales age for guns from 18 to 21.
On Tuesday afternoon, Cynthia Nixon vowed to fight for stricter gun - control laws, stand up for black voters, and support the legalization of marijuana in her first national TV interview since declaring her candidacy for governor of New York.
Buffalo business and 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino blasted the gun control law approved last week as a «cosmetic bill» done only to burnish Gov. Andrew Cuomo's national standing.
Governor Cuomo, who championed strict new gun control laws in New York after the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, shootings killed 20 children, says national gun policy is «insanity» and «disgusting.»
The Democratic mayor blamed the need for these drills on the Republican - controlled Congress's failure to enact stiffer federal gun control laws and the National Rifle Association's opposition to them.
The ATF wrote letters in 2010 and 2013 explaining how current laws — the Gun Control Act (1968) and National Firearms Act (1934)-- do not provide an avenue for the bureau to regulate the gun attachments, which enable shooters to fire semiautomatic weapons at nearly the rate of automatic ones, according to CQ - Roll Call.
A nearly 15 - hour filibuster to push a vote on gun control legislation quickly elevated U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy's national profile and cemented his place as a leader in the Democratic movement for stricter gun laws following the mass shooting at an Orlando club.
Governor Andrew Cuomo, who championed strict new gun control laws in New York after the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut shootings killed 20 children, says national gun policy is «insanity» and «disgusting.»
Governor Cuomo, whose 2013 SAFE Act was one of the toughest packages of new state gun laws to pass in recent years, responded to Gabey's shooting by calling greater national gun control measures.
Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg says he will match donations to Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy group he founded, after the national debate over gun laws was reignited by the Las Vegas shooting.
National reciprocity if it is passed will nullify Many New York gun control laws and give people even in NYC the opportunity to defend themselves.
The national NRA has not spent much time investing in New York races, despite the widespread controversy among gun owners over the SAFE Act, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signature gun control law from 2013.
On Wednesday night, at the Democratic National Convention, U. S. Senator Chris Murphy, D - Conn., joined family members of victims of gun violence, including the Sandy Hook School shooting, to advocate for stronger federal gun control laws.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is «stretched very thin» and lawmakers in Washington «prostitute themselves» to the National Rifle Association to block stricter gun control laws, said NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton during a television appearance on Tuesday morning.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- The National Rifle Association says the secret negotiations and lightning - fast passage of New York's tough new gun control laws squelched the powerful gun lobby's ability to mount opposition.
A nearly 15 - hour filibuster to push a vote on gun control legislation quickly elevated U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy's national profile and cemented his place as a leader in the Democratic movement for stricter gun laws following the mass shooting at an...
The National Rifle Association is suing the state of Florida after Gov. Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 7026 into law Friday, the first gun control legislation enacted in the state after the Parkland school massacre on February 14.
Cuomo says New York's gun control law, known as the SAFE Act, is working in New York, but without a national law, guns come in through other states.
Young people around the country have been doing anti-violence work for years, but the February 2018 shooting in Parkland, Florida, thrust their calls for better gun - control laws and mental health services into the national spotlight.
Grieving in public by pushing for changes in policy and laws, the Stoneman Douglas survivors ripped a collective scab off a host of issues — school violence, gun control and safety, arming teachers, mental health, the power of protest, race, privilege, technology and internet trolling — and thrust them into the local, state, and national spotlights.
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In the NRA video, he criticized National School Walkout Day — in which students left classes to pay tribute to the 17 people killed at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School a month earlier and to demand stricter gun control laws.
Survivors of the Parkland shooting quickly became the faces of a national conversation on gun control, and are lobbying lawmakers for more restrictive gun laws — including a ban on assault - style rifles and higher - capacity magazines.
(CNN)- The National Rifle Association is suing the state of Florida after Gov. Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 7026 into law Friday, the first gun control legislation enacted in the state after the Parkland school massacre on February 14.
Students are calling for stricter gun control laws, building on the momentum of last week's National School Walkout.
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.
They have repeatedly detailed their harrowing experience to national news networks, many calling for stricter gun control laws while decrying President Donald Trump for not doing enough to protect students.
The National Rifle Association is suing the state of Florida after Gov. Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 7026 into law Friday, gun control legislation enacted in the state after the Parkland school massacre on February More...
-- NRA responds: The National Rifle Association went on the offensive in its first public response to the Stoneman Douglas massacre, pushing back against law enforcement officials, the media, gun - control advocates and the teenage survivors of the massacre who have pleaded for stricter gun laws.