Sentences with phrase «new gun control bills»

Gianaris says he'll be talking to the governor's aides in the coming days about the new gun control bills that he is writing.

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The gun control bill that the Florida Legislature passed on Wednesday was, in many respects, a major victory for the new activists of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

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.

If the Assembly passes the bill today — and it appears that it will at this point — New York would be the first state to enact a new gun control law in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting that killed 20 childrNew York would be the first state to enact a new gun control law in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting that killed 20 childrnew gun control law in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting that killed 20 children.

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.

Hoping to capitalize on Democratic anger over the election of President Trump, Mayer and other Democrats argue the Westchester contest is critical to their hopes of controlling the Senate and enacting legislation long sought by progressives, including new gun control measures, campaign finance and ethics reforms, and a bill to strengthen New York's abortion lanew gun control measures, campaign finance and ethics reforms, and a bill to strengthen New York's abortion laNew York's abortion laws.

Democrats in the New York state Senate say they will push harder for gun control bills in the wake of the Florida shooting that left 17 dead and are even considering proposing the measures as hostile amendments.

Democratic challengers in some of this year's most competitive races are appealing to Americans» fears about terrorism to broach gun control, specifically by calling out Republican incumbents for not backing New York Republican Rep. Peter T. King's bill, first introduced nine years ago, to prevent people on the terror watch list from purchasing firearms.

The package of common sense gun control measures put forward by NYLGVP, including my bill closing the bump stock loophole, will reaffirm New York as a leader in the fight against gun violence and save lives.

He announced the state will create a new website for students to lobby their state and national electeds on gun control, and also touted a bill working its way through the state legislature that would ban bump stocks — devices that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at rates comparable to automatic rifles.

All of this is separate from issues about what is moral, and what is right, but New York, California, and other places with stringent gun laws are frequently and repeatedly sued over them, California is currently a hotbed of lawsuits over the raft of gun control bills Jerry Brown signed recently.

Trump Opens Door For Gun Confiscation In America It is time for the American people to forget about which party controls Congress and who is in the White House and start standing en masse for the Constitution and Bill of Rights — and against ANY new gun control laws — or the Second Amendment (and the rest of our liberties) will soon be toast.

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 monNew 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 monnew bills, including one that would prohibit anyone from buying more than one gun a month.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- The Democrat - controlled state Assembly on Tuesday passed legislation aimed at reducing gun violence in the state, a day after Republicans who control New York's Senate approved bills that focus on school safety but don't address the gun control issue.

In the meantime, DiPietro put together a memo explaining how Trump could win mostly by going hard after a new gun - control law pushed by Cuomo, which he wrote could provide 300,00 to 500,000 new voters, and by running against Bill de Blasio, New York's «first truly radical mayor, a man who still reveres the Sandinistas, honeymooned in Havana, and self - describes as a believer in liberation theology (i.e., Marxism).&raqnew gun - control law pushed by Cuomo, which he wrote could provide 300,00 to 500,000 new voters, and by running against Bill de Blasio, New York's «first truly radical mayor, a man who still reveres the Sandinistas, honeymooned in Havana, and self - describes as a believer in liberation theology (i.e., Marxism).&raqnew voters, and by running against Bill de Blasio, New York's «first truly radical mayor, a man who still reveres the Sandinistas, honeymooned in Havana, and self - describes as a believer in liberation theology (i.e., Marxism).&raqNew York's «first truly radical mayor, a man who still reveres the Sandinistas, honeymooned in Havana, and self - describes as a believer in liberation theology (i.e., Marxism).»

In his first term Cuomo used his State of the State Addresses to build what observers call his version of «a new Democrat,» or his version of being (Bill) Clintonian - rolling out fairly moderate - to - conservative fiscal proposals, including some that targeted Western and Upstate New York for growth, and liberal social policies like marriage equality and gun contrnew Democrat,» or his version of being (Bill) Clintonian - rolling out fairly moderate - to - conservative fiscal proposals, including some that targeted Western and Upstate New York for growth, and liberal social policies like marriage equality and gun contrNew York for growth, and liberal social policies like marriage equality and gun control.

The New Jersey Senate voted on Thursday to override Gov. Chris Christie's veto of a gun control bill, the first time state lawmakers had mustered enough votes in more than 50 attempts at undoing one of his vetoes.

Republicans in the New York state Senate have blocked an effort by Democrats to force a vote on four gun control bills.

An article on Friday about a vote by the New Jersey State Senate to override Gov. Chris Christie's veto of a gun control bill misstated the title of Thomas Kean Jr. in some editions.

The state Senate in New Jersey overrode a veto of a gun control bill issued by Republican Gov. Chris Christie.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- Republicans in the New York state Senate have blocked an effort by Democrats to force a vote on four gun control bills.

Tenney says she was the first state lawmaker to introduce a bill for full repeal of the New York Safe Act, the state's 2013 gun control law.

Malloy also took issue with Christie's decision not to meet with the families of some Newtown shooting victims about a New Jersey gun control bill.

Cuomo effectively banned hydrofracking in New York in 2014, rammed through a strict gun control bill within a month of the Sandy Hook massacre, and last year pushed for a system of paid family leave and a $ 15 - per - hour statewide minimum wage.

Given the fact that New York was the first state in the nation to pass a gun control bill (the controversial SAFE Act) in the wake of the Newtown massacre and is headed by a Democratic governor who is also mentioned as a possible 2016 candidate, I imagine Cruz will have plenty to talk about.

The first issue activists and mostly Republican legislators point to is the SAFE Act, the 2013 gun control bill that split voters and lawmakers from rural upstate areas from their brethren in New York City and its suburbs.

Comedian Amy Schumer and her cousin U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York say they need support from people around the country in order to pass a bill to tighten gun control laws.

BY DUNCAN OSBRNE What was billed as a vigil for the people murdered by a gunman in an Orlando nightclub quickly became a rally in support of gun control legislation as elected officials, the head of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence (NYAGV), and even a trauma surgeon called for tougher federal laws to control -LSB-...]

One thing Onondaga County District Attorney Bill Fitzpatrick would like to see in any gun control legislation, something that prosecutors in New York state have been pushing for a decade — a mandatory five year consecutive sentence for anyone who commits any type of crime with any type of handgun.

Two days after hundreds of thousands of people rallied across the world for more gun control, the New Jersey Assembly passed six bills to further toughen the state's strict gun laws.

Asked about including new rules for scientific research of guns in the bill, Emanuel suggested that was extraneous, comparing it to the distracting talk of «midnight basketball» programs the last time Congress tried to pass major gun control legislation in the early 1990s.

On January 14, 2013, Zeldin did not vote on the NY SAFE Act, a gun control bill that passed the New York State Senate, 43 votes to 18.

House Democrats, who've sought to draw attention to their push for gun control legislation in the wake of recent mass shootings, emphasized a new demand during the day as they announced their opposition to any bill that doesn't undo a longstanding provision that has been interpreted to block the Centers for Disease Control from conducting research on gun vicontrol legislation in the wake of recent mass shootings, emphasized a new demand during the day as they announced their opposition to any bill that doesn't undo a longstanding provision that has been interpreted to block the Centers for Disease Control from conducting research on gun viControl from conducting research on gun violence.

«We saw after Vegas people screaming and yelling to do everything to call for martial law to throwing the bill of rights into the shredder,» he said of a push for new gun control measures.

Florida lawmakers passed and sent a gun control bill to the governor this week, report the Sun Sentinel, Politico and the New York Times.

A bill prohibiting domestic abusers and people under restraining orders from owning firearms became America's first new gun control law since the Feb. 14 Florida high school massacre.