Sentences with phrase «of gun proposals»

United States Microsoft clashes with Justice Department at U.S. Supreme Court, Reuters Trump stops short of full endorsement of gun proposals, Washington Post

United States Microsoft clashes with Justice Department at U.S. Supreme Court, Reuters Trump stops short of full endorsement of gun proposals, Washington Post

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In the wake of the murder of 49 people and the wounding of 53 in Orlando last weekend, Senate Democrats have won the chance to vote Monday on two narrow gun control proposals they sponsored: expanding background checks and barring terror suspects from buying guns.

This week, polls suggest the opposite: people do not think that the executive actions will reduce the number of people killed by gun, but they solidly support the proposals.

The proposal, which does not have the support of gun rights groups, has repeatedly failed on the Senate floor.

The gun violence restraining order proposal would give judges in North Carolina a tool similar to domestic violence restraining orders to temporarily but rapidly remove weapons from the hands of people exhibiting threatening or dangerous behavior.

He told me he's done the research on different gun control proposals, and opposes nearly all of them, telling me that ideas lifted up by his Parkland classmates (like lowering magazine capacity or reinstating the federal assault weapons ban) are «likely unconstitutional and likely statistically devoid of benefit.»

WASHINGTON — Action on gun legislation skidded to a halt Thursday in Congress — not for a lack of bipartisan proposals, but because President Donald Trump's stunning shift on gun policy left some in his party confused, irritated and scrambling to figure out what to do next.

President Trump backed a Senate proposal to expand background checks on gun sales, as part of a call for a sweeping overhaul of U.S. gun policy in the wake of the Florida school shooting.

This proposal has perhaps the most bipartisan support of all gun - control measures floated recently, including from the president himself.

The US's gun problem is so dire that it arguably needs solutions that go way further than what we typically see in mainstream proposals — at least, if the US ever hopes to get down to European levels of gun violence.

Republicans and Democrats Agree Arming Teachers don't make schools safer TALLAHASSEE — Less than two weeks after the Parkland shooting, Florida Republicans are playing politics with public safety and embracing one of Donald Trump's most widely derided proposals to reduce gun violence.

Editor's Note: In light of the Senate's decision to strike down a bipartisan proposal to extend background checks on gun purchases — a proposal that had the support of 54 senators, 80 % of the American public and President Obama — we've decided to rerun an article published in January on the complex issue of guns, the regulation of them and how Christians should wrestle with this issue.

We will see it again when responsible gun owners choose not to report their ownership of their assault weapons (in Feinstein's proposal).

Editor's Note: In light of the Senate's decision to strike down a bipartisan proposal to extend background checks on gun purchases — a proposal that had the support of 54 senators, 80 %...

Kansas schools that refuse to allow teachers to carry guns could be held legally responsible in the event of a tragedy under a proposal drafted after last month's mass shooting at a Florida high school.

In the first Illinois test of public opinion on the handgun issue, Arlington Heights residents said «no «Tuesday to an advisory referendum proposal that guns be banned from the northwestern suburb.

Trump asked Sen. Pat Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican who's worked on a bill to strengthen background checks for gun purchases, whether he left out a proposal to raise the gun purchasing age to 21 out of his measure because senators are «afraid of the NRA.»

President Donald Trump backed a U.S. Senate proposal to expand background checks on gun sales, as part of a call for a sweeping overhaul of U.S. gun policy in the wake of the Florida school shooting.

The measures include proposals that would ban so - called undetectable firearms that can not be seen by an x-ray or metal detector, strengthen background checks and allow the victims of gun violence to sue manufacturers.

President Donald Trump's proposal to raise the minimum age for buying a long gun to 21 would fail in the Senate, the body's No. 2 Republican, Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, has warned, arguing that such a measure would not save lives.

First Daughter Ivanka Trump says she doesn't know if her father's proposal of arming teachers with firearms would protect students from gun violence.

House Speaker Paul Ryan signaled he isn't supportive of the proposals to impose new restrictions on gun purchases, telling reporters «we shouldn't be banning guns for law abiding citizens.»

The proposal to raise the minimum age for buying guns from 18 to 21 was not part of a modest set of Trump administration school safety plans announced on Sunday and which were closely aligned with National Rifle Association (NRA) positions.

Conservative columnist Brandon Ross commends Katko's proposal of the Securing Our Children Act of 2018 to address gun violence.

The four proposals — which also includes the creation of a «research institute» to study gun violence — are hardly «radical,» Stewart - Cousins said.

Most of the proposals being put forth by Trump and the NRA, such as arming school teachers, are meant only to deflect attention from the real problem: we allow dangerous people to own guns.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to take firearms away from those convicted of domestic violence was backed Thursday by Giffords, the gun control group founded by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly.

Cuomo has already rolled out a series of proposals over the last several weeks for the new year, beginning with a new gun control measure designed to take guns away from domestic abusers to combating student loan and spending $ 34 million to overhaul Stewart Airport in the Hudson Valley to name three of the more than a dozen or so proposals unspooled.

The new gun control proposals announced Tuesday include requiring gun owners to use gun safes or trigger locks when storing a gun, a 10 - day waiting period before a buyer can take possession of a gun, and a rule that would prohibit anyone from buying more than one handgun a month.

The proposals include one that would automatically take guns away from abusers convicted of domestic violence, including those convicted of certain misdemeanors.

You can not undo what has been done, but you can accomplish something very powerful and positive by creating a capital campaign that would help to fund some of the proposals put forward by the Lower Hudson Council of School Superintendents to address gun violence and school safety, as reported in your 12/31/12 edition.

Cornell has called upon Janet Hasson, president and publisher and CynDee Royle, editor and vice-president of News to initiate a capital campaign, sponsored by the paper, that would help to fund some of the proposals put forward by the Lower Hudson Council of School Superintendents to address gun violence and school safety, including needed mental health and social services and school resource officers.

Mr. Trump has cycled through a number of proposals — including some gun limits deemed unacceptable by the N.R.A. — in the days since the rampage killed 14 students and three adults last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla..

ALBANY — The Republican - led state Senate on Monday approved bills intended to improve school safety in the wake of the latest school shooting massacre, but only after voting down a number of Democratic gun - control proposals and trading insults.

The proposal would extend the waiting period for the purchase of guns to «up to 10 days.»

Trump, asked during his news conference for specific proposals he would push on guns after the Florida shooting, listed improving background checks, getting rid of bump stocks and thwarting the mentally ill from buying weapons.

«The proposals the governor has made are very positive proposals, but they will probably only work in the context of some federal legislation on the regulation of guns, and particularly the transport of guns across state borders and national borders.»

In the last week or so, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have clashed over what they'd like to see in the gun safety proposals.

Governor Cuomo's getting a head start on his State of the State proposals, and says he'll propose a bill to close a loophole that allows some convicted of domestic violence to possess guns.

The Assembly's measure regarding domestic violence convictions and guns is similar to a proposal Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled as part of his 2018 agenda.

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 control.

The five Republican candidates for governor met Thursday for one of the last televised debates before the primary, clashing over tax policy, immigration proposals and gun rights.

At the time, the president, a member of the National Rifle Association who has strong political support from gun owners, said he would look at stricter background checks and raising the minimum age for buying an assault weapon, proposals that the group opposes.

Under Cuomo's proposal, all guns would immediately be removed from anyone convicted of domestic violence crimes, including misdemeanors.

The gun control group founded by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has endorsed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal for those convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence to lose their guns.

Additionally, many of the proposals in this legislation do nothing to reduce gun violence, but inhibit the abilities of law abiding citizens to protect their families and participate in recreational sportsmen activities.

Cuomo's proposal comes a week after the House of Representatives passed a bill that would allow owners of concealed - carry permits to transport their guns into any other state, even if those states have more restrictive permitting laws.

Mr. Cuomo had been a longtime supporter of gun control, and after the mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., last summer, he instructed his aides to begin developing new gun control proposals.

While Republican senators have been loath to tackle gun control issues since allowing Cuomo's SAFE Act to the floor in 2013, both senators confirmed that there still is discussion about the governor's proposals to take guns from people accused of domestic violence.