U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, along with state Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins on Friday participated in a roundtable discussion to address how to crack down
on gun trafficking.
Last month, Cuomo announced the formation of a coalition of states to crack down
on gun trafficking.
And when asked about the Las Vegas shooting at an appearance in Albany on Monday, Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand said Congress should consider banning assault weapons, expanding background checks and cracking down
on gun trafficking.
Not exact matches
Following the news that Trump called for a ban
on them,
gun enthusiasts rushed to put in orders and Slide Fire's site crashed due to the high
traffic.
What is the law toward someone's rights
on guns, cigars,
traffic operation?
Americans for Responsible Solutions advocates for barring people with domestic abuse convictions from buying firearms, for hardening penalties for illegal
gun trafficking, federally funding
gun violence research and for expanding and improving the national background check system, in order to cover weapons bought
on the internet or at
gun shows.
Also addressing the conference, head of the Metropolitan police Sir Ian Blair said the availability of illegal firearms could be blamed in part
on Lithuanian gangs
trafficking guns into Britain.
«The contract is not being properly enforced and it's led to illegal concerts and illegal parking
on parkland,
traffic problems and parkland being used for disgusting video shoots that promotes
gun violence and misogyny.»
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, who was involved in putting together the components of the bill that would address
gun trafficking and straw purchasing, said
on the NBC News program «Meet the Press» that the overall legislation represented a satisfactory compromise between pro-
gun-rights and pro-
gun-control lawmakers.
The girlfriend of Philando Castile, 32, who was shot to death Wednesday night during a
traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, had broadcast the aftermath live
on Facebook while the officer still had his
gun trained
on Castile.
Gillibrand says criminal groups and gangs have large - scale
gun trafficking operations based
on bringing in firearms from states with lenient
gun laws.
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D - N.Y., was
on Long Island
on Monday to reintroduce
gun control legislation to curb
gun trafficking.
Cuomo also wanted to establish a partnership among other governors in other states that would share information
on illegal
gun trafficking and develop a «working group» of law enforcement officials to establish best practices and share resources with federal authorities.
Senator Gillibrand announced a bill
on Sunday that will make
gun trafficking a federal crime and provide tools to law enforcement to get illegal firearms off the street.
With mass shootings dominating the news at regular intervals, Sens. Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have pursued legislation to expand background checks, prevent those
on the terrorism watch list from buying
guns, and impose stiff penalties for
gun straw purchasing and
trafficking.
Listen to a portion of Friday's roundtable discussion
on gun violence and
gun trafficking at True Bethel Church in Buffalo.
She is author of the upcoming book, Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs and
Guns on the Mafia Coast, about sex
trafficking and organized crime in Italy.
In
traffic, we are largely anonymous, secure in our own enclosures, and there is little actual human contact or immediate consequence for our actions - at least until that guy with the
gun rack
on the pickup truck you gave the finger to pulls up alongside you at the
traffic light!
On November 14, 2014, Nour Marakah was convicted of multiple firearm offences arising out of a
gun trafficking relationship with Andrew Winchester.
The U.S. government was spending $ 240 million a year
on traffic safety research but almost nothing
on firearms safety research, the authors wrote: «Most politicians fear talking about
guns almost as much as they would being confronted by one, but these fears are senseless.