Sentences with phrase «over federal gun control»
In fact, they have long had a rocky relationship that dates back to Cuomo's HUD days when he and Spitzer — then in the AG's office — locked horns over federal gun control lawsuits.
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The National Rifle Association has filed a federal lawsuit over gun control legislation Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed, saying it violates the Second Amendment by raising the age to buy guns from 18 to 21.
If the use of guns near schools may impair the performance of students, and the federal government bears responsibility for the success of children in the schools, why couldn't the federal government simply take over control of the local schools?
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman pointed to the trove of assault weapons confiscated this week in suburban Rochester and offered his own advice to a federal government embroiled in controversy over gun - control laws.
Tenney said she supports taking a look at the federal background check system and argued that the shooting should not change the dynamics of the debate over gun control in her district which encompasses cities like Utica, Rome and Binghamton.
WASHINGTON — In the current firestorm over gun control sparked by the mass schoolroom shooting in Parkland, Fla., the pro-gun lobby peddles the notion that restoring the federal ban on sale of all assault weapons is a non-starter.
«Some of the changes needed would benefit cities all over the country... I would borrow from Mayor Bloomberg's efforts on gun control... but I have a more economic frame... I'm concerned about getting the federal government back into the mass transit and affordable housing business where it was for a half - century and should be and can be again.»
05-14-13... Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder, who presides over senate, is urging the governor and legislative leaders to try to grow the gun manufacturing sector, in part thru filed bills which declare federal gun control laws unenforceable in Missouri and which give businesses tax incentives to gun manufacturers to relocate to Missouri Ozarks First