Sentences with phrase «proposed gun control»

Her firm is hired by gun manufacturers to fight proposed gun control legislation.

Democrats in the Senate for a second time proposed gun control bills, including banning teachers form carrying firearms at school, but the amendments were voted down, mostly along party lines.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks and President Trump backing proposed gun control policies.

In almost every case where guns are used to kill other people, either the people who do the shooting were using illegally - obtained guns anyway, and so better gun control wouldn't have stopped them from getting the guns in the first place, OR the people shooting the guns would have qualified to own guns by any proposed gun control standard.

Via Ben Boychuk, I have this article out of Washington State about proposed gun control legislation there.

But they are also not proposing any gun control measures.

Not exact matches

President Trump appeared to take a tiny step toward the narrowest possible gun control measures on Tuesday, saying that he signed a memo directing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to propose a rule banning some devices, such as bump stocks, which he said can turn otherwise legal guns into machine guns.

«To that end, the Department of Justice has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a notice of a proposed regulation to clarify that the National Firearms and Gun Control Act defines «machine gun'to include bump stock type devices.»

Once it became clear that a majority of the Florida Legislature was not inclined to ban all assault weapons, Senator Oscar Braynon, a Democrat, proposed an amendment to the gun control bill that would have halted AR - 15 sales for two years.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R - FL), at whom many of Parkland survivors» demands to do something were directed, has taken the lead in proposing bipartisan gun control legislation.

The Gun Control Act of 1968 was initially proposed after John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 but wasn't enacted until five years later, just months after Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were gunned down.

In Republican - controlled legislatures, the number of laws proposed to loosen gun control increased by 75 percent, where in Democrat - controlled legislatures, the number of laws proposed to restrict gun access increased 10 percent, according to the Harvard Business School study.

In other words, even if we passed any of the current gun control regulations that are currently being proposed, none of these regulations would have kept guns out of the crazy maniacs who shouldn't have them in the first place, nor would they have kept the sane (and seemingly safe) maniacs from doing what they did with the guns they had legally obtained.

Indeed, it's sometimes used when the states want to grant more rights than a proposed federal law (e.g. gun control legislation,) but also for federal regulations on everything from schools to roads to environment regulations to commerce regulations, etc..

Meanwhile, Republicans have increasingly chaffed at budgets that proposed tax hikes or minimum wage increases, issues that are anathema to their base already restive over the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun control package that Cuomo counts as a signature accomplishment.

Also in the poll: An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers support the SAFE Act along with proposed new gun control measures in the state, though they oppose the idea of arming school teachers.

Gov. Rick Scott and top state lawmakers proposed the most significant move toward gun control in Florida in decades, in defiance of the NRA, though some of their ideas fell short of what student advocates pleaded for after one of the deadliest school shootings in American history.

New York Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and Senate Democrats announce they will propose hostile amendments on gun control measures on the Senate floor Wednesday, February 28.

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.

Supporters of gun rights have argued the remedies proposed by gun control advocates won't prevent another shooting, leaving them to push for school safety measures.

Cuomo also has proposed additions to the state's gun control laws, including extending laws that confiscate the firearms of people who commit domestic violence to include misdemeanor offenses.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a bevy of policy ideas ranging from an increase to the state's minimum wage, equal pay for women and the toughest gun control laws in the nation in his third State of the State address.

Lawmakers and administration officials have cited the complexity of the criminal justice matters being proposed, saying more time is needed to parse through language (lawmakers and Cuomo may be wary of again taking up a complex issue so quickly following the 2013 gun control law known as the SAFE Act had to be amended to exclude police officers from the measure).

Home secretary Jacqui Smith is among those invited to a summit on gun control proposed by Scottish justice minister Kenny MacAskill today.

He's proposed banning assault weapons and requiring trigger locks, and has openly supported gun control legislation through his entire political career.

Key issues in Westchester include taxes, gun control, water safety, women's rights and the proposed privatization of Westchester County airport.

Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday proposed reinstating the death penalty in Illinois for mass killers and people who slay law enforcement officers, injecting the idea into his re-election campaign by rewriting a gun control bill and sending it back to...

Backed by at least $ 500,000 from former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the political clout of ex-Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords, gun control advocates last week turned in what they contend are enough signatures to add a voter referendum on Washington state's proposed Extreme Risk Protection Order to the ballot this November.

On Wednesday, Senate Democrats and IDC lawmakers sought to raise the gun control issue on the floor of the chamber, proposing a series of hostile amendments to other bills that were voted down on procedural grounds that Republicans voted down.

Following several tragedies in recent months, Cuomo put forward a list of proposed laws to tighten gun control.

Cuomo seemed to have shifted left in 2013, when he included a high - volume plea for gun control after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut and proposed a 10 - point Women's Equality Agenda that stirred two years of controversy — and electoral sniping last year — because of proposed changes to the abortion statute.

A large crowd was at City Hall Monday night for the last public hearing on three gun - control provisions proposed by the Burlington City Council.

When her big firm boss (Sam Waterston) tries to strong arm her into working with the NRA to quash the proposed gun - control legislation... encouraging her to «get women excited about guns»... she quickly takes her competitive nature (and most of her staff) to the opposition, resulting in escalated political warfare.

Although Republican senators threatened a filibuster to keep the Senate from discussing the school building security measure — part of proposed legislation that deals largely with the higher - profile issue of gun control — compromises reached behind the scenes nudged the legislation onto the chamber's floor by the end of the week.

Similar patterns occur with gun sales, which frequently rise when gun control measures are proposed.

When the proposed solution called for looser versus tighter gun - control laws, those with more liberal gun - control ideologies were more likely to downplay the frequency of violent home break - ins.

Alberta's new pill - machine - control law, enthusiastically supported by conservatives of all stripes, goes farther than oft - reviled Canadian «gun grabbers» ever proposed.

To help in the understanding of the current gun control debate following Prime Minister Paul Martin's proposed ban of handguns in Canada, Michel - Adrien Sheppard has put together an extensive list of gun control resources, both Canadian and international, at his blog Library Boy... [more]

Emma Gonzalez, whose speech in favor of gun control went viral four days after 17 people were killed by a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, spoke out against her state's Republican senator, Marco Rubio, who has doubted that proposed gun laws would have prevented the massacre.

In the two weeks since the shooting that claimed the lives of 17 students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., a wave of gun - control measures were proposed and taken under consideration in various state legislatures.

-- Trump issues gun - control order: President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered the Justice Department to propose a ban on bump stocks and other devices that can turn a semiautomatic firearm into an automatic one.

A rally outside the state Capitol featuring more than a thousand gun - control activists became a raucous Senate committee hearing Monday as gun - control activists filled the room, hooting and hollering as speaker after speaker demanded a ban on assault weapons, and hissing and booing as NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer warned that a proposed ban «stops short of banning every gun known to man.»

Several angrily cited the long record of gun control bills that have died in Congress, including measures that were proposed after 26 students and teachers were massacred in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012.