Sentences with phrase «restrictive gun laws»

Survivors of the Parkland shooting quickly became the faces of a national conversation on gun control, and are lobbying lawmakers for more restrictive gun laws — including a ban on assault - style rifles and higher - capacity magazines.

At Saturday's March for Our Lives, survivors of last month's Parkland, Fla., school shooting joined hundreds of thousands of people to protest against gun violence and call for more restrictive gun laws.

Hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, and parents packed streets near the White House and the U.S. Capitol and marched in cities around the globe on Saturday to demand more - restrictive gun laws and decry gun violence, the latest in a series of massive demonstrations sparked by the Parkland, Fla., school shooting that killed 17 people last month.

He had argued that the association between more laws and fewer deaths disappeared when the authors accounted for firearm ownership in a state — meaning that it is impossible to say whether the restrictive gun laws save lives by inhibiting gun ownership or whether laws are simply easier to enact in states in which ownership rates are already low.

Mr. Trump also foreshadowed themes that have surfaced on the campaign trail, giving a blunt assessment of what he felt was ailing New York State and the country: jobs going overseas, crushing taxes, restrictive gun laws.

One year after state lawmakers, urged on by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, passed one of the nation's most restrictive gun laws,

This is the first big step by Bloomberg — who has committed to spending $ 50 million of his personal fortune this year to build a national grass - roots movement that will pressure lawmakers to pass more restrictive gun laws — to devise a political strategy heading into the November elections.

After the speech, she said the state's restrictive gun laws make it too hard for people to get permits to carry concealed weapons, though she doesn't support lowering the minimum age to obtain a concealed carry permit.

One year after state lawmakers, urged on by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, passed one of the nation's most restrictive gun laws, impacts from the NY SAFE Act continue to reverberate through the state's courts, legislature, law enforcement and shooting sports community.

Last year, two Democratic Colorado state senators were recalled over their support for more restrictive gun laws.

It is time for our elected officials to have an honest and open discussion on the SAFE Act and why states with less restrictive gun laws do not have these problems.»

New York already has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation, known as the SAFE Act, and passed after the Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings five years ago.

Note that the average citizen is not voting for candidates who favor more restrictive gun laws.

Adding to already restrictive gun laws only serves to restrict the law abiding citizen from whom we do not have any problem.

Unlike many of his classmates, Kashuv doesn't support more restrictive gun laws.

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The ban is just one of many restrictive laws on gun ownership in the U.K., but it's an important one.

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.

Despite New York City's restrictive gun ownership laws, the NYPD recorded 518 shootings with 621 victims through July 24.

It's not just interested in energy: In recent years ALEC has supported Arizona's restrictive immigration legislation, the «Stand Your Ground» gun laws associated with the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, and voter identification laws proposed in many states.

Trump is also on record suggesting that the Paris attacks would have been prevented if the gun laws in France had not been so restrictive.