Sentences with phrase «terror watch list from»
A measure that she is cosponsoring would give the attorney general the authority to block suspects on the terror watch list from buying guns.
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New York Democratic Congresswoman Nita Lowey is calling on the House to pass legislation prohibiting suspects on the terror watch list from purchasing firearms.
Top New York officials are asking the federal government to help the state to block people on the terror watch list from legal gun purchases.
Democratic challengers in some of this year's most competitive races are appealing to Americans» fears about terrorism to broach gun control, specifically by calling out Republican incumbents for not backing New York Republican Rep. Peter T. King's bill, first introduced nine years ago, to prevent people on the terror watch list from purchasing firearms.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy announced he intends to issue an executive order prohibiting anyone on the federal government's terror watch lists from buying a firearm in the state — assuming state officials are allowed access to those lists.
Murphy says Congress should also pass legislation to prevent people on the terror watch lists from purchasing guns.
The senator also pledged to continue his legislative push to enable the Department of Justice to prevent those on the terror watch lists from purchasing firearms or explosives.
Gov. Dannel Malloy announced Thursday he intends to prohibit anyone on the terror watch lists from buying a gun.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said on Wednesday that he intends to block anyone on the government's terror watch lists from buying a firearm.
Not exact matches
GAO said from February 2004, when the background check system began checking the terror watch list, through 2015, 2,477 names of would - be gun and explosives buyers were on the watch list.
The latest (but not recent) episode I remember is this vote from June 2016, when the US senate rejected restrictions on sale of weapons to people on the terror watch list.
In fact, in 2013 and 2014, the number of successful gun buyers from the terror watch list rose to 94 percent — with 455 suspects purchasing firearms and just 30 being denied.
De Blasio penned a letter to congressional GOP leaders, asking House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to back a bill that would prohibit people on terror watch lists, which bar them from boarding airplanes, from buying firearms.
The Democrats said at a lower Manhattan news conference with the Statue of Liberty in the backdrop that their preference is that the federal government add terror watch lists to the criteria used in background checks, but congressional efforts to mandate the cross-check have met pushback from gun advocates.
If Orlando shooter was on a terror watch list, this Senate vote from Dec is going to get a lot of attention: https://t.co/yVE7l6jpHU