Sentences with phrase «tighten gun restrictions»

ALBANY — The state tightened gun restrictions for domestic violence abusers by passing legislation Friday that increases the list of crimes that would prevent someone from purchasing or owning a gun.

But the campaign has previously pointed to Cuomo's achievements including legalizing gay marriage, tightening gun restrictions, raising the minimum wage, expanding public education funding and banning fracking.

For his part, Cuomo has pointed to achievements including legalizing gay marriage, tightening gun restrictions, raising the minimum wage, banning fracking and increasing investments in education — all while working to lower taxes and jumpstart the upstate economy.

A Cuomo campaign spokesman said the 60 - year - old governor «has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country,» including legalizing gay marriage, tightening gun restrictions, raising the minimum wage, expanding public education funding and banning fracking.

Not exact matches

Florida's embrace of gun restrictions came as Congress remains mired in partisan divisions on the issue and as other states, from Illinois to Vermont, consider whether they ought to tighten the rules on gun ownership in the wake of the Parkland attack.

It's gotten so bad that the common local response to the worst shooting rampage in Roseburg, Oregon's history (America's latest mass shooting du jour) is to get more guns and not to tighten restrictions on gun sales, to the point that some residents didn't even want President Obama to come to their state.

The state Legislature passed and Cuomo approved this March its first piece of gun control legislation since the SAFE Act was approved, a measure that tightens restrictions on gun ownership for those convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence.

The Florida House of Representatives tightened restrictions on purchasing firearms; its first concession to gun control in 30 years.

In response to the Sandy Hook school massacre, numerous new gun control laws were passed, a few of which actually tightened restrictions.

And Florida's Legislature passed a bill to tighten that state's gun restrictions.