Sentences with phrase «vote on an assault weapons»

Cruz» interest has grown in recent weeks in part due to the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and Young's later vote on an assault weapons ban in the back half of the 2018 Legislative Session.

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Lawmakers like Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith, a Democrat from Orlando, voted against the bill because it did not include a ban on assault weapons or other broad measures sought by survivors of all the shootings.

One recent poll found 64 percent of voters supporting an assault weapons ban and 74 percent in favor of the opportunity to vote on it.

Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long warned today that Senate Republicans risk eroding their base in New York after allowing a vote on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's gun control legislation that updates the state's assault weapons ban.

The Florida Democratic Party chair said state House Republicans turned their backs on the survivors of the Parkland shooting this week when the chamber voted not to hear a bill banning semi-automatic assault weapons.

The announcement, particularly the bit on the NRA, confirms one line of attack on Young will be her vote against an assault weapons ban — added after roll call — in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Tampa Republican Sen. Dana Young got slammed by her Democratic re-election opponent in a Saturday email for not voting on an amendment that would ban assault weapons and high - capacity magazines.

One day she gave a reporter an angry quote about her incumbent congressman's vote on the assault - weapons ban, and the next thing she knew she was running for Congress.

Artist Statement «The 1994 ban on assault weapons was passed 216 - 214 with the last two votes swayed by former President Ronald Reagan.

Even as it voted against taking up a proposed ban on assault weapons, the Florida House voted to declare pornography a public health risk, the Associated Press's Joe Reedy reports.

The teens politely stood up and told their stories to the politicians, some of whom a day earlier had voted against a ban on assault weapons.

They stopped in at the office of state Rep. Robert «Bobby O» Olszewski, an Orlando - area Republican who had voted against a debate on an assault - weapons ban the day earlier, helping to kill the bill.