Sentences with phrase «vote on bump stocks»

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In the wake of the Florida school massacre, the Democrats will tack on bills that have been stonewalled in committees — including banning bump stocks plus beefing up background checks and a law that allows courts to take away a disturbed person's guns — to unrelated legislation already up for votes.

At the same time, Cuomo did not initially knock Republicans in the state Senate for voting down a series of hostile amendments on Wednesday that would have banned bump stocks and strengthened background checks.

A growing number of Republicans in Congress have expressed support for banning bump stocks, but not all are eager to cast votes on legislation that could hurt their standing with gun rights groups.

Republican leaders in the state Senate did not respond to requests for comment on Hoylman's bill, but on Wednesday they defeated an effort by Senate Democrats to force a vote on several gun control measures including a bump stock ban.

Another section of the resolution links New York's strict gun laws to the state's low rates of gun crime, while criticizing some state senators who have voted against «common sense» gun laws like a ban on bump stocks, improved background checks and state funding for research on gun violence.

Democratic lawmakers in the state Senate this past week tried pushing a vote on a package of gun control - related measures, like banning bump stocks and allowing a judge to order guns be taken away from a person if they're deemed a harm to themselves or others.