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On Friday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told Fox & Friends, "I don't think the NRA has had concerns with this president. He's been very committed to supporting the Second Amendment, but also looking for ways that we can promote school safety and reduce gun violence.
In gun-friendly Tennessee, President Donald Trump's ideas to ban bump stocks and bar people under 21 from buying semi-automatic guns have put the leading GOP candidates for governor in a tough spot. In response, they have mostly avoided taking firm stances.
A bitter partisan fight broke out on the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates Friday after a Republican lawmaker suggested "the abortion industry" may be a factor in the rise of mass shootings and accused Democrats of being the historical party of slavery. Del. Nick Freitas, R-Culpeper and currently running in a GOP primary for U.S. Senate as the most mainstream-friendly challenger to U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., stunned Democrats with an explosive speech pushing back against the minority party's calls for stronger gun-control laws in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
Senator Steve Henson, D - Stone Mountain, speaks Thursday, March 1, 2018, in Atlanta, in opposition to HB 918. He said that while he supported portions of the bill, he thought the state should look to funding programs such as education.
The Latest on Georgia lawmakers' decision to punish Delta Air Lines for cutting ties with the National Rifle Association : Georgia's governor has signed into law a sweeping tax bill that Republican lawmakers amended to punish Delta Air Lines for cutting ties with the National Rifle Association. GOP Gov. Nathan Deal tweeted Friday that he swiftly signed the measure so Georgia taxpayers could benefit as soon as they file 2017 tax returns.
The Georgia legislature removed a jet-fuel tax break from a larger tax package Thursday. Lawmakers were upset that Delta, which is headquartered in Atlanta, had dropped the National Rifle Association from a discount-fare program in an effort to appear neutral in gun policy.
A dog named "Sassi" sits next to a golden statue of a bathrobe-clad Harvey Weinstein, seated atop a couch on the sidewalk along Hollywood Blvd., in Los Angeles Thursday, March 1, 2018. The piece, titled "Casting Couch," is a collaborative effort between a Los Angeles street artist known as Plastic Jesus and Joshua "Ginger" Monroe, creator of the nude Donald Trump statue.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., introduces a three-point plan on guns that's supported by the Democratic Caucus, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 1, 2018. Schumer indicated he was surprised at remarks by President Donald Trump yesterday on gun safety in the wake of the student massacre in Parkland, Fla., last month.
President Donald Trump has met again with top National Rifle Association officials as he weighs ideas for preventing the next school shooting. Trump tweeted Thursday evening that he'd had a "Good meeting in the Oval Office tonight with the NRA!" The group's executive director, Chris Cox, is also tweeting about the meeting, saying Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and the NRA "want safe schools, mental health reform and to keep guns away from dangerous people."
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., right, speaks to President Donald Trump during a meeting with bipartisan members of Congress to discuss school and community safety in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Feb. 28. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., right, speaks to President Donald Trump during a meeting with bipartisan members of Congress to discuss school and community safety in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Feb. 28. WASHINGTON - Eight days ago, Marco Rubio endorsed raising the age requirement for buying a rifle from 18 to 21 and voiced openness to placing limits on the size of ammunition magazines.
A Delta Air Lines flight takes off from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta in January of last year. David Goldman/AP hide caption A Delta Air Lines flight takes off from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta in January of last year.
He said that while he supported portions of the bill, he thought the state should look to ... . Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and Gov. Deal's chief of staff Chris Riley confer in the senate before the senate went into recess and the Rules Committee stripped the Delta tax cut from legislation.
Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has resigned from the board for the Country Music Association Foundation after his election was swiftly criticized in the music community. On Wednesday, Huckabee was announced as a new member of the board of directors for the charitable arm of the association that runs the annual CMA Awards and the CMA Festival.
Gov. Casey Cagle and Gov. Deal's chief of staff Chris Riley confer in the senate before the senate went into recess and the Rules Committee stripped the Delta tax cut from legislation. Gov. Nathan D... .
Pro-gun Republicans in the Georgia legislature have won a political victory over Delta Air Lines, denying the company a hefty tax break after it cut ties with the National Rifle Association in the wake of a deadly shooting at a Florida high school. The state House and Senate passed, by large margins Thursday, a sweeping tax bill the GOP amended to strip out a sales tax exemption on jet fuel.
Action on gun legislation skidded to a halt Thursday in Congress -- not for a lack of bipartisan proposals, but because President Donald Trump's stunning shift on gun policy left some in his party confused, irritated and scrambling to figure out what to do next. Republicans squirmed over Trump's call for stricter gun laws after the assault on a Florida high school, while Democrats seized on the opening to reach beyond a modest measure gaining traction in Congress.
Putting fellow Republicans in the hot seat, President Donald Trump is calling for quick and substantial changes to the nation's gun laws even as he criticizes lawmakers for being too fearful of the National Rifle Association to act. Trump held a freewheeling, televised meeting with lawmakers at the White House that stretched for an hour Wednesday, and he rejected both his party's incremental approach and its strategy that has stalled action on gun legislation.
President Donald Trump , who often describes himself as the "biggest fan" of the Second Amendment and the National Rifle Association, threw them both under the bus Wednesday in a remarkable soliloquy that also shredded other parts of the Constitution. Continuing his harsh criticism of how Florida law enforcement responded to a mass shooting at a Florida high school two weeks ago, the Republican president told a bipartisan meeting of lawmakers that police should have taken the shooter's guns away "whether they had the right or not."
Navy combat veteran and former astronaut Mark Kelly, a vocal gun control advocate, believes President Donald Trump's views on gun control have shifted since the election - in the direction that meshes slightly more with Kelly's perspective. Kelly, husband of former Democratic Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who survived a gunshot wound to the head in 2011, said the reason the nation faces an issue of gun violence more than any other industrialized country is because of corporate money injected into politics.
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