Empire State officially has new book laws aimed at restricting access to weapons used in recent massacres in Buffalo and Texas.
“Today I am speaking to you as the governor of a state in mourning and a citizen of a nation in crisis.” This is just happening. Shots are fired. Flags are falling and nothing ever changes – except here in New York. “Gov. Katie Hochul said Monday just before signing 10 bills passed by state lawmakers last week after the mass shootings.
People under the age of 21 can no longer buy semi-automatic rifles such as the AR-15-style weapon allegedly used by a Caucasian teenager to kill 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket weeks ago.
New Yorkers are also facing tougher barriers to buying bulletproof vests and bulletproof vests, such as those that reportedly protected the Buffalo shooter during a rampage by a bullet fired by a heroic bodyguard.
Another new law aims to combat hatred online by requiring social media companies to have policies in place to respond to potential threats.
Gov. Katie Hochul signed a new law aimed at restricting access to weapons used in the recent massacres in Buffalo and Texas. Matthew McDermott
The gunman made a violent threat at his former high school, but was still allowed to buy a semi-automatic weapon after turning 18, despite the state’s red flag law, which was amended by newly signed legislation.
The threat of mass damage is already a crime punishable by up to a year in prison under another bill signed by Hochul on Monday.
Other new rules in the books are aimed at preventing gun-related crimes more violent than gangs, which have been happening faster in recent years in the five districts.
Micro-stamping technology, activated by a new law, could make it easier for law enforcement agencies to track future crimes by identifying signs that would match a firearm with an exhausted cartridge left at the crime scene.
New Yorkers hold a poster against gun violence as they march across the Brooklyn Bridge to support survivors of the shooting. Ryan Rahman / Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty Images
State and local agencies will have to increase reporting on gun seizures to help fight the so-called Iron Pipeline, which supplies firearms to New York from states with weaker gun laws such as Georgia.
Other measures have closed past doors to the possession of high-capacity munitions and weapons stores, which evade existing restrictions by using hand clips rather than standard rifle butts.
Democrats have called on the federal government to take further action to control weapons, such as renewing the ban on assault weapons, which expired nearly two decades ago.
Law enforcement officers at the Tops Friendly Market mass shooting site on Jefferson Avenue and Riley Street on Sunday, May 15, 2022, in Buffalo, New York. Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
However, Republicans in Congress opposed the idea of imposing new restrictions on the sale and possession of firearms, an opinion expressed by their counterparts in Albany ahead of the November election.
New York Democrats cited the resistance as they used gun control pressure to denigrate the Republican Party at Monday’s signing of the bill in the Bronx.
“We are going through disbelief and grief and yes, anger, only to be disappointed again and again by the government – no, not the government, the members of a reckless, invertebrate, reckless party known as the GOP,” said Leticia Attorney General James Monday. at the Bronx event.
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