New Yorks Laws

[Koinonia]

http://news.yahoo.com/ny-seals-1st-state-gun-laws-since-newtown-074653716.html
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[Lobo_79]

This is one of those "Lets wait and see what really happens" situations. I'll bet the gun-related crime rate will not go down; with the possible exception of an increase in misdemeanors for still owning higher capacity magazines. Only the law biding citizens will be impacted as well as the businesses that have to enforce the new laws and record keeping regulations. There'll be more petty bureaucrats employed to oversee the new rules and the tax payers will have to foot the bill for that of coarse.

 

[bushd]

What they'll cite in the future is that gun-related violence involving assault weapons went down instead of comparing violent crimes in general in order to justify the legislation. That seems to be the status quo for all anti-gun logic currently, especially with the whole UK debate.

 

[tenfeathers]

Law Passed and signed by the Governor

Further restrict assault weapons to define them by a single feature, such as a pistol grip. Current law requires two features.
Make the unsafe storage of assault weapons a misdemeanor.
Mandate a police registry of assault weapons.
Establish a state registry for all private sales, with a background check done through a licensed dealer for a fee, excluding sales to immediate relatives.
Require a therapist who believes a mental health patient made a credible threat to use a gun illegally to report the
threat to a mental health director who would then have to report serious threats to the state Department of Criminal Justice Services. A patient’s gun could be taken from him or her.
Ban the Internet sale of assault weapons.
Require stores that sell ammunition to register with the state, run background checks on buyers of bullets and keep an electronic database of bullet sales.
Restrict ammunition magazines to seven bullets, from the current national standard of 10. Current owners of higher-capacity magazines would have a year to sell them out of state. Someone caught with eight or more bullets in a magazine could face a misdemeanor charge.
Require that stolen guns be reported within 24 hours. Otherwise, the owner would face a possible misdemeanor.
Increase sentences for gun crimes including for taking a gun on school property.
Increase penalties for shooting first responders, called the “Webster provision.” Two firefighters were killed when shot by a person who set a fire in the western New York town of Webster last month. The crime would be punishable by life in prison without parole.
Limit the state records law to protect handgun owners from being identified publicly. The provision would allow a handgun permit holder a means to maintain privacy under the Freedom of Information law.
Require pistol permit holders or those who will be registered as owners of assault rifles to be recertified at least every five years to make sure they are still legally able to own the guns.
Cuomo said he wanted quick action to avoid a run on assault weapons and ammunition as he tries to address what he estimates is about 1 million assault weapons in New York state. Meanwhile, CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer reported State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli froze pension fund investments in commercial fire arms manufacturers. They are valued at more than $2 million.

 

[ranguyen]

This won't solve any gun violence...the NY politicians have taken advantage of the Newtown tragedy to pass such ridiculous laws....

 

[shortround]

New York is not governed by the people. It is a mafia State, always has been and always will be until the good people of Upstate NY move to better climes.

 

[recoveringyankee]

Yep, was like that when I was growing up in western new york state, the damn city could strongarm the rest of the state on almost anyhting.

 

[TwinGlocks]

7 rounds? The governor must own a 1911.

 

[Cjennin2]

7 rounds? The governor must own a 1911.

I use 10rd mags in my fav 1911

Sadly these laws will solve little to nothing and the only people being punished are the law abiding citizens that are historically not the issue...

 

[Flewda]

7 rounds? The governor must own a 1911.

Governor probably owns a select fire M4. Remember, the political types are far more important than the peasants, and are exempt from the rules.