New York lawmakers give final OK to expanded gun controls
State lawmakers Tuesday banned teachers from carrying weapons on school grounds and opened a new route for school officials and family members to take legal action to force people deemed an “extreme risk” to surrender any firearms they possess.
Democrats who now control both houses of the Legislature said the five-bill gun control package is needed as a response to mass shootings and other gun violence, while Republicans lashed out at the measures as political acts designed to undermine Second Amendment Rights.
“Every day, it seems, we wake up to the headlines of another mass shooting, another horrific gun crime. … The madness has to stop,” said Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Westchester County Democrat.
But gun rights advocates said New York is heading down a legally dangerous path. “It’s just a massive assault on the Second Amendment,” said Tom King, executive director of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association and a board member of the National Rifle Association. He called the different bills a combination of either “very egregious” moves against gun rights or “just plain stupid.”
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