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(94,974 posts) Tue Jan 29, 2019, 03:04 PM Jan 2019

New York set to pass sweeping gun control bills, prohibit teachers from carrying

Source: WABC-TV

LBANY, New York -- The Democrat-controlled New York Legislature is set to pass several bills Tuesday aimed at making the state's already tough gun laws even stricter.

At least eight measures are expected to pass the Assembly and Senate, including legislation to prohibit schools from allowing teachers and other school employees to carry guns in schools.

Lawmakers passed Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act in early 2013, when Republicans controlled the Senate. The tougher gun laws known as the SAFE ACT passed just weeks after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

With Democrats now in control of the Senate as well as the Assembly, another round of gun control legislation is expected to easily pass in Albany.

Read more: https://abc7ny.com/politics/ny-set-to-pass-gun-control-bills-ban-teachers-from-carrying/5111377/

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New York set to pass sweeping gun control bills, prohibit teachers from carrying (Original Post) brooklynite Jan 2019 OP

What a good start! marble falls Jan 2019 #1

Let's look at a couple of these melm00se Jan 2019 #2

marble falls

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1. What a good start!

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Tue Jan 29, 2019, 03:15 PM

Jan 2019

melm00se

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2. Let's look at a couple of these

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Tue Jan 29, 2019, 04:18 PM

Jan 2019

The Democrats' measures would make it illegal to sell or manufacture bump stocks, devises that can increase the rate of fire of semi-automatic weapons. Such a device was used by the gunman who opened fire from a Las Vegas hotel room in 2017, killing 58 people at a country music concert and wounding hundreds of others.

Already illegal
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/18/politics/bump-stocks-ban/index.html
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5635249/Bump-Stock-Final-Rule.pdf

There's also legislation that would authorize parents, teachers and school administrators to ask a judge to evaluate a child they believe is a threat to themselves or others. The judge could then order the confiscation of firearms in the child's home. That measure is known in Albany as a "red flag" bill.

I can see this coming into play in custody and divorce situations.

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