New York state pushing for 1st gun control law since tragedy
ALBANY— New York officials are scrambling to negotiate the first new gun control laws in the nation since the mass shooting at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Democrat-led Assembly are pushing again for bans on all assault rifles, high-capacity ammunition magazines and other measures that were dropped in the Republican-controlled Senate.
“If that incident (in Connecticut) isn’t impetus enough to change things in the Senate, I don’t think anything else will,” Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said this week.