NY poised to raise age for semiautomatic rifles
New York would ban the purchase or possession of a semi-automatic rifle for individuals below the age of 21 as part of a package of the Democratic-led Legislature plan to pass this week with the governor’s approval.
Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic legislative leaders announced Tuesday that lawmakers will pass nine other bills in the wake of a shooting that killed 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo. Lawmakers in the state Senate and Assembly plan to vote Thursday on the bills, which Hochul has said she’ll sign.
The gunmen in two recent mass shootings — the shootings in Buffalo and at a Texas elementary school shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead — legally bought the semiautomatic rifles they used after they turned 18.