New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed a law increasing the age limit to 21 for the purchase and ownership of semiautomatic rifles.
Hochul signed the measure Monday as part of package of 10 public safety-related bills, including several that will establish limits on the purchase of weapons, another to strengthen “red flag” laws and one that will require micro-stamping on new firearms to help law enforcement more easily connect fired bullets to the weapons from which they came.
Prior to the change for semiautomatic, the age in New York was 18.
The bills passed the state Legislature last week and were signed by the governor following back-to-back mass shootings involving semiautomatic rifles.In the first, 10 people were fatally shot in a May 14 attack on a Buffalo, New York, supermarket, in which the gunman was 18 years old. On May 24, in the second of the two attacks, a gunman […]
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