An official website of New York State. Here's how you know Translate Educating New Yorkers about the State's gun laws. Keeping New Yorkers Safe Ensuring Responsible Gun Ownership Governor Kathy Hochul'stop priority is keepingNew Yorkerssafe. In June 2022, following a racially motivated mass shoo...
New York State prohibits a person from carrying loaded firearms, including short-barreled rifles, shotguns or assault weapons outside of their residence or business. The state defines a loaded firearm as any owned by an individual who also possesses the ammunition for the firearm. It is also ill...
While New York State has the strongest gun safety laws in the country, 74% of crime guns used in criminal activity across the state were purchased out of state. To combat the flow of illegal guns onto New York streets, the State will create a new Gun Trafficking Interdiction Unit within t...
In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a New York state licensing system that made it difficult to get concealed carry permits. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the Court set forth a new historical test for determining if state regulations placed an undue burden...
10 years after Sandy Hook, what's the state of US gun laws? Since Sandy Hook, there have been more than 4,200 mass shootings, 38 of them at schools. Dec 14, 2022 Reflecting on the Sandy Hook school shooting 10 years later Ten years ago, a 20-year-old gunman killed his mothe...
Gun laws across the Tri-State Area Nine other states and the District of Columbia have laws similar to New Jersey's, covering New York, Los Angeles and other major cities as well as the sites of massacres such asthe Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 ...
“This bill is the culmination of a multi-year process that began after the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority issued their disastrous [New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v.]Bruendecision, which weakened the Commonwealth’s gun safety laws and endangered our residents,” Mar...
Washington State is not the first to enact such laws; it is the latest and perhaps the worst. HB 1240 has taken the laws in California and New York to new levels. Even though the Supreme Court struck down similar gun control measures inNYSRPA v. Bruen, Illinois and Washington have complet...
Now, on Gun Violence Awareness Day, the push for different state-level gun laws continues with experts calling for some state-level laws to be picked up elsewhere.
Such rifles fire only once for each pull of the trigger but automatically eject and rechamber a new round after each shot. Grant County’s sheriff said many residents in his part of the state, known for its vast potato farms, are strong supporters of gun rights. They “have a right to...