The minimum age was raised to 21 to buy a semi-automatic rifle, limiting the large capacity of magazines: after the racist massacre in Buffalo and the massacre at a school in Texas, New York State produced a series of steps on Monday to restrict access to guns.
Gun violence is an epidemic that is plaguing our country. Thoughts and prayers will not fix the problem, but strong action will fix it.said Monday Kathy Hochul, the Democratic governor of the fourth most populous state in the United States (nearly 20 million inhabitants), where the city of Buffalo is located.
He was speaking on Monday after enacting several laws passed last week by the local parliament.
U.S. President Joe Biden himself called last week for a national ban on the sale of semi-automatic assault rifles, as happened from 1994 to 2004, or not raising the minimum age. buying 18 to 21, but the negotiations are the same. far not resulted in an agreement between Democrats and Republicans.
The perpetrators of the murders in Buffalo (10 African-American deaths in a supermarket on May 14), and of Uvalde elementary school in Texas (19 children and two teachers killed) were 18 years old and carrying this type of weapons.
Behind these two tragedies that have shocked the nation, there are daily shootings in the United States, as happened in Philadelphia (three dead) and Chattanooga (Tennessee, three dead) this weekend.
According to the Giffords Law Center organization, only six U.S. states have applied before New York’s age threshold of 21 years for purchasing a semi-automatic rifle.
The set of laws enacted by the State of New York also provides that buyers of an assault rifle must have a license, which is synonymous with a background check.
Other measures include a ban on the purchase or sale of bulletproof vests (such as those worn by a buffalo shooter), except in certain professions such as the police, an extension of professions that could enable the red flag by reporting to justice a person in danger of having his or her weapon confiscated.
New York State already has one of the strictest gun laws in the country and is among the five states in the country with the lowest gun deaths in 2020, according to a recent study. from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.
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Source: Radio-Canada
