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Majority Leader Schumer says Congress appears to be embracing new legislation to combat gun violence, the first time in 30 years.
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An update on COVID trends in the region, plus a look at what's happening in New York's Capitol.
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The bills are aimed at closing some loopholes that allowed the alleged 18 year old gunman in the Buffalo massacre to purchase a semi- automatic rifle, a bullet proof vest, and evade the state’s red flag laws.
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State lawmakers concluded their 2022 session early Saturday morning , working to pass several gun control and abortion rights bills, as well as a first-in-the-nation two-year ban on crypto mining.
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They include banning the purchase of assault style weapons to New Yorkers under the age of 21. The alleged gunmen in the mass shootings at a Buffalo grocery store and at the school in Texas were both 18 and had recently purchased AR-15’s.
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For example, she hopes there’s movement on a universal background checks bill, a ban on military style assault weapons, and an anti-gun trafficking bill.
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After last weekend’s mass shooting in Buffalo, New York Governor Kathy Hochul called for enacting new gun control measures in New York, which already has the strictest gun control measures in the nation. It’s a big change from Hochul’s time in Congress, when the NRA gave her an “A” rating.
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She announced the steps to curb the growing number of extreme acts of violence motivated by racial hatred four days after the mass shooting at a supermarket in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo that killed ten people and injured three.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul had scheduled the gun control announcement before the Buffalo mass shooting that killed 10 and injured three.