Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2019 14:25:56 GMT -5
State’s new gun laws draw mixed reaction
www.uticaod.com/news/20190210/states-new-gun-laws-draw-mixed-reaction?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GHM_Daily_Newsletter&utm_content=GTDT_OD&utm_term=021019
Laws at a glance:
Background checks
• This law expands the waiting period on background checks for gun buyers from three days to up to 30 days, if a purchase is not immediately approved through the already established National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
• If a person if planning to buy a gun, they must already go through the NICS background check. Dealers have to wait three days to complete the sale if it’s not immediately approved.
‘Red flag’ law
• The law allows family members, police, schools and prosecutors to seek a court order blocking those deemed an extreme risk to others or themselves from buying or having a firearm for as long as a year.
• That court order could also be renewed.
• This law prohibits teachers and most other school employees from carrying a gun on campus.
• The law would allow school resource officers, law enforcement officers and security officers to carry guns.
Banning bump stocks
• The new laws ban bump stocks, which can increase firing speeds of semi-automatic weapons.
• The SAFE Act already prohibited a gun owner from attaching a bump stock to their guns, but this law bans the sale or possession of them altogether.
• Bump stocks were already banned by President Donald Trump’s administration in December, giving gun owners until March to destroy or turn in the pieces.
• Under this law, a person who increases the firing speed of a gun with a bump stock or other similar device can be charged with a class E felony. The same goes for someone who transports, ships or disposes of any of these weapons.
Gun buybacks
• The law also develops a gun buyback program that will give people money for bringing in a gun.
Source: New York State Legislature
I thought is would be stricter than this.
www.uticaod.com/news/20190210/states-new-gun-laws-draw-mixed-reaction?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GHM_Daily_Newsletter&utm_content=GTDT_OD&utm_term=021019
Laws at a glance:
Background checks
• This law expands the waiting period on background checks for gun buyers from three days to up to 30 days, if a purchase is not immediately approved through the already established National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
• If a person if planning to buy a gun, they must already go through the NICS background check. Dealers have to wait three days to complete the sale if it’s not immediately approved.
‘Red flag’ law
• The law allows family members, police, schools and prosecutors to seek a court order blocking those deemed an extreme risk to others or themselves from buying or having a firearm for as long as a year.
• That court order could also be renewed.
• This law prohibits teachers and most other school employees from carrying a gun on campus.
• The law would allow school resource officers, law enforcement officers and security officers to carry guns.
Banning bump stocks
• The new laws ban bump stocks, which can increase firing speeds of semi-automatic weapons.
• The SAFE Act already prohibited a gun owner from attaching a bump stock to their guns, but this law bans the sale or possession of them altogether.
• Bump stocks were already banned by President Donald Trump’s administration in December, giving gun owners until March to destroy or turn in the pieces.
• Under this law, a person who increases the firing speed of a gun with a bump stock or other similar device can be charged with a class E felony. The same goes for someone who transports, ships or disposes of any of these weapons.
Gun buybacks
• The law also develops a gun buyback program that will give people money for bringing in a gun.
Source: New York State Legislature
I thought is would be stricter than this.