New York Senate Passes Sweeping Gun Control Legislation – Limits Magazines to 7 Rounds
The New York State senate has passed sweeping new gun control legislation, being called the strictest in the nation.
Under the new law, gun magazines would be limited to a capacity of 7 rounds. This is down from the current capacity limit of 10 rounds.
Residents are given a grace period to sell their magazines out of state. This also in effect greatly limits what types of firearms can be possessed in New York state. For instance, most major gun manufacturers including Glock and Smith & Wesson currently produce 10 round magazines for many of their semi automatic pistols in order to allow them to be sold in states with capacity limits, like New York. However, we aren’t aware of any manufacturers that make 7 round magazines for guns designed to accept standard capacity magazines. This would mean there is no real way to own a pistol such as a Glock in the state of New York unless specialized 7 round magazines become available for them.
The legislation also bans all weapons considered “assault weapons” which will be defined as having only ONE feature from a list of features that includes bayonet lugs and pistol grips. Does your turkey shotgun have a pistol grip? Sorry, that’s an assault weapon.
The law does have an allowance for grandfathering existing “assault weapons” but greatly regulates their transfer.
The law is expected to pass the NY General Assembly easily. Governor Cuomo is expected to sign the bill into law when it reaches his desk.
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I don’t even have any words for this idiocy.
I’m in New York because this is where the Army chose to send my family and on the whole, I do like it upstate and I do like the people, but New York’s gun laws are just plain ridiculous. They were ridiculous before and they’re even more ridiculous now.
I have no hope that this won’t also pass the assembly and I feel like I and everyone else who has contacted New York law makers have wasted our time because they were going to pass this, no matter what.
The 7-round restriction is ludicrous. How exactly does one retrofit M-1 Garand en bloc magazines to accept 7 rounds instead of 8?
Permenant dummy round? *shrug*
The gun grabbers would probably tell you to give in and weld up the chamber and register it as a permanently decommissioned firearm.
They do have 5 round and 2 round enblock clips. Makes it easier on the 10 round rapid fire strings at matches. But yea this is beyond stupid.
MauserGirl, that’s the plan. The Left wants to ban ALL firearms and shred the second amendment. Cuomo is just breaking the ice for King Obama. I hope everyone joins the NRA and gets active in this fight for our freedom, or else it will be all over.
Steve, while I do agree that joining the NRA is important, its clear that it has been infiltrated by anti-gun lobbyists. I would urge everyone to join Gun Owners of America also.
GOA is what the NRA should be. Larry Pratt, the CEO, is fighting hard for our 2nd Amendment rights and he needs your support. I am from the gun loving south but have lived in NY since 2008 and I can’t believe how ridiculous the gun laws are here. And now they just got worse.
The states need to stand up to this traitor Obama and show him that our Constitutional rights will not be taken from us.
If there was a second attacker in Atlanta last week, that woman and her 2 kids would be dead right now. She fired six shots into the intruder, in NY that would have left her with one bullet for a second assailant.
New Yorkers: Do not register your guns!!!!! Cuomo will be confiscating them after the next tragedy.
I know there are .22 revolvers that take 12 or more rounds…what does this mean for those? Its not a clip or a magazine.
Election time vote them all out of office.
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Once we are disarmed, they will do away with cash money and go completely to auto bank transfers. Then we will be completely enslaved to the government with no hope of resistance.
Take note that ‘of the people, by the people, has been completely circumvented.
Sad news for New York indeed. For your info, Smith & Wesson M & K Shield has a 7 cartridge clip in 9 mm and 40 cal. I do say this legislation is totally ridicules. Where is NRA when you need them?
Want this assclownery to stop. Stop paying your State income tax, NY Property Tax, Car Tax, etc. If ALL gun owner in NY were to do this , you would have their attention very quickly.
New Yorkers are FOOLS and always will be.
“Once we are disarmed, they will do away with cash money and go completely to auto bank transfers. Then we will be completely enslaved to the government with no hope of resistance.”
Wow. That’s just a wee bit of a leap.
If your govt wanted to “enslave” you, they would do it.
Your gun collection wouldn’t stop them.
They already have your just too much of a domesticated sheep to realize it!!!
Who can comprehend this foolishness. Banning cosmetic attributes? Who does that save? The article says magazines limited to 7 rounds.
Is that detachable magazines?
What about my 1873 Winchester (lever action)? All you cowboy action shooters out there will have to make plans to give up your game in New York state. What about 8-10 round wheelguns.
This law does NOTHING to make people safer. It only limits your constitutional rights.
Their stupidity knows no bounds. How dare they treat their law abiding citizens like children, leaving them defenseless. If you get robbed, raped, etc. they should be held accountable!
cuomo and bloomberg are idiots!
Wow, New York is a state built on Freedom, and right now their citizens have NO freedoms at all. PLEASE do whatever you can to get a class action lawsuit against the new legislation. The next step is for New York to take all the weapons away from their citizens, just like the Government has been planning for years.
Why do we have to live in fear all the time? And what we fear is the Government taking away our means to protect our lives.
Hopefully police are also included in this legislation. If Citizens can’t have more than 7 rounds, NEITHER CAN POLICE!!!
So the government tells us that guns make us less safe? How does our government ‘protect’ us and itself from danger? Guns. Bigger guns than our enemy, right? Is a law that contradicts the constitution really enforceable legally?
All law abiding citizens are now criminals if we don’t follow the laws made by a few with due process. Sounds like the night of the long knives, cuomo must have been inspired by the Mein Kampf. Heil! Cuomo Musollini!
I can’t believe what’s going on in the states… How can they do that to you guys? Impeach Obama! This is step 1 in left wing dictatorship… And what do you know? China, Russia and Iraq are the ones pushing for American gun control, and Obama sees nothing wrong with that… We’re heading into dangerous times. We (the conservative half of Canada) will be praying for you (the conservative half of the US). I live in Alberta, which is a very right wing part of Canada. A big number of my community are ranchers from Wyoming, Montana and Texas. And I’m as outraged as they are. Canada will stand by Americas side when they are inevitably invaded by communist superpowers like china and Russia. We’re heading for world war 3. God bless
Sadly, New York passed its new gun laws through the Assembly today and they are effective immediately.
As it stands right now, you can not purchase any ammo in New York. Why? Because the new law requires that you purchase all ammo from a dealer (gun shop) and can no longer order it online. In order to buy from a dealer, you have to do a state background check modeled on the NICS background check … except that this state background check system does not yet exist. Meaning, no gun shop in NY can currently sell you any ammunition legally. So, I guess, just hope you don’t have any shooting matches or range time scheduled … or that you have a stock of ammo?
Under the new law, any “assault weapons” (rifles, shotguns, and pistols as per the new definition) and magazines of up to 10 rounds that you currently own are grandfathered. It is illegal to have more than 7 rounds in any magazine, regardless of whether that magazine or clip holds 8 or 10 rounds. Magazines over 10 rounds must be turned in or sold to someone out of state within 1 year of the law passing. And “assault weapons” can only be sold to an FFL dealer or a person out of state.
if you people follow this bullshi* without a fight, then you deserve whatever those pukes in your state gov’t put out there. start calling and emailing whomever you think might be able to help. i personally don’t think what their doing is legal but they are the gov’t so they do as they wish. i feel sorry for all of my brother and sister gun owners. stay strong – don’t fold – WE WILL WIN THIS BATTLE.
I wonder where the governor’s bodyguards managed to get their 7 round magazines. Surely he would not set a bad example and have his people equipped with illegal equipment.
Oh, wait, I forgot; all citizens are equal, but some are “more equal” than others.
Outlawing semiautomatic pistol magazines with capacity greater than 7 rounds effectively eliminates the legal sale of most pistols except for most revolvers. What manufacturer sells 7 round mags for these pistols? Glock, Sig, Springfield, Kahr, Kimber? It’s basically a backdoor ban on semiautomatic pistols. That number was CAREFULLY chosen by the state legislature to preclude most pistols from legal sales and ownership. Why not go with 8 round mags? Because that would allow many semiautomatic pistols to be sold on the market.
BTW, for those here claiming a “left wing extremist” or liberal conspiracy, think again. Although passed by a democrat/liberal governor, these laws were largely written and passed by a republican majority state legislature. The reality is that this new law really has little to do with party affiliations but it DOES have everything to do with reelections of politicians on all sides of the political spectrum using gun tragedies as a springboard for public political support and a governor who will attempt to pursue presidential aspirations in 2016. The law is simply window dressing for the non-gun owning public who are not educated in such matters as gun violence prior to and after the federal assault weapons ban. According to nonpartisan research, there was little if any effect on gun violence over the nine year period that it existed. I will certainly not vote for Andrew Cuomo nor any of my local representatives that voted for this new restrictive law. This new legislation does absolutely nothing to curb gun violence by people who choose to ignore gun laws anyhow. This law won’t stop people like Adam Lanza or James Holmes from acquiring and using these weapons on innocent people. They will always find a way to acquire weapons and commit atrocious crimes against others. If they can’t get a gun they’ll simply use a bomb or a homemade chemical weapon to fulfill their dastardly aims.