NY Democrats Already Planning 2020 Gun Control Push

By Cam Edwards

AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews

We’re still several months away from the return of most state legislatures, but already anti-gun Democrats in Albany, New York are putting together an ambitious agenda for the start of the 2020 session in January. With anti-gun majorities in both chambers, and a governor who’s never found a gun control bill unacceptable, 2nd Amendment advocates are hoping to push back, but acknowledge it’s going to be difficult to stop any of the bills headed their way.

After a half-dozen gun control and safety issues this year were pushed through the first session of the new, all-Democratic Legislature, 2020 is already worrying Second Amendment advocates.

“The sky’s the limit. They can go as far as they want,” Tom King, president of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association and a National Rifle Association board member, said of state lawmakers.

Some lawmakers want to go very far in restricting the rights of New York residents. How far?

More than 150 bills pending before the Legislature will be live again for consideration next year. Some have lingered for years and have no chance, while others could become law in 2020. Some of the bills include:

• Banning firearms from being given out as …Read the Rest

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