NY ‘red flag’ gun seizure bill left on table as legislature ends session

By Chris Eger

Cuomo and fellow Democrats made a strong last-ditch effort to advance so-called “red flag” legislation past the Republican-controlled Senate, without success. (Photo: Cuomo’s office)
Despite a last-minute bus-borne campaign to push the gun seizure bill over the finish line, New York lawmakers closed shop without the measure passing the Senate.
The proposal, A.11148, aimed to establish extreme risk protection orders that could be used to temporarily seize, for a period of up to a year, the firearms and gun licenses of someone thought to be a danger to themselves or others. The bill passed the Democrat-controlled Assembly earlier this month. Gov. Andrew Cuomo took to the streets to campaign for the Republican-backed Senate to do the same but the drive fell flat as the session ended without movement on a similar measure.
Nico Bocour, Giffords’s state legislative director, slammed lawmakers by saying they “let New York families down” by failing to pass the ERPO bill. “We are disappointed to see this critical legislation that could save lives fail to make it to the Governor’s desk because of Senate leadership’s inaction,” said Bocur.
The proposal had long been championed by state Sen. Brian Kavanagh, D-Manhattan, who has been working since 2014 to move his bill

Source: Guns.com