NY Senate Approves SAFE Act Bill to Halt Public Gun Registration

By Patriot Outdoor News

The amendment to the SAFE Act is unlikely to pass the Democrat-controlled Assembly, but at least legislators are listening to angry New Yorkers and making an effort to curb this cumbersome bill.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D-NY) SAFE Act is as unpopular as ever with New York gun owners. The legislation, signed into law by the liberal governor after the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in December of 2012, burdens citizens with regulations such as banning the sale of certain AR-15 rifles the state defines as “assault weapons” and requiring gun owners to register their firearms, starting in 2018. The law has already accounted for an unforgivable amount of felonies and arrests. Trying to answer New Yorkers’ grievances against the act, the Republican-led state Senate has just approved a bill to help scale back some of its provisions.

Among the changes would include a repeal of a requirement that every purchaser of ammunition undergo a background check. The ammunition database that was part of the SAFE Act has yet to function, and the state allocated $27.7 million in 2013 to implement the law, including the creation of the database.

Other reforms include allowing gun owners to gift registered …read more

Source:: Patriot Outdoor News