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Assembly advances tougher safe-storage firearm rules after hour-long floor debate
Summary
The Assembly passed legislation tightening safe-storage requirements and adding civil and criminal penalties when firearms are accessible to minors or prohibited persons, while clarifying education and prosecutorial discretion. Sponsors said the changes would raise New York to a 'gold standard.'
The Assembly on Wednesday approved an expanded safe-storage law aimed at reducing youth access to firearms and firearm-related suicides, moving the state closer to what sponsors called a national “gold standard.”
Sponsor Assemblymember Anderson, speaking in support, said the bill amends Penal Law section 265.45 to create a civil violation in many unsafe-storage cases and a class A misdemeanor when a firearm is accessible to a minor or a legally prohibited person. Anderson said the measure also requires distribution of safe-storage materials in certain cases and is intended to close what he described…
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