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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday suggested she supports a mandatory federal buyback program for assault weapons and criminal prosecution for gun owners who do not sell those firearms to the government — a reform measure the vast majority of her fellow 2020 Democratic presidential...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a radio interview Wednesday announced plans to introduce legislation meant to combat domestic terrorism in New York. The legislation is being proposed amid a renewed focus on hate crimes in the state and around the country. The alleged gunman who opened fire at a shopping...

President Donald Trump has been in talks with key members of the Senate on potential gun control legislation in the wake of mass shootings that left more than 30 dead earlier this month. Among the senators with whom Trump has been discussing a proposed bill, according to a senior administration...

President Donald Trump's two eldest children Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are taking opposite sides on the gun debate. Members of Congress from both parties are pushing for gun safety measures including expanded background checks after two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio...

Former NBA player Sebastian Telfair landed three and a half years behind bars Monday on weapons raps — after suffering an emotional meltdown, crying and yelling, in Brooklyn court. “Please don’t take me from society right now,’’ said the onetime Abraham Lincoln HS star from Brooklyn in a...

He's a convicted felon with a gun. A man whose truck was being impounded suddenly grabbed a rifle and opened fire, killing a California Highway Patrol officer and wounding two others before he was killed, authorities said. Other drivers ran for cover and two people were slightly injured as...

A stalled provision of the SAFE Act that would create a database of ammunition purchases is a “complicated issue” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a radio interview late last week. The database has been put on hold since 2015 through a two-way memorandum of understanding reached by Cuomo and Senate...

The confiscation of military-style assault weapons is unnecessary because New York imposed a ban on the semi-automatic firearms six years ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. Cuomo made the comment on a day when he challenged Democratic presidential candidates to embrace the strict gun laws...

Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins wants to know what’s holding up a long-promised state ammunition database that was once a key component of Gov. Cuomo’s signature gun laws. In the wake of a pair of mass shootings that killed more than 30 people in Texas and Ohio, the governor...

The Latest on possible congressional action on gun safety legislation (all times local): 7:25 p.m. The top two congressional Democrats say President Donald Trump has assured them he will review a House-passed bill that expands federal background checks for gun sales. House Speaker Nancy...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is continuing to offer his views in the national debate about gun control. He's asking Democratic presidential candidates to endorse four gun control measures previously adopted in New York. Cuomo made numerous appearances Wednesday on national and New York media, including...

Punish the masses for the misdeeds of a few.

Nine people in Ohio have been killed in the second mass shooting in the U.S. in less than 24 hours, and the suspected shooter is also deceased, police said. Dayton police tweeted that an active shooter situation began in the Oregon District at 1 a.m., but that officers nearby were able to "put...

When The Princess first proposed this law the waiting period was increased to ten days. The legislature changed it to thirty days.

A legislative push to give law enforcement officers around the clock access to pistol permit information is the latest controversy over implementation of the SAFE Act. The issue stems from a narrow interpretation of the 2013 gun control law, which has resulted in most local departments only...

How come no one is looking at what is driving the cost of a college degree and fix that.

How many nations have already embraced socialism’s promise of paradise but instead experienced the effects of socialism’s disastrous reality? CNN’s “Venezuela: How a rich country collapsed” details how Venezuela, considered the “richest country in Latin America,” in only 20 years became the...

When lawmakers in Albany passed the state budget last spring, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared it “both timely and fiscally responsible.” Timely was true enough. But fiscally responsible? Not so much. In a maneuver disclosed weeks later, Cuomo balanced his latest budget with some fiscal...

New York is the safest big city in the country — unless you’re near a car.. Motor vehicles are significantly deadlier than guns in New York, new NYPD data shows. Crashes involving cars, vans, trucks and buses killed 111 people on city streets during the first six months of 2019, public data...

A Mississippi Republican running for governor and a female reporter seeking to spend a day with him on the campaign trail squared off Thursday morning on CNN over his refusal to be alone with her. The candidate, state Rep. Robert Foster, stood by his decision to insist that reporter Larrison...

Once again, responding to a horrendous crime by inflicting knee-jerk, authoritarian restrictions on innocent people proves to be an ineffective means of convincing people to obey. Specifically, New Zealand's government—which also stepped up censorship and domestic surveillance after bloody...

New York City officials declared a climate emergency in an effort to mobilize local and national responses to stall global warming. It's the largest city in the US, with over 8.62 million inhabitants. The New York City Council passed the legislation Wednesday, calling for an immediate response...

Four hours after a former city worker gunned down 12 people at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center last month, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) took to Twitter to call for gun control. "The days of the NRA controlling Congress and writing our gun laws must end," he wrote, referring to the National...

A Brooklyn federal judge Wednesday sentenced an admitted ISIS recruiter and failed government cooperator to only 48 months behind bars — despite prosecutors’ requests that the New Jersey woman serve 30 to 50 years for her crimes. The lenient sentence from Judge Jack Weinstein means Sinmya Amera...

Chris Cox has stepped down from his post as the NRA’s chief lobbyist and principal political strategist for the Institute for Legislative Action – the lobbying arm for the NRA, according to Andrew Arulanandum, the NRA’s managing director for public affairs. Neither the NRA nor Cox have released...

A man shot a 10-month-old baby in the head after the child’s mother rejected his advances at a party in California, police said. Marcos Antonio Echartea, 23, was arrested Sunday and charged with three counts of attempted murder. The wounded baby, Fayth Percy, has been hospitalized ever since...

Justice Neil Gorsuch joined with the Supreme Court’s liberal bloc to deal victory for criminal defendants Monday, striking down a federal law that punishes gun crimes as unconstitutionally vague. The law at issue authorizes heightened penalties for individuals who use firearms to a commit a...

Turns out the home of the Statue of Liberty is no beacon of patriotism. New York is the second-least patriotic state in the nation, according to a new WalletHub report that ranks a neighboring state dead last. The personal finance website determined the most and least patriotic states based on...

I tried to get our county to be the first in New Yorkistan to declare that they were a 2nd Amendment Sanctuary County. The county legislators were scared that if they did King Andy would cut off their State funds. It's not like King Andy like us. We've never voted for him in three elections...

A 75-year-old grandmother in Alabama helped capture a suspect wanted for car theft, holding him at gunpoint Monday until deputies arrived. “I walked out and said, ‘can I help you?’ And he said, ‘yes ma’am, I’d like to use your phone,'” Marcia Black, a grandmother of four, told WAAY...

Authorities say a street shooting in eastern Pennsylvania has left 10 people wounded. The shooting outside the Deja Vu nightclub in Allentownoccurred shortly before 2 a.m. Thursday. Authorities say most of the victims had just left the nightclub or were standing on the sidewalk outside when the...

DA: Actions of Oneida Co. homeowner who killed intruders with illegal gun 'seem justified'

Switzerland — one of the most heavily armed countries in Europe — voted to comply with stricter European Union gun laws in a referendum Sunday. While Switzerland doesn’t belong to the EU, it is part of the bloc’s Schengen Area which is a zone that can be visited without a visa or passport by...

Legislation is making its way through the Capitol that would let New Yorkers obtain a one-day authorization to officiate weddings. State law currently allows religious officials and elected officials to solemnize weddings, and the measure scheduled for consideration by the Senate Finance...

An 8-year-old boy found a gun at a college baseball game in Tennessee and accidentally shot his mother while thinking that it was a toy, police say. The incident happened at a game between Memphis and UT Martin on Tuesday when the boy found the unsecured weapon in an antique car that was on...

More BS from the NY Times. Legislators and gun safety advocates often focus on how guns are purchased. But many lives could be saved, especially among children, if they looked more at how they are stored. In the last decade, guns killed more than 14,000 American children. A startling number of...

The San Francisco Police Department appears to have violated state and federal laws when its officers searched the San Francisco home of a journalist in an apparent bid to identify a confidential source, 1st Amendment experts said Sunday. The officers carted away phones, computers, tablets and...

Newly-proposed legislation could change the way gun shops operate in New York. On Monday, Rep. Joe Morelle (D, NY-25) announced the Gun Theft Prevention Act, saying the legislation will strengthen regulations for gun shops to better protect our streets. "Licensed gun dealers are not required...

A man suspected of gunning down a liquor store owner near Los Angeles leaned out a car window during a chase and blasted away with a handgun before being dragged wounded from the car Friday. There was no word on his condition as he was taken away in an ambulance. He is believed to be the...

The state Senate passed a bill Tuesday that will allow convicted felons to serve on juries. Felons who have completed their full sentencing, parole or supervision periods will be welcomed onto the juror’s bench. There is currently a lifetime ban on felons serving as as jurors.. “When people go...

A North Carolina man was arrested last Thursday for possessing a weapon of mass destruction, the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office announced on Facebook. Owen Gregory Dean, 44, was apprehended after the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), North Carolina Department of Public...

But your mature enough to vote at 16 years old!!

Legislation proposed last week in the Assembly would give New York voters a chance to veto laws. The legislation, proposed by Long Island lawmaker Fred Thiele, would create the "people's veto" in New York. The law would allow for residents to create a petition on any law that has a tax or fee...

It seems the Legislature doesn’t think people are fleeing New York fast enough: Lawmakers are set to pass yet another jobs-killer on Tuesday. The bill aims to ban toys containing “dangerous” chemicals — via an expansive regulatory scheme that gives the state Department of Environmental...

President Donald Trump on Friday announced at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting that the United States will drop out of an international arms treaty signed in 2013 by then-President Barack Obama but opposed by the NRA and other conservative groups. Trump told members of the gun...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is ordering that the Mississippi flag be replaced by the American flag at a state park that overlooks the Statue of Liberty because it has a Confederate emblem on it. The Democrat on Friday ordered the removal of Mississippi's flag from a display of each state's flag...

A 41-year-old driver with a concealed carry permit was able to fend off an armed 22-year-old man who attempted to carjack him, killing the suspect in the process, authorities say. Concealed carry permit holder fatally shoots attempted carjacker: police

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is threatening to sue a New York congressman for allegedly blocking his own constituents on Facebook. The ACLU’s New York chapter sent a letter to Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) on Wednesday arguing that blocking users from viewing his page or commenting on...

The OneNYC2050 plan, which de Blasio dubbed “New York City’s Green New Deal,” is a $14 billion environmental initiative that aims to reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030 and full carbon neutrality by 2050. It focuses on energy-efficient changes for the transportation, real...

Illegal immigrants would get sanctuary across New York state under a plan being pushed by a Bronx lawmaker, who says the timing is right to expand the controversial policy already in effect in the Big Apple. Democratic state Sen. Jose Serrano Jr. is sponsoring a bill to prohibit cops from...