the new york safe act was passed on january 15, 2013.
the new york safe act was passed on january 15, 2013.
when was the new york safe act passed?
january 15 , 2013
in the wake of the sandy hook elementary school shooting and the 2012 webster, new york shooting, new york became the first u.s. state to enact stricter gun control laws when it passed the ny safe act on january 15, 2013. new measures included the redefining of what is considered an assault weapon, assault weapon registration, prohibition of sales of assault weapons, the prevention of selling or passing on registered assault weapons to friends or family, reducing the maximum allowed magazine capacity from ten rounds to seven rounds, (however part of the safe act was redacted in court to allow loading 10 rounds into your magazine) background checks on almost all gun sales including private sales, background checks on all ammunition sales (has yet to go into effect), additional requirements for reporting of persons with mental health issues, and increased penalties for certain gun crimes. the safe act also includes provisions allowing law enforcement to pre-emptively seize a person's firearms without a warrant or court order if they have probable cause that the person in question may be mentally unstable or intends to use the weapons to commit a crime.
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a separate challenge took place in federal court. in december 2013, chief u.s. district judge william m. skretny, of the federal district court in buffalo, upheld most of the new york safe act, saying that its provisions "further the state's important interest in public safety... it does not totally disarm new york's citizens; and it does not meaningfully jeopardize their right to self-defense". however he struck down the provision that only seven rounds of ammunition could be loaded into a ten-round magazine, calling it "an arbitrary restriction" that violated the second amendment, and saying that it could result in "pitting the criminal with a loaded magazine against the law-abiding citizen limited to seven rounds."
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