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Personal Safety Top Reason Americans Own Guns Today – President Barack Obama has made strengthening gun control one of his top priorities this year, focusing on expanding background checks and a partial assault weapons ban. Gallup finds that those who already...
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Upstate gunmaker American Tactical Imports moving to South Carolina – New York stands to lose jobs to South Carolina when an upstate company that makes firearms, ammunition and tactical equipment relocates down South, officials announced Monday. American...
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NY Assemblymembers Urge Social Media Sites To Clamp Down On Gun Sales – Two New York assemblymembers are calling on social media companies to ban gun sales without background checks. The legislators say the sites are being used as marketplaces for such sales,...
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Critics: SAFE Act is Cuomo’s “Obamacare website” – Criticism of New York’s gun-control law is persisting after State Police quietly postponed plans to start a system of background checks Jan. 15 for customers buying ammunition. As part of the January law,...
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Ammo checks moving target – A New York state web page outlining Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s NY SAFE Act says that a background check requirement for people buying ammunition will begin on Jan. 15. But that’s turning out to be a moving target as the...
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SAFE Act provision on background checks for bullet buyers to be delayed – Checking the backgrounds and recording detailed information about anyone buying ammunition, a key component of New York’s gun-control law, will not begin as expected Jan. 15, State Police...