Friday’s Newsbits:
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Carolyn Maloney will announce today their proposed legislation – The Hadiya Pendleton and Nyasia Pryear-Yard Gun Trafficking and Crime Prevention Act. The bill seeks to address the illegal transfer of guns across state lines by establishing gun trafficking as a federal crime. The legislation is slated for an announcement at 12:45pm at 875 3rd Avenue, 2nd Floor Mezzanine in Manhattan.
Elections:
Legislation:
Politics:
- Record Levels of Gun Violence and the Democrats’ Dilemma
- Hochul aims to launch office for gun violence prevention
- Hochul Addresses Gun Violence at First Meeting of Interstate Task Force on Illegal Guns
- Hochul to convene illegal guns task force in wake of NYPD cop killing
- Mayor Adams Releases Blueprint to End Gun Violence in New York City
- Statement from Senator Anna M. Kaplan on Mayor Eric Adams’ ‘Blueprint to End Gun Violence’
- Biden and Adams to meet on guns
- How anti-gun trafficking laws could be strengthened in New York
- Pistol permit applications hit all-time high in Orange County
- Westchester DA co-hosts gun safety forum, provides way to properly store firearms