“I don't want 18-year-olds to have guns,' Governor Hochul said on Wednesday in the wake of the two mass shootings in the past 10 days, first in a Buffalo supermarket and then in a Texas elementary school.
Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks at a meeting of The Interstate Task Force on Illegal Guns.New York could soon prevent those under the age of 21 from purchasing AR-15-style rifles and other semi-automatic weapons if Gov. Kathy Hochul gets her way.
and Tuesday at a Texas elementary school. In both cases, the respective gunmen were 18 years old and used an AR-15, according to police. In both cases, the gunmen legally purchased their weapons. "I want to work with the Legislature to do something that is far more common sense than we have right now," Hochul said, adding: "I'm going to look at everything."
Hochul’s push comes as a number of states have imposed tighter restrictions on selling guns to those under the age of 21, including Florida and California. In those states, gun-rights activists have challenged the restrictions in federal court, where the cases remain in federal court.
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