Advocates continue to push for more stringent gun laws

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Proponents of strict firearms regulation are urging the state to continue to lead in the fight against gun violence. Victims, gun control supporters and Assembly members met on the Million Dollar Staircase Tuesday, voicing their support for the SAFE Act and encouraging the state to adopt additional legislation to prevent gun violence.

"New York has the fourth lowest gun death rate in the nation, I want to be number one," Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel, D-Great Neck, said. "As long as children and innocents are murdered with illegal guns, we cannot stop. We, all of us, are the moderate voices asking for sensible gun laws."

Schimel co-chairs State Legislators Against Illegal Guns — a group of 50 lawmakers dedicated to reducing gun-violence — along with Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, D-Manhattan, and Sen. Eric Adams, D-Prospect Heights.

SLAIG along with New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, victims of gun violence and other advocates are pushing for the adoption of a number of measures. Among them are requiring trigger locks or safe storage of all guns when not in the possession of the owner, and for all semiautomatic handguns sold or delivered in New York to be capable of microstamping. Other components of the agenda include limiting handgun purchases to one a month, imposing a ten-day waiting period before a buyer takes possession of a new firearm and banning the sale of certain .50 caliber rifles.

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