Legislators are trying to make the already draconian New York SAFE Act even more absurd.
According to this story from thetruthaboutguns.com, lawmakers from Brooklyn announced two proposed amendments to the package of firearms laws would limit how much ammunition New York residents could buy at a time.
The law would only allow gun owners to purchase twice a gun’s capacity every 90 days. Since the SAFE Act already limits magazine capacity to 10 rounds, a gun owner wouldn’t be able to buy more than one 20-round box of ammo every three months. Theoretically, a person who owns a six-shot revolver would be limited to purchasing 12 rounds every 90 days.
This story from brooklyneagle.com says the legislation would also “prevent gun dealers from selling ammunition for a firearms to anyone not authorized to have such a weapon.”
Anyone who knows anything about guns knows there are a lot of reasons this wouldn’t work. First, as thetruthaboutguns.com points out, every single firearm possessed by a state resident would have to be cataloged and registered with information including it’s capacity for a gun shop to theoretically know which gun a person is purchasing ammunition for, and therefore how much to sell them. This would also mean that a person who doesn’t own a firearm wouldn’t be able to purchase ammunition.
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