Assembly on the SAFE Act: ‘From my cold, dead hands’
Jordan Carleo-Evangelist, Staff Writer
Not that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver would likely ever phrase it this way — he’s more, shall we say, low key — but there’s about as much chance of the Legislature’s lower chamber repealing the state’s new gun control law as the late Charlton Heston giving Al Gore his musket.
To that end, Tom King, president of the state’s NRA affiliate, the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, said in a statement Tuesday that all bills calling for the repeal of Gov. Cuomo’s controversial gun control measure “were effectively killed” Monday in the Assembly Codes Committee.
As King himself acknowledges, this was no stunner. The Assembly is dominated by New York City Democrats, who make up the laws biggest constituency, even as anger about it upstate continues to fuel protests and draw the likes of Donald Trump and Carl Paladino to Albany.
Statewide, 63 percent of New Yorkers polled last month by the Siena Research Institute said they supported the law, but that support drops to 45 percent upstate.
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