NY gov to announce legislation to remove firearms from people who commit domestic violence crimes

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY - 12/13/17 11:28 AM EST

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he will announce legislation Wednesday to remove firearms from people who commit domestic violence crimes.

"Today I am announcing legislation to remove all firearms from those who commit any domestic violence crimes," Cuomo tweeted Wednesday.

"Given the inextricable link between domestic violence and lethal gun violence, this legislation will require all domestic violence crime convictions, including misdemeanors, to result in the immediate removal of all firearms." Cuomo said this year will be remembered as "the year of reckoning."

"When both the tragedy of mass shootings and cultural and institutional harassment of women became impossible to ignore," he tweeted.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/364691-ny-gov-to-announce-legislation-to-remove-firearms-from-people-who-commit

[marble falls]

1. Bravo! All fifty states need to do this very thing. Not just surrendering weapons, but a search...

warranted search for weapons including all edged weapons except kitchen cutlery.

[disalitervisum]

2. Already the case in California, I believe. Can't happen soon enough everywhere.

[Lurks Often]

3. It's already Federal law

Question 11i Link: https://www.atf.gov/file/61446/download

People convicted of domestic violence are prohibited from buying or owning firearms.