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Hochul to strengthen gun laws, target online extremism and white supremacy in response to Buffalo ma [View all]
mass shootingALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled a package of executive orders and legislative actions Wednesday strengthening New York’s gun laws and targeting domestic terrorism in response to the deadly race-based mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket.
The governor’s orders will strengthen the state’s “red flag” laws by requiring the State Police to seize weapons from people believed to be a threat to themselves or others and create a new unit to track online extremism.
Hochul said the shooting was a result of “the mainstreaming of hate speech, of racism and the easy access to military style weapons and magazines.”
“How many more lives have to be needlessly taken for us before we face the truth?” she added during a Manhattan press conference. “We can no longer look away and we’re not just going to call it out.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hochul-to-strengthen-gun-laws-target-online-extremism-and-white-supremacy-in-response-to-buffalo-mass-shooting/ar-AAXr2Ef
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