Special Interest Groups Wrote SAFE Act
A Cuomo administration source is flatly denying the governorβs claim that his new anti-gun SAFE Act was carefully drafted, saying the governor himself wasnβt even aware of some provisions when it was hastily enacted into law.βThe governor thought the limit on the size of [gun] magazines would only apply to assault-style rifles, not to handguns,ββ said the source.βThatβs why thereβs the big problem now with handguns, among other things in the statute.ββThe legal sale of virtually all semiautomatic handguns will soon be impossible because Cuomoβs law limits the size of bullet-holding magazines to seven shots, virtually none of which are manufactured for sale.βMuch of whatβs in the law was drafted by people connected to Mayor Bloomberg and the Brady Center, not by the governorβs staff,β the source said. βThatβs why there are so many problems with it.ββ
via Gov. Cuomoβs new state budget disappoints his backers in the private sector – NYPOST.com.