Assemblyman Chris Tague (R,C,I-Schoharie) is expressing his anger and disappointment following the passage of a series of bills that would restrict the Second Amendment rights of New Yorkers, while driving gun sellers and manufacturers out of the state through burdensome regulation. One of the bills passed would force gun manufacturers to design any semi-automatic handguns they sell with costly microstamping technology, which imprints a series of markings onto a bullet’s cartridge to, in theory, tie a spent casing to a gun’s owner (A.7926).

Another bill would make gun sellers and manufacturers liable for harm caused by guns they sell that could constitute a “public nuisance”, regardless of whether or not that harm would be foreseeable to a manufacturer or dealer (A.6762B).

“These bills are nothing less than a direct violation of New Yorkers’ Second Amendment rights, and a blatant attempt at regulating gun stores in this state out of existence,” said Tague. “Make no mistake, if the radical Politicians pushing these bills had the capability to, they would scribble over the Second Amendment of our constitution on the very parchment it was written on hundreds of years ago. Given the liability this legislation places on gun dealers in our state, they may as well have done just that, as anyone selling firearms here can now easily be sued out of business. Today is a dark day for liberty here in New York.”