{"id":311999,"date":"2026-08-02T17:06:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311999\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:06:28","slug":"new-york-state-announces-new-gun-safety-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311999\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State announces new gun safety measures"},"content":{"rendered":"

The state says it will increase inspections of gun dealers linked to guns used in crimes, expand its interstate task force on illegal firearms, launch an education campaign for gun dealers, and pursue legislation requiring all firearm sales to be conducted in person.<\/p>\n


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“Bad actors think these new federal changes will give them cover to sell guns to anyone without a thorough background check.” Governor Hochul said during a news briefing<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“A background check is everything. It’s so critical. Also, mental health screening. We need to know if there’s people who should not have a gun in their hands, and the federal government doesn’t give a damn. But we do.”<\/p>\n

The governor also says she is proud to have the “toughest state-level gun laws in America.”<\/p>\n

State officials say the measures are intended to maintain existing gun safety standards despite proposed changes at the federal level.<\/p>\n

2 On Your Side has reached out to\u00a0Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman<\/a> for a response to Thursday’s announcement. A spokesperson says he is on the road and hasn\u2019t reviewed the announcement yet, but we do expect to hear more from him on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state says it will increase inspections of gun dealers linked to guns used in crimes, expand its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-311999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}