New York raises the age to buy an assault rifle from 18 to 21

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The governor of New York,

, signed into law several measures on Monday to

and the main one increases the age to buy an assault weapon from 18 to 21 years, and it will also be required to have a license.

With this measure New York, which already had the most restrictive laws in the country, joins the states of

, which limit the age to buy some types of long weapons to 21 years, while

evaluate a similar proposal.

Among the new laws are the prohibition of high-capacity chargers, as well as the sale of

to those who do not need them to work.

Similarly, the new laws make it a crime to make a threat of attack and require law enforcement to share and report seized weapons to state and federal databases.

The state will also require social networks to monitor and report hateful behavior on their platforms.

Last Thursday, the legislature, with a Democratic majority, approved the package of measures, as Hochul had demanded, after the city of Buffalo was the scene of a shooting that left 10 dead and three injured, eleven of them black, in which the perpetrator,

, a white 18-year-old, used an assault rifle.

Gendron also wore a bulletproof vest and a protective helmet - like those that are now prohibited - on which he had a camera attached to which he broadcast his crime live.

After the incident, the Attorney General's Office announced that it would investigate the websites used by the young man to execute and broadcast the attack.

Gendron also left a manifesto in which he outlined his

on him and detailed his plans for the attack.

Shortly after this assault, 19 children and two teachers were killed in another shooting at a school in

.

"Thoughts and prayers will not solve this. But taking strong action will. And we will do it on behalf of the lives that have been lost," said Hochul, who participated in the act in the

county , where the past In April, a 16-year-old student leaving school was killed by a stray bullet, and in May, an eleven-year-old girl.

"Gun violence is a disease that is destroying our nation and is now the number one killer of children," he said, and also recalled the shooting that occurred in an

hospital last week with four dead, and this weekend in

, where three people lost their lives and 11 were injured.

The new legislation also makes it a crime to sell firearms that cannot be micro-stamped, an innovative ammunition marking technique that identifies bullets and cartridges with a unique fingerprint each time a firearm is fired.

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