ALBANY, N.Y. — A day after an 18-year-old gunman slaughtered 19 children and two teachers at a Texas school, Gov. Kathy Hochul said she wants New York to raise the age to purchase firearms in New York to 21.
“I don’t want 18-year-olds to have guns,” Hochul said Wednesday following a meeting of the Interstate Task Force on Illegal Guns at the New York State Intelligence Center in East Greenbush. “At least not in the state of New York.”
The governor, who has already proposed several measures strengthening the state’s gun law in the wake of a mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead earlier this month, said she sees no reason 18-year-olds should have access to the AR-15 assault-style rifles used in both tragedies.
