Andrew Cuomo’s magazine-size restriction – the one from which Representatives Hausman and Martens cribbed their proposed bill last month – is DOA:

Governor Andrew Cuomo’s seven-round limit on magazines sold in New York will be suspended “indefinitely” by a measure in his $136.5 billion budget set to be passed this week, Dean Skelos, a Senate majority leader said.

The ban on magazines holding more than seven bullets was set to start April 15. Cuomo has said the law needs to be rolled back because manufacturers don’t make seven-round holders. The measure was a center piece to a gun law the 55-year-old Democratic governor pushed through the legislature in January, making New York the first state to respond with tougher gun regulations to the Newtown, Connecticut school massacre.

Not sure what they mean by “seven round holders”; I suspect it means because of the vast number of firearms that are designed for eight, ten, fifteen or more rounds that can’t be magically refitted to hold seven.

Not, I’m sure, that Cuomo wouldn’t just press ahead anyway, but…

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