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December 14, 2017

NY Gov. Cuomo Introduces Bill to Bar Domestic Violence Perpetrators from Buying Guns
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has unveiled new legislation aimed at
making it illegal for people convicted of domestic violence to own a gun
in New York state. In announcing the legislation, Cuomo called 2017 "the
year of reckoning, when both the tragedy of mass shootings and cultural
and institutional harassment of women became impossible to ignore."


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