The second law, the Jose Webster Untraceable Firearms Act, named for a 16-year-old New Yorker who was shot dead on his neighborhood street, bans the sale and possession of ghost guns and requires all guns to be serialized so law enforcement can trace their sale. It bans the sale and possession of “unfinished receivers” that can easily be built into an AR-15, which she signed with Scott’s mother, gun sense activist Linda Beigel Schulman, at her side. Beigel Unfinished Receivers Act, named for the hero teacher of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. The laws Hochul signed will go a long way to keeping these guns off New York’s streets, including an emotional signing of the Scott J. During the COVID-19 pandemic, sales of these dangerous weapons surged around the country as gun homicides hit new heights. Ghost guns are unserialized, untraceable firearms that can be purchased online without a background check. Kathy Hochul came to the “Yes We Can” community center in Westbury, L.I., last week to sign two laws that address ghost guns by requiring all parts and guns to be serialized and registered and a third that prohibits “disguise guns” – that is, guns that are made to look like toys so they can be concealed. New York state, already with the toughest gun control laws in the nation, is taking on ghost guns with laws that the state hopes will be a model for the nation.
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