NY Ratchets Up Gun Control

New York has banned convicted domestic abusers from possessing any sort of weapon, reports CNN. The legislation, which handily passed on Saturday, eliminates a loophole in which domestic abusers were only required to surrender their handguns after a conviction, notes WKBW. "New York is once again leading the way to prevent gun violence, and with this common sense reform, break the inextricable link between gun violence and domestic violence," Cuomo said. "Half of the women who are murdered in this country are murdered by an intimate partner," he said, citing a CDC study. The state saw 35 domestic killings in 2016 in which a firearm was the murder weapon. (More New York state stories.)