Sarah Minkewicz is reporting for WIVB-TV that a new gun law now in effect in New York, requiring that a person be at least 21 years of age to buy a semi-automatic weapon. If a resident is under 21 and already owns a semi-automatic weapon, they can keep it without getting a license. The measure was adopted in direct response to the May 14 Tops Market mass shooting in Buffalo when 10 people were killed and three others were injured, when an 18-year-old male walked into the supermarket with a semi-automatic gun and began shooting. “There is no one immune from the pain of gun violence,” stated Governor Kathy Hochul in a press conference last week. “I believe in the second amendment rights, I’m just saying it’s too many of our people that’s dying, white, black, Latino, on our streets and we need to get a control on it so it’s not affecting my generation of grandchildren. …” said Murray Holman, executive director of the Stop the Violence Coalition. Holman says the new law is a start, but more needs to be done. Buffalo area attorney James Ostrowski said, “... think there’s serious questions about the legality of what the state legislature has done and what the governor has done and hopefully the federal courts will come in and slap these laws down.” Read more at wivb [dot] com.