Joshua Solomon reports in the Times Union that after two recent mass shootings targeting Black grocery shoppers in Buffalo and elementary school children in Texas, Gov. Kathy Hochul is not proposing to ban sales of AR-15 semiautomatic weapons in New York. But she does want to limit sales to those 21-years-old and above. "How does an 18-year-old purchase an AR-15 in the state of New York?" Hochul said from the New York State Intelligence Center in Rensselaer County where she attended a meeting on the interstate flow of illegal guns. "That person is not old (enough) to buy a legal drink. I want to work with the Legislature to change that." The Federal Assault Weapons Ban restricted the sale of the AR-15 in the United States from 1994 to 2004. But since then they are legal in this country, and the number of deaths from mass shootings has skyrocketed in the United States. Both of the shooters in Buffalo and Texas were 18-years-old. "This is something we have been discussing and we have always been supportive of this idea and would certainly be in favor of moving forward," said Mike Murphy, a spokesperson for the state Senate Majority Leader's office, about raising the legal age for purchasing the military-style weapons. But the language of such a bill will need to be carefully written, as in March a federal court deemed California's ban on people under 21 buying semiautomatic weapons unconstitutional. Hochul suggested that New York lawmakers may also take other steps to address the numerous mass shootings. "We will do more and I will not sleep at night until I know that everything has been done humanly possible to protect New Yorkers and to help them heal," Hochul said. Read more about this story in the Times Union.