{"id":448499,"date":"2022-05-17T01:37:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T22:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/no-way-buffalo-shooter-shouldve-gotten-an-assault-style-weapon\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T01:37:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T22:37:21","slug":"no-way-buffalo-shooter-shouldve-gotten-an-assault-style-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/no-way-buffalo-shooter-shouldve-gotten-an-assault-style-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"#No way Buffalo shooter should&#8217;ve gotten an assault-style weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a94a0c4df8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a94a0c4df8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/no-way-buffalo-shooter-shouldve-gotten-an-assault-style-weapon\/#%E2%80%9CNo_way_Buffalo_shooter_shouldve_gotten_an_assault-style_weapon%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;No way Buffalo shooter should&#8217;ve gotten an assault-style weapon&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/no-way-buffalo-shooter-shouldve-gotten-an-assault-style-weapon\/#More_coverage_on_the_Buffalo_supermarket_shooting\" >More coverage on the Buffalo supermarket shooting<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNo_way_Buffalo_shooter_shouldve_gotten_an_assault-style_weapon%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;No way Buffalo shooter should&#8217;ve gotten an assault-style weapon&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Bushmaster_XM15_Rifle_Payton-Gendron.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>One thing\u2019s clear about Saturday\u2019s Buffalo massacre: Payton Gendron, 18, never should\u2019ve been able to get his hands on the Bushmaster assault-style rifle used in the slaughter.<\/p>\n<p>And authorities will never rein in such madness if they focus on merely <em>passing<\/em> laws rather than enforcing them.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to offer steps to close loopholes in state law. Fine: Prosecutors, for example, say they must show the date of manufacture of large-scale magazines \u2014 the kind Gendron <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently used \u2014 which are illegal in New York. Yet magazines typically don\u2019t carry that info, so perps caught with them usually can\u2019t be prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>Still, enough laws were surely in place, and ample red flags emerged, at least to keep Gendron from possessing a Bushmaster XM assault-style rifle: He wore a full-blown hazmat suit to school and said he wanted to commit a murder-suicide after graduating. He\u2019d been hospitalized for a mental-health evaluation for a day and half. And he posted a 180-page racist, anti-Semitic manifesto praising mass killers and exposing his own radicalization.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the gun dealer who sold him the Bushmaster insisted nothing came up in the background check. Huh?<\/p>\n<p>Look: If Google can know enough to target specific ads to people who merely use its search engine, the tech surely exists to let law enforcement connect the dots about Gendron.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_coverage_on_the_Buffalo_supermarket_shooting\"><\/span>More coverage on the Buffalo supermarket shooting<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>When Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the NY Safe Act in 2013 after the Sandy Hook shooting, he called it \u201cthe toughest gun control law in the nation.\u201d Yet it didn\u2019t stop Gendron. Notably, that law limited magazine capacity to 10 rounds, but Gendron got a 30-round magazine and modified his Bushmaster to accommodate it.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the state\u2019s red-flag law lets judges temporarily ban possession of a firearm if presented sufficient evidence someone is a threat. Apparently, no one made any such claim about Gendron.<\/p>\n<p>Fact is, with every mass shooting, there\u2019s a rush to \u201ctoughen\u201d laws, but officials, particularly in New York, too often fail to emphasize enforcement. Indeed, this state\u2019s main focus recently has been on<em> emptying <\/em>jails.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul herself was fine with New York\u2019s let-\u2019em-loose criminal-justice reforms, despite soaring crime, until pressured to make token tweaks. And she\u2019d rather blame the feds for weapons that cross state lines than get tough with criminals caught with them.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, by all means, close loopholes. But absent a serious enforcement crackdown on <em>law-breakers<\/em> \u2014 and those on their way to becoming one, as Gendron was \u2014 all the anti-gun laws in the world won\u2019t mean a damn thing.\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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