By last count, the Repeal petition held 118,000 signatures. Another petition from Putnam County, I believe, has 46,000 signatures. In addition, the GOP in the senate said they were going to support Marchione's call for Repeal, many County Sheriffs, county managers and some mayors question the effectiveness of the law and question its enforcement; and even some of cuomo's east coast neighboring governors criticized the act as a knee jerk reaction and doubted its effectiveness. Plus, there are lawsuits that are just being filed, so it ain't over yet.
Last night I went to one of the public sessions the State Police held to clarify and inform on the new law. The session was a paid political info session on the law and although it was heavily media attended, it never turned contentious but you knew the law was being critically reviewed and not found in favor. Never the less, you have from now until 4/15/14 to register, sell or surrender anything considered a assault weapon or parts thereof, and high capacity magazines. If you have a assault rifle and you want to keep it you have to have it modified to make it compliant but you can't have more than 10 rnds, and they have a hot line for clarifying questions (geez, imagine all this fuss and muss over a law). This is of course if you ever want to sell it legally or transfer it or pass it down as a inheritance. Of course, if you resist you face death (I said that).
Pistols - anything with more than 10 rnds must be registered; assault pistols include all the same stuff as for rifles: large cap mags, threaded blls, silencers, muzzle brakes, etc and you can either register sell or surrender or, of course, you face death (I siad that) - and Zee State Polezi will develop a system to consolidate information on pistol permits from the counties for their data base and will probably issue you a assault rifle certification on your pistol permit; although your county issues your pistol permit you will have to either renew your state pistol permit and defiantely your assault rifle registration every 5 years. Counties may elect to seek renewal of pistol permits and a couple of downstate counties were cited as having already done this so the precedent has been set, so they said, for renewal and re-registration every 5 years.
Ammo: they (State polezi) will track 'large' amounts of ammunition sales. Large amounts not really yet clarified. All purchases of ammo, even individual boxes of 22s or shotgun slugs must be approved and would have to get nics checked and the cops were thinking some sort of a credit card swiper set-up like at the market where you swipe and they tell you yes or no, that sort of a thing and it can be done that quickly. But they were nice enough to say they would have to see a lot of really large and unusual (two yet undefined terms I might add. I said that) before they would begin questioning your motives. For example - you haven't registered assault weapons yet you continually purchase battle packs of 200-250 rounds of 7.62x39mm AK-47 ammo (even though yer SKS without the bayo is perfectly acceptable and not considered assault type thing unless you modified it to be that way so then you would have to register it, and so is your bolt action sporting rifle for which you like great ammo deals and shoot a lot but you still have to explain yourself to the cops, par'n, polezi, dang, police, before THEY approve it. However, if you purchase out of state they can not track it, so i almost imagine a number of ammo shops set up al along the borders haveing great deals on ammo and reloading supplies; reloading supplies are not considered ammo.
Pistols will be limited to 7 rounds. Anything with more than a 10 rnd capacity must be registered, which they are already are but you can't carry any more than 7 in the mag. One in the chamber and 7 in the mag is ok. Violations are charged as misnomeaners, which means that you lose your guns is what that means. Of course you have time to comply or face death. If you fail to register a assault thing, which includes the rifles,pistols and shotguns, or parts like pistol grips, muzzle brakes or flash hiders or silencers or other stuff, you won't legally be able to pass it down or sell it and if they catch you it is time to die (I said that..)
They know it will be a very difficult law to enforce and they are hoping for compliance.
