1. United States
2. N.Y.
3. Letter

Hello, I am writing because it is gun violence awareness weekend. I attended the event in Nyack with Moms Demand Action last night and I understand NY has the opportunity to again expand its policy preventing gun violence in our state and I hope you all will do this. I am a child psychologist and worked at Montefiore in the Bronx for many years where I saw firsthand the impact of guns on communities, children and families. Now, I work at a private school where we had a preschool student lose her mother and paternal grandmother to a gun involved murder suicide last summer. Our entire school community was terrorized by this event. Please continue to pass the legislation which will expand protection for NYers! S.399 (Sen. Zellnor Myrie) / A.199 (Assemblymember Michaelle Solages), a measure to prohibit the future sale to civilians of any semi-automatic pistols that can easily be converted into DIY machine guns simply by the installation of a Glock switch.  AND S.3385 (/Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal) / A.1962-A (Assemblymember Khaleel Anderson), a measure to simplify and strengthen New York’s firearm storage law by requiring all gun owners to securely store their firearms when not in use. Research shows that an effective way to prevent children from accessing firearms, and preventing youth firearm suicide, unintentional shootings, or school shootings, is making sure all guns are stored unloaded, locked, and separate from ammunition. Thank you!