N.Y. senator vows to pass toughest gun laws in nation [View all]

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/04/gun-control-new-york/1809857/

ALBANY, N.Y. — A breakaway group of New York legislators vowed Friday to help Gov. Andrew Cuomo pass the strongest assault-weapons ban in the country.

Sen. Jeffrey Klein, a Democrat from the Bronx, N.Y., who heads the now-five-member Independent Democratic Conference, said after a 90-minute meeting in Cuomo's office that the group supports the governor's legislation "wholeheartedly" and that he hopes it will be passed as soon as possible — preferably this month.

The governor has yet to reveal his gun-control proposal publicly but has said one is expected as part of his State of the State address Wednesday.

"I think we're on the same page," Klein said. "We have to do everything possible to ban assault weapons in New York, (as well as) high-capacity magazines, make sure that people with serious mental-health issues don't possess guns. And I think that's what we have to do in the state of New York — pass one of the toughest gun laws in the nation."

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