NY SAFE Act: Seven-Round Mag Limit Not Enforced

The announcement on the revisions to the New York State Police NY SAFE Act Guide came via the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association.

Following a federal judge’s ruling in December 2013 that the seven-round magazine limit imposed under the New York SAFE Act was “tenuous, straitened, and unsupported” and therefore unconstitutional, state police have updated their filed guide on the controversial law to urge officers not to enforce the arbitrary magazine limit.

“The New York State Police have followed the same sensible path taken by the New York Sheriffs’ Association and many local law-enforcement agencies in not enforcing a capricious, ill-conceived and unconstitutional portion of the NY SAFE Act,” stated NYSRPA President Thomas King in a press release.

Gun owners must register their ‘assault weapons’ by April 15, 2044. If they fail to register them, they must destroy them, turn them over to state police or sell them out of state by the deadline or else run the risk of being in violation of the law.