A purchaser can take home only one gun at the time of purchase and must wait two weeks to pick up additional guns. This is designed to prevent illegal traffickers from buying large quantities of guns. Within six months, packaging of new guns must include a warning on the risk of having a firearm in the home and suggestions for safe storage. Gun stores must have a security plan and guns and bullets must be kept locked and separated. Gun dealer employees must complete annual training and pass an exam.
Distributors can only sell to other distributors or dealers that agree to abide by the agreement.
This will make it easier for law enforcement to trace bullet casings used in crimes back to the guns that fired them. Guns manufactured and sold to the military and law enforcement agencies will be granted an exception to the safety features mandated by the new agreement, if the military or law enforcement agencies certify the need. About 3 million low-income people live in public housing. Cuomo said months ago that HUD would seek to help negotiate a settlement to achieve the objectives of such a lawsuit. Gun violence is a major problem in the nation's public housing developments, which are often located in neighborhoods with the highest crime rate in a community.