Police say a retired Buffalo officer working security at the scene of the Tops supermarket massacre may have been able to stop the alleged shooter had he not been wearing a bulletproof vest. “We often heard the good guy with the gun can stop the bad guy with the gun, but in this case, the bad guy with the gun had body armor on and the retired police officer, Officer (Aaron) Salter, could not stop him,” said Democratic state Sen. Sean Ryan.
Spectrum Local News reports that effective in early July, it will be illegal in New York for vendors to sell bulletproof vests to most civilians. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the legislation co-sponsored by Ryan this week.
The first offense is a misdemeanor and any subsequent offense will be a felony.
“I don’t know anybody who wears body armor unless they’re in law enforcement or security, so there’s been a proliferation of sales, but I’ve never met anybody who walks around with body armor on,” Ryan said.
The legislation allow vendors only to sell to people in law enforcement and law enforcement-adjacent occupations with proper identification at the point of sale. It applies to in-person and online sales.
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Constitutionality? I’m not allowed to defend myself against attack? Purely defensive measure?
How dare the public protect themselves when the purpose of the CIA/FBI’s false flags is to murder the more the better and then “prove” how dangerous guns are.
A whistleblower revealed that the CIA use drugs on mental patients to perform mass shootings. These poor souls don’t know what they’re doing. They’re actually victims of the CIA/FBI sickos and their minions. Many times the police kill these mental patients afterwards so that they will not be able to talk if their memory recovers.
JFK had good reason for wanting to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.”
Brilliant! Isn’t it illegally to shoot people to? U think this will keep a bulletproof vest away from a shooter that wants one? It will only keep it away from law-abiding citizens that wish to protect themselves. It’s even more absurd than the gun bad logic.
Ducking from bullets and knife stabs will soon be illegal also.
100% Only lawmakers and criminals may arm themselves with guns.
Their murder plan via jabs didn’t work as they planned, so they need to murder the population differently; via false flag mass murder and disarming civilians.
DON’T COMPLY. It’s none of their business if we wear bulletproof vests and headgear or whatever to protect ourselves.
You don’t wear yours under your shirt?
I don’t beLIEve you, Senator Ryan.
lets say someone wants to use it as protection?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Oh goodie goodie. So now only the criminals will be able to get one. Wow. Makes perfect sense. We will be defenseless. Terrific.
This seems like a terrible law. Outlawing purely protective equipment because bad guys can use it to shield themselves from law enforcement is an extreme overreach. Is all Kevlar clothing now to be made illegal?
IMHO whatever they outlaw is exactly what you go and do. If they say give up your guns, you go get one. No protective gear – go get protective gear. They are trying to disarm the people which is dangerous because then only the criminals and the government will have guns and protection.
Same thing with vaccines. Our beloved government says to inject ourselves, we say NO.