SAFE Act Repeal Dies In Assembly

Assemblyman Will Barclay (R,C,I—Pulaski)released the following statement today following the Majority’s decision to stop efforts to repeal the SAFE Act:

“The Majority-controlled Assembly Codes Committee stopped all efforts to repeal the SAFE Act this week. They ensured that this repeal would not make it to the floor for a full Assembly vote. The message was clear: they do not care about our right to bear arms or the questionable constitutionality of the SAFE Act,” said Barclay. “Instead, our laws remain unnecessarily hostile toward law-abiding citizens. It was my hope that we could have at least changed more aspects of the law this session if a complete repeal was not possible. Unfortunately, those efforts too were stopped short in committee. With Remington choosing to expand out of New York, this ill-conceived SAFE Act proved bad for gun owners as well as our economy.”