{"id":50260,"date":"2026-04-14T07:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=50260"},"modified":"2026-04-14T07:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:38:06","slug":"new-york-democrat-lawmakers-target-bb-and-pellet-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=50260","title":{"rendered":"New York Democrat Lawmakers Target BB and Pellet Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Legislation being pushed in New York would redefine BB and pellet guns as \u201cimitation weapons,\u201d raising the legal age for buying one and requiring that said \u201cweapons\u201d be painted brightly.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/bills\/2025\/S9215\">S9215<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hard Air Magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/hardairmagazine.com\/news\/new-york-state-airgun-ban-in-the-works\/\">noted<\/a>, \u201cThis legislation would require air guns to be transparent or brightly colored and have a plugged barrel, effectively banning current models as they would no longer be able to fire a projectile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2042964077304037642\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaisyRifles\/status\/2042964077304037642\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A companion piece of legislation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/bills\/2025\/A10701\">A10701<\/a>, goes even further than S9215.<\/p>\n<p>The text of A10701 says \u201c\u2018Imitation weapon\u2019 means any device or object, INCLUDING AN AIR RIFLE, PELLET GUN, OR \u2018B-B\u2019 GUN, made of plastic, wood, metal or any other material which substantially duplicates or can reasonably be perceived to be an actual firearm\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">Moreover, the text of A10701 makes clear that paintball guns\u2013i.e., \u201cpaint pellet gun[s]\u201d\u2013are also targeted in the legislation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p>Also, A10701 uses the label \u201cimitation weapons\u201d to lump air guns in with actual firearms, bringing them under the purview of laws that already pertain to real guns.<\/p>\n<p>For example, A10701 says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>All gun industry members who manufacture, market, import or offer for wholesale or retail sale any qualified product OR IMITATION WEAPON in New York state shall establish and utilize reasonable controls and procedures to prevent its qualified products OR IMITATION WEAPONS from being possessed, used, marketed or sold unlawfully in New York state.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Other aspects of A10701 are even more egregious.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><em>AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News\u00a0and the writer\/curator of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Down Range with AWR Hawkins<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em><em>a weekly newsletter focused o<\/em><em>n al<\/em><em>l things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He holds a PhD in Military HiLastory with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. He enjoys reading Philosophy and novels by Jack Carr and Nelson DeMille. Follow him on X:\u00a0<\/em><em><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AWRHawkins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@awrhawkins<\/a>.\u00a0You can sign up to get Down Range at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breitbart.com\/downrange<\/a>.\u00a0Reach him directly at\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2nd-amendment\/2026\/04\/13\/new-york-democrat-lawmakers-target-bb-pellet-guns\/mailto:awrhawkins@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">awrhawkins@breitbart.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2nd-amendment\/2026\/04\/13\/new-york-democrat-lawmakers-target-bb-pellet-guns\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation being pushed in New York would redefine BB and pellet guns as \u201cimitation weapons,\u201d raising the legal age for buying one and requiring that said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}