ALBANY, N.Y., March 2 (UPI) -- A New York lawmaker demonstrated this week how easy it is to buy 30-round magazines near the state capital, in spite of a law banning them.
State Sen. Eric Adams, a Democrat from the borough of Brooklyn in New York, took a reporter for the New York Daily News along as he visited gun stores around Albany. He bought two large clips at a store in Rensselaer, using a credit card.
At a store in Colonie, he was told there were no large magazines in stock but a shipment was expected soon.
New York banned high-capacity magazines in 1994, but the law allows stores to continue to sell ones manufactured before it passed. Adams said there is no way to tell when magazines were made.
The high-capacity clips have been in the news because Jared Loughner, the young man charged with killing six people and critically wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., outside a Tucson supermarket, was able to buy one shortly before the shooting.
