Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo and US Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) on April 6 sent a letter to more than 1,200 local government officials in New York state, urging them to join the Communities for Safer Guns Coalition that is encouraging gun manufacturers to adopt a code of responsible conduct, such as the one signed recently by Smith & Wesson.
Mayors, county executives, town supervisors and other officials from nearly 70 communities across the country—including 21 in New York—already have signed the Coalition’s pledge to support giving a preference to gunmakers that have adopted the code of conduct when their local governments buy guns for law enforcement agencies.