NY: Antique Firearms Purchasers May Need Background Checks, Not Licenses

A state lawmaker in New York is dropping his proposal to require collectors, museums, historical societies and historical re-enactors to obtain licenses to own antique guns and muzzleloading firearms.

Sanity breaking out, or just opposition to a ridiculous suggestion? Okay, Assemblyman Michael Gianaris, a democrat from Queens, is admitting that museums have told him that his proposal would cripple them economically. Still, he apparently he doesn't care about stepping on individual owners. Read the following:

"Gianaris' new plan still requires purchasers of antique firearms to undergo a background check the same as they would for handguns. But his new proposal includes an exemption for museums, historical societies, historic sites, and groups conducting re-enactment, living history, educational or interpretive events."

From New York's Newsday.