New York's law also sets a seven-bullet limit on magazines, tightens the definition of illegal "assault weapons" and requires owners of formerly legal semi-automatic guns to register them.
The law bans certain semi-automatic guns and large magazines, requires owners to register within a year any once-legal guns banned under the law's tighter definition of "assault weapons, " and outlaws bringing them into New York from elsewhere.
The guns covered by the original were not the fully automatic machine guns used by the military, but semiautomatic versions of those guns.
There are eight categories of weapon, ranging from automatic hardware and machine guns which are prohibited, to hunting equipment allowed with a hunting permit.
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And while some of the latter may look like automatic military-style machine guns, the similarities are primarily cosmetic.
And while some of the latter may look like automatic military-style machine guns, they do not function in that manner.
Today, most handguns in America are semi-automatic, as are many long guns.
What is the distinction between machine guns and semi-automatic weapons?
The latter restriction amounts to a ban on most formerly-legal semi-automatic weapons, both pistols and long guns, since no seven- round magazines exist on the market.
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Background checks would be more thorough, gun owners would have to reapply for licences every five years, and fully automatic assault rifles, armour-piercing bullets, lifelike toy guns, and gun-lending would be banned.
Investigators are also trying to determine who owns a number of guns that were found at the home, including a semi-automatic military-style rifle, the Associated Press news agency reports.
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