Albany County Commitment News Today

GUILDERLAND — Conor Webb is a student with a mission, a big one: to make not just his school but his nation a safer place. A Guilderland High School junior, Webb is a founder of the first local chapter of March For Our Lives. “It wasn’t just me,” he says of strides made by the local chapter.

Rather than the bitterness and the name-calling and finger-pointing we see on the national level, Democrat Dustin Reidy learned from the Republicans who had rejected his first proposal.

ALBANY COUNTY — At the county’s inaugural gun buyback program on Saturday, so many guns were handed over — 117 — that the Westmere firehouse venue shut down ahead of schedule. The sheriff’s office handed out over $10,000:  $50 for an inoperable firearm, $100 for a rifle or long gun, and $200 for a pistol or handgun.

Proposal to require employees to handout printed warnings during official visits comes after Democrats in the legislature passed bill to require signs at gun stores warning about the risk of suicide and domestic violence in homes with firearms

Albany County thinks warnings about domestic violence and suicide are needed at gun stores. They're not, nor are they necessarily accurate.

Legislation passed Monday evening would require gun stores in the county to display notices warning about the connection between having a firearm in a home and an increased chance of suicide and domestic violence

Amid a national debate over new gun control measures, county lawmakers in New York want firearm retailers to display warning signs.