View Comments ALBANY - The state Senate on Wednesday passed a series of new gun-control laws, the latest in a decade-long bid to have more stringent gun laws in New York. The package of bills comes as lawmakers plan to end the legislative session for the year next week. With the bills passed in the Senate, it will then be up to the Democrat-controlled Assembly to do the same and then send the measures to Gov. Andrew Cuomo for approval. “We must do everything we can to eliminate the scourge of violence that has cut too many lives short and devastated too many families," Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, said in a statement.