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“Virginia is the No. 1 out-of-state source of crime guns in New York, and one of the top suppliers of crime guns nationally,” Bloomberg said.
Virginia
Gov. Bob McDonnell signed the law repealing the gun limit on Tuesday, a day after the nation’s latest school shooting spree left three students dead in Ohio.
Bloomberg predicted the repeal will only lead to more bloodshed on the streets of cities throughout the Northeast. In the past two months, two NYPD cops have been shot with illegal guns from Virginia.
Officer Peter Figoski was slain Dec. 12 when he interrupted a Brooklyn robbery.
Officer Thomas Richards survived a lower East Side shooting Monday night when a suspect’s bullet hit his metal gun clip — instead of his body.
“If they care about innocent people and police officers being shot, they should be strengthening laws — as we have done in New York — to keep guns away from criminals, not weakening them,” Bloomberg said. “This is only going to make matters worse.”
McDonnell, who’s been touted as a possible Republican vice presidential candidate, signed the bill after meeting with loved ones of those killed in the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting spree. As a Virginia delegate, McDonnell voted in 1993 to enact the commonwealth’s one-gun-per-month law.
Chris Goddard, who was shot four times in the massacre that left 32 dead, said the group tried to talk McDonnell into vetoing the legislation.
Goddard said the governor only “offered sympathy, not solutions.”
“Sympathy alone will not save lives,” said Goddard, an advocate with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
In a Daily News column last week,
NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly slammed legal loopholes in gun laws that fuel the so-called “iron pipeline” of guns flooding New York.
“In most cases, the guns were purchased outside of New York State — in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and other points south — and then resold on the streets of New York at triple their retail value,” Kelly wrote.