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An American firearms manufacturer says they are the banning the sale of their merchandise to law enforcement and government agencies in New York State in protest of a new gun law signed this week by Governor Andrew Cuomo.

The management at Washington State-based Olympic Arms, Inc. issued a statement this week affirming that the half-century-old gun maker will no longer be in business with any government-affiliated parties operating in New York, where just this Tuesday Gov. Cuomo signed the first new state-wide firearm regulations in the country since the tragic Newton, Connecticut massacre last December.

Gov. Cuomo, a gun owner himself, called the new law a “common sense” measure in wake of a series of mass shootings, and attacked critics of his stance by saying, “You can overpower the extremists with intelligence and common sense” before he signed it in Albany, NY this week.

With the governor’s autograph, New York will now have to maintain a statewide gun registry and a uniform licensing standard. Additionally, residents will be limited to purchasing magazines with a maximum capacity of seven bullets instead of the standard 15, and other changes will effect treatment given to the mentally ill.

“I’m very proud that this state passed a comprehensive, common-sense gun-control law that is reasonable, that is balanced, that does not affect hunters, does not affect sportsmen,” Cuomo told reporters in Poughkeepsie, NY this week. “It’s about keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill, about keeping the guns out of the hands of criminals. And that everybody should be able to agree on.”

“Should,” of course, is key. On the day he signed the legislation into law, a crowd of pro-gun activists rallied outside of the state house in Albany to protest the maneuver. Perhaps the biggest demonstration so far, though, has come courtesy of Olympic, who issued their press release just hours before Gov. Cuomo’s signature was added to the bill.

“Legislation recently passed in the State of New York outlaws the AR15 and many other firearms, and will make it illegal for the good and free citizens of New York to own a large selection of legal and safe firearms and magazines. We feel as though the passage of this legislation exceeds the authority granted to the government of New York by its citizens, and violates the Constitution of the United States,” reads the statement from the company, published on their Facebook page and shared over 5,300 times as of this writing.

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