MAD DASH: Gun buyers line up to purchase assault weapons, high-capacity magazines ahead of Cuomo signing law banning them
Lines stretched out the door of gun shops from Binghamton to Buffalo before the historic passage of new gun-control legislation that is designed to prevent a repeat of the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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-Customers line up at Zack's Sports in Round Lake Tuesday waiting to purchase guns and ammunition ahead of Gov. Andrew Cuomo signing into law a new ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

ALBANY —
The gun business was booming in New York Tuesday as buyers frantically tried to make their final purchases before the state’s new gun law was signed.  Lines stretched out the doors of gun shops from Binghamton to Buffalo and elsewhere upstate as enthusiasts rushed to purchase assault weapons, high capacity magazines and other soon-to-be-banned items.

“Right now, I think people are in total shock,” said Kevin Zacharewicz, owner of Zack’s Sports in Round Lake, about 30 minutes north of Albany.
Shocked and angry gun-seekers flocked to Zack’s throughout the morning and afternoon as lawmakers in the Assembly debated the gun control measure adopted by the Senate just before midnight Monday.
Cars jammed the shop’s modest parking lot and parked along the street for a half-mile in either direction of the lakeside store.

“Got to get the guns now,” said one customer, holding his baby daughter, as he waited to buy semi-automatic handguns, which were not covered by the ban."
-The customer declined to be identified.

“People are disappointed in their government,” said Kevin Zacharewicz, owner of Zack's Sports in Round Lake. “They rammed this thing through in the dead of night behind closed doors.” Customers leaving Zack's Sports in Round Lake with weapons they had just purchased. Owners of assault weapons will have to register them within one year unless they want to sell them outside the state.  Zacharewicz, who has owned the store for 20 years, said business picked up after the Dec. 14 shootings in Newtown, Conn., and really surged after Gov. Cuomo’s State of the State Address last week.  “People are disappointed in their government,” said Zacharewicz. “They rammed this thing through in the dead of night behind closed doors.”

MALTA — The sign at Zack's Sports says store hours are 11-8, but the doors were opened on Tuesday well before that.

By 11 a.m., customers could barely navigate the store packed with people. A dozen deep lined up for the register, while the parked cars along Route 9 extended 100 yards in each direction from the filled parking lot near Round Lake.

"You will have to wait," a man behind the counter told a customer. "I ran out of toner."

By 11:15 a.m., a tide of customers swamped the front vestibule. By lunchtime a line snaked 10-deep outside into the parking lot. Some gave up and walked away. The ones who came to get already-owned weapons serviced chuckled at their bad timing.

And still more came.

Customers came to buy weapons and ammunition before New York enacts a strict gun control law. The state Senate took a step Monday night to broaden the state's definition of banned assault weapons, increase penalties for those convicted of illegal gun possession and create a statewide database for gun permits.

As the Assembly debated and passed the measure Tuesday, gun owners and enthusiasts battled lines and a dwindling stock to make purchases under the wire. The conversation was as thick as the crowd.

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