ALBANY — Gun-show operators across the state have agreed to “model procedures” ensuring background checks for potential firearms buyers, authorities said yesterday.
Twenty-three operators who run 80 percent of the New York shows reached the agreement with Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, his office said.
Schneiderman developed the policies after an undercover investigation in 2011 revealed “frequent” private sales without background checks — to buyers that included people against whom orders of protection had been placed.
“I’m proud that we’ve worked with gun-show operators to create simple procedures to ensure that deadly weapons don’t make it into the hands of felons, terrorists, the dangerously mentally ill or anyone else who could not pass a background check,” Schneiderman said.
He said five more show operators are expected to adopt the model procedures.