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Cuomo's State of the State address makes fervent pitch for gun control

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivers his third

Photo credit: AP | New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivers his third State of the State address at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany. (Jan. 9, 2013)

ALBANY -- Less than one month after the Newtown, Conn., school massacre, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo used his third State of the State address to make a fervent pitch for enacting the "toughest assault weapons ban in the country."

But he worked up the most passion in calling for tightening the state's definition of assault weapons and lowering the maximum magazine capacity from 10 rounds. Cuomo,...

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