The issue focused on the leg of a current law that would make it legal to own an airsoft gun, or any other similar weapon, in New York.

"I can't see how you can have a bill that's so bad for people and not be good for our city," said state Sen. Michael J. Nanez (D-Manhattan). "It is one thing to call a different person a 'fag' and say that he has a right to do this, but I