Counsel for people whose firearms are subject to seizures under New York's expanded Red Flag Law—impinging on the right to bear arms—vowed to monitor the impact of lawmakers' recent infusion of $10 million to assist state police in investigating and enforcing the statute.

The beefed-up statute, which Gov. Kathy Hochul signed in June, a month after the racially-motivated shooting massacre in Buffalo, broadened who could petition a judge to remove guns from a person who's been deemed a threat to himself or others.