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In April 2016, multiple social media users and web sites shared an article reporting that New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into effect a travel ban to several states with lax gun laws: The article was a fabrication. The site on which it originated published a follow-up item on 2 April 2016 explaining that the claim was a joke: While this article was an April Fool's Day joke, it is true that on 5 April 2016 (several days after the lax gun law story began circulating), Governor Cuomo announced a genuine travel restriction: However, that ban only involved state-funded or state-sponsored non-essential travel, and citizens were still able to travel freely to and from Mississippi. It was intended as a response to a law recently enacted by Mississippi, which allowed businesses to refuse service to people based on their gender identity or sexual preference. Governor Cuomo previously banned non-essential state travel to North Carolina and Indiana following passage of similar religious freedom laws there. New York lifted the travel restriction to Indiana after it amended its law to prevent it from being used to discriminate against people based on sexual orientation or gender identity. None of the bans had anything to do with guns.
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