Former Republican gubernatorial candidate and Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino is returning to Albany.

Paladino, along with several Senate Republican lawmakers, will take part in a large anti-gun control rally to be held on Tuesday at the state Capitol here in Albany.

Plans for the rally were announced this morning by Unite New York, a firearm advocacy group. The event comes on the heels of a sweeping gun control law that passed last month in Albany that updates the state’s assault weapons ban and limits the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.

Though several Republican lawmakers in the Senate backed the law, GOP leader Dean Skelos said on Tuesday that in hindsight the conference may “have acted in haste.” He told reporters yesterday that chapter amendments to the law will be rolled out next week.

Complicating matters has been conference members within the Senate Republicans who are strident opponents of the law, with three of them — Sens. Kathy Marchione Greg Ball and Lee Zeldin — taking part in the rally next week.

Paladino last year pledged to support primaries against incumbent Senate Republicans, though none of his direct efforts were successful.

Despite the law passing nearly a month ago, emotions — and tempers — over the measure remain hot. Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin on Tuesday apologized after he said Hitler and Mussolini would have been proud of Cuomo’s push on gun control.

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