The Lewis Co. Clerk’s office is now doing pistol license amendments remotely thru FFLs.
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Coronavirus closures causing ammo shortages
Ortt asks Cuomo to keep gun stores open
Senator Robert Ortt sent the following letter to the Governor:
Covid Gun Letter by Nick Reisman on Scribd
No chance Cuomo will follow through on this.
Possible “Big Ugly” coming soon
A “Big Ugly” could be coming out of Albany soon:
Cuomo suggests legislative session could end after budget passage next week so he wants fiscal package to include array of other non-fiscal issues.
— Tom Precious (@TomPreciousALB) March 26, 2020
I assume this would include at least some new gun control legislation, like the “ghost guns” crap. It depends how far along they are with the bills, if they’re on their final revision or not. They cannot be part of the actual budget, but would be standalone bills the legislature agrees to take up.
Newsbits
Wednesday’s Newsbits:
Armed Citizen:
NRA:
- The National Rifle Association is laying off staff, cutting salaries and reducing hours amid COVID-19 outbreak
- With NRA Under Investigation, Former Fundraiser Says Gun Group is Republican “Through and Through”
Politics:
Start by cutting funding to gun control advocates
According to the Post:
“Mayor Bill de Blasio warned Monday night that all city agencies will be seeing funding cuts on anything unrelated to battling the coronavirus pandemic as the city struggles with mounting bills and falling tax revenues. “Every agency will be asked to help,” de Blasio told reporters during a City Hall press conference. “We have to make these cuts in light of an ever-worsening budget situation” …”
de Blasio should start by cutting the $55,000 allocated to the New Yorkers Against Gun Violence Education Fund by the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice for FY 2020. This was almost double the $30,000 given in FY 2018 and FY 2019.
Gun control lobbying update
A good way to tell what legislation is coming down the pike in Albany is to check which bills are actively being lobbied on. Here is the report January and February.
New Yorkers Against Gun Violence:
No report.
A-7847, Relates to the manufacture, assembly, possession, license and disposal of ghost guns.
S-2143A, Relates to the manufacture, assembly, possession, license and disposal of ghost guns.
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- Governor’s Office: Special Counsel Judith Mogul, Assistant Special Councel Cassandra Deskus, Assistant Special Counsel Jill Starishevsky, Assistant Secretary for Public Safety Cal Whiting
- Senator Brady Hoylman, Legislative Director Kendall Jacobsen
- Senate Democrat Conference, Associate Counsel Dorothy Powell
Ostroff Associates, Inc., contract lobbyists for Everytown:
General issue, “ghost guns”
Newsbits
Saturday’s Newsbits:
Elections:
- Michael Bloomberg has spent almost $1 billion on his failed presidential campaign
- All seven Democrats make the ballot in NYS Assembly race
Politics:
- Background Checks Surge 300 Percent as Americans Flood Gun Stores
- Some Capital Region gun shops see influx of customers: ‘Something unbelievable’
- Coronavirus Triggers ‘Unprecedented Surge’ In Gun Sales
- Gun sales soaring due to coronavirus fears, stores placing limits on supplies
- Gun shops close amid Cuomo’s business restrictions during coronavirus outbreak
Local gun store seeing surge in customers
S-8028 introduced
Just because we are in the middle of a new Black Death Plague does not mean elected officials don’t have time to draft new gun control legislation.
New bill S-8028, Relates to providing parents of school children with information on the safe storage of firearms, was introduced to Education Committee by Senator Liu.
From the Justification statement:
“… Children are specifically vulnerable to the dangers of unlocked firearms. One study showed that households that lock both their firearms and ammunition have a 75% lower risk of self-inflicted firearm injuries, as well as an 85% lower risk for unintentional firearm injuries among children. This legislation will keep families updated and informed of their firearm storage responsibilities by having their child’s school provide them with information about safe storage. As a primary point of contact for children and families, schools are well positioned to disseminate this information. Wide distribution of safe storage information will help keep our children safe.”
I guarantee whatever literature the Department of Education comes up with will be cut and pasted from gun control advocacy organizations.
There is no companion bill in the Assembly yet.