The City of Oneida Common Council’s resolution in support of microstamping failed. It got a motion, no second, and died.
Month: July 2010
News of the day
Microstamping will not die.
The City of Oneida Common Council is floating a resolution in support of it at tonights meeting.
Senator Jim Seward pens an op-ed to the Catskill Daily Mail, “Gun control legislation derailed.” Derailed, yes. Dead, no. The legislature has not gone into recess yet as there’s still no state budget. I believe they are coming back again next week.
Pundit Bob Confer opines on the pistol license lists being public information in his op-ed to the Niagara Gazette, “The issue of handguns and privacy.”
Westchester legislator Tom Abinanti is running for AD-92 and he “[points] to his work ridding the garbage industry of organized crime, cracking down on tobacco and guns, and being able to be independent outside of the party dogma” as a reason for supporting him.
There is some concern that Carl Paladino might not get enough signatures to primary Rick Lazio for the GOP line.
George from OCSHOOTERS.COM will be on WTBQ next Monday morning at 9:10am talking about the Heller and McDonald decisions.
Utica officials pushing microstamping
Opponents of microstamping are liars
Times Union reporter Jay Jochnowitz says we’re all liars. In today’s op-ed, “A legacy to honor as your own“:
“If you haven’t read the Declaration of Independence lately, or ever, give it a read today. It is an inspiring piece of work that will send a chill down your spine. It’s at once genuinely humble and openly proud. It knows the graveness of its message and the consequences of its defiance. From the outset, it seizes the high road — holding out the self-evident truths of equality and the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — and never strays from it. It explains and justifies, yet makes no apology. It doesn’t merely call King George III a tyrant, it submits facts “to a candid world” — more than three dozen grievances in all … Do we do it justice when, as we saw in the fight over a proposed New York law to require microstamping of shell casings in semiautomatic weapons, supposed defenders of the Second Amendment assert that the law would effectively bar the sale of such guns in the state if the technology wasn’t ready? The law, in fact, would do no such thing, but the “big lie” prevailed…”
Common Cents
I will be a guest on this Sunday’s Common Cents radio show. I just finished recording the program. The show airs in the Utica area. Microstamping was the topic of discussion. It was me and one of our members, a retired LEO and firearms instructor. I was told MAIG spokesman Angelo Roefaro was invited to be on as well, but for whatever reason, he didn’t make it.