The New York City Council’s Public Safety Committee held a hearing on Wednesday on proposed INT 313-2010 relating to fees for firearm licenses and the possession of firearms while intoxicated. No action was taken and the bill was laid aside.
News coverage by the Daily News was incomplete to say the least:
“… The bill was blasted by the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association as a “new tactic” to undermine legal gun rights …”
Our actual testimony was:
“… The balance of the proposed legislation is a solution in search of a problem. It appears to be merely a new tactic in the long-march strategy of gun prohibitionist politicians to do everything possible to erode and undermine the right of the people to keep and bear arms. The proposal threatens not only fundamental Second Amendment rights, but other fundamental rights as well, notably the Fourth Amendment freedom to be secure in their persons and property from unreasonable searches and seizures. …”
DN also left out our objection to the paying of any fees as a prerequisite to exercising a fundamental civil right.
Love the “fundamental right” factor. Same line of law which helped outlaw poll taxes in the south.
The R&P really is on the ball.