Nassau D.A. Kathleen Rice arrested several Long Island gun dealers last week in a much publicized series of stings. I don’t have all the facts, but it appears to be a politically motivated set up. It came just days after Mayor Bloomberg announced his push to try and get Congress to prohibit private firearms transfers. There is no way this is a coincidence.
Essentially what Rice is trying to do is redefine what an “assault weapon” is by asserting that AR-15s with flash hiders removed and collapsible stocks pinned so that they cannot collapse are in violation of state law. Tom was on NRANews last night and talked about it.
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Don’t know if you’ve seen this or not:
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/spin-cycle-1.812042/suffolk-browning-takes-aim-at-shooting-range-1.2701911
Newsday is for subscribers only, but yes, I do know about this. Browning has been trying to close the range for years. This is her latest excuse.
Making a crime out of a stock being of adjustable length is nuts. It’s a safety issue to be able to adjust the length of the stock to the appropriate length.
What happened with the AWB was that the gun ignorant, anti-gun rights crowd made any distinction they could between military-style guns and hunting guns so that they could single out a group of guns to be banned because they didn’t have the votes to ban them all.
The result was a ban on cosmetic features based on appearance, like a “conspicuously protruding pistol grip”. How does the protrusion of the pistol grip being “conspicuous” make it more or less dangerous? Would an inconspicuously protruding pistol grip make any difference, except to be less offensive to the gun haters’ arrogant and overbearing sensibilities?
The Pataki AWB was junk legislation that became junk law. The federal AWB expired and it will not be renewed. New York’s AWB should “mirror” the federal law’s expiration. It should be repealed, so that New Yorkers can enjoy the freedom that the rest of the country enjoys, and we can stop these senseless witch hunts against gun owners and dealers over politically trumped up, fabricated, imaginary “crimes” that serve only as a distraction from doing something real about real crime and real criminals.