Schumer on Beto

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Schumer chimes in on Beto’s proposal for gun confiscation:

“… Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday told reporters that he doesn’t “know of any other Democrat who agrees” with Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s proposal to confiscate assault-style weapons. “I don’t know of any other Democrat who agrees with Beto O’Rourke, but it’s no excuse not to go forward,” Schumer told reporters on a conference call Wednesday, according to the Times Union of Albany, N.Y. …”

Sure he does, Dianne Feinstein said the same thing back in ’95 on national television:

“One of the lines that many progressives and TV talking heads are reiterating is that no one really wants to take away Americans’ guns. Senator Dianne Feinstein apparently missed that directive. She admitted as far back as 1995 that she does, indeed, wish to take everyone’s guns away from them. In a 1995 broadcast of CBS’ 60 Minutes, Feinstein admitted she would love to have instituted an “outright ban” on all guns. Feinstein was the driving force to the failed (and now lapsed) 1994 “assault weapons” ban, and it was upon her success at getting the law passed that she made her admission. “If I could’ve gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them — Mr. and Mrs. America turn ’em all in — I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren’t here.” …”

Gun confiscation is out in the open and a mainstream proposition in the Democrat party.

Newsbits

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S-6716

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“Ghost guns” are the latest bugaboo so, of course, there’s an effort to ban them.

Newsday reports:

“… On Thursday, two Long Island legislators introduced a bill to outlaw ghost guns, calling the sale of such weapons “shocking.” “We have some of the strongest and most sensible gun laws in this state and to see how people find a way around gun laws is just amazing to me,” Sen. Anna Kaplan (D-North Hempstead), one of the bill sponsors, said. “They come with all the pieces. They give you a video to walk you through the (assembly) process. It takes less than one hour and you walk out with a gun with no serial number and the purchaser has not be subjected to a background check.” Kaplan and Assemb. Charles Lavine (D-Glen Cove) are backing legislation that would prohibit the possession or sale of “unfinished frames and receivers” that can be assembled to make a firearm …”

Her Senate bill is S-6716. I don’t see the Assembly companion yet.

Here is the meat of the bill:

“UNFINISHED FRAME OR RECEIVER” MEANS A FRAME OR RECEIVER OF A FIREARM, RIFLE OR SHOTGUN WHOSE FIRE-CONTROL CAVITY IS COMPLETELY SOLID AND UN-MACHINED, AND WHICH MAY READILY BE MADE INTO A FUNCTIONAL FRAME OR RECEIVER THROUGH MILLING, DRILLING OR OTHER MEANS AND INCLUDES ANY EXPLANATION OTHER OBJECT, PART OR COMBINATION OF PARTS WHICH IS NOT A FUNCTIONAL FRAME OR RECEIVER BUT IS DESIGNED OR INTENDED TO BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE AND CAN BE READILY MADE INTO A FUNCTIONAL FRAME OR RECEIVER.”

Several similar bills were introduced late in the session. I expect the legislature to take up at least one version when the session resumes in January.

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Targeting FNRA fundraisers

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As a follow-up to my previous post, Senator James Gaughran announced his plans to introduce legislation prohibiting gun raffles:

“… A prospective bill would outlaw making guns the prize for raffles commonly held by community groups and sportsman’s clubs in the latest move to tighten restrictions on firearms in New York. “You shouldn’t be able to simply walk into a catering venue and walk out owning a firearm,” said state Sen. Jim Gaughran, D-Long Island. “This law will protect public safety and advance New York’s commitment to common sense gun reform.” …”

Gaughran’s target is the local FNRA dinners, but it would also effect everything from local firearm/ambulance departments to gun/hunting clubs.  This is a totally phony non-issue, but he doesn’t care.

Video from Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney’s press conference

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Here is video from Rep. Maloney’s press conference today in Middletown.

George @ OCShooters asks a question at the 8:11 mark.

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney’s press conference Saturday

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This Saturday at 2:00pm Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney will hold a press conference immediately following his so-called “Gun Violence Prevention Town Hall” at the Middletown High School auditorium, 30 Gardner Ext Ave., Middletown.

I expect this will be a dog-and-pony show in support of H.R.8.