The NRA has endorsed President Trump for re-election.
This isn’t a surprise, but they should have at least gotten a public commitment out of him to push for CCW reciprocity or something.
Republican Political Theater
The Assembly Codes Committee will meet tomorrow morning at 9:00am.
In an annual event several of the (useless) Republicans have asked their pro-gun bills be on the agenda for discussion: A-1755, A-2487, A-4428, A-4496, A-5376 and A-5440. They’re not the least bit serious about any of them. This is nothing more than cheap political theater so that they can go home to their districts and say they’re standing up for 2A.
If Republicans really wanted to stand up for the Second Amendment there are two things they would be doing right now:
- Elected representatives and party officials would be all over in the media talking up the failure of the state’s gun control laws and demanding restoration of our civil rights and implementation of right-to-carry.
- Assembly Republicans would make Motions for Discharge on the chamber floor for their bills. This is an attempt to bypass Codes and bring bills up directly for a full house vote. This is what antigun advocates did for years in the Senate when the Republicans were in charge. It won’t work as the Democrat Majority would vote along party lines to block it. What is would do is force the antis to publicly defend their position in the face of increased shootings across the state and the obvious failure of Governor Cuomo’s SAFE Act.
Republicans won’t do either of these. While they may be personally pro-gun, they lack the intellectual and intestinal fortitude to defend their beliefs. If they cannot do that there is no reason to vote for them.
Committee proceedings will be streamed live here.
Newsbits
Thursday’s Newsbits:
Elections:
Jurisprudence:
NRA:
Politics:
Our Everyday PAC
I found this interesting article on CNN, “New PAC aims to elect candidates who will focus on policy to end daily gun violence“:
“Robert Emmons Jr. ran for Congress — and lost. But he won’t let that stop him from being involved. Emmons channeled the energy from his congressional campaign into starting a new political action committee, Our Everyday. The PAC launched last month with the aim to elect candidates who will work to end daily gun violence. “We operate electorally to support candidates that treat gun violence as an epidemic and advocate to address its root causes. We’re building political power by shifting the national gun violence prevention conversation to focus on progressive policies that will ultimately uplift communities of color and bring peace and justice to our communities,” the PAC writes on its site. “On the federal level, we talk a lot about the assault weapons bans and the background checks and the red flag laws,” he said. “But oftentimes, we forget or neglect to mention that in order to end everyday gun violence, we also have to talk about addressing the inadequacy in our health care, educational inequities, environmental racism, poverty and injustice. To us, that’s how we end everyday gun violence.” …”
The FEC reports that Our Everyday PAC was created out of Emmons’ election committee. It sounds like he’s just using gun control as seasoning to differentiate it from numerous other leftist groups with similar ideological leanings.
“… In its first round of endorsements last month, Our Everyday backed three candidates: Jamaal Bowman, Mondaire Jones and Charles Booker. Bowman won his primary in New York’s 16th District, as did Jones in New York’s 17th District. Booker lost the Democratic primary for the Kentucky Senate seat held by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell …”
I don’t see any disbursements to Bowman or Jones so I will assume Emmons just made endorsements without any financial backup.
At this point I don’t see him bringing anything new to the table.
Brooklyn surrendered
Newsbits
Monday’s Newsbits:
Elections:
Jurisprudence:
Legislation:
NRA:
Politics:
No mention of 2A
The Republican “leadership” in the State Assembly called for a “restoration of law and order” in the wake of the increase in shootings across the state.
Assembly Minority Conference Calls for Leadership to Address Dramatic Spike in Shootings & Violence Across NYS pic.twitter.com/zIUGHvHaZn
— Will Barclay (@WillABarclay) July 10, 2020
2A right to self-defense was not part of the discussion. This is not an oversight on their part.
Court rules gun store not “essential”
“A federal court on Wednesday upheld New York’s decision to close gun stores during the coronavirus shutdown, with the court finding the Second Amendment rights of New Yorkers were not violated as a result. The case stemmed from a legal challenge made by a Long Island-based firearms dealer, Dark Storm Industries … The gun store claimed the move violated the Second Amendment rights of New Yorkers during the pandemic. But U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Kahn wrote in his ruling New Yorkers could still purchase firearms from other retailers and “the evidence in the record indicates that, even during the height of the lockdown, New Yorkers continued to enjoy access to numerous retailers where they could purchase firearms.” …”
Here is a link to the filings in the case of Dark Storm Industries, LLC et al v. Cuomo et al.
I expect the similar suit brought by the NRA will crash and burn as well.
Everytown lobbying for “police reform”
Gun control advocates have long had a relationship with urban police chiefs and organizations. They were useful in pushing the antigun narrative. Now that gun control organizations are openly calling police racists and murders hopefully this will change.
These are the bills Everytown lobbyists worked on in Albany in the last quarter. Only one is related to gun control. The others fall under the “police reform” that “progressive” advocates want:
- S-1830C, Relates to the functions of the Chief Administrator of the Courts
- S-2574C, Creates an Office of Special Investigation within the Office of the Attorney General
- S-3695, Repeals section 50-a of the civil rights law
- S-7929, Relates to notifying certain individuals of their ability to seek an Extreme Risk Protection Order
- S-8496, Relates to the disclosure of law enforcement disciplinary records; and to repeal section 50-a of the civil rights law relating thereto
Newsbits
Tuesday’s Newsbits:
Elections:
- NY primary: Justin Sweet takes legal action on ballots in Senate race, seeks to be named winner
- Rob Astorino’s race against Pete Harckham represents GOP’s ‘last stand’ in region
Gun industry:
- Background checks, a metric for gun sales, hit all-time high
- Remington Arms may file bankruptcy again, could be bought by Navajo Nation: report
Politics: