Kathleen Marchione’s comments on Cuomo bill
Ball’s balls
We’re fucked
Here’s a link to the new Cuomo gun prohibition bill S-2230.
The bill was not made available to Senators for more than a couple of minutes before voting late last night. New York is keeping our fine Tammany tradition alive. Big Tim would be proud.
Greg Ball and Kathy Marchione stood up for us. The ones from Long Island did not. The Post has some details, “State Senate OKs assault weapon crackdown.”
The Assembly is scheduled to vote on the bill today.
The real agenda
Some agenda rumormongering.
“Times reports that what Gov. Andrew Cuomo yesterday described as “the toughest assault weapons ban in the country” would copy California’s definition of forbidden firearms. In addition to a list of specific models, California’s law covers guns that meet certain criteria …”
“… The Obama administration is pushing back hard on a Friday New York Times report that Vice President Biden and White House officials have calculated it’s politically impossible to get an assault weapons ban through the divided Congress and have therefore shifted their focus to other more palatable gun violence prevention aims like universal background checks and regulations on high-capacity magazines … While a failure by Obama to deliver a ban after his strong words following the Newtown shooting would likely be seen as a political loss in general, gun control advocates in particular say otherwise. The priority for them, they say, is universal background checks …”
Chris Cox on Biden talks
Legislaitve Report #1
Unbelievable claim from MAIG
“A powerful anti-illegal-guns group has attracted more than 400,000 new members since the Dec. 14 shooting in Newtown, Conn., a spokeswoman told POLITICO Thursday, swinging back several hours after the National Rifle Association also claimed big membership gains …”
I call bullshit on that.
OCShooters has the facts about MAIG funding which is 99%+ from one source, Mayor Mike himself.
Thoughts on Cuomo
Some thoughts on Gov. Cuomo’s speech yesterday:
- Some of the antigun stuff was a little vague.
- Nothing on microstamping. He did say before that he did not think it would pass, but he essentially undercut a major antigun initiative by not mentioning it. The gun ban stuff is old and could be seen as a tried and failed program. Microstamping was being sold as new and exciting tech.
- He actually referred to the Sullivan Act as a “model law.” He has to know it was written specifically to keep Italians like him from owning guns. It is one thing to praise New York gun law and another to link it with Tammany Hall.
- He cannot possibly believe other states will follow his lead.
- Was he channeling Howard Dean?
- Eric Schneiderman’s response is lame. He’s been very quiet as of late too.
- The legislators who signed a letter to the Governor in support of more gun control has some interesting omissions. That could just be personal issues among the legislators, though.
Cuomo’s plan
Gov. Cuomo is calling for an expanded gun ban, prohibition on private transfers and other bad stuff.
Read his State of the State plan here.