Senator Kathy Marchione delivers 150,000+ signatures to Governor Cuomo calling for repeal of the SAFE Act.
Of course, both Cuomo and most of the media, will ignore this.
Protesting Jack Martins
Dean Skelos and the rest of the Long Island Republicans (except for Lee Zeldin) probably convinced themselves that their vote in favor of SAFE was a no-brainer, that gun control was widely popular in their area and there would not be any repercussions for their vote.
The first sign of problems with this notion arrived a couple of weeks ago when the President of the Suffolk Police Conference came out in support of full repeal. The second sign came this Saturday when protesters gathered right by Jack Martins district office in Mineola.
Update on second NYC lawsuit
Update on the second lawsuit against New York City:
A Motion for Preliminary Injunction has been filed. The City has to reply by June 11. Plaintiffs then have until June 22 to file a response. The presiding judge is Robert Sweet.
Biden tries to revive gun control
Joe Biden is trying to revive gun control in Congress.
At least that is the impression he wants to give. It looks to me more like an effort just to collect names for the DNC than to actually move a gun control agenda.
Compare and contrast
Back in February, 12000 gun owners came to Albany to protest the SAFE Act. The result: no arrests, no disorderly conduct, nothing.
This week, a handful of racial leftists come to Albany to promote taxpayer funded elections (welfare for politicians.) The result: one arrest and protesters are escorted out of the Senate gallery by the police.
Can’t get enough astroturf
This is so boring and predictable:
“A major Democratic donor launched a new campaign and corresponding website on Wednesday to target gun violence and the National Rifle Association (NRA). Venture capitalist Kenneth Lerer’s website, StopTheNRA.com, features videos, news articles, and images of gun violence in America. It also offers people a platform to join a lobbying campaign to push for reform …”
There’s no need to even comment on this. It will fail just like all the other phony astroturf efforts have.
Other potential changes
Once again in Albany, it’s 3 men in a room:
“… The leaders of the Senate and Assembly emerged from a hour-long closed-door meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo this afternoon saying a variety of outstanding issues were discussed … “There were a lot of things discussed today,” Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos said, adding that his conference is considering proposed changes to the gun control law known as the SAFE Act. “I know the Assembly passed something exempting retired police officers,” Skelos said. ”There’s a potential that there may be other changes to it.” …”
Repeal it. It’s that simple.
More briefs coming
Two more amicus briefs in support of NYSRPA’s lawsuit against SAFE are going to be filed.
The first is by Senator Kathy Marchione, who was one of only two members of the Senate to speak out against the bill, the other being Greg Ball. The second brief is by the New York State Association of County Clerks which has been very vocal in its opposition to the law. I have not heard of any briefs being prepared supporting SAFE.
3D printed gun legislation
It should come as no surprise that a bill has been introduced to prohibit 3D printed guns in New York, A-7671.
Linda Rosenthal is prime sponsor. She knows nothing about guns, but that hasn’t stopped her in the past from sponsoring other gun control bills as well as voting in favor of any that come up. Because she’s clueless her bill does so much more than the bill memo says it does. From the bill:
1 Section 1. Section 265.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 25 to read as follows:
3 25. “FIREARM OR MAGAZINE DIGITALLY MADE” MEANS ANY FIREARM OR MAGAZINE
4 THAT IS PRODUCED USING DIGITAL MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES INCLUDING BUT
5 NOT LIMITED TO, COMPUTER NUMERICAL CONTROL MILLS, THREE-DIMENSIONAL
6 PRINTERS, AND LASER CUTTING MACHINES.
7 S 2. Section 265.02 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi-
8 vision 4 to read as follows:
9 (4) SUCH PERSON KNOWINGLY POSSESSES AN UNDETECTABLE AND UNTRACEABLE
10 MACHINE-GUN, FIREARM OR MAGAZINE DIGITALLY MADE AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVI-
11 SION TWENTY-FIVE OF SECTION 265.00 OF THIS ARTICLE, RIFLE OR SHOTGUN
12 WHOSE FRAME OR RECEIVER IS COMPOSED OF OR BUILT WITH OR MANUFACTURED
13 WITH OR FABRICATED WITH MATERIALS THAT ARE NOT DETECTABLE BY A METAL
14 DETECTOR OR MAGNETOMETER WHEN SET AT STANDARD CALIBRATION.
15 S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
16 have become a law.
Notice, it does not say prohibit guns which are not readily detectable by a metal detector. It says prohibit guns whose receivers are fabricated with materials that are not detectable by a metal detector. Thus, all Glocks would be prohibited as well any every other gun with a polymer receiver even if a metal detector can detect it.
Legislative Reports Updated
Legislative Report #8 and New York City Legislative Report #12 are now online.
The state legislature is scheduled to go into recess on June 20.