The gun lobby is writing our nations gun laws

Money is no object

$340 for a NYC pistol license is constitutional according to a Clinton-appointed district court judge:

… [Judge John Koeltl] says there’s no evidence the fee has stopped anyone from exercising their rights …”

This is why we need to defeat Obama this November.

Microstamping out of budget

Budget bill A-9055D has been amended and the offending microstamping provisions have been removed.  Abolishing COBIS is still part of it.

Michelle Schimel uncut

Here is raw footage of NRA News visiting Michelle Schimel in her office this past Tuesday to ask about her microstamping bill. It contains material they didn’t broadcast on NRA News.

Legislative Report #18

Legislative Report #18 is now online.

Fidler FAIL

Republican David Storobin appears to have scored an upset win over Democrat Lew Fidler in yesterday special election in SD-27.  This is particularly amusing as there is a roughly a 3-1 Democrat enrollment advantage in the district.  Even more entertaining is the e-mail I receiving from a person in the district saying Fidler’s lackeys did a mailing against Storobin saying that the Tea Party people were opposed to “common sense gun control.”

Like David Weprin, Fidler is a typical Democrat machine candidate who never had serious opposition before and tried coasting on little more than the heavy enrollment advantage.  That, along with his gun control pitch, looks to have failed.

Meeting Michelle

We had our 3rd annual lobby day yesterday in the LOB.  An estimated 2000-2500 people showed up from across the state.

I talked Ginny Simone into visiting Michelle Schimel’s office.  I told the staffer I had a NRA News crew and they’d like to interview Schimel about her microstamping bill.  Right after I did that about a dozen or so gunnies showed up to complain about it as well.  That probably convinced her to let us in.

Schimel was really mad. She started off by complaining we didn’t make an appointment and ended by saying something about editing the video.   Ginny interviewed her for maybe 10-12 minutes and the whole thing will eventually be on NRA News.

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McCarthy and redistricting

Hopes that Carolyn McCarthy would be redistricted into a primary/general election fight against another incumbent have been diminished.  Gary Ackerman in CD-5 has announced he’s retiring.  Lines still aren’t finalized so it is still possible she could be pitted against Pete King or another Democrat.

GOP Senate candidates

There’s going to be a 3-way Senate primary for the Republican nomination with the winner going up against Kirsten Gillibrand this fall.  The candidates are:

On guns, Long has no public record on the issues that I’m aware of.  Maragos made some vague statements about being against gun control, although he never returned the candidate questionnaire I sent him for his comptroller run.  Turner claimed to be an NRA member during his campaign, then voted against H.R. 822 at the request of Mayor Bloomberg.  He mentions his vote in this story:

“…  I asked Turner if there were other areas where he disagreed with House Speaker John Boehner.  “No, maybe the gun bill,” he said, after a long pause …”