150+ people showed up last night in Philipstown to protest the proposal prohibiting guns on town property. The Town Board pulled the measure from the agenda.
Trying to intimidate Hinchey
NYAGV is trying to get Maurice Hinchey to sign on to Carolyn McCarthy’s magazine prohibition bill H.R. 308: Some PSH from Jackie Hilly:
“… “What further proof does Congressman Hinchey need before he realizes that the public deserves every possible protection from a drug dealer walking down the street in broad daylight with enough ammunition to murder half the block? The ban on large capacity ammunition magazines is a common sense measure to keep our communities safe from unscrupulous people. There is no reason for anyone living in a civil society to own one of these weapons, the sheer purpose of which is to inflict as much carnage as possible,” said Jackie Hilly, Executive Director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence …”
Their previous attempts at getting co-sponsors has not gone well. Michael Grimm has thus far blown them off while Nan Hayworth is helping NRA with some of their bills.
It begins again with microstamping
Microstamping bill A-1157 is on the Assembly Codes agenda for Monday the 11th.
NYSRPA & SAF file lawsuit against NYC
What everybody has been waiting for: NYSRPA files lawsuit against NYC over pistol license fees and SAF Files Federal Lawsuit Against Bloomberg Over Gun Permit Fees.
Mayor Bloomberg could see this one coming and he’s worried: … “We want to be in compliance with the law…so that we don’t want to lose the ability to have reasonable controls. If we have controls that the courts have ruled too onerous or too unfair, we could lose the whole thing,” Bloomberg said …
Philipstown follies
The Philipstown Board has their next meeting scheduled for this Thursday where their proposed ordinance prohibiting guns on town property may come up. The issue has gotten much attention from area gunnies, more than I originally expected, including people from Garrison Fish & Game and Putnam Fish & Game.
Local politicians are getting in on the act too. Greg Ball mailed out a district wide flyer announcing a rally will be held outside Town Hall prior to Thursdays scheduled meeting. This was picked up by ILA and redistributed to their e-mail list last week. Yesterday Putnam Co. Exec. candidate MaryEllen Odell sent out a press release denouncing the proposal and saying she will be there Thursday.
Philipstown.info covers the issue, “Gun Rights Rally Planned.” Supervisor Shea seems to be backpedaling on the issue. He is up for re-election this fall and probably realizes this is going to hurt his campaign.
Looking for NYC license holders
NYSRPA is seeking to speak with individuals who currently hold NYC Residence Premises handgun licenses regarding an important issue. Please contact Tom King at 518-424-1349 at your earliest convenience.
Obama’s re-election
President Obama formally announced his bid for re-election this morning.
Given his record of SCOTUS nominations, his choice of Andrew Traver to head ATF and his recent statements, guns will be an issue in the 2012 campaign.
Legislative Report #7
Legislative Report #7 is now online.
No new action on microstamping bills in Albany, but the NSSF and industry reps. will be in Washington next week promoting federal legislation to study the feasibility of the technology as well as other issues.
They got nothing
Aside from a few crap editorials, the Brady Bunch got nothing from their anniversary celebration yesterday in Washington. I don’t see any evidence of new momentum in Congress for any of their issues.
On the plus side (for us), Chris Gibson and Bill Owens are co-sponsoring the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011, H.R. 822.
Still lobbying Grimm
The Brady’s are on the Hill today celebrating the 30th anniversary of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. It appears they’re still trying to get Congressman Michael Grimm to go along with their agenda as they have a meeting scheduled for this afternoon with him.