Jose Peralta has withdrawn his request for Senate Codes take up his microstamping bill S-675.
Peralta trying to move microstamping
Jose Peralta is trying to bring up gun control in the Senate. He’s requested Codes take up several of his bills including S-675, microstamping.
The new committee chair is Steve Saland and he is pro-gun. However, there are some new faces in the Senate who do not have public records on gun issues so I’m not sure how they are going to react.
State and NYC legislative update
Legislative Report #5 and NYC Legislative Report #4 are now online.
Next weeks legislative agenda:
Assembly Codes, Tuesday 3/8
A-2494, Requires the judge in a criminal proceeding or in a family court proceeding, upon issuance of an order of protection to inquire as to the possession of a firearm by the defendant or respondent.
Senate EnCon, Tuesday 3/8
S-2975, Allows for rifle hunting in portions of Ontario County.
Social justice
The Daily News calls this street justice, but I think it’s more of a social justice issue:
“… David Williams was pummeling his 19-year-old gal pal … when the pistol-packing Good Samaritan stepped up … Williams, 22, got in the unidentified man’s face … and forcefully told him to mind his business. “Mind my business?” the passerby responded … The man then whipped out a gun and shot Williams … once above his left eye …”
Nice shot.
“… Williams – who had 10 domestic violence arrests involving his mother and the baby’s mother – was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where he died …”
Fuck him.
“… Police were hunting for the shooter last night …”
Why?
“… Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers …”
Yeah, good luck with that.
Powered by PSH
The antis are trying to move Carolyn McCarthy’s magazine prohibition bill H.R. 308 with the power of their PSH.
Capitol Tonight, “Bicoastal Push For Large Capacity Magazine Ban“:
“The City Councils in LA and NYC introduced simultaneous resolutions today in support of federal legislation to ban large capacity ammunition magazines of the sort used by alleged Arizona shooter Jared Lee Loughner …”
Los Angeles Times, “L.A. mayor and police chief back federal ban on large-capacity ammunition magazines“:
“Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Police Chief Charlie Beck and other top officials voiced their support Wednesday for federal legislation that would ban large-capacity ammunition magazines such as the one used by the alleged gunman in the Tucson shooting rampage …”
Plus, in statehouse we have this.
Daily News, “State Sen. Eric Adams shows how easy it is to buy high-capacity gun clips in New York State“:
“Gun magazines packing the massive firepower of up to 30 bullets should be long gone from New York since state lawmakers banned them in 1994. They’re not. The Daily News this week accompanied State Sen. Eric Adams (D-Brooklyn) to two gun stores near Albany that routinely sell the high-capacity clips …”
RadioVoiceOnline, “Connecticut legislator proposes ex post facto law for gun magazine capacity limit“:
“Article 1, Section 9, Clause 3 of the Constitution is clear concerning ex post facto laws, but that won’t stop the anti-gun left in Connecticut from making possession of high-capacity gun magazines – previously completely legal to buy and own – a felony unless you turn in the ones you own within 90 days …”
Sadly (for the antis), reality bites.
Washington Times, “No hope for gun grabbers“:
“The left has permanently lost the argument on gun control. Despite their best efforts to take advantage of the tragic shooting in Arizona to promote pointless restrictions on things like the size of handgun magazines, the propaganda campaign is unlikely to go anywhere. Instead, the right to keep and bear arms continues to gain steam as state lawmakers around the country are enacting measures that would have been unthinkable not so long ago …”
.45 caliber puzzle gun
Air Bloomberg
Mayor Mike is expanding his news media outlet to include opinion pieces. According to the NY Times:
“… At the mayor’s urging, his giant media company will soon make a splashy foray into opinion, churning out columns and essays on issues as varied as gun control and deficit spending. At the center: up to two editorials a day that channel the views of Mr. Bloomberg himself. The mayor, a keen student of power, is privately conceding to friends that he will not be a candidate for president … He has told associates that his new op-ed project, called Bloomberg View, will allow him to maintain, and perhaps even deepen, his influence, long after the 24-hour spotlight of public office recedes …”
If he’s such a keen student of power, how come all his efforts to move gun control have been such a failure? He’s spent millions on advertising and PR stunts and it’s gotten him nothing. From a business standpoint, I can’t see there being much of a market outside of some traditional leftist areas for his op-eds and those areas are already served by the Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, etc. He’s not bringing anything new to the table.
“… The notion of media barons using editorials to shape public opinion and policy according to their personal views is an old one in American journalism. William Randolph Hearst, for example, often wrote front-page editorials for his newspapers. Mr. Bloomberg, it would seem, is casting himself in that mold, though there are no plans for him to begin writing signed editorials. For now, he is content letting his trusted deputies speak for him …”
The problem here is that technology has opening up new media outlets which didn’t exist in Heart’s time. For such a keen student of power, he’s learned nothing from the failure of Air America which was funded by other rich leftists wanting to move their agenda. Bloomberg View looks to be essentially the same thing.
Manhattan jury finds man who had loaded gun in car not guilty
Talk about being ungrateful
Jeanne Assam, the woman who stopped a crazed killers rampage by shooting him back in 2007, came out as gay.
Now, according to her, the church where it happened doesn’t want her. Talk about being ungrateful.
Possible lead issue
Sen. Diaz has requested the Health Committee take up his bill S-292, which pertains to lead poisoning. It would require the Commissioner of Health to report to the Attorney General whenever “in the opinion of the Commissioner” a manufacturer, distributor or retailer is using “improper measures” which could lead to possible lead poisoning. What exactly “improper measures” are is entirely up to the Health Commissioner. The bill is vague enough to be abused by politicians with an agenda.
For example, perhaps lead ammo should not be sold in cardboard boxes and should only be available in childproof plastic clamshell packages. There already have been efforts to ban lead bullets so this line of thinking cannot be discounted.