The Assembly substituted their bill A-6468C, which passed earlier, for the Senate bill S-6005A and put it on 3rd Reading today. No action taken in the Senate.
Paladino opposes microstamping
Carl Paladino is trying to make gun control a campaign issue. His campaign just released a statement against microstamping on his facebook group. He came to the R&P annual meeting over the weekend and I got some pictures of him shooting various guns.
Cuomo quietly pushing microstamping
Andrew Cuomo is quietly pushing microstamping. On his campaign website, under Issues and Agenda, is his manifesto, “The New NY Agenda: A Plan for Action.” On page 137:
“… We must keep our communities safe. Gun violence remains one our most serious problems. We must enact commonsense gun safety laws, such as requiring the microstamping of guns. Microstamping — a pro-law enforcement, low cost method of expanding the ability of police to identify guns used in illegal activities — would require all new semiautomatic handguns to be equipped with microscopic identifying markings, which are transferred to each cartridge case when the firearm is fired …”
Microstamping to 3rd Report
Second wave
Microstamping to 2nd Report
The microstamping bill has advanced to 2nd Report in the Senate. Eric Schneiderman thinks he has the votes because the Republicans cannot keep their conference together, especially Frank Padavan and Tom Morahan who is retiring.
NRANews on microstamping
Tom was on The Daily News with Ginny Simone this afternoon talking about the microstamping bill.
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Microstamping bill out of Codes
The microstamping bill S-6005A has been passed out of Senate Codes Committee and been sent to the floor to be voted on “at the call of the Majority Leader.”
Microstamping blitz
NRA is doing robocalls to members about microstamping being on the Senate Codes agenda for tomorrow. I got one over the weekend.
NSSF is running radio ads “on stations in targeted upstate New York districts“, presumably in Buffalo, Syracuse and Watertown, urging people to contact their Senators.
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Legislative Report #26
Legislative Report #26 and New York City Legislative Report #1 are now online.