{"id":11494,"date":"2015-05-08T18:55:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T22:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11494"},"modified":"2015-05-08T18:55:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T22:55:02","slug":"win-for-open-government-not-gun-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11494","title":{"rendered":"Win for open government, not gun rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

State of Politics reports, “Judge: State Should Release SAFE Act Stats<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

“New York state is being ordered by a state Supreme Court judge to release the statistical data on the number of firearms registered under the SAFE Act.\u00a0 The ruling was issued on April 30, but released earlier on Thursday by the Shooters Committee on Public Education, or SCOPE, a gun-rights group that had challenged the state\u2019s refusal to issue details on how many firearms have been registered … Gun-rights groups have contended the number of weapons registered under the SAFE Act is a relatively small, if not insignificant amount that renders the requirement toothless.\u00a0 They point to the lack of transparency regarding the statistical data as having lent credence to the claim …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While this is a win for government transparency it doesn’t do a thing for gun rights.\u00a0 Neither the Governor<\/a> nor the legislature care if the number is zero or one million and neither is likely to take any sort of action because of it.\u00a0 There are all sorts of bad laws and failed government programs still on the books.\u00a0 One more isn’t going to motivate Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders to admit they\u00a0 made a mistake and at the end of the day SAFE will still be one of them.<\/p>\n