{"id":11598,"date":"2015-06-23T11:02:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T15:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11598"},"modified":"2015-06-23T11:02:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T15:02:02","slug":"numbers-mean-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11598","title":{"rendered":"Numbers mean nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/news\/article\/New-York-SAFE-Act-gun-registration-numbers-are-6343080.php\" target=\"_blank\">numbers released today by the NYSP<\/a>, 23,847 people have applied to register a total of 44,485 newly defined so-called assault-style weapons.<\/p>\n<p>It is reasonable to assume that only a very low number of people are complying with the law.\u00a0 It is also safe to assume these numbers are much higher than the actual numbers as there are probably lots of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Xly8ccu2DW8\" target=\"_blank\">Seymore Butz&#8217;s<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/watch\/31389\" target=\"_blank\">Al Kaholic&#8217;s<\/a> on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Neither the Governor nor legislature will care.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Cuomo<\/a> will never admit he made a mistake and I don&#8217;t expect many in the media to call him on it.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D11598&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11598\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11598\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11598\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to numbers released today by the NYSP, 23,847 people have applied to register a total of 44,485 newly defined so-called assault-style weapons. 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