{"id":14297,"date":"2017-04-01T09:23:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T13:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14297"},"modified":"2017-04-01T09:24:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T13:24:16","slug":"funding-for-the-safe-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14297","title":{"rendered":"Funding for the SAFE Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year since it&#8217;s passage, a group of people, egged on by some Republican legislators, bring up defunding SAFE Act enforcement in the state budget.<\/p>\n<p>While that tactic might work in Congress, New York state does not operate that way.\u00a0 All bills originate in the legislature except for the state budget which comes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Governor<\/a>.\u00a0 The legislature can make some adjustments to spending amounts, but ultimately the Governor decides how appropriated funds are spent.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s tiresome going over this same crap over and over.\u00a0 Fortunately, I no longer have to thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.empirecenter.org\" target=\"_blank\">Empire Center<\/a>.\u00a0 See their excellent article, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.empirecenter.org\/publications\/defund-push-misfires\/\" target=\"_blank\">Defund push misfires<\/a>.&#8221;<\/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%3D14297&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=14297\">&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=14297\"><\/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=14297\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year since it&#8217;s passage, a group of people, egged on by some Republican legislators, bring up defunding SAFE Act enforcement in the state budget. 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