{"id":1538,"date":"2010-05-22T13:08:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T17:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2010-05-22T13:08:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T17:08:41","slug":"cuomo-announces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=1538","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo announces"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Cuomo<\/a> formally announced his campaign<\/a> for governor today. \u00a0He has an extensive antigun record<\/a> which can be summed up by this old post<\/a> at the New York Sun:<\/p>\n

“In arguing that the Second Amendment<\/a> case now before the Supreme Court<\/a> shouldn’t have any bearing on state gun control laws, Attorney General Cuomo<\/a> is finding himself largely alone among state attorneys general. \u00a0Mr. Cuomo filed a brief, signed onto by only four other states and Puerto Rico, to the federal high court last week in District of Columbia v. Heller<\/a> … Mr. Cuomo’s brief is, in effect, an effort to limit any damage to the relatively strict handgun regulations in New York<\/a> and some other states that might result from a Supreme Court decision favoring private gun ownership. \u00a0The brief argues that the Second Amendment does not limit the power of state governments to regulate gun ownership<\/strong> …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n