{"id":19931,"date":"2019-08-25T13:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T17:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=19931"},"modified":"2019-08-25T13:22:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T17:22:59","slug":"observer-dispatch-letter-to-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=19931","title":{"rendered":"Observer-Dispatch letter to the editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=19810\">my previous posting<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uticaod.com\/opinion\/20190825\/your-views-letters-to-editor\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Observer-Dispatch ran my letter<\/a> in today&#8217;s edition:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In your Aug. 15 article, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uticaod.com\/news\/20190815\/us-rep-anthony-brindisi-on-impeachment-gun-control-re-election-plans\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi on impeachment, gun control, re-election plans<\/a>,\u201d the Congressman is quoted as saying, \u201cI don\u2019t think anyone wants to restrict a law-abiding gun owner\u2019s right to have access to a firearm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If he really believes this then I would like him to prove it by adding his name as co-sponsor to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/house-bill\/38\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">H.R.38 the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After going through all the criminal records checks the state requires to obtain a pistol license proving license holders are \u201claw-abiding gun owners\u201d there is no legitimate reason their ability to carry firearms should be restricted based entirely upon artificial political boundaries.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not expecting <a href=\"https:\/\/brindisi.house.gov\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Brindisi<\/a> to do this.<\/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%3D19931&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=19931\">&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=19931\"><\/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=19931\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow up to my previous posting, the Observer-Dispatch ran my letter in today&#8217;s edition: In your Aug. 15 article, \u201cU.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi on impeachment, gun control, re-election plans,\u201d the Congressman is quoted as saying, \u201cI don\u2019t think anyone wants to restrict a law-abiding gun owner\u2019s right to have access to a firearm.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/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%3D19931&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=19931\">&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=19931\"><\/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=19931\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-legislation","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19931"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19936,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931\/revisions\/19936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}