{"id":2094,"date":"2010-08-13T16:15:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T20:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2010-08-13T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T20:15:09","slug":"fed-up-with-dan-donovan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=2094","title":{"rendered":"Fed up with Dan Donovan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Times Beacon Record talks with<\/a> GOP AG candidate Dan Donovan<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“… <\/em>Donovan <\/em>does not toe the GOP line on all issues, listing microstamping bullets from semiautomatic handguns and the lawsuit filed against President Barack Obama’s health care plan by dozens of attorneys general across the country. \u00a0“I’m a believer in the second amendment<\/a>,” Donovan declared, but he supported the so-far failed effort to require stamping bullet casings with ID numbers to trace their source in the event of a crime. “I got beat up” by upstate Republicans, he said, over his support of the proposal that passed the state Assembly<\/a> but failed in the Senate<\/a>. Donovan said microstamping would be a tool for law enforcement in combating crime …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The only tool here is Donovan himself. \u00a0He didn’t just support microstamping, he did while standing next to one of the leading Democrat AG candidates<\/a> outside the LOB\/CAP. \u00a0Does he really think he’d get kudos from any<\/span> Republican for being this dumb?<\/p>\n

As to believing in the 2A, he openly opposed the pistol license reciprocity bill<\/a> Congress considered last year:<\/p>\n

“…Donovan pointed out the bill would more or less create a federal gun licensing scheme that would be determined by the rules of the state with the weakest regulations in place. He highlighted the state of Mississippi where people can carry concealed weapon permits without any training or shooting a pistol on a range, “The broad discretion afforded by the New York City Police Department<\/a> to deny permits would be vitiated by this bill because those Mississippi permit holders could carry concealed firearms in New York City without any firearms training whatsoever …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

New York does not requiring any training either and it is a felony for an unlicensed person to even try a handgun under supervision at a range. \u00a0Licensing agents cannot require any sort of proficiency training as per an opinion issued by the state attorney general in the 70s. \u00a0His “belief” is pure B.S.<\/p>\n