{"id":21265,"date":"2020-02-24T16:26:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T21:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=21265"},"modified":"2020-02-24T16:26:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T21:26:34","slug":"chris-fink-for-congress-2a-position-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=21265","title":{"rendered":"Chris Fink for Congress 2A position statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News 12 Westchester <a href=\"http:\/\/westchester.news12.com\/story\/41805067\/firsttime-politician-is-latest-candidate-to-announce-campaign-against-rep-engel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;A first-time politician hopes his experience working with local governments on infrastructure projects and the environment will propel him to a congressional win. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisfinkforcongress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Fink<\/a> is the latest candidate to announce a campaign against <a href=\"https:\/\/engel.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rep. Eliot Engel<\/a> &#8230; Fink also supports\u00a0 &#8230; increased background checks to buy a gun &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More details are on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisfinkforcongress.com\/policy-positions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">campaign website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Over 33,000 Americans die every year in gun-related crimes, which is unacceptable. Every single gun owner should be required to pass a background check and we should strengthen laws to prosecute people caught with an unregistered firearms. Furthermore, we should strictly enforce our current laws as the apply to both buyers and sellers of guns. Here in New York, we need better interstate law enforcement to block the \u2018iron pipeline\u2019 which floods our state with illegal guns pouring in from states that lack strong gun laws.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\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%3D21265&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=21265\">&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=21265\"><\/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=21265\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News 12 Westchester reports: &#8220;A first-time politician hopes his experience working with local governments on infrastructure projects and the environment will propel him to a congressional win. Chris Fink is the latest candidate to announce a campaign against Rep. Eliot Engel &#8230; Fink also supports\u00a0 &#8230; increased background checks to buy a gun &#8230;&#8221; More [&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%3D21265&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=21265\">&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=21265\"><\/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=21265\" 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":[37,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2020","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21265","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=21265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21268,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21265\/revisions\/21268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}