{"id":28551,"date":"2024-06-22T06:26:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T10:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=28551"},"modified":"2024-06-22T06:26:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T10:26:55","slug":"republican-primary-for-orleans-co-d-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=28551","title":{"rendered":"Republican primary for Orleans Co. D.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State of Politics covers <a href=\"https:\/\/nystateofpolitics.com\/state-of-politics\/new-york\/news\/2024\/06\/19\/republican-primary-race-for-orleans-county-district-attorney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuesday&#8217;s GOP primary<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orleanscountyny.gov\/departments\/court_and_law\/district_attorney\/district_attorney.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orleans County District Attorney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of note is this bit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; [<a href=\"https:\/\/susanhowardforda.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Susan Howard<\/a>] is endorsed by &#8230; the Shooters Committee On Political Education (<a href=\"https:\/\/scopeny2a.org\/Orleans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S.C.O.P.E.<\/a>). She\u2019s a Second Amendment rights advocate and hopes to serve justice as the county district attorney. \u201cI\u2019m a very big <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Second-Amendment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Second Amendment<\/a> person,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I have two pistols that I inherited from my dad. I&#8217;m not a hunter or anything, but I did win a shotgun at a gun raffle, and I was so excited, but because of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nics.ny.gov\/new-york-secure-ammunition-and-firearms-enforcement-safe-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Safe Act<\/a>, I couldn\u2019t take it home with me, and I was outraged. What do you mean I can\u2019t take my gun home with me? &#8216;You can\u2019t take your gun home with you. You&#8217;ve got to pass a background check. You&#8217;ve got to do the paperwork.&#8217; I was like, &#8216;Man.&#8217; I was so disappointed.\u201d Howard leads her campaign with the goals of standing up for constitutional rights, including Second Amendment rights &#8230;&#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%3D28551&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=28551\">&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=28551\"><\/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=28551\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State of Politics covers Tuesday&#8217;s GOP primary for Orleans County District Attorney. Of note is this bit: &#8220;&#8230; [Susan Howard] is endorsed by &#8230; the Shooters Committee On Political Education (S.C.O.P.E.). She\u2019s a Second Amendment rights advocate and hopes to serve justice as the county district attorney. \u201cI\u2019m a very big Second Amendment person,&#8221; she [&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%3D28551&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=28551\">&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=28551\"><\/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=28551\" 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":[43,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections2024","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28551","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=28551"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28556,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28551\/revisions\/28556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}