{"id":30221,"date":"2026-07-03T09:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=30221"},"modified":"2026-07-03T09:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:14:08","slug":"bye-bye-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=30221","title":{"rendered":"Bye, bye Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The media made a big deal about <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5938202-democratic-socialists-new-york-mamdani-primary-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">extreme Left candidates winning in primary elections<\/a>, but one bright spot was long time incumbent <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Magnarelli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli<\/a> going down in flames to challenger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electmauricebrown.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Onondaga County legislator Mo Brown<\/a> in the Democrat primary by a 104 vote margin.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if Mo is <a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/constitution\/amendment-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">2A<\/a> friendly, but Magnarelli certainly was not.  The close vote shows the importance of getting gun owners involved in primaries as well as the general elections.<\/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%3D30221&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=30221\">&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=30221\"><\/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=30221\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media made a big deal about extreme Left candidates winning in primary elections, but one bright spot was long time incumbent Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli going down in flames to challenger Onondaga County legislator Mo Brown in the Democrat primary by a 104 vote margin. 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