{"id":3476,"date":"2011-02-22T09:26:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T14:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2023-12-24T10:26:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T15:26:47","slug":"kathleen-rice-redefining-awb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=3476","title":{"rendered":"Kathleen Rice redefining AWB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nassaucountyny.gov\/agencies\/DA\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nassau D.A. Kathleen Rice<\/a> arrested several Long Island gun dealers last week in a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/APe93e7800172e4f259047f7e264be5c3c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">much publicized<\/a> series of stings. \u00a0I don&#8217;t have all the facts, but it appears to be a politically motivated set up. \u00a0It came just days after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/mayor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayor Bloomberg<\/a> announced his push to try and get Congress to <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2011\/02\/16\/mayor_bloomberg_kicks_off_anti-ille.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prohibit private firearms transfers<\/a>. \u00a0There is no way this is a coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially what Rice is trying to do is redefine what an <em>&#8220;assault weapon&#8221;<\/em> is by asserting that AR-15s with flash hiders removed and collapsible stocks pinned so that they cannot collapse are in violation of state law. \u00a0<a href=\"mailto:tking@nysrpa.org\">Tom<\/a> was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nranews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NRANews<\/a> last night and talked about it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:red;font-weight:bold;\">Error occurred when trying to fetch the file using wp_safe_remote_get(). A valid URL was not provided.<\/div>\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%3D3476&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=3476\">&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=3476\"><\/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=3476\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nassau D.A. Kathleen Rice arrested several Long Island gun dealers last week in a much publicized series of stings. \u00a0I don&#8217;t have all the facts, but it appears to be a politically motivated set up. \u00a0It came just days after Mayor Bloomberg announced his push to try and get Congress to prohibit private firearms transfers. 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