{"id":527,"date":"2009-12-23T08:47:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T13:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=527"},"modified":"2009-12-23T08:47:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T13:47:35","slug":"common-sense-and-regionally-varied-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"Common sense and regionally varied restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some more on Schumer’s<\/a> hunting trip from WNBC Ch.4<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“… The hunting story became legend in the Senate last month after Nelson<\/a> passed photographs of the orange-clad, gun-toting Harvard grad, dead bird in hand, around an amused caucus lunch. But it also belongs in the broader legend of Schumer, the political animal par excellence. \u00a0\u201cChuck always wants to know where the other guy is coming from,\u201d<\/strong> said Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)<\/a> …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is no way he could have said that with a straight face.<\/p>\n

“… His work on the Brady Bill\u2019s<\/a> handgun restriction turned him into, literally, a National Rifle Association<\/a> poster child. The NRA\u2019s favorite image pictures Schumer grinning under bright blue earmuffs as he demonstrates the deadliness of a stubby assault weapon<\/a>. \u201cHe just must have needed Nelson’s vote very badly to do that,\u201d said Tom King<\/a>, the president of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association<\/a>, who called Schumer \u201cpatently anti-gun.\u201d …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He did need Nelson’s vote really, really badly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“… Schumer says, however, that he favors only common sense and regionally varied restrictions on guns<\/strong>, and he has long bragged of winning, at summer camp, an NRA sharpshooting prize with a .22 rifle …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Common sense = New York City-style gun laws. \u00a0He does brag about his shooting medal too whenever he feels it would score him some political points. \u00a0For some reason, though, he doesn’t brag about when as State Assemblyman<\/a> he voted to gut the Sullivan Act<\/a> and make all of New York (and New York City<\/span>) right to carry. \u00a0I have the vote sheet of him doing that.<\/p>\n

“… \u201cIt surprised me he went out with Ben Nelson shooting, but it doesn\u2019t surprise me that he shot a couple of birds,\u201d said Jim Kessler, a former Schumer aide who later founded Americans for Gun Safety, a gun control group that was later folded into the group Third Way<\/a>. \u201cIn 1994, if Chuck thought the way to win the assault weapons ban<\/a> vote was to go out and hunt with [former Democratic Rep.] Bill Brewster<\/a> of Oklahoma and shoot three birds, he would have done it.\u201d …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Believe it.<\/p>\n