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Late night, no deal: New York Dems still working on gun control bill

July 1, 2022 by Cam Edwards Leave a Comment

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to call lawmakers back to Albany for an “extraordinary session” where they would swiftly approve new restrictions on the right to carry hasn’t exactly gone as the governor had hoped. After spending much of the day behind closed doors working on the details of the legislation, Democrats weren’t able to vote on the bill or even produce legislative text on Thursday, forcing them to adjourn late Thursday night and reconvene Friday morning.

The delay won’t change the ultimate outcome of the bill, which will likely sail through the Democratic-dominated legislature before being signed into law by Hochul, but it is embarrassing for the governor, who told reporters shortly after the Supreme Court handed down its decision that declared the state’s “may issue” concealed carry laws unconstitutional that she and her team had been working on a legislative response for several months. That’s more than enough time to have drafted a bill, but amazingly it seems like lawmakers hadn’t done much if any work on an actual bill until they started their closed-door negotiations Thursday morning.

The Albany Times-Union reported late Thursday evening that the final language of the anti-gun measures had been agreed to, and Republicans were less than impressed by what they saw and the sausage-making that went into the legislation.

Senate Republicans read draft bill language before Senate Democrats called it a night.

Republicans were irked by the language and the manner in which it arrived to them. Democrats were frustrated with how long the night went, looking toward debates on mayoral control of New York City schools as a factor.

“For the governor to call us down here with no bill. She had days to prepare it. That tells you all you needed to know. It’s all politics and not about policy,” state Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt said Thursday night. He added that he thought it would “not withstand legal scrutiny.”

Hochul says she’s been working with “experts and think tanks” (i.e. gun control activists and organizations) on the legislation to ensure that it passes muster with the courts, but Democratic lawmakers know that lawsuits are likely coming as soon as Hochul signs the bill into law.

“With this Supreme Court, it’s anybody’s guess. They’re destroying this country one decision at a time,” Deputy Senate Majority Leader Michael Gianaris said.

Gianaris thinks whatever comes out for the special session will be subjected to a lawsuit.

The proposed law bars gun permits for people with a history of dangerous behavior, requires background checks for ammunition purchases, updates gun storage laws, and bans guns in bars and restaurants unless a sign that says they’re allowed is posted.

“We’re trying to do the maximum we can within the restrictions and the handcuffs that the Supreme Court has put on us. But we absolutely intend to make it as difficult as possible for the wrong people to get their hands on guns,” Gianaris said.

The bill also bans guns on subways and mass transit, along with other locations.

“Places where children gather, schools, colleges, universities, houses of worship, polling places,” State Assembly Member Charles Lavone said.

The public still hasn’t been able to take a look at the legislation, but there are reports that the proposed 15 hours of live fire training has been reduced to two hours, along with more than a dozen hours of classroom time. That’s definitely a step in the right direction, but there are still going to be major issues with the number of places Democrats want to make off-limits to concealed carry and other aspects of the bill.

While Sen. Gianaris says the goal is to make it as difficult as possible for the “wrong people” to get their hands on guns, the real intent of the legislation is to keep average New Yorkers from exercising their right to carry a firearm in self-defense in as many ways as possible; both in terms of who can obtain a license and where they can carry if they receive one. That’s going to be a problem for New York once their secret statute is challenged in court because that attitude flies in the face of the Supreme Court’s decision, but for now it’s full-steam ahead for the anti-gun politicians hellbent on keeping the right to bear arms out of reach of most of their constituents.

Filed Under: <![CDATA[Kathy Hochul]]>, <![CDATA[New York gun control]]>, <![CDATA[NYSRPA v. Bruen]]>, <![CDATA[right to carry]]>, <![CDATA[Second Amendment]]>, <![CDATA[Video]]>, Bearing Arms, News

Hochul displays anti-gun hypocrisy for all to see

July 1, 2022 by Tom Knighton Leave a Comment

The right to keep and bear arms is just that, a right. This means that in order to curtail it, it’s on the other side to show definitively that such curtailment is absolutely necessary.

We shouldn’t have to show anything to justify keeping our rights. Yet all too often, that’s precisely what we have to do. We’re forced to show how concealed carry doesn’t lead to increase shootings or how gun ownership doesn’t correspond to higher homicide rates.

Yet New York Gov. Kathy Hochul displays all the hypocrisy one should expect from the anti-gun side of things.

Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she doesn’t “need to have numbers” to back up her strict gun control proposals.

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Speaking at a press briefing Wednesday, Hochul said after the high court overturned the law, gun owners would carry more.

A reporter then asked whether Hochul had any data to support her gun control push.

“Do you have the numbers to show that it’s the concealed carry permit holders that are committing crimes? Because the lawful gun owner will say that you’re attacking the wrong person, that it’s really the people getting the guns illegally that are causing the violence not the people going and getting the permit legally. Do you have the numbers?”

“I don’t need to have numbers. I don’t need to have a data point to say this. I know that I have a responsibility to the people of this state to have sensible gun safety laws, and this one was not devised by the Hochul administration. It comes out of an administration from 1908. I don’t need a data point to say I have a responsibility to protect the people of this state.”

This is a constitutionally protected right, one that specifically states that it shall not be infringed, and she’s going to stand there and say she doesn’t need to provide evidence that her proposals are absolutely necessary?

Like hell she doesn’t.

I vehemently oppose any infringement on any of our rights, but I get that many people don’t feel the same way. However, at a minimum, people should demand lawmakers show some kind of evidence that any curtailment of those rights is absolutely necessary.

Yet Hochul stood there and said she didn’t need to do any such thing.

She says she has a responsibility to protect the people of New York, but where’s the evidence that this actually will? Where’s the evidence that gun control actually does protect the people of a given state. As we’ve already seen, much of the “evidence” out there is suspect.

But Hochul won’t even provide that to defend her assertion that gun control is absolutely necessary.

I’d ask why the mainstream media isn’t hammering her for this, but I already know why. They asked the question, sure, but there doesn’t seem to have been any outcry from them.

Which would have been a different case entirely if this had been about infringing on freedom of the press and we all know it.

What they don’t get is that curtailments of the Second Amendment will inevitably lead to curtailments of all other freedoms.

Meanwhile, they’ll try and put the onus on us to present evidence as to why we shouldn’t have our rights curtailed when that’s really not how any of this should work.

Honestly, there’s enough hypocrisy to go around. It’s not just Hochul.

Filed Under: <![CDATA[anti-gun hypocrisy]]>, <![CDATA[Gun Control]]>, <![CDATA[Gun Rights]]>, <![CDATA[Guns]]>, <![CDATA[Kathy Hochul]]>, <![CDATA[Video]]>, Bearing Arms, News

New York Times opinion editor wants a gun

June 30, 2022 by Tom Knighton Leave a Comment

The New York Times isn’t exactly a right-leaning publication. On its pages through the years, the official line seems to have been that guns are bad and have no place in our society.

Granted, they can’t do much beyond pontificate about how they know better than the rest of us, but they do that in spades.

So imagine my surprise when I saw a headline, written by the New York Times opinion editor, about why she wants a gun.

I lived in New York for a decade without fearing for my personal safety. But in recent months, I have been terrified. In May, I filed for and received a temporary order of protection against a former partner.

More than five million American women alive today have reported being threatened with a gun, shot or shot at by an intimate partner, and more than half of the perpetrators of mass shootings in the past decade shot a family member, intimate partner or former intimate partner as part of their rampage. Every month, 70 women on average are shot and killed by an intimate partner. But states like mine make it legally cumbersome to defend yourself with a legally purchased handgun.

If my life is ever in danger, I want to be able to protect myself with a gun. And now, thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, I am one step closer to carrying one.

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It is exhausting to live in fear of someone who knows your habits showing up at your door. My former partner refused to accept the end of our relationship. As I detailed in my petition for an order of protection, for the better part of the past year, he has sent alarming and frequent messages to me, my family and friends through a number of platforms. Even after I asked him not to contact me and my loved ones, he reached out to my family and friends and asked them to persuade me to speak with him. This sort of controlling and obsessive behavior is alarming enough on its own, but also has made me fear what else he is capable of.

In April, he printed out dozens of photos of me and friends, and recorded a YouTube video of himself slowly flipping through them while reciting a poem he’d written. I broke down sobbing; it felt like there was no escape. For the next several weeks, fearful that he would show up at my home, I slept with a sheathed hiking knife under my pillow. My friends made fun of me for doing so, and with good reason: Even if my harasser had managed to enter my apartment and threaten my life, what was I going to do? Go Rambo on a man practically twice my size?

Laura E. Adkins, the opinion editor for the New York Times, sounds like a lot of other women out there.

The truth is, she was right to be concerned about whether the hunting knife would be enough. Also in truth, it probably wouldn’t have unless she happened to surprise him with it.

And that’s the reality for countless women.

Meanwhile, the most effective tool for them to use to defend themselves? It’s a firearm, the very same thing many such women are told explicitly not to get. “He’ll just take it from you and use it on you,” they might say.

However, I’ve always found that reasoning suspect.

For one thing, if he intends to harm her, she’s already at a huge disadvantage and is already likely to be killed. Yet having a gun may dissuade her attacker or, at least, allow her to stop him from injuring or killing her. That should be a win in anyone’s book.

Plus, the main way he’d be likely to take the gun from her is if she refuses to pull the trigger. If he’s a threat, she shouldn’t have any such refusal.

Now, Adkins isn’t really “one of us.” She goes on to applaud the bipartisan gun control deal, for example, but she’s also one of a growing number of liberals who are finding their way toward gun ownership. It’s especially interesting because, as I can’t mention enough, she’s the opinion editor for the New York Times.

That’s not the kind of person I expected to write what is, for the most part, a fairly pro-gun op-ed. I find it kind of refreshing, in that regard, I only wish she wasn’t dealing with such a horror in the first place.

Filed Under: <![CDATA[Gun Control]]>, <![CDATA[Gun Rights]]>, <![CDATA[Guns]]>, <![CDATA[Laura E. Adkins]]>, <![CDATA[New York Times]]>, <![CDATA[Video]]>, Bearing Arms, News

New York gun group promises swift response to new carry restrictions

June 30, 2022 by Cam Edwards Leave a Comment

Full disclosure: I was hoping to share an interview that I conducted with Tom King, the executive director of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, on today’s Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co but the internet ate my homework. Thanks to technical issues I can’t share the video of our conversation, but I can at least relay what Tom told me about the group’s anticipated response to New York Democrats’ attempt to undermine the Supreme Court’s decision in NYSPRA v. Bruen by passing a host of new restrictions on the right to carry, including widespread bans on carrying in publicly accessible spaces, onerous new training requirements, and more.

King says NYSPRA is ready to go back to court to ensure that that victory won at the Supreme Court a week ago isn’t undone by anti-gun lawmakers, who were set to introduce and approve their new restrictions on the very same day without any public input or testimony. In fact, as of 10:30 this morning King says he’d been told that none of the Republicans in the New York State Senate had been able to see the legislation that they’d be voting on within just a few hours. Apparently that’s because there was no bill at that point. Check out this update from around 4 p.m. Eastern:

Three hours after the special legislative session in Albany officially began at noon, the gun bill and proposed Equality Amendment were still being hammered out behind closed doors.

Sen. Zellnor Myrie, a Brooklyn Democrat, emerged from discussions around 3 p.m. and told reporters the gun legislation was nearly completed, with some details still unresolved but agreement among leaders of the two chambers on the overall content.

“I think we’re very, very close,” he said.

Myrie said the proposal was so vital to public safety that lawmakers and the administration were focused on ensuring it would comply with the Supreme Court decision and withstand any legal challenges. Among the topics still under discussion was what types of public places would be classified as “sensitive areas” where carrying guns is forbidden.

“This is such an important public safety bill; we want to make sure that it isn’t subject to attack,” he said.

Oh, it’s going to be subject to “attack” by Second Amendment supporters, and if the law’s intent is that the average New Yorker is prevented from exercising their right to carry in public (with a few “extraordinary” exceptions for “sensitive places” for the purposes of self-defense, then it’s going to get tossed.

It’s funny… for decades now the state has had their “may issue” laws in place and never saw fit to require any sort of training or limit the places where the chosen few could carry a firearm. As of today, in fact, the 4,000 or so New York City residents who possess a handgun carry permit are free to take their firearms with them on subways and buses, but now that the Supreme Court has ruled that everyday New Yorkers, not just the powerful, wealthy, and well-connected (as well as a paltry few who could demonstrate a “justifiable need”) can carry a gun to protect themselves from violent criminals, Gov. Kathy Hochul and her fellow Democrats have suddenly found it necessary to impose a host of new restrictions that they’re apparently coming up with on the fly.

Anne: Do you have numbers to show that it’s the concealed carry permit holders that are committing crimes?

Hochul: I don’t need to have numbers. I don’t need to have a data point to say this. I know that I have a responsibility for this state to have sensible gun safety laws. pic.twitter.com/NiCp7POO88

— Anne McCloy (@AnneMcCloyNews) June 29, 2022

If these laws are so sensible, why didn’t Democrats try to put them in place before now? If they’re so sensible, why can’t the public weigh in on them before lawmakers approve them? In fact, how can you call something sensible when you haven’t even written it yet?

What Hochul and her anti-gun allies in the legislature are doing is nothing more than defying the Supreme Court and continuing to put the lives and safety of New Yorkers at risk by putting in place laws that are designed to inhibit their right to bear arms in self-defense. Meanwhile, what happens when one of their own allegedly violates the state’s gun control laws? They’re allowed to avoid prosecution and felony charges, naturally.

Tom King knows how frustrating this is for New York gun owners, but he encouraged them to “keep the faith” during our conversation today. As long as the Democrats in charge of the state continue to violate the Second Amendment rights of residents, King says the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association will haul them into court and hold them to account.

Filed Under: <![CDATA[bear arms]]>, <![CDATA[Cam &amp; Co]]>, <![CDATA[Cam Edwards]]>, <![CDATA[Gun Control]]>, <![CDATA[Gun Owners]]>, <![CDATA[Kathy Hochul]]>, <![CDATA[New York State Rifle &amp; Pistol Association]]>, <![CDATA[NYSPRA v. Bruen]]>, <![CDATA[right to carry]]>, <![CDATA[Self Defense]]>, <![CDATA[Tom King]]>, <![CDATA[Video]]>, Bearing Arms, News

New NJ gun control bills head to Murphy for signing

June 30, 2022 by Tom Knighton Leave a Comment

The Bruen decision was always going to upset a lot of apple carts. We all knew it, even before the decision came out. There was no way this particular Court was likely to side with New York on this issue. It just wasn’t happening.

And it didn’t.

Now, many states are scrambling to pass new gun control laws. One, New Jersey, is already at the point of sending a bill to Gov. Phil Murphy for signing.

New Jersey is on the verge of further tightening its already strict gun laws as the state Legislature passed a package of bills Wednesday to increase firearm regulations and Gov. Phil Murphy vowed immediately to sign them, ending a long stalemate on the issue.

Under the seven proposals — many of which Murphy has sought for more than a year — New Jersey would mandate people receive firearm training to obtain a gun permit, ban .50 caliber rifles, require micro-stamping technology, stipulate new residents moving from other states register firearms, regulate handgun ammunition, crack down on ghost guns, and make it easier to sue gun manufacturers and dealers over gun crimes in the state.

So, let’s take a look at these proposals one by one.

Training Mandate

Now, this one is interesting because Bruen didn’t actually close the door on training requirements. It probably should have, but it did argue that such a requirement couldn’t be overly onerous. The bill itself doesn’t actually dictate a length for training, saying only “a course of instruction approved by the superintendent in the lawful and safe handling and storage of firearms.”

In other words, they may well be a simple two-hour course that deals just with the basics.

Or the superintendent may only approve courses with 40 hours of classroom instruction and another 20 in range time, which would be going too far.

Whether or not this would survive really depends on what form the approved training consists of.

.50 Caliber Rifle Ban

This one is particularly stupid to me because we’ve never seen a crime committed with such a firearm. At least, not since the days of cap lock muzzleloaders being the primary firearms available.

So why is this ban a thing? Because anti-Second Amendment lawmakers are terrified of such guns. They’re great for defending against tyranny, which makes them too awful for these folks to contemplate.

However, based on my reading of Bruen, I’m not entirely sure this would survive.

While .50 caliber rifles aren’t as common as AR-15s, they may be in common enough use to get this law overturned.

Microstamping

They’re passing this. Expect nothing to come of it since microstamping doesn’t actually work as advertised and likely never will.

This may be the law, but I expect reality to set in within a few years, particularly since this law may well create a de facto gun ban, which I doubt the Supreme Court will take kindly to.

Especially following Bruen.

Requiring New Residents to Register Firearms

Figure the odds of this actually happening.

Look, if someone moves into New Jersey with the intention of staying forever, they probably will. If someone is only there for a couple of years–say, military or something–then I suspect many will just pretend the guns are stored out of state.

Plus, registries really are unconstitutional in the first place. No one should be forced to tell the government what weapons they have with which they can defend themselves from the government. That flies in the face of what the Founding Fathers intended.

Handgun Ammo Regulation

This requires ammunition dealers to keep a record of who buys ammo and then provide that record to the state police.

Congratulations, New Jersey. Black market types all over the state are looking forward to this new and exciting business opportunity as people go across state lines to buy up ammo, drive back, then sell the ammo to those who don’t want to show up on those records.

Nicely done.

“Crack down” on “Ghost Guns”

Homemade firearms are the scapegoat for every governmental failure imaginable right now. They represent a tiny fraction of firearms used in criminal offenses, yet are treated as if they’re the reason we have high crime.

This is nothing more than an attempt to look like they’re doing something without actually doing anything.

Gun Industry Liability

This is going to be another attempt to try and blame gun companies and dealers, and their marketing, for violent crimes. The problem is that they generally don’t require the bad guy to have even seen the marketing, which I don’t think would survive a legal challenge.

Then there’s the idea that Bruen may actually have gutted this kind of thing.

So, all in all, New Jersey is going to push more and more gun control in spite of Bruen, the Constitution, and reality.

What else is new?

Filed Under: <![CDATA[Gun Control]]>, <![CDATA[Gun Rights]]>, <![CDATA[Guns]]>, <![CDATA[new jersey]]>, <![CDATA[Phil Murphy]]>, <![CDATA[Video]]>, Bearing Arms, News

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