At 2:00pm today elected officials and gun control organizations will call upon Mayor Eric Adams to designate all open streets across the City as “Gun Free Open Streets,” Steps of Thurgood Marshall Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, Manhattan.
Everytown’s lobbyists in Albany have been working on the following bills so far this session:
A-710/S-182, Relates to providing a civil action for deprivation of rights.
A-2105/S-214, Expands eligibility for victims and survivors of crime to access victim compensation funds.
A-2893/S-580...
Yes. Big Chief Fudd Bill Conners won't speak out against the lead hunting ban even though he knows full well the Hudson Valley and watershed areas are full of natural lead.
The Federated Sportsmen’s Clubs of Ulster County will be hosting a livestream meeting with GOA Exec. V.P. Erich Pratt and attorney for Antonyuk case Stephen Stamboulieh. The range of discussion will be centered around the CCIA lawsuit.
Livestream will start @ 7:00pm tonight...
A-2209/S-816, Amends the underlying chapter by making technical edits to enable State law to better track New York City's law on imitation weapons, was signed by the Governor.
Has local co-sponsors --> Senator Markey Joins Senator Menendez, Representative Lee in Renewed Legislative Effort to Require the Preservation and Disclosure of Federal Gun Records
Here are the bills New Yorkers Against Gun Violence are pushing for this legislative session:
A-2105/S-214, Expands eligibility for victims and survivors of crime to access victim compensation funds by removing the mandatory law enforcement reporting requirement and providing alternative forms...
With respect to the Republican brief, neither of the legislative leaders Will Barclay and Robert Ortt sent out any sort of press release announcing their brief. Compare that to this, “Congresswoman Claudia Tenney Leads Congressional Amicus Brief to Supreme Court in Defense of Second Amendment...
At 11:30am today State Senators Zellnor Myrie, Brad Hoylman-Sigal, and Julia Salazar and Assemblyman Demond Meeks will join New Yorkers Against Gun Violence and other gun control advocates at a rally, Million Dollar Staircase, Third floor, state Capitol, Albany.
From a legislative, political and public relations standpoint they do nothing for New York. It's not that they can't. They see 2A as a partisan issue and absolutely, positively will not talk with Democrats.
They have some value with legal actions, but I think either SAF or FPC could easily...
Nope.
The only reason for the BoD keeping Wayne and his cronies around at this point has to be because they believe getting rid of him and cleaning house would be more damaging to the NRA corporation and to BoD members themselves. Something very big has not yet come to light.
A second bill has been to the City Council requiring the NYPD establish a so-called gun buy-back program, INT 916-2023.
The wording is a little different from INT 892-2023 which was introduced a few weeks ago.