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I've written about Julie Killian earlier. She's Marc Molinaro's choice for Lt Gov.
At the SCOPE pig roast I had a chance to talk privately with her about the Safe Act and her supposedly support of it.
It turns out that we have the same position concerning the Safe Act. Face to face, she is not anti-gun, at least that is what I walked away with.
I watched in dismay as thousands of Repeal Safe Act signs sprouted up all over western NY at a cost approaching $80,000. A few of us knew there was not a snow ball's chance in hell of it ever being repealed, at least not completely and that $80,000 could have been better spent supporting the NY Senate race. That's the real issue. Many of you may not agree and that is ok.
Julie Killian's told me that she believed we could get parts of the Safe Act repealed or at least toned down. With the power of the NY down-state controlled anti-gun assembly, that would be the best we could hope for. I agree. Of course, the governor could take some of the heat off the Safe Act as well. Julie is not opposed to getting parts of the Safe Act out of the way.
I doubt we will ever see the end of the 5-year renewal for hand guns. The big reason is that county clerk's have hundred of dusty file cabinets filled with hand gun permits some of which are for owners well over 100 years old. Where are those "registered" hand guns now? It will take the State Police years to sort these all out. Instead of over 50 odd points of registration with no common depository of records, we will have a central data base for every legal hand gun in NY. Not a bad idea as long as it stops with hand guns and the NY legislature doesn't get the idea of doing the same for long guns and down the road, ammunition.
What we can hope to change in the Safe Act would be the necessity of getting access to records where challenges are made for accuracy. Now it oft times takes a FOIL request and expensive legal fees to unravel.
The definition of assault rifles needs tweaking, badly.
The magazine limit of 7 rounds is a joke. The western judicial district of NY threw it out, back to 10 while the eastern district kept the 7. Don't get caught with more than 7 rounds in your mag in Onondaga County.
Sitting in limbo is the ammo provision in the Safe Act. It did prevent anyone from getting ammo through the mails. But the ammo registration part and need for background checks for purchase is waiting for funding and technology to catch up. It is a far-reaching part of the Safe Act in that it goes into reloading and components as well. When it kicks in, you will not be able to share ammo with your hunting buddies or transport ammo across state lines.
We spin our wheels talking about repeal when the real issue is control of the NY State Senate. It's bad. We do not have a simple 1 vote majority. We now have one down state senator who votes with our side and that gives us a temporary 1 vote majority. Andrew Cuomo has pulled out all the stops to get this one guy out of his way. If he succeeds, and/or we lose one upstate or Long Island senate seat, the ball game is over.
Yeah, I said over. There are a slew of anti-gun bills passed already by the assembly. All they need is to get pass the senate and the governor will sign them into law into a heart beat.
Ok, where are we going to go to keep our guns and our sanity? Well, it turns out that if we can get some one in the governor's chair, he can veto any and all anti-gun bills coming across his desk regardless of what the legislature does. It's a fail safe situation. We can make the change. We almost succeeded 4 years ago. We can this time around if, and that is a very big IF, we can get our people to believe their vote will count.
So we have the Molinaro-Killian ticket. We may not get to see him in action up here during the campaign. But rest assured they are out there raising thousands of dollars necessary for radio, TV spots and direct mail campaigns to get their (read our) message across.
Talk it up with your families and hunting buddies. Anyone who owns a gun of any kind is in jeopardy of losing it for sure and needs to get to the voting booth in November.
Every vote counts--
At the SCOPE pig roast I had a chance to talk privately with her about the Safe Act and her supposedly support of it.
It turns out that we have the same position concerning the Safe Act. Face to face, she is not anti-gun, at least that is what I walked away with.
I watched in dismay as thousands of Repeal Safe Act signs sprouted up all over western NY at a cost approaching $80,000. A few of us knew there was not a snow ball's chance in hell of it ever being repealed, at least not completely and that $80,000 could have been better spent supporting the NY Senate race. That's the real issue. Many of you may not agree and that is ok.
Julie Killian's told me that she believed we could get parts of the Safe Act repealed or at least toned down. With the power of the NY down-state controlled anti-gun assembly, that would be the best we could hope for. I agree. Of course, the governor could take some of the heat off the Safe Act as well. Julie is not opposed to getting parts of the Safe Act out of the way.
I doubt we will ever see the end of the 5-year renewal for hand guns. The big reason is that county clerk's have hundred of dusty file cabinets filled with hand gun permits some of which are for owners well over 100 years old. Where are those "registered" hand guns now? It will take the State Police years to sort these all out. Instead of over 50 odd points of registration with no common depository of records, we will have a central data base for every legal hand gun in NY. Not a bad idea as long as it stops with hand guns and the NY legislature doesn't get the idea of doing the same for long guns and down the road, ammunition.
What we can hope to change in the Safe Act would be the necessity of getting access to records where challenges are made for accuracy. Now it oft times takes a FOIL request and expensive legal fees to unravel.
The definition of assault rifles needs tweaking, badly.
The magazine limit of 7 rounds is a joke. The western judicial district of NY threw it out, back to 10 while the eastern district kept the 7. Don't get caught with more than 7 rounds in your mag in Onondaga County.
Sitting in limbo is the ammo provision in the Safe Act. It did prevent anyone from getting ammo through the mails. But the ammo registration part and need for background checks for purchase is waiting for funding and technology to catch up. It is a far-reaching part of the Safe Act in that it goes into reloading and components as well. When it kicks in, you will not be able to share ammo with your hunting buddies or transport ammo across state lines.
We spin our wheels talking about repeal when the real issue is control of the NY State Senate. It's bad. We do not have a simple 1 vote majority. We now have one down state senator who votes with our side and that gives us a temporary 1 vote majority. Andrew Cuomo has pulled out all the stops to get this one guy out of his way. If he succeeds, and/or we lose one upstate or Long Island senate seat, the ball game is over.
Yeah, I said over. There are a slew of anti-gun bills passed already by the assembly. All they need is to get pass the senate and the governor will sign them into law into a heart beat.
Ok, where are we going to go to keep our guns and our sanity? Well, it turns out that if we can get some one in the governor's chair, he can veto any and all anti-gun bills coming across his desk regardless of what the legislature does. It's a fail safe situation. We can make the change. We almost succeeded 4 years ago. We can this time around if, and that is a very big IF, we can get our people to believe their vote will count.
So we have the Molinaro-Killian ticket. We may not get to see him in action up here during the campaign. But rest assured they are out there raising thousands of dollars necessary for radio, TV spots and direct mail campaigns to get their (read our) message across.
Talk it up with your families and hunting buddies. Anyone who owns a gun of any kind is in jeopardy of losing it for sure and needs to get to the voting booth in November.
Every vote counts--
