Titled: Assembly Bills Target Gun Violence
New York gives notice that it intends to commit suicide deepen its problems in this article outlining new proposed gun ban control laws.
Cracking Down on Illegal Street Gun Trafficking
The bill, sponsored by Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D-Scarsdale), requires stringent recordkeeping and reporting to prevent gun sales to criminals. Additionally, under terms of the legislation, gun dealers must implement a security plan, require employee training and prohibit minor's access to guns.
Besides the fact that selling guns to criminals is already a crime, records are already kept and the FBI is consulted on every dealer sale, this is just futher harassment of dealers and owners. I can't imagine a gun dealer that doesn't already have a security plan, training and access policies.
Banning Armor Piercing Ammunition
This measure, sponsored by Assemblyman David Koon seeks to rid New York streets of deadly armor piercing ammunition and ammunition that is designed to fragment or explode upon impact.
Most rifle ammunition pierces the type of armor issued to the police. Fragmenting ammunition is a safety feature designed to avoid pass-through injuries to bystanders and explosive ammunition is already strictly regulated.
Tracking Guns Involved In Crimes
Another bill included in the package would require law enforcement personnel to submit ballistic information to the new State Police Ballistic Identification Databank whenever spent bullets, shell casings or guns come into their possession.
And what a success all the other databases have been! Even country wide systems like Canada has have been huge, expensive failures, reducing funding for more traditional and effective policing.
Keeping Guns Out of the Hands of Violent Felons
Another bill would eliminate a loophole that allows a convicted violent felon to obtain a firearms license and possess a gun after being granted a legal waiver.
This should be a question for the issuer of the waivers, who should set fair policy, not a blanket law that allows no exceptions.
The Children's Weapon Accident Prevention Act
This legislation, sponsored by Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg (D-Long Beach), seeks to protect children from accidental shootings. Five new categories of crime would be created under the bill's provisions for negligent storage of a weapon.
Lock 'em up, unloaded, with the ammo stored elsewhere to avoid fines and jail time. Making self-defense weapons all but useless. Nothing like trying to unlock a gun, find the ammo, load and aim while someone is threatening you and your family.
Childproofing Firearms
This bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-East Setauket), would seek to reduce child-related shootings, particularly those tragedies of children shooting children. This bill would make it a Class A misdemeanor to sell guns without childproof features. Covered under provisions of the bill are pistols or revolvers manufactured 12 or more months after the effective date of the bill. Design features could include making the weapon more difficult to fire by adjusting the trigger resistance of the gun to at least a 10-pound pull, altering the firing mechanism so that an average five-year-old child's hand would be too small to operate the gun or to require a series of multiple motions in order to fire the gun.
10 pound trigger pulls make for lousy handguns, increasing the risk of badly-aimed shooting. This law is aiming to make guns more expensive, more difficult to use under stress and is a roundabout way of forcing manufacturers to make firearms just for New York or lose the right to sell there. With over 200 million firearms in circulation already in the US this is just another step onto the slippery slope of a total national ban.
Stopping Assault Weapons
This legislation, sponsored by Assemblyman John Lavelle (D-Staten Island), would ban assault weapons. Seeking to address the void when President Bush and Congress allowed the federal assault weapon ban to expire, the Assembly proposal would expand the definition of assault weapon to prohibit more of these deadly guns in New York - including guns that have been modified to work like assault weapons.
Under the gun-grabbers definition of "assault weapons", this would cover just about any semi-automatic firearm.
Banning 50-Caliber Weapons
Another proposal, sponsored by Assemblywoman Patricia Eddington (D-Patchogue), would ban 50-caliber sniper weapons, which can be used to disable commercial aircraft and helicopters and are powerful enough to penetrate steel plating.
Another law attempting to follow The Peoples Republic of California. Our right is to have military grade weapons, not sporting arms. The 2nd is NOT about hunting.
Domestic Violence
Sponsored by Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell (D-Manhattan), this measure seeks to protect victims of domestic violence by requiring criminal or family court judges to inquire about the existence and location of firearms owned or possessed by a defendant when an order of protection is sought.
Pick a crazy partner who thinks a piece of paper is going to protect them and your rights are gone forever. Not only will the court take away these rights, it will now be forced in enquire about the locations of all weapons in your possession.
Oh, how deluded these lawmakers prove themselves to be over and over again. I know I'm undoubtably preaching to the choir here, but laws do not affect criminals. That is why they are called criminals. Laws only affect victims, making more of them and making their right to a peaceful and safe life more difficult.
One argument is to allow the states to pass whatever they want and then see where the people move to as the cities decay into chaos. Unfortunately while we can use information to choose a place to live, once you are there, it is a significant burden to uproot and escape the madness. Once one state starts to impinge on our rights, the others often follow.
Please do whatever you can to stop the madness now, before it is too late.