NY Sheriffs to Gov Cuomo: Enforce Your Own Gun Laws

DrMike

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Nov 8, 2006
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Fascinating article. It begins this way:

Reason knocks this one out of the park:

People tend to forget that the state of New York is really at least two distinct entities: the city and its surrounding bedroom communities on the one hand, and the rest of the state on the other. Earlier this year, Governor Andrew Cuomo (smirking at right) and the urban contingent rammed through new gun restrictions that were so well-crafted that lawmakers had to quickly revisit the legislation to exempt law-enforcement officers and to revise the law’s requirement for (almost non-existent) seven-round magazines to accommodate ten-round magazines into which state residents are only allowed to load seven cartridges. (Watching New York government in action is less like seeing sausage being made and more like observing chimpanzees mold mud pies.) Now the rest of the state is having its say. Upstate sheriffs, under pressure from enraged constituents, say the state’s gun controls are unconstitutional, and they won’t enforce the damned law.

New York’s SAFE Act was embarrassingly incompetent, allegedly written by Mayor Bloomberg’s gun-grabbing fanatics at Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), and may be unconstitutional on both state and federal grounds.

The full article can be read at: http://bearingarms.com/new-york-she...force-your-own-damn-gun-laws-because-we-wont/.
 
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