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NY may reverse new gun law — and for good reason

Mar. 21, 2013 9:50am Meredith Jessup

State lawmakers in New York rushed to quickly pass gun control legislation after the deadly Sandy Hook shooting in December — so quickly, in fact, that they forgot to exempt law enforcement officials from the strict controls on weapons and ammunition. But now, their hurried legislation is presenting further unintended consequences and the law may be significantly revised.

Why?

Because the law seeks to regulate that which does not exist.

NY may reverse new gun law and for good reason

NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo (AP)

The Utica Observer-Dispatch reports (via Weasel Zippers):

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday the state is not rolling back the nation’s most stringent gun control measure by keeping 10-bullet magazines legal, even though they would have been outlawed in a bill that passed earlier this year.

Cuomo and legislative leaders in state budget talks plan to change the law that was passed in January before a provision kicks in banning the sale of 10-bullet magazines. The gun measure outlaws the purchase of any magazines that carry more than seven bullets, the nation’s most stringent limit. That would have put a severe limit on the sale of guns with industry standard 10-bullet magazines when the provision of the law went onto effect on April 15.

“There is no such thing as a seven-bullet magazine. That doesn’t exist, so you really have no practical option,” Cuomo said. He told reporters that any suggestion this will be a rollback of the law is “wholly without basis.”

Cuomo said the state needs to allow the sale of handguns and rifles with 10-shot magazines, but New Yorkers will still be required to keep no more than seven bullets in them, except at shooting ranges and competitions. Violating the seven-bullet limit is a misdemeanor, but a violation if the magazine was in the owner’s home.

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millerlight
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 9:11pm
ny should be give to chinese to pay national det

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no_kool_aid
Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:23pm
Wow, the anti gun crowd has no idea what they’re talking about. What a surprise. BTW they are cartridges not bullets. If a gun has only bullets, it is called a sling shot.

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DarrenB
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:35pm
Comparing violence rates among different countries doesn’t really reveal much. We can say that the U.S. has a higher homicide rate among “developed” countries, but does that really tell us anything? Great Britain has a far higher rate of violent crime. Their homicide rate is low, but it always has been low. Besides, they still have gun crime! They even had a mass shooting in SW England a couple of years ago. How about that gun control? Violence is violence. Much of the genocidal murder in Rwanda some years ago was perpetrated with machetes. Gun control would not have mattered. So, in fact it really doesn’t do us any good to identify what implements are used by criminals to commit murder. Murder is going to occur because of evil in the human heart. It may be an interesting exercise to compare crime among nations, but all it really reveals is cultural differences that cannot be changed by legislation one way or the other. Why? Because human nature at its most basic level is the same wherever you go. Only some of the details of a particular culture may result in moderate behavioral difference. Really, the only laws we really should have are those that provide recompense for bad behavior and that’s it. Legislating possession and characteristics of inanimate objects is utterly without merit.

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afleetcommand
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:50pm
We get it. Most of the rural counties have passed resolutions for repeal. Problem is they have for so many years used our tax dollars to build Their voter base …. to take more from us to build yet more of them to the point us tax paying land owners/home owner types are a manority. Simple as that. Even at the local level, over 50 percent of the property tax is used for State Mandated Social Services designed to build dependency…and that is before the school tax! And they own the media, education system, legal system…the solution is to create a “District of New York City” ! Let Cuomo and Bloomberg run that mess…..leave us along here in the rest of the state. Take those mandates and throw them right after Cuomo before the door hits him in the ass..then we have a fighting chance. Until then we are screwed. But we get it…and we are trapped here cause who wants to buy into this place so we can sell out!

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skyguy51
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:29am
Cuomo is beginning to catch up to Biden in demonstrating stupidity in politicians. He is definitely Democratic VP material.

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txswalker
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 12:02pm
LOL…I feel sorry for all the sane people in New york, you guys are looking like a bunch of friggin idiots…a law to load no more than 7 bullets in a 10 round magazine is just dumb. you guys need to get rid of that wack job before you get a reputation like califonia or colorado

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- mom4times
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:10pm
  i wish we could get him impeached…..our main problem is that stupid tail…..needs to be “docked”, but from Albany down
  
  I’m also against the “exemption” they forgot for law enforcement…..law-abiding citizens need to be exempt which means the law needs to be file 13′nd
  
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- donkeykong
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 1:45am
  I still would like to see a law that says if you swear
  you DO NOT own a gun that you be required to post
  a sign on your lawn saying so. This could be checked
  against current registration lists, and failure to comply
  with sign placement would be subject to a $100 fine.
  Then, if you shoot an intruder, you would go directly
  to jail, not pass “GO”, and not collect $200, for lying
  about your gun ownership status.
  Watch guns sales go then!!!
  
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LEFT_NY_4_GOOD
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 10:56am
Thank you Andrew for making me feel much safer with a 7 bullet limit, I am assured that all of the gang members that do not have to worry about “stop and frisk” will only carry 7 bullets.

Wake up————-the problem isn’t the gun or the amount of ammo, its the people that do not obey these useless laws you push through for political self serving reasons and not the law abiding citizen that are forced to obey your brain farts.

You and your lot of limo-liberals are the main reason I left NY.

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