Bob’s Gun Exchange was sold and became Rix gun Exchange. It never really got going and was on a slow down hill ride. It always had less and less stock. I still have pictures on my website of the inside of Bob’s when it was full of stock. Rix was closed in the end of 2011. It is for rent.
CLICK HERE FOR THE OLD WEBSITE
The RixGunExchange.com website is now for ACE Investigations in Chester.
This year’s Orange County Friends of the NRA Dinner is going to be on March 3rd in New Windsor. I won the top prize last year and hope to win another gun or two this year.
It is going to be held at The Meadowbrook Lodge in New Windsor so the food should be great.
For more info go to the OCFSC.org website. FRIENDS OF THE NRA DINNER, 2012
The gun show is coming to town and don’t forget to go. The Orange County Sportsmens Federation will have a table at the show selling raffle tickets and tickets to the Friends of the NRA Dinner. I will be at Gander Mtn. doing the same thing.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND A $1 OFF COUPON
I got the numbers from the last few years for new pistol licenses issued in Orange County. This is for new applications and does not include dealers who have to renew their license.
YEAR NEW
2011 993
2010 1,170
2009 1,000
2008 700
We should have more applications but it is my understanding that the Sheriff’s Department is sitting on several hundred applications. Not all of it is their fault but just lack of manpower to process all of the applications.
2004 422
2003 431
2002 600 (Retired NYC Police)
2001 500 (Retired NYC Police)
2000 374
1999 326
Thanks to The Truth About Guns for this found tape of the commercial
Menino and Bloomberg – The Lost First Take
I am going to be selling NRA memberships at the White Plains gun show this weekend, Feb. 4 & 5. Stop by and say HI if you are at the show.
For more info go to: NorthEastGunShows.com
With all of the news about people from out of state that have a CCW being arrested and facing 3 1/2 years in jail for having a handgun in NY and NYC, I was wondering what punishment should be in store for a NYC or NY State resident who does not have a handgun license at all not just having a handgun but who ends up shooting the handgun?
Call the press and have pictures of the event and a news article about them shooting the guns but leave out that all those who shot a handgun without a license were doing so illegally and who ever supplied the guns and assisted them was committing a felony and they could all be locked up for much more than the 3 1/2 years that you get for just having a gun. That is what Police Commissioner Ray Kelly did in 2010 at a NYPD firing range in the Bronx. Attending and also committing a felony were 15 members of the NYC City Council including Speaker Christine Quinn. Somehow I don’t think that any of the anti-gun City Council members including Speaker Quinn, Councilman Peter Vallone (D-Queens), chairman of the Public Safety Committee, Councilman Michael Nelson (D-Brooklyn), Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn), a member of the council’s liberal Progressive Caucus and other members of the City Council have handgun licenses.
That leads us to one question. Do all or some of those 15 people have handgun licenses? If they have a license then how hypocritical is it of them have a license and then make it as hard as possible for everyone else to have a handgun license. If any of them does not have a license then why isn’t the DA charging them and having Commissioner Ray Kelly and those who helped them arrested and charged with illegal transfer of handguns to people who they know do not have a license? Why is Mayor Bloomburg not saying anything about such a flagrant violation of NY State and NY City gun laws? After all, as we have seen with the out of state people who stupidly thought that they could bring a handgun into NY or NYC, ignorance of the law is no excuse.
By KEVIN FASICK and SALLY GOLDENBERG
Last Updated: 10:55 AM, July 9, 2010 Posted: 3:04 AM, July 9, 2010
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn gave it her best shot.
She was one of 15 legislators who learned firsthand yesterday what it’s like to shoot a weapon and be a cop on the street — after being invited by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to the NYPD firing range in The Bronx.
Kelly and his officers schooled the council members on using guns in simulated crime situations designed to give the lawmakers a better understanding of what cops face. He had invited all 51 members shortly after The Post reported that a bill had been introduced in Albany requiring cops to shoot to wound, not kill.
The bill, drafted in the wake of Sean Bell’s controversial police-shooting death, infuriated cops. It would force officers to use their weapons “with the intent to stop, rather than kill” a suspect. They would be mandated to “shoot a suspect in the arm or the leg.”
Under present NYPD training, cops are taught to shoot at the center of their target and fire their weapon until the threat has been stopped.
“It was an invaluable experience for an elected official,” said Councilman Peter Vallone (D-Queens), chairman of the Public Safety Committee, after testing his skills.
“So many of us made the wrong choices in the few seconds we had to react. I personally was killed today by a machete-wielding drunk holding a baby because I waited too long to shoot. This helps you much better to understand what a police officer has to go through on the street,” Vallone added.
Councilman Michael Nelson (D-Brooklyn) said the exercise made him more understanding of the split-second decisions cops face.
“I got almost all of my bullets in my target, but it was a little bit eerie. It helped crystallize my thoughts about the situations that our officers get into. It’s just too easy to second-guess and Monday-morning quarterback,” Nelson said.
But not every member was sold after the experience.
“I think I had an appreciation and I have even more of an appreciation [now] of the split-second decisions a police officer has to make, but I still believe the training should be geared toward preventing loss of life as much as possible,” said Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn), a member of the council’s liberal Progressive Caucus.
Quinn (D-Manhattan) shot a Glock and a Smith & Wesson at a 10-yard range.
“On my first one, I got two in the shoulder and two center mass,” Quinn bragged after obliterating her target.
Kelly said the politicians “got to see a good example of the training our officers receive and an understanding of what they may encounter on the street.”
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/pressure_under_fire_dWbmJ6bLxnjanaRA2BYawJ#ixzz1kanL6UP6
The newest numbers are in and the number of guns in the database is up to 356,631. TOTAL GUNS SOLD IN 2011: 53,190, (UP FROM 24,622 IN 2004)
Jacob Rieper over at gunpoliticsny.com has a new post about the details. (That does include police departments.)
The Assembly “yellow book” analysis of the Governor’s proposed budget has been posted. It is interesting that it assumes repealing CoBIS would give only a $200,000 savings.
I don’t see how they can say that it will only save them $200,000 a year when they have had up to 15 people working on the program even if many of the people were only spending some of their time on CoBIS. Several years ago when I talked to someone at DCJS they said my numbers of from $2 to 4 Million a year were way off because they were only spending about $1.5 Million a year on the program.
Jacob also has a blog on the reaction of one of the NY Assembly members who is all for CoBIS.
New Yorkers Against Gun Violence’s shill Michelle Schimel is upset that Gov. Cuomo’s budget proposal for for eliminating CoBIS and using the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) instead. From Newsday, “Critics: Cuomo plan would hurt crime-fighting“:
How is the program ending going to “hurt crime-fighting” when they have never solved a crime with the program?
CLICK HERE FOR MY CoBIS REPORT that covers the program from the start.
The devil is in the details and it is important that the law that Gov. Mario Pataki had passed in 1999 is totally removed from the books. It is not enough that the program is defunded, all of the law must be totally removed from the books. Maryland defunded its CoBIS program but left on the books the requirement that the fired brass still be sent in.
Jacob J. Rieper of GunPoliticsNY.com fame sent me the bill and it does totally remove the whole section of the law that created CoBIS.
http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=s459
1 Section 1. Section 396-ff of the general business law is REPEALED.
2 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
It can not get any better than that. CoBIS ends and as soon as the bill is signed.
CLICK HERE for a link to the original bill that passed from my report on CoBIS.
One word about the people who have worked on this program. They did the best that they could do to make the program work. They did work long and hard hours making sure that all of the police departments in NY knew about the program and they figured out how to legally compare the data in CoBIS with other federal databases and did everything else to try to make the program work.
No, it was not the people who worked on the program that caused the failure and yes, it was partly the failure of the technology but even more than that, it was the (anti-gun,) philosophy of the politicians that forced on us a program that was designed to fail from the beginning. (At the beginning, even I thought that one or two crimes would be solved.) More than that, it is the failure of the politicians to listen to and look at a program that is a failure and then refuse to end it because of their anti-gun philosophy. I remember them telling me after 2 years it would take 3 years to get a hit, then at 3 years they said it would take 5 years and at 5 years they said 7 years and at 7 years they said 9 to 10 years. Even today they have bills, S-1467/A-4025, that would add all long guns to the CoBIS data base.
This is not the first year that bills have been introduced to end the program and nothing has changed in the last six years to show that the program was a failure that did not exists for the first five years of the program. I can almost understand someone voting for the bill with the hope that it would work but after five years, the only reason that the program remained, (and was passed in the first place,) was that the anti-gun politicians just want to do everything that they can to have gun control regulations, no matter how bad it fails.
We wasted about $20 million the first five years but why did we waste the additional $10 to $20 million over the next 6 + years? More than the money is the hundreds of thousands of man hours that have been wasted when real crimes could have been solved and real criminals caught if they could have spent their time working on what they are suppose to work on rather than tracking guns legally sold, legally purchased and legally owned. It will be interesting to see who votes against the repeal of CoBIS.
Good luck to those who have worked on the program in their new jobs with the department. We know that no matter where they are assigned, they will finally be able to contribute to the health and safety of the citizens of NY State.
On page 80 under:
Now all we have to do is find out what he means by a “nationally recognized alternative.”