the empire page covers all the political stuff in Albany. They finally covered the anti-gun fail with NYAIG a few days ago about a week after they had their rally. Today they have a poll: “Do you support ‘stand your ground’ legislation?”
CLICK HERE TO VOTE IN THE POLL. LOOK IN THE LEFT HAND UPPER CORNER. We are at 96% right now.
While NYAGV and other anti-gun groups can only scrape together a few dozen people, you can join thousands of gun owners and want to be gun owners and want to be more gun owners at the Middletown Gun Show on May 5th & 6th.
If you have never been to a gun show, they are fun. It is like a history lesson and a chance to put together a wish list all in one. You can get a look at all of the guns you never get to see at the local stores and pick up all of the other stuff from books to scopes at the gun show. You can get a $1 off coupon for the Middletown, NY gun show and other gun shows in the north east at NorthEastGunShows.com.
Middletown NY Gun Show
Most of us could not make the meeting but you can catch the BEST OF on NRA News.
More news was the press’s shock that NRA members don’t like Mayor Booming Idiot Bloomburg.
Also catch the head of the NYSRPA on the The Coalition of the Oppressed made up the head of NY’s, NJ’s, and MA’s NRA affiliated state gun clubs.
Don’t forget to listen and call in to the local radio shows on Saturday.
Sat. 7am to 8am, Dirk Outdoors Radio Show on WTBQ David has the only weekly outdoor show that we know if in NY. He is a Guide and does it all. He has written several books and has a website, http://www.dirksoutdoors.com/, and he also has a weekly column in The Times-Herald Record. He really got people upset with one of his last columns, Trout-stocking scheme is a failure, where he complained about how the stocked trout get dispersed into the streams and lakes. He can complain but the answer is more people showing up to help stock the fish. Any where from 30 to 2 people show up at the 7 stocking locations and they are expected to carry 5 gallon buckets of fish and water out to the streams. Now the DEC does have a water cannon that they do put some fish out with but most of the fish end up in a bucket being carried by 60 or 70+ year old men many with back and other problems. While he did give the volunteers, or “hardy souls,” some credit, he should have said that what we need is to have more younger people to show up to help. You teach your kids to fish, well teach them to help also. The volunteers are mostly from the Orange County Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs so contact them if you want to help.
After that or if you don’t get up that early you can catch Micheal Mazzariello on WGNY or 1220 on your AM dial from 8 AM to 10 AM. You might have seen him on TV, he had his own show for a while. Don’t hold the fact that he is a lawyer against him but you can hold the fact that he is a 3/4 liberal with a little anarchist thrown in who tries to pass himself off as a “republicrat.” He is a 2nd Amendment supporter and that is something good to say about him and he is right about a lot of things. Call in, please call in, I hate to always be the only one from the right. Two weeks ago I called in and asked Newburg’s new mayor, Mayor Judy Kennedy, why she joined NYC’s anti-gun Mayor Bloomburg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns. “Who is for illegal guns?” was her answer.
Hidden in the depths of NYPIRG’s report last week on the record-breaking $220 million spent on lobbying in 2011 is the following eyebrow-raising fact:
Mayors Against Illegal Guns, an organization founded and funded by Mayor Bloomberg, dropped a whopping $325,895 on lobbying in 2010, ranking it 73rd on the list of top spenders in that year. But last year, the group spent absolutely nothing. And, according to records on file with JCOPE, it’s on track to spend $0 this year, too.
The group’s JCOPE filing indicates that it was registered to lobbying on two bills – one in the Assembly, the other in the Senate – both of would establish a microstamping law in New York, requiring bullet casings to have unique markings.
Supporters say this would help curb illegal guns and solve shooting-related crimes. Opponents, particularly the gun lobby, say the measure is both useless (in terms of crime-fighting) and cost-prohibitive (in terms of gun manufacturing).
This year’s filing lists no bills at all, though the microstamping issue is still – techincally speaking – alive, at least in the minds of the Senate Democrats. (The bill is sponsored by Sen. Jose Peralta).
So what gives? It’s not as if Bloomberg isn’t a major anti-illegal gun control advocate anymore. Just this week, he penned a scathing Daily News OpEd in the wake of yet another round of NYPD officer shootings that accused Washington of “cowering” before the gun lobby.
(I emailed this question to Bloomberg’s press office, and am still awaiting a reply).
The last time microstamping came up for a vote on the Senate floor was in 2010, when the Republicans – then gunning to take back the majority – defied Bloomberg (their largest individual donor) and, largely thanks to Sen. Marty Golden, didn’t pass the bill.
Perhaps Bloomberg saw the writing on the wall when Gov. Andrew Cuomo, without fanfare, debate or public notice, killed off a signature piece of former GOP Gov. George Pataki’s infamous 2000 gun control measure: – the so-called CoBis, or Combined Ballistics Identification System – in the 2012-13 budget.
CoBis has been described as the “big brother” to microstamping. It aimed to create a DNA database for handguns’ by requiring manufacturers of new semiautomatic pistols to file spent cartridge shells with the State Police. But law enforcement officials and gun advocates say CoBis never worked and was expensive to maintain. Hence, its quiet departure from the scene.
I just finished listening to a talking head on TV talking about Mike Wallace. I don’t know who he was but he said that Wallace always told the truth and Wallace never had to apologize for a story. From Media Research Center:
CBS’s Mike Wallace: Too Many Minutes of Liberal Bias
In part : Celebrity Journalists Gather to Help Left-Wing Anti-Gun Group. Can you imagine the National Rifle Association hosting a fundraiser that’s emceed by PBS’s Mark Shields, featuring CBS’s Mike Wallace and former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, supported by Walter Cronkite and current personalities at CNN and NBC News? Probably not. But a liberal group that champions more gun control, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, will be doing just that in hosting an 80th birthday party fundraiser for humorist Art Buchwald in September in Washington at the French embassy.
See the July 12, 2005 CyberAlert: www.mediaresearch.org
When Cam Edwards from NRANEWS.com questioned CBS about Walllace’s apperance at the fundraiser and use of the tape, this was their reply.
“We allow CBS correspondents to speak at various functions and occasionally show video. We have strict regulations that if a CBS correspondent becomes identifiable with one side of a controversial issue, they will not be allowed to cover that issue in the future.”
CLICK HERE FOR THE WHOLE ARTICLE – E-Mailbag: Taking Aim At Mike Wallace And Guns
Don’t forget to listen and call in to the local radio shows on Saturday.
Sat. 7am to 8am, Dirk Outdoors Radio Show on WTBQ David has the only weekly outdoor show that we know if in NY. He is a Guide and does it all. He has written several books and has a website, http://www.dirksoutdoors.com/, and he also has a weekly column in The Times-Herald Record. He really got people upset with his last column, Trout-stocking scheme is a failure, where he complained about how the stocked trout get dispersed into the streams and lakes. He can complain but the answer is more people showing up to help stock the fish. Any where from 30 to 2 people show up at the 7 stocking locations and they are expected to carry 5 gallon buckets of fish and water out to the streams. Now the DEC does have a water cannon that they do put some fish out with but most of the fish end up in a bucket being carried by 60 or 70+ year old men many with back and other problems. While he did give the volunteers, or “hardy souls,” some credit, he should have said that what we need is to have more younger people to show up to help. You teach your kids to fish, well teach them to help also. The volunteers are mostly from the Orange County Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs so contact them if you want to help.
After that or if you don’t get up that early you can catch Micheal Mazzariello on WGNY or 1220 on your AM dial from 8 AM to 10 AM. You might have seen him on TV, he had his own show for a while. Don’t hold the fact that he is a lawyer against him but you can hold the fact that he is a 3/4 liberal with a little anarchist thrown in who tries to pass himself off as a “republicrat.” He is a 2nd Amendment supporter and that is something good to say about him and he is right about a lot of things. Call in, please call in, I hate to always be the only one from the right. Last week I called in and asked Newburg’s new mayor, Mayor Judy Kennedy, why she joined NYC’s anti-gun Mayor Bloomburg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns. “Who is for illegal guns?” was her answer.
The attorneys who won the landmark D.C. gun case in the Supreme Court in 2008 have agreed to settle a legal fee dispute with the city for $1.5 million, terminating a dispute in a Washington federal appeals court
At the end of March 2012, the price of getting fingerprinted has changed. (I hope you are sitting down. ) The price went down and is now $91.50. You still have to have the payment as a money order.
When I posted a list of local Mayors who were members of MAIG on 3/3/12, I did not know that Brian Mahe, Mayor of Village of Walden, had already submitted his resignation from MAIG. (Other ANTI-GUN members of MAIG in Orange County) He must have mailed in his letter a while ago because his name is no longer on the MAIG list of member Mayors. It normally takes a long time before MAIG drops a Mayors name for any reason. (Freeland Borough, PA’s Mayor Tim Martin died from esophageal cancer on September 2, 2010? Yet, amazingly, Mike Bloomberg’s anti-gun coalition still claims him as a member on their website as of November 8, 2011.) Brian first sent the letter in early February and then again on March 3 and finally march 20th they finally acknowledged it after his 3rd contact. While we wish that people would know enough to never sign up, the pitch from Bloomburg does sound good and as Newburgh’s Mayor Kennedy said when I asked her why she joined, “Who is for illegal guns?”
Brian Mahe is also going to be running as a Republican in the redistricted 101st NY Assembly District. CLICK HERE FOR HIS WEB SITE.
This is the letter he sent to MAIG.
To whom it may concern:
In 2009 I signed on for Mayors Against Illegal Guns based on a common sense opposition to illegal weapons being circulated in our communities. As Mayor of a densely populated village, crime reduction is always a top priority. After much deliberation, it is my opinion that your organization’s means toward an otherwise noble outcome cannot be executed without what many view as unconstitutional methods.
Until it becomes apparent to me that Mayors Against Illegal Guns can support efforts to oppose criminal possession of illegal weapons without infringing upon the rights of legitimate gun owners, as a staunch second amendment supporter, I hereby withdraw my membership from this organization and request that my name be removed from your website and any other organizationalpublications that utilize it. While I dissolve my affiliation with Mayors Against Illegal Guns as an organization, I will continue to work with local law enforcement to reduce crime in a way that best protects the individual liberties of law abiding citizens.
Mayor Brian Maher
Village of Walden
