I will be on WGNY on Sat.

I  will be on WGNY with  Michael Mazzariello 1220 AM on Sat. 4/27/13 from 8 AM to 10 AM.

Biden on Guns???

•§ 265.01-b Criminal possession of a firearm (failure to register an Assault Weapon) is a class E felony, less than one year and up to four years.
•§ 265.36 Unlawful possession of a, (pre 1994,) large capacity ammunition feeding device is a class A misdemeanor.  Sentence of imprisonment shall not exceed one year

PL 35:

3.  A person in possession or control of, or licensed or privileged to
be in, a dwelling or an occupied building, who reasonably believes  that
another  person is committing or attempting to commit a burglary of such
dwelling or building, may use deadly  physical  force  upon  such  other
person  when  he  or  she  reasonably  believes  such to be necessary to
prevent or terminate the commission  or  attempted  commission  of  such
burglary.

 

LINKS:

https://www.facebook.com/NYSRPA
http://www.nysrpa.org/

ARTICLES:

  1. NYSRPA Legal action against Cuomo gun law
  2. NRA files amicus brief in NY-SAFE Act challenge
  3. NY SAFE Resolutions
  4. Bloomberg Says Interpretation of Constitution Has to Change
  5. NYAGV gets new paid leader.
  6. Semi-auto handgun made in 1893 is Assault Weapon.
  7. New Orange County Pistol Licenses
  8. Albany Police Officers Union Letter
  9. County clerks clarify role in implementing New York’s gun control law, Orange County gets notified of people with Mental Health problems that are pistol license holders.
  10. NY State Police against NY SAFE ACT
  11. NY Sheriffs’ Response to NY SAFE Act

Chicago, IL

Houston, TX

City

Population

Chicago, IL

2.7 million

Houston, Texas

2.15 million

Median Income

$38,600

$37,000

% Black

39%

24%

% Hispanic

30%

44%

% Asian

6%

6%

% White

25%

26%

 

Chicago, IL

Houston, TX

Concealed Carry Law

No

Yes

# of Gun Stores

0

84 Dedicated gun stores + 1500 legal places to buy guns- Wal-Mart, K-mart, Sporting goods, etc.

Homicides, 2012

806

207

Homicides per 100K

29

10

Avg. January high temperature – (F)

31°

63°

Conclusion: Cold weather causes murder.

 

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I Attended NRA Instructors Camp

NRA Instructors Camp. ( I am 2nd from end on the Right, kneeling, with the light hat.)

April 26, 27 & 28, I attended an NRA Instructor Camp at the BSA Ten Mile River Scout Camp.  It was cold and wet but we had a great time and we graduated 28 new NRA Instructors to work with the Boy Scouts.  We had a Shotgun Instructor camp that I attended and a Rifle Instructor  camp.  It was a “cut no corners” instructors class with Harry Clark as the Head TC.  (Harry did a lot of hard work and had everything totally together for the camp.  My hat’s off to him along with the other instructors, Tom, Russ, Glen and Tony.)  It was a guys only, no frills camp and we stayed in the barracks and bunk beds that the Boy Scouts stay in.  (Things did improve on Sat. when I turned on the hot water heater in our cabin. The Sat. AM cold shower was not fun.)  We started Friday evening and 7:15 AM on Sat. and Sunday.  We stayed past midnight on Friday and Sat. and finished on Sunday after 4 PM.  I brought my computer and projector so I gave the BIT class.  I have to say that it was a great group and everyone was nice and willing to work hard and to get along.  I was really impressed.   The other instructors did an excellent job and I had a great time and hope to work with the group again.  I also picked up my Shotgun Instructor Rating so I can now give Shotgun Instructor Classes.  I hope to start giving instructor classes by the end of the summer.

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MISC: PERMIT #s, Sheriff’s Dept far behind, Protest in Goshen

The Pistol License Dept has all ready handed out more pistol applications than they issued last year, over 1,300

The Sheriff’s Department is booking appointments to be fingerprinted about 3 months behind.

The change in the gun law as part of the budget had changed the 7 round mag rule to allow you to have a 10 round mag.  They also added  that your local gov. can add additional storage requirements.

PROTEST PLANNED IN GOSHEN
DATE : Saturday, April 13, 2013
WHERE: Church Park in Goshen, Center of Town (next to track)
TIME: 12noon-4pm
Bring a picnic lunch and meet fellow 2A supporters!

 

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I finally got my TC rating

It took longer than normal because I failed to send in some paperwork in a timely manner but I finally got it so I am planning to start giving some instructor classes this summer.  I will also be working on additional certifications.

I have to add that the NRA Staff was great, both in their presentation and in the way the people at NRA HQ dealt with me.  I don’t see how they do it and deal with as many people and problems that people call them about other than the NRA has a great staff who work well together and have a good system. (And are generally hard working and good-natured as nice a group of people that you would ever want to meet or work with.)

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NYAGV gets new paid leader.

Unlike most of the local and state pro-2nd Amendment organizations, the astro-turf groups like New Yorkers Against Gun Violence have to have paid leaders. NYAGV just hired a new “top gun” or should I say new “top anti-gun” leader, Executive Director Leah Gunn Barrett. Ms. Barret is originally from Maryland.

“In 2003, after the murder of her brother, Ms. Barrett became the Executive Director of CeaseFire Maryland, where she led lobbying, communication and community outreach efforts for the Maryland state-wide gun violence prevention group.”

Like most anti-gun groups, they have almost no paying members and depend on grants from anti-gun organizations and individuals like Soros and Bloomburg along with member grants from the NY legislature to provide money to pay the rent and salaries. A few years from now when we can look at the tax records, we might be able to find out who is footing the bill. (It is not like pro 2nd Amendment groups who get some of their funding from when individual people order items online and “round up” to the next dollar with the money being donated to support our rights.)

NYAGV’s 990 form form from 2010 showed that the last director, Hilly, got $49.920 for 24 hours of work a week. (But less than the $50,000 that Colin Weaver got that year for the same 24 hours of work.) That is a good chunk of the $131, 706 that they paid in total salaries and compensations for that year. The only thing that I could find on Ceasefire Maryland showed that in 2005 they less than $50,000 income, the last year Leah was with them, so this has to be a big step up for Leah. I wondered how the Board of Directors was chosen for NYAGV so I called their phone number, 212-679-2345, and ended up asking the person on the phone how the Board of Directors are chosen. The woman was very short with me and wanted to know who I was and why I was asking the question. She told me that they did not give out that information. (It is public information so I don’t know why she would not tell me.) I forgot to get her name and so I called her back and found out that it was the new XO, Leah herself after I gave her my full name. (I was kinda disappointed that she did not already know my name.) Leah’s full time job is at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs as Assistant Dean, Office of Student Affairs, where she, “provides academic advising on the core requirements in the MIA and MPA two-year degree programs. She is responsible for International Travel Policies for students travelling (sic) abroad and advises the Columbia University dual-degree students.”  (If you are one of her students you might not want to talk about how much you like hunting.)

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ALBANY PROTEST – FINAL INFO

Please forward and post this information – thanks – hope to meet you tomorrow!!!!
WEATHER:  TEMP 38 – 41 DEGREES, 50% OF Rain / Snow Showers
JOIN US IN ALBANY
This should be a spectacular event tomorrow – every New Yorker should attend
NOTE; Pre-Rally 11:15am Capitol Park – No Amendment – REPEAL REPEAL don’t be fooled by the Status-Quo

Here’s the source of all parking info for the Albany area. 

Parking Information for Visitors
The Office of General Services operates several pay by the day visitor parking areas in and around the Empire State Plaza in downtown Albany, New York. The list below provides detailed information of each lot. For additional information, please contact the OGS Bureau of Parking Management.
Parking Lot Information
V-LOT (P-3 North)
Located beneath the Empire State Plaza and accessed through I-787 Empire State Plaza exit. Visitors are required to show photo identification upon entry and all vehicles are subject to search by the State Police.

  • Monday – Friday
    6:00 a.m. – 3:59 p.m.
    Park & Pay: $2.00 per hour, $20.00 maximum, 30 minutes or less, free
    4:00 p.m. – 5:59 a.m.
    $5.00 flat fee
    Handicap parking available
  • Weekends and State Holidays
    $5.00 flat charge, pay on entry
Cathedral Lot
Located on Madison Avenue between the Cultural Education Center and Albany Cathedral, and within easy walking distance to the Empire State Plaza and New York State Museum.

  • Monday – Friday
    6:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
    For entry between 6:00 a.m. – 9:59 a.m., $10.00 flat rate, pay on entry
    For entry between 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., $5.00 flat rate, pay on entry
    No charge for entry after 3:00 p.m.
    Handicap and oversized parking available
  • Weekends and State Holidays
    Lot open, no charge
Madison Avenue Lot
Located on Madison Avenue above the Cultural Education Center, and within easy walking distance to the Empire State Plaza and New York State Museum.

  • Monday – Friday
    6:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
    For entry between 6:00 a.m. – 9:59 a.m., $10.00 flat rate, pay on entry
    For entry between 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., $5.00 flat rate, pay on entry
    No charge for entry after 3:00 p.m.
    Handicap and oversized parking available
  • Weekends and State Holidays
    Lot open, no charge
Grand Street Surface Lot
Located off Grand Street and within short walking distance to the Empire State Plaza and downtown Albany.

  • Monday – Friday
    6:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
    $10.00 flat rate, payable on entry
    No charge for entry after 2:00 p.m.
  • Weekends and State Holidays
    Lot open, no charge
Elk Street Surface Lot
Located on the corner of South Swan and Elk Street, behind One Commerce Plaza.

  • Monday – Friday
    6:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
    $10.00 flat rate, payable on entry
    No charge for entry after 5:00 p.m.
    No double parking after 2:00 p.m.
  • Weekends and State Holidays
    Lot open, no charge
Bus Parking: McCarty Avenue Lot
There is no bus parking at the Empire State Plaza. The McCarty Avenue Lot, off Thruway Exit 23, reserves parking for buses dropping off groups at the Empire State Plaza. Bus parking is free of charge; reservations are not required.

Contact
OGS Parking Management
Room 130, Concourse
Empire State Plaza
Albany, NY 12242
Tel: 518-474-8118
Fax: 518-474-0111
E-Mail: parking.courier@ogs.ny.gov
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Rally Article in Times Herald-Record, 2/26/13

I got a call from a reporter from the TH-R.  Besides not being a gun owner, he did not know anything about the event and did not even spell my name correctly.  It is ROGERO no ROMERO

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SEIU Bus to Albany – NEVER MIND

1199SEIU was going to have buses going from NYC, LI and White Plains to Albany to counter-protest in support of Cuomo’s new NY un-SAFE laws.  They changed their mind for some reason.  Quite possibly because they did not have anyone that really wanted to go or because some of the pro-2nd Amendment people were planning to take the bus  or because they did not think that the photos of who they were going to have vs who we were going to have might bring out even more of us.  It also might be the SEIU people just don’t like to be outside in the cold.

I called SEIU’s headquarters and talked to someone who said that “they” had a meeting Sunday and decided to “postpone” their demonstration in support of NY’s  un-SAFE laws.  She said that she did not know who was in the meeting but it sounded like SEIU was not really calling the shots.  Organizing for Action., Barack Hussein Obama II renamed election team had a hand in the event. but if you go to the website using the url for the event you now get: “The URL you clicked references an event that does not exist. This event may have existed at one time but been subsequently deleted.

From looking on the Organizing for Action Facebook page, they are trying to support all gun control laws in the country.

SEE:  Pro-gun-law forces cancel showdown,  By FREDRIC U. DICKER
SEE:  Democrats Plan to Pay Second Amendment Protesters Gets Shot Down for another article that has screen shots of the SEIU websites.

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CUOMO IN HIGH CAP

Up to 1 year for each magazine.  That is up to 20 years for the magazines that make up this picture.  Does that sound right to anyone?  If they are loaded with more than 7 rounds, that will cost another $4,000 if it is the first offense and I am in my home.  That is for the mags only, not counting the years that I would get for not registering the Mak90 or SKS.  (I have no idea if these are all of the illegal mags that I own.)

       MAK 90             S&W 41               SKS                         GLOCK 17                   MAK 90

 

* § 265.36 Unlawful  possession  of  a large capacity ammunition feeding

device.

It shall be unlawful  for  a  person  to  knowingly  possess  a  large

capacity   ammunition   feeding  device  manufactured  before  September

thirteenth, nineteen hundred ninety-four, and if  such  person  lawfully

possessed  such  large capacity feeding device before the effective date

of the chapter of the laws of two thousand  thirteen  which  added  this

section,  that  has  a  capacity  of, or that can be readily restored or

converted to accept, more than ten rounds of ammunition.

An individual who has a reasonable belief that such device is of  such

a  character  that  it  may  lawfully be possessed and who surrenders or

lawfully disposes of such device within thirty days of being notified by

law enforcement or county licensing officials that  such  possession  is

unlawful  shall  not be guilty of this offense. It shall be a rebuttable

presumption that such person knows that such large  capacity  ammunition

feeding  device  may  not  be  lawfully  possessed if he or she has been

contacted by law enforcement or county licensing officials and  informed

that such device may not be lawfully possessed.

Unlawful possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device is a

class A misdemeanor.

* NB Effective March 16, 2013

 

* § 265.37 Unlawful possession of certain ammunition feeding devices.

It  shall  be unlawful for a person to knowingly possess an ammunition

feeding device that such person lawfully possessed before the  effective

date  of  the  chapter  of the laws of two thousand thirteen which added

this section, that has a capacity of, or that can be readily restored or

converted to accept  more  than  seven  but  less  than  ten  rounds  of

ammunition,  where  such  device  contains  more  than  seven  rounds of

ammunition.

If such device containing more than  seven  rounds  of  ammunition  is

possessed within the home of the possessor, the person so possessing the

device  shall, for a first offense, be guilty of a violation and subject

to a fine of two hundred dollars, and for a second offense, be guilty of

a class B misdemeanor and subject to a fine of two hundred dollars and a

term of up to three months imprisonment.

If such device containing more than  seven  rounds  of  ammunition  is

possessed  in  any  location  other  than the home of the possessor, the

person so possessing the device shall, for a first offense, be guilty of

a class B misdemeanor and subject to a fine of two hundred dollars and a

term of up to six months imprisonment, and  for  a  second  offense,  be

guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

* NB Effective March 16, 2013

 

 

 

70.15 Sentences of imprisonment for misdemeanors and violation.

  1. Class A misdemeanor. A sentence of imprisonment for a class A

misdemeanor shall be a definite sentence. When such a sentence is

imposed the term shall be fixed by the court, and shall not exceed one

year; provided, however, that a sentence of imprisonment imposed upon a

conviction of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree as

defined in subdivision one of section 265.01 must be for a period of no

less than one year when the conviction was the result of a plea of

guilty entered in satisfaction of an indictment or any count thereof

charging the defendant with the class D violent felony offense of

criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree as defined in

subdivision four of section 265.02, except that the court may impose any

other sentence authorized by law upon a person who has not been

previously convicted in the five years immediately preceding the

commission of the offense for a felony or a class A misdemeanor defined

in this chapter, if the court having regard to the nature and

circumstances of the crime and to the history and character of the

defendant, finds on the record that such sentence would be unduly harsh

and that the alternative sentence would be consistent with public safety

and does not deprecate the seriousness of the crime.

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Pro-anti-gun-NY SAFE act protest

The Legislative Gazette had an article, Million Moms tell tales of gun violence, Applaud Legislature for SAFE Act. 

One Million Moms for Gun Control’s New York chapter took to the Million Dollar Staircase last Tuesday to show their strong support of the new SAFE Act.

Members of the group shouted their support for the Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature for passing what they call “common-sense” gun regulations. At the same time, outside the Capitol, protestors admonished the bill for infringing on Second Amendment rights.

If you look at the picture that they posted, you can see that they had less than 100 people, more like 45 people, while the group outside in the cold and the rain had up to a thousand people  Another notable item in the picture is the “MOVEON.ORG” banner.  Where did they come from?  They are pulling out all of the radical liberal groups to try to show some/any support for Dictator Cuomo’s radical anti-gun agenda.  I wonder who paid them to show up?


CLICK HERE FOR ADDITIONAL PICTURES AND ARTICLES
THIS IS  THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE  (They are happy that they  are close to 200 LIKES.  They have 198.)

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