Mario Pataki's 2000 gun control bill.

I talked to Charlie Assina who works in the Albany offices of long time anti-gun New York Senator Frank Padavan,  R-C; 11th Senatorial District that is made up of part of Queens.  Senator Padavan is the person who sponsored Gov. Mario Pataki's bill, S 8234.  To quote Mr. C. Assina, "We are still getting over the shock that this passed."  Can a local government use section  26 of the new law to mandate that trigger locks be placed on all guns at all times, can "assault weapons" be banned and can the minimum age to get a license be raised to say, 25 year olds?  "That is what it is all about," to quote Mr. Assina.  Yes, that is right, expect to see the anti-gunners at your local city, town meetings and county meeting calling for more gun control on a local level.

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 NY Sportsmen Alert Editorial
 A lesson In Politicks
 We learned today in the Newsday article "Edgy GOP in Albany Does Good  Things" the fix was in as far back as January in regard to passage of gun controls laws in New York State, as talk of gun control was taking place at a closed-door caucus between State Majority Leader Bruno and state senators,  Nassau County's Mike Balboni and Chuck Fuschillo .
    If we step back and look at the timing, it was not until March 15th when the Governor proposed his "Five Point Plan to Combat Gun Violence."  At the time, sportsmen of New York jumped on the Governor for his betrayal and asked fellow sportsmen to contact Senator Bruno and his fellow senate Republicans and asked them to stand up for the rights of NY firearm owners and to stop the governors proposals from becoming law.
    How naive we were, as Senator Bruno had already given the nod to Nassau County Republicans for some type of gun control legislation to go forward in order to protect the Republican Majority in the state Senate.  The Governor being made aware of the senate shift in regard to gun control jumped out in front of the crowd with his own gun proposals for his own political reasons.
     And the sportsmen of New York?  The very people we were asking for support already new a gun law was in the works and said nothing.  They told us what we wanted to hear until a back room deal was finalized in June.  What is to be done?  I propose that all financial support be withheld from the New York State Republican Party to include all elected Representatives until after the fall elections.  Senator Bruno can explain to his fellow senators why the money supply is drying up.
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 Joe Potosky
 NY Sportsmen Alert

    "The fourth section of the bill deals with the issue of assault weapons.  Fundamentally, we track the federal requirements in a variety of ways, by definition of what a semiautomatic is and by definition of what an assault weapon is.
    And despite what some may have heard, a straight semiautomatic weapon is not banned either at the federal level, nor is it in this bill.
    However, a semiautomatic weapon that has at least two of the characteristics that are outlined in this measure - - and they are listed here, and you can read them on page 7, such as a folding or telescoping stock, a fixed magazine capacity in excess of - - so on and so on, right down the line, including those that can launch grenades or have silencer attachments or flash suppressor - - all of those requirements which are articulated in the federal law are transposed into the state law.
    By so doing, we enable out prosecutors and law enforcement agencies to enforce the law rather than having to transfer it to a federal jurisdiction.
    And of course there are a number of penalties that are outlined for violating these laws.  In addition to the descriptions, also listed - - and again, I repeat, as in the federal law - - are specific weapons.  And you'll note they are military weapons manufactured and used in various countries, including our own, for military purposes and generally categorized as assault weapons.
    There are certain exclusions, such as bolt-action rifles, antique weapons, those that have been rendered inoperable, and so on."

    No one spoke against the bill except 2 Senators who said, in part, that :

    Senator Schneiderman: " I am disappointed that this bill doesn't do more." ...  "What's not in this bill is an assault weapons ban that goes beyond the federal standard.  This doesn't ban, as Senator Padavan acknowledged, any weapons (that) aren't already banned by the federal government.  There are a lot of nasty weapons that are called post-ban weapons that the gun industry has developed since the federal ban that are out there on the streets that we should be banning.

    Senator Dollinger:  "And I've had some interesting debates.  I remember I was told on the floor of the Senate that I didn't know how to define assault weapons and because I couldn't define them and I couldn't come up with a definition, we shouldn't pass a bill.
    What I said at the time was we can define assault weapons any way we want.  Instead of the industry telling us what an assault weapon is, we could tell the industry what an assault weapon was, and we could ban them.  We could restrict them.   We could restrict large-volume clips.
    We could do all that because we had the power of government on our side.  We had the power of the majority of the people who had elected people in this chamber to do the right thing, and we could do that regardless of what the industry told us they wanted us to do.
    ...
    I agree with Senator Schneiderman and others, this is a step that needs to be broadened.  We are doing nothing more here than taking the federal definition and the federal weapons, for which it is already a crime in this state and the other fifty states to have these weapons.  We are not expanding the list.  We are not dealing with the problems of after-ban weapons, weapons that have been designed to get around the federal ban.
    It seems to me we need to continue to define our terms.  We need to continue to define the marketplace.  And we need to tell the manufactureers that your can't produce an of these assault-style weapons and sell them here in New York State."

     The National Education Association (NEA) has long been known as a shrill proponent of restrictions on  our Right to Keep and Bear Arms. This past Monday, NEA President Bob Chase announced that the  nation's largest teachers' union had resolved to further its anti-gun agenda by launching a national petition  drive to call for restrictions on all law-abiding gun owners. Included on NEA's anti-Second Amendment  wish-list -- which it hopes to submit to Congress by Feb. 1, 2001 -- are gun owner licensing, national gun  registration, "ballistic fingerprinting" schemes, mandatory storage requirements, and waiting periods. Absent  from NEA's proposed petition is any mention of targeting criminals or enforcing existing laws against violent  offenders. NEA's attack on law-abiding gun owners, an attack that closely mirrors Presidential  Candidate Al Gore's (D) anti-gun campaign platform, was not met with complete approval by those attending NEA's convention in Chicago, however. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution,  Georgia teacher Cindy Gaskins stated, "Rather than calling for gun control, we need to call for parental control and responsibility." David Trim, an English teacher from Mississippi, said, "It seems to me that metal detectors are more useful than gun control in protecting the schools... (and) it would be better to control TV shows and video games and movies that promote violence." The resolution eventually passed, but it was reported that approximately 1/3 of the delegates voted against it. It is unclear how the petitions themselves will be circulated, but we will follow this issue very closely, and keep a careful watch on any attempts by NEA or others to improperly use our nation's public schools to promote a political agenda. If you would like to express your views on NEA's petition, you can call (202) 833-4000, write to 1201 16th St., NW, Washington, DC, 20036, or send an e-mail to NEA President Bob Chase at BobChase@nea.org.

 CSPAN2,  Schedule for Sunday, 07/09/2000,  01:20 pm EST,  1:41  (est.) Speech
 More Guns, Less Crime, Cato Institute
 Nelson Lund , George Mason University
 John Lott , Yale University

    Making an impassioned defense of the Second Amendment (". . . the right to keep and bear arms . . ."), a senator from Idaho has asked Americans to come forward and tell positive stories about gun ownership to combat anti-gun rhetoric in Congress.
    Exclusive To The SPOTLIGHT By Mike Blair
    Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) has launched a massive mail campaign to gather evidence on law-abiding Ame ricans who every year use firearms defending themselves or their families from criminals.
    Craig's effort was in answer to several anti-gun senators who stood on the Senate floor to read the names of crime victims, implying that their lives could have been saved had Con gress enacted anti-gun, anti-personal-protection legislation.
    Craig countered their emotional ar guments by pointing out that defensive uses of firearms take place daily in America. Extensive research, he said, indicates that as many as 2.5 million times every year Americans utilize firearms for self-defense.
    Craig set the record straight concerning the anti-gun crowd.
    Many liberals misinterpret the meaning of the Second Amendment in order to promote their agenda of gun control, claiming that the reference to "a well regulated militia" merely means that it is a right of the government to keep and bear arms, he said.
    "Under this standard," Craig said, "the Bill of Rights would protect only the right of a government to speak or the right of a government to criticize itself, if you were taking that same argument and [applying it] to the First Amendment [guaranteeing freedom of speech and press]. In fact, the Bill of Rights protects the rights of people from being infringed upon by
government—not the other way around."
    Craig said the "framers of our Con stitution wrote the Second Amend ment with a greater purpose. They made the Second Amendment the law of the land because it has something very particular to say about the rights of every man and every woman.
    "The first right of every human being [is] the right of self defense," he explained. "Our Founding Fathers wrote the Second Amendment to tell us that a free state cannot exist if the people are denied the right or the means to defend themselves.
    "I encourage all listening today," Craig concluded. "If you have heard of someone using their Second Amend ment rights to prevent a crime, to save a life, to protect another life, then send your story to me, Sen. Larry Craig, Washington, D.C. 20510, or send it to your own senator."