Tom Chandler and Phil Longden  TRT-NY
Robert Teesdale National Director  TRT-CO
Louis Wein New York State Constitution Party
Scott Jeffrey Representing the NY Libertarian Party
Rick Mase TRT-PA and Father of a Gun control victim
Dave Dilegge Representing ConservaVets and America's Voices
Maria Heil National Spokesperson for the Second Amendment Sisters
Rodi Bestider SAS member with a fresh perspective of America's freedoms
                        coming from a communist bloc state.

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NEW YORK STATE

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• Pataki improves image with more Democrats

• Supreme Court OKs keeping FBI Brady Act records retention
• New AMA President attacks gun rights

Will a new Sheriff add additional requirements to getting a handgun license.
Will the Legislature pass new laws banning rifle hunting in Orange County,  do they support the state's effort to sell the Stewart Buffer Lands?

To begin with, section 922(t)(2)(C) does not say "destroy   immediately";  it says only "destroy."  When Congress wants to instruct an agency not only to take certain action, but to take it immediately, it knows how to do so.

...    Next, let's look at how the disease spreads, what is its vector, or delivery system.  To do that, we need to look at the gun market today. Where the hard, cold reality   is -- guns are more deadly than ever. Gun manufacturers – in the pursuit of  technological innovation and profit – have steadily increased the lethality of firearms. The gun industry's need for new products and new models to stimulate markets that are already oversupplied with guns -- has driven their push to innovate. Newer firearms mean more profits. With the American gun manufacturers producing more than 4.2 million new guns per year – and imports adding another 2.2 million annually – you'd think the market would be saturated.
    But that's why they have to sell gun owners new guns for their collections – because guns rarely wear out. Hardly anyone here is driving their grandfathers 1952 Plymouth. But a lot of people probably have their grandfathers 1952 revolver.  So gun manufacturers make guns that hold more rounds of ammunition, increase the power of that ammunition, and make guns smaller and easier to conceal.
    These changes make guns better suited for crime, because they are easy to carry and more likely to kill or maim whether they are used intentionally or unintentionally. In fact, one of the most popular handgun types today is the so-called “pocket rocket”: a palm-sized gun that is easy to conceal, has a large capacity for ammunition and comes in a high caliber.
...    The question remains, what are we – the physician community -- going to do about it? I can tell you first what we're not going to do. We're not going to advocate changing or abolishing the Second Amendment to the Constitution. We really don't have to, to make our point.
    The gun lobby loves to use the Second Amendment as a smokescreen – to hide the reality of the damage that guns do – and to prevent our looking any deeper into the facts and statistics of that damage. We've all heard that tired old statement: Guns don't kill people – people kill people. But how does that explain these facts? A gun kept in the home for self-defense is 22 times more likely to be used to kill a family member or a friend than an intruder. The presence of a gun in the home triples the risk of homicide – and increases the risk of suicide fivefold.
    And listen to this quote: “. . . the Second Amendment has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American people by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime. . . . The very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon.  Surely the Second Amendment does not remotely guarantee every person the constitutional right to have a Saturday night special or a machine gun. . . .There is no support in the Constitution for the argument that federal and state governments are powerless to regulate the purchase of such firearms.”
    These are the words of a respected conservative jurist, the late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Warren Burger.