NY STATE NEWS

.50 cal Ban taken out of anti-terror bill.

Regular capacity, (+10,) magazines in NY after the federal ban sunsets

New York City gun fees to increase

NEW YORK STATE RIFLE & PISTOL ASSOCIATION HOSTS NY STATE HIGH POWER RIFLE CHAMPIONSHIPS

NATIONAL NEWS

'Concealed Carry for Cops' Bill to be Signed by Bush

Davis Shooting Sports in Goshen Opens
845-651-7000
1230 Pulaski Highway
Goshen, NY 10924

Note the computer controlled target system on left and the wrap around bench.

This is what a target looks like at 100 Yards.
The target all the way down range is the same size as the one in lane 7 on the right.

You can shoot 3D or Bullseye on the 25 yard indoor range.

      Knights old range reopened on 7/12/04 as Davis Shooting Sports. They still have a few more things to stock and some paperwork to come through but they have almost everything that you will need and the ranges are open. They hope to have a grand opening in the middle of August. Range prices for one hour right now are $11 for handgun, $22.50 for rifle/shotgun/Black Powder. They will be closed on Monday. Archery is $10 for Bullseye and $8 for a 30 shot round of 3D. Make sure that you bring your own ear and eye protection and if not, they have everything that you need in stock.

.50 cal Ban taken out of anti-terror bill.
NRA-ILA Grassroots Alert Vol. 11, No. 29

      On July 21, the New York State Legislature reached an agreement to remove language banning .50 caliber rifles from anti-terror legislation. After A7039, a stand alone measure outlawing .50 caliber firearms, met with little support in the Senate earlier this year, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-64) included the gun ban as part of the two-year struggle to pass anti-terrorism legislation in New York. To read more, visit www.NRAILA.org.

Regular capacity, (+10,) magazines in NY after the federal ban sunsets

UPDATE 9/15/04
The ban is now sunsetted and as far as I can tell the only thing that I see in the on-line stores is that they will not ship to CA or NY. It does not look like the magazines are marked. I will call some of the gun makers today.

     What will happen to New York's regular-capacity magazine ban (often erroneously called a "high- capacity magazine ban") after the federal "assault weapons" ban expires on September 13. In most of the country, there will then be no limit on magazine capacity. But New York's ban, a copy of the federal ban, but with no sunset date, will still be in effect. I had been thinking until today that though it would still be possible to enforce the ban on too many ugly features on semi-automatic rifles, that the magazine limit ban would be impossible to enforce. Today I learned differently.
      Currently, magazines that hold more than ten rounds that were manufactured after September 13, 1994, have stamped on them, as an identification, "Law Enforcement Only". Tom King, president of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, has said that after the federal ban sunsets, new regular capacity magazines will still be stamped for identification, with something like, "Not for Sale in MA, NJ, NY, ..."
     (In part from Scope's Yahoo Group, [SCOPEny] Digest Number 1505, Mon, 12 Jul 2004, #9 by Bill St. Clair.)

New York City gun fees to increase
Friday, July 16, 2004

      As expected, this week Mayor Bloomberg (R) approved the fee hikes for gun licenses. The City Council overwhelmingly agreed to the increases on a vote of 47-3. This increases pistol licenses to $340 and long gun licenses to $140 for three years.

NEW YORK STATE RIFLE & PISTOL ASSOCIATION HOSTS NY STATE HIGH POWER RIFLE CHAMPIONSHIPS

TROY, NY -- (07/12/2004; 1530)(EIS) -- The NYSRPA High Power Rifle Championships were held on July 3-4, at Camp Smith in Peekskill, NY.
     The 2004 NYSRPA High Power Rifle Champion is Jim Treacy of Orange County, with a score of 782-18x (out of 800 points). Finishing second was Dwight Becherer of Suffolk County with 781-28x, and third was Jim Gartrell (a Connecticut resident and NYSRPA member) with 779-22x. The high senior competitor was Bill Sheridan of Nassau County with 758-19x, and the high junior -- also the high woman -- was Vicky Geramita of Wingdale with 758-18x.
     In the 2004 4-man team competition, NYSRPA Kraft finished first with 1165-29x, team NYSRPA Ruderman second with 1160-35x and NYSRPA Prahler finished third with 1154-23x.
     In conjunction with this event a Civilian Marksmanship Program Excellence-In-Competition ("Leg") Match was also held. The match winner was John Tusinski of Suffolk county with a score of 487-14x (out of 500 points). Second place went to Dwight Becherer with 487-12X and third went to Bob Modica of Peekskill with 479-9x. Earning points towards their Distinguished Rifleman Badge were Brian Fradl of Suffolk county with 10 points, Vicky Geramita with 8 points and Emil Smith (a Connecticut resident and NYSRPA member), and Chris Primavera of Poughkeepsie, with six points each. The six points earned by Chris Primavera put him over the top and he is now a Distinguished Rifleman.
     These "Leg" points are earned by finishing in the top 10 percent of the Non-Distinguished competitors in the match. The match is fired in four stages: 10 shots standing at 200 yards, 10 shots sitting rapid-fire at 200 yards, 10 shots prone rapid-fire at 300 yards and 20 shots prone slow-fire at 600 yards. All stages are fired with no sighting shots and competitors may compete in only three of these events annually (four if they compete at the National Championships at Camp Perry). Only some 1,800 civilians to-date have earned this award, which was introduced approximately 100 years ago.
     For more information: Ira Ruderman, iruderman@nysrpa.org, Day: (646) 274-1445, Evening/Weekend: (516) 431-1541

(CNSNews.com) - President Bush Thursday will sign the "National Concealed Carry for Cops" bill, a measure allowing about a million off-duty and retired officers to carry weapons out of plain sight.
     The Law Enforcement Alliance of America (LEAA), the nation's "leading conservative police-based organization," celebrated the passage of the bill introduced by Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.), an effort 12 years in the making.
     Ted Deeds, chief operating officer for the LEAA, stated that the bi-partisan bill had "overwhelming support" and is "great for law enforcement."
     Deeds also claimed that most people were unaware that off-duty or retired police officers could not carry guns outside of their jurisdiction. The bill allows off-duty and retired officers to have concealed-carry rights throughout the United States.
     He dubbed the legislation "homeland security at no cost," adding that this measure would thwart criminals and terrorists.
     Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry made a rare appearance in the Senate, coming off the campaign trail to try to defeat the measure he had originally helped sponsor, Deeds said.
     Kerry and his Massachusetts Democratic colleague, Sen. Ted Kennedy, became concerned over cops carrying "concealed sniper rifles" and "grenade launchers," according to Deeds, prompting Kerry to introduce "poison pill" amendments that would have attached further gun control measures to the concealed carry bill.
     Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America (GOA), said the bill was a "step in the right direction" but noted that his group was "reluctant" to get behind the bill.
     He said GOA thought the bill would be viewed as establishing a "privileged class" of people who had concealed-carry rights, while law-abiding gun owners would not be afforded the same rights.
     "We would rather have had the police working together to get everybody able [to have concealed-carry rights]" Pratt said. He added that his organization and other supporters of the Second Amendment would continue pushing legislation allowing civilians the right to concealed-carry without the requirement of a permit or license. Pratt pointed to such laws in Alaska and Vermont and called them "very effective."
     "The record of concealed-carry legislation has been very positive overall. We've seen that [in] the states that have adopted those laws ... the results have been uniformly positive," Pratt asserted.
     He also said that gun control advocates might wish to "look at the record" on how concealed-carry has reduced crime before they start "hollering" in the future.
     As more states are enacting concealed carry measures, the nation's violent crime rate has decreased every year since 1991. In 2002, the rate hit a 23-year low.
     According to the FBI, right-to-carry (RTC) states have lower violent crime rates on average: 24 percent lower total violent crime, 22 percent fewer murders, 37 percent fewer robberies, and 20 percent fewer aggravated assaults. The five states with the lowest violent crime rates are RTC states.
     Thirty-eight states now have laws permitting citizens to have concealed-carry rights, an all-time high.
     Repeated calls to the National Rifle Association, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence requesting comment for this article were not returned.

I don't like the idea that police get to be a "special class of citizens," but it is a step in the right direction. If you are a retired PO and are going to Washington, DC wouldn't you carry?