I am changing the format slightly this month so that it is, I hope, easier to find and read things of interest to you. Click on the topic to link to more information or a web site.
LOCAL & STATE
QUESTION: Who will serve over
10 years issuing Pistol Licenses and can decide if and how to issue a pistol
license and what, if any restrictions will be placed on your license?
ANSWER: The person that
the Orange County Republican Committee will nominate as their candidate
for the year 2000 elections and who will probably be appointed by Gov.
Pataki to fill the seat until the elections.
Who should care? All gun
owners in Orange County and the people living in the following areas:
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
THE NEWBURGH RANGE opened on December, 1st.
It is in the same location as the old X-ring. The indoor 25 yard
range has 15 positions with returning targets. They charge $10 a
hour for range time and offer a 6 month memberships for $125. They
have targets and ammo now and are waiting for their FFL. CLICK
HERE TO SEE MORE ABOUT THE NEWBURGH RANGE.
The NYSPRA has sent out an ALERT that this bill will
be going to Pataki’s desk for his signature. It is important that
this bill get the attention that it deserves. I guess that they planned
to send it now thinking that no one would notice. Call, e-mail and
write Pataki and let him know that we want this bill signed.
The Bill passed the Assembly because the anti-gunners
did not know that it was not an anti-gun bill or what the Eddie Eagle Program
that it talked about was or that the NRA had anything to do with it.
When it got to the Senate the anti-gunners had found out and tried to defeat
it but it still passed. The bill would allow all "CLASSROOMS, YOUTH
PROGRAMS, SUMMER CAMPS AND DAY-CARE CENTERS.", to get Eddie Eagle material
by ordering it from the DEC free of charge. Call Gov. Pataki, your
Senator or Assembly Person and ask them to push the bill.
I asked NYSPRA what was going on and they said,
"The bill MUST be passed to the Governor by December 31 - they have no
way to stop it (it will not "die out"). As far as I have been able to tell,
the Governor will be signing the bill. As soon as the bill is sent to the
Governor I will be sending out e-mails to everyone I know to contact the
Governor and urge him to sign."
The NYSPRA has not sent out the e-mails. It
is up to you.
CLICK HERE TO E-MAIL
GOV. PATAKI. (Cut and paste the above name and # of the bill to your
e-mail.)
CLICK HERE TO LOOK UP YOUR SENATOR'S
OR ASSEMBLY PERSONS PHONE/E-MAIL/ADDRESS
CLICK
HERE TO LOOK UP THE BILL, SEARCH FOR A2045.
From: "John L. Cushman" <jcushman@juno.com>
Immediate Action Needed
Governor Pataki Threatens to Veto Eddie Eagle Bill
Senate Sponsors of A. 2045 / S. 4057 have informed
SCOPE this afternoon that Governor Pataki intends to veto A. 2045 / S.
4057, unless the legislature agrees to the governor's proposed amendments.
As a reminder, this legislation would make available
to schools and other organizations in New York State a gun safety program
for children kindergarten through 6th grade, with the theme, "STOP!
Don't Touch. Leave the Area. Tell an Adult," when they encountered
a firearm.
Governor Pataki has said he will veto the bill unless
the following amendments are made to the bill:
Please contact the governor's office immediately!!! Tell him you support this legislation as written and that the children of New York need and deserve this bill, urge him to sign A. 2045 / S. 4057.
- All References to "Eddie Eagle" must be removed.
- The "Eddie Eagle" language currently in the bill, "STOP! Don't Touch. Leave the Area. Tell an Adult," must also be deleted.
- Finally, the governor also wants to change the administrator of this program from the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to the Department of Education. A department who historically has been less than supportive of gun ownership and gun rights. SAFE is adamantly opposed to the Governor's proposed amendments!!! That said however, even if we were to agree with the governor's proposed changes they would require another vote by both houses of the legislature which simply will not happen. The Senate will not reconvene again this year. In other words the governor's proposal will effectively kill the "Eddie Eagle" bill.
WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) - A state judge on Friday dismissed the city of
Bridgeport's lawsuit that sought to make gun makers responsible for the
costs associated with gun violence.
Superior Court Judge Robert F. McWeeny agreed with gun makers who argued
the city did not have legal standing to sue because the city had not suffered
any direct injuries from guns.
``The plaintiffs have no statutory or common law basis to recoup their
expenditures. They lack any statutory authorization to initiate such claims,''
McWeeny wrote. Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim said the city would appeal.
12/8/99 Clinton announces that the Federal Government will sue gun makers with a national class action gun suite if they do not do what he wants and what he can not get passed in congress. Trigger locks and "smart gun" are two of the requirements. (If all else fails, blackmail them with lawsuits.) Just remember that every gun sold by an FFL now has to have government approval. Related news is that some of the insurance companies that would normally pay the legal fees are refusing to pay or just do not have the money to pay the millions of dollars that the legal bills will cost.
WASHINGTON, DC (Tuesday, November 30, 1999) - The Second Amendment Foundation
(SAF), a firearms civil rights legal defense, research and educational
organization, has filed a federal lawsuit today in Washington, DC against
the U.S.
Conference of Mayors (USCM) and certain individual mayors for conspiracy
to violate civil and constitution rights, including
the First, Second and Ninth Amendments, as well as the creation of
undue burden on lawful interstate commerce.
CLICK
HERE FOR MORE INFO: http://www.saf.org/pub/rkba/press-releases/MayorsLawsuitFiled.html
There will be a debate on Dec. 13, 1999 on the topic
of, "More Guns, Less Crime?". Professor John Lott, Jr.
will be in our corner vs. Prof. David Yassky in the other corner.
Topic: More Guns,
Less Crime?
Place: Cornell Club
6 East 44th Street
New York, NY 10017
(212) 986-0300
Date: Monday,
December 13th, 1999
Time: 6:00 PM.
RSVP: Mark Schuman at: (212)
578-9043
Please RSVP to Mark Schuman at: (212) 578-9043. I am told it
is free and open to the public.
Show your support to Professor Lott and the cause, while also getting
an education in Liberty.
NRA-ILA Fax Alert, Vol. 6, No. 46 - 11/24/99 CONGRESS ADJOURNS FOR 1999
MASS -- Mothers Against Senseless Shooting - a movement to protect America's children from guns. It's time for mothers to make their voices heard. An off shoot of HCI is planning a march for Mothers Day. The want: Sensible "Cooling Off" Periods and Background Checks, License Handgun Owners and Register All Handguns, Safety Locks for All Handguns, Limit Purchases to one-handgun-per-month among other things. They have a web site and the support of HCI. They awarded an Apple Pie Award to Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell for his anti-gun work and his gun buy back program. Majority Whip Tom Delay got the "Time out Chair" award for standing up for our rights. They failed to mention the Democrats who voted against additional gun control. See for yourself at: