• Frank Reggero, active member of the sporting family in Orange County died, 8/10/00
• NYPD Cop points gun in bar.
• Guns found in Montgomery Trailer parked in lumber yard.
• Police arrested 3 men on drug and handgun charges in the Town of Newburgh
• 67 year old retired cop, John Rudden of Monroe charged with menacing and sent to OC Jail.
• David Dirks, T H-R Sunday Outdoors Column writer finally rights a pro gun right column
• OC Family Court judge race heating up.
• TV ALERT, Frank Carbone will be on Direct Line with an anti-gunner/hunter.
• Shawangunk Fish & Game Sportsmens Extravaganza
• Nine-year-old finds loaded gun
• I.D.P.A. Classifier Match set for September 9th

NEW YORK STATE

• 07/27/2000  GUN CONTROL S8234 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR awaiting his action.
• VERY BAD NEWS FOR THOSE OF US WHO OWN ASSAULT WEAPONS
• FYI NY Penal Law, Class D felony.
• RKBA rally pictures in Albany
• Gov. Mario Pataki announces that he will run for a 3rd term.
• State Police to make new rules required by new gun control law.
• Democrats to choose between Dr. McMahon and Hillary in Sept. 12 primary.
• NY League of Women Voters, "Balancing Justice Project" anti-death penalty, pro-prison voting rights and wants to "Counter negativism about criminals-"

Zogby International Poll on Guns

AMA study said that the Brady law does not reduce homicide rates

Clinton finds way to attempt to end import of firearms and ammo.

S2099 bill to list your handguns on your IRS 1040

8/12/00 T H-R, FRANKLIN O. "FRANK" REGGERO Newburgh, N.Y. Franklin O. "Frank" Reggero of Newburgh, a retired senior programmer for IBM, Poughkeepsie, died Thursday, Aug. 10, 2000, at home. He was 56. The son of Franklin P. and Virginia Drake Reggero, he was born Sept. 21, 1943, in Newburgh. He was a member of Black Rock Fish & Game Club; Maybrook Sportsman's Club; Orange County Federation of Sportsman's Club; NYS Conservation Counsel; NRA Endowment; Stewart Park & Coalition; and IBM Quarter Century Club. Survivors include his companion, Eileen Stine, at home; one son, Franklin R. and his wife Sabine Reggero of Germany; one daughter, Melissa and her husband Stephen Dodig of Saugerties; one step-son, Michael Stine of Lake Hopatcong; both parents of Newburgh; one brother, Ronald and his wife Barbara Reggero of
 Newburgh; two sisters, Viaginia "Ginny" and her husband Joseph Mc Cue of Wallkill and Michelle "Shelly" Starkey of New Windsor; two grandsons, Vincent Reggero of Germany and Stephen Franklin Dodig of Saugerties; and several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins. Visitation will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 13, at Doulin Newburgh Funeral Home Inc., 318 North Montgomery St., Newburgh. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 14, at Good Shepherd Church. Father David Stanway will officiate. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Mausoleum. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to St. Jude Children's Hospital, P.O. Box 100/Dept. 300. Memphis, Tenn. 38148. Arrangements are under the direction of Doulin Newburgh Funeral Home Inc., Newburgh

    I will be appearing as a guest on the Cable TV Show "Direct Line" on Monday 8/14/00 at 6 PM (1st half) on Time Warner Cable Channel 6 and the 2nd half of the previously taped show on Wednesday 8/16/00, 9 PM on the same Time Warner cable channel 6. These shows had been previously broadcast on US Cablevision and Media One. The host of the show is Terance Michos, who does a great job - the topic of the show is the over-population of deer in New York State. Two other guests appeared with me at the same time - they are: Glen Cole Region #3 NYSDEC Wildlife Manager and Ann Muller of Wildlife Watch - who represents what appeared to me to be the anti-hunting community and also anti-gun. Folks in Orange County should be able to pick-up this broadcast. It was a very interesting time and Ann blames us for shooting the frogs, calls me a killer and blames us for the violence in children. Please watch this show if you can and let me know what you think.
.......... Frank

    Middletown – Sam Osborne Jr. smiled as he watched his 5-year-old son Andrew concentrate on shooting the five targets set up in frontof him.
    He hit them all.
    Hunting has been in Osborne's family for generations, and yesterday the older Osborne passed the tradition on to three sons. A few times, Kevin, 9, asked his dad for help while Christopher, 10, got up to say that he shoots for fun and "that's about it." "By teaching them the proper way to handle a gun, the proper  safety procedures," the boys' father said, "they get the responsibility."
    The Osbornes, of Middletown, were among the 150 or so people who spent the day at the Shawangunk Fish and Game Association's first-ever Sportsmen's Extravaganza, which continues today.
   The weekend event is being held at the end of Beakes Street on 200 acres of land. Organizer Tom Plocharczyk spent a year putting it together.
  Yesterday, dozens of families spent the day fishing, shooting, trapshooting, blacksmithing, and learning how to shoot a bow and arrow and flyfish.
  Carmine Montalbano, a safety instructor from the National Rifle Association and the coach of the Middletown Pistol and Rifle Association, was on hand at the target youth shooting range to  teach gun safety.
  To use an air rifle, a child has to be at least 8; to use a .22 caliber rifle, at least 12. "No child should have a gun," said Dan Maher. "If there's a gun in  the house, he should be schooled on it."

    A 9-year-old boy found a loaded handgun under a tree Wednesday evening on Ann Street, at the east end of Newburgh, city police said.
    The child's mother told police her son brought the gun to her, saying he found it at the foot of a tree, covered with grass as if someone had hidden it.
    The mother found the gun was loaded. She removed the bullet from the chamber and called police.

    Expect to see Gov. Mario Pataki sign the gun control bill in the next few days to much fanfare and a large press.

           Governor has 10 days, excluding Sundays, to act on bills sent by
      10 days before adjournment.  If Governor does not act in that time,
      the bills automatically become law. Governor has 30 calendar days
      after Legislature adjourns to act on other bills; these bills
      may not become law without the Governor's approval ("pocket veto").

    I still do not know how this is going to work out.  I have talked to Assembly people and the Sen. Padavan's office and they said that nothing was banned.  We will have to sit tight and see what the State Police tell us.  It looks like our greatest risk is the added of the phrase; "OR FUNCTIONING FRAMES OR RECEIVERS OF SUCH."

    I talked to a local Senator who told me that his current understanding of the new law is that if you did not own your assault weapon on 9/14/94 then you are going to be a felon.  (Too bad for all of the people who have sold their gun and upgraded to a better gun or did not buy an assault gun before the set date.  Too bad you did not know before the magic date that in 6 years they were going to ban any gun that you bought after that date.  Too bad if you were born too late and it was illegal for you to buy a gun before 9/14/99.)
    I am not going to say that the Senator is wrong but based on what the antigunners said when the bill passed nothing is banned.  I am trying to find someone in Albany who know what it means.  The law is vague in that it does not say who has to "LAWFULLY POSSESSED PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER FOURTEENTH, NINETEEN  HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR."   Lawfully possessed by an FFL, by an importer, by someone in NY State, by you and nobody else but you?  It does not say "lawfully possessed by the current owner...
    We will have to wait and see how Spitzer decides to handle it.  He is the only one who really has the power to define what it really means.  Get ready to start collecting your nickels and dimes, dollars, ten dollars, fifty dollars, hundred dollars to start with.  I guess that we are going to see how much support all of those pro-gun people are going to give when it cost them money.  You know, those loud pro-gunners who were sitting on their hands at home on the election day when Spitzer won.

    If anyone has any specific information that I can confirm please e-mail me.  Letters from your local representative would be great.
CLICK HERE TO LINK TO Citizens for a Safer Community v. City of Rochester.  This ruling upholds the Rochester AWB.

     The Rules presently being written by the State Police are due to be completed by October 1, 2000.  These Rules pertain to gun dealers and manufacturers.  Once written, they will be published in the NYCRR (New York Code of Rules and Regulations) and are available from the Secretary of State.  The State Police may also post them, but this has not yet been determined.  I will recontact you when I have more definite information.

Death Penalty, Issues on which the group will be working:
1 Recruit members for New Yorksers Against the Death Penalty.
2. Teach people how to talk with legislators.
3. Organize upstate resources.

Prison Voting Rights,  Issues on which the group suggested work:
1. Restoration of voting rights should be made as early as possible.
2. Researching CT law and proposing similar law in NY
3. Research the laws of other states.
4. Investigate constitutional and human rights such as the right not to be stigmatized and the right to citizen participation

Public Education,  Issues on which the group suggested work::
1. Counter negativism about criminals - alternative slogan to "Tough on Crime"
2. Change the attitude of the local media
3. Providing public schools with better information on criminal justice.
 

  LOS ANGELES, July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Just prior to the Republican National Convention, likely Independent voters favor
  Republican George W. Bush's position on abortion, taxes and gun control over Democrat Al Gore's. In a poll conducted between July 6-8, 2000, the non-partisan polling firm Zogby International surveyed 1,008 likely Independent voters
  nationwide. The poll has a +/- 3.2% margin of error.  Key results are as follows:

  Guns:

   --  69% of Independent voters favor a candidate who wants better enforcement of current gun control laws, including
  mandatory jail time for those who commit a crime with a gun, as compared to 25.1% who support a candidate favoring more gun control laws, including mandatory gun locks. These results are similar to a Feb.2000 "Zogby American Values" poll, which indicated a 68.3% to 29% split.

   --  71.7% of Independent voters would support a candidate who believes the Second Amendment of the Constitution protects the rights of individuals to own guns.  Only 21.5% indicated support for a candidate who believes that the Second Amendment protects the rights of states in the form of militias to own guns.

   --  47.2% of Independent voters believe that crime is down for the seventh consecutive year because of tough laws such as
  mandatory sentencing, no early parole and "three strikes you're out." 37.4% of Independent voters believe crime is down because of economic growth and programs to aid troubled youth and communities. In February, 54.7% of  respondents believed that crime reduction was because of tough laws compared to 31.6% who chose the economy and programs to aid  youth and communities.

   --  76.2% of Independents support a candidate who favors  federal prosecution for criminals committing a crime with a gun.  Only 13.5% support a candidate that believes criminals should be allowed to plea bargain.

  SOURCE  Zogby International; Associated Television News

At the request of Mr. Reed, the names of the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) and the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) were added as cosponsors of S . 2099 , a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require the registration of handguns, and for other purposes.