Posted on 01/04/2017 1:19:04 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Legislators are trying to make the already draconian New York SAFE Act even more absurd.
According to this story from thetruthaboutguns.com, lawmakers from Brooklyn announced two proposed amendments to the package of firearms laws would limit how much ammunition New York residents could buy at a time.
The law would only allow gun owners to purchase twice a gun’s capacity every 90 days. Since the SAFE Act already limits magazine capacity to 10 rounds, a gun owner wouldn’t be able to buy more than one 20-round box of ammo every three months. Theoretically, a person who owns a six-shot revolver would be limited to purchasing 12 rounds every 90 days.
This story from brooklyneagle.com says the legislation would also “prevent gun dealers from selling ammunition for a firearms to anyone not authorized to have such a weapon.”
Anyone who knows anything about guns knows there are a lot of reasons this wouldn’t work. First, as thetruthaboutguns.com points out, every single firearm possessed by a state resident would have to be cataloged and registered with information including it’s capacity for a gun shop to theoretically know which gun a person is purchasing ammunition for, and therefore how much to sell them. This would also mean that a person who doesn’t own a firearm wouldn’t be able to purchase ammunition.
Proponents of the legislation, including state Senator Roxanne Persaud and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, say the purpose of the legislation is to prevent terrorists from stockpiling ammunition.
“Limiting the quantity and duration between purchases of ammunition is one step in preventing someone with criminal intent from easily accessing large quantities of ammunition,” Persaud said in the story.
Earlier this year, New York suspended the ammunition registration portion of the SAFE Act because the required database was found to be unworkable and unaffordable to create. A similar system would be required to enforce this new amendment, should it ever pass.
The story also says: “Under the proposal, Section 270.00 of the New York State Penal Law would be amended to prevent gun dealers from selling ammunition for a firearm to anyone unauthorized to have such a weapon, regardless of the weapon type. Under the current code, only pistols and revolvers are specifically regulated.”
That’s not all. The new legislation ups the penalty for a violation to a Class E felony that carries a minimum of one year in prison, and up to four.
These are the same libs who want to import muzzie “refugees” by the millions and have sanctuary cities for millions of criminal foreign invaders.
Exactly, these idiotic gun-grabbing politicians are deluding nobody but themselves...
A long time ago when I lived in liberal-loony Massachusetts you couldn't buy beer or alcohol on a Sunday, the New Hampshire border package stores absolutely loved it...
> NY Lawmakers: Limit Ammo Purchases to 20 Rounds Every 90 Days
Me: Limit NY Lawmakers freedom of speech to 20 words every 90 days, including new laws and regulations.
20 rounds every 90 days? That isn’t enough to keep the rust from forming.
Max of maybe 10 minutes at the range. And that is pausing to check sighting in, practicing breath control, and developing a keener sense of just where the barrel is pointed. And if all the ammo is shot up at the range, what is left for home defense?
Exactly, it’s unenforceable.
A firearm without ammunition is an arm.
Unfortunately, state unconstitutional laws seem to trump our federal Constitution. That isn’t supposed to happen,but in practice that is what has happened. Look at the unconstitutional gun control laws in New Jersey, California, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts. The leftist never allow abortion laws in states that conflicted with Roe versus Wade. I wish Trump and Congress would pass sweeping legislation that reaffirmed gun rights in every single state. Threw it back to the courts again and again. It’s time for this nonsense to stop
The stupid is strong. What a industrial strength dumbass idea in a place known for dumbass ideas.
The Indian casinos will be doing a land office business in ammo along with cigarettes. We need to offer a bogey man service to the witless legislators. Periodically someone would check under their beds and certify nothing was hiding there. I figure that’s worth $50 a visit plus mileage. Someone make up a poster we can email en mass to the sponsoring legislators.
The courts will shoot this down just like they shot down the 7 round capacity....a number they pulled out of .......
Now new yorkers will have to buy ammo AND cigarettes in NJ.
Now that's called putting the shoe on the right foot! Too many people lose sight of the Constitution's purpose and you've done an excellent job bringing the discussion to the primary point.
I bet you have some great stories. I made my living outside the law creatively for a short while. I wasn't good at it ... just lucky.
Release all the illegal immigrants into NYC and we’ll see how low long that lasts...
Oh yeah...that will end murder... ,s
They will have to search oncoming traffic...
wonder how they think they will regulate the sale of reloading components and reloading presses.... I still have a Lee Loader I bought 50 years ago for $10.00 and there are fishing sinkers and wheel weights.... primers are the weak link......for right present.
This is like setting the speed limit to 1.5 MPH to reduce drunk-driving fatalities.
“Anyone who knows anything about guns knows there are a lot of reasons this wouldn’t work.”
The first being that the SAFE act has a compliance rate of 4%.
When a half million otherwise law abiding citizens would rather be felons possessing “military style assault weapons” with “high capacity magazines” and now “smuggling large quantities of unregistered ammunition”, expanding coverage & enforcement is a really bad idea.
Sure sounds like “infringing” to me...
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