The End Of COBIS In New York!(gun law)

Ammoland ^ | 3 April, 2012 | NSSF

[marktwain]

NEWTOWN, Conn --(Ammoland.com)- On Friday evening, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the state budget into law immediately eliminating the Combined Ballistics Identification System (CoBIS), the state’s ineffective ballistic identification database.

Just as important, the budget did not contain a microstamping provision sought by anti-gun legislators.

This is a major victory for manufacturers, retailers and law-abiding firearms owners throughout New York.

NSSF thanks the governor and Senate Republicans for protecting New Yorkers’ Second Amendment rights. The CoBIS was put in place in 2000 by then Gov. George Pataki.

In the words of the New York Post today: “Trouble is, the Pataki program NEVER worked. Despite the hundreds of thousands of spent shells submitted, not one criminal was ever captured using the extensive and costly-to-maintain database, state officials concede.”

This wasteful and ineffective program doesn’t work any better in Maryland, the only state that still requires ballistics imaging.

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Read more at Ammoland.com: http://www.ammoland.com/2012/04/03/the-end-of-cobis-in-new-york/#ixzz1r5kYP090

[marktwain]

I wonder if the anti-freedom types realize just how stupid they seem, now that they no longer can rely on the MSM to cover for them.

[Standing Wolf]

[sincerity] It doesn’t have to save any lives or catch any criminals. All it’s got to do is make it more difficult and expensive for those annoying commoners to exercise their imaginary right to keep and bear arms. Where in your precious Constitution does it say they have a right to annoy the better people? Show me. I dare you! [/sincerity]

[marktwain]

Your are correct, of course. But the anti-freedom types dare not say what they wish openly. If their motives are exposed, they wither in the sunlight of the truth. We are starting to win because we now have a small amount of media with which to expose the truth.