Depending on how it’s worded, this would ban Garands.
That said, it would probably violate the Heller decision. The “in common use” test from Miller was used. Open a police cruiser trunk and what do you find? Common use test passed.
Everyone else is dreading the laws. Why? By all means, pass them now while the courts are sympathetic to our challenges.
The goal is to get the number of cartridges down to zero. Just a few more steps to go.
Also known ans why I will not live in New York and limit travel into said state for business or other non-pleasure activities.
In other words, ram it down the throats of the people of New York without any public review, directly against the state constitution.
Yeah, that'll work, especially when it didn't work previously due to court intervention.
Back in the 60's, NY State was taken to court regarding approximately 3,000 individuals who had been incarcerated at Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, all past their sentence release dates because they were deemed too dangerous to be put on the street. As an old college instructor told us, the courts decided in favor of the criminals because it wasn't against the law to be mentally ill. They were all released to the streets.
Fast forward to the mid 80's. NY State prisons are overcrowded, and an extensive construction program is undertaken to expand the number of prison beds across the state.
I started working as a Correctional Officer in 1980. At that time, there was approximately two mental hygiene units at NY State prisons. One was Greenhaven. The other was Central NY Psychiatric Center at Marcy, NY. Mentally ill inmates who were unable to be placed in general population (GP) were shipped to these units for evaluation and treatment. Then once it was deemed they could be returned to GP status, they were shipped back to their home facility. Around this same time, several of the State's psychiatric hospitals and developmental centers were closed due to budget constraints. The State decided to renovate some of those buildings, and turn them into medium security prisons. I transferred to one of those prisons in December of 1983. The mentally ill patients who had previously resided in them were turned out to the street. These psychiatric center closings continued into the early 90's, all done under the governorship of Mario Cuomo.
When I retired in 2003, the old psychiatric center-turned prison that I worked at began renovating a whole building that would be used as a mental hygiene housing unit. What I had witnessed during my years in corrections, was an unbelievable increase in mentally ill prisoners coming into the system. They can rewrite the mental hygiene laws all they want to hold people deemed dangerous, but the bottom line is, lawyers and liberal judges will eventually overturn them, and these dangerous individuals will be back on the street. It's nothing but a vicious cycle, and history is repeating itself once again.