Posted on 02/27/2012 10:31:45 AM PST by neverdem
Gun owners, possessing firearms for hunting and self-protection, are beset each year with a volley of laws, rules, regulations, ordinances, and judicial decrees that affect their hunting privileges and rights under the Second Amendment.
Judges in each county of the state have the discretion to grant pistol permits on the basis of what they deem permissible in their county. New York State allows only carrying a pistol/ handgun that is concealed. Hence, when a person applies for a pistol permit, he or she is offered two basic options: restricted (to hunting or target shooting) or unrestricted (carried concealed on one’s person).
Genesee County had previously imposed only the more limited form of permits, not granting unrestricted permit status even to federal, state, county, city and township police officials. Effective Jan. 1, the rules have been changed in Genesee County to allow issuance of an unrestricted pistol permit to permit holders who apply after a five-year period of unblemished restricted permit possession.
Critics note that the five-year delay still breaches an honest pistol-permit holder’s right to keep and bear arms. “At least we now have the option of obtaining a conceal carry permit in this county,” said Genesee County SCOPE president Jack Taylor.
These and other restrictive and anti-gun legislative issues and proposed state assembly and senate bills will be more clearly articulated and gun-owner presence can be more powerfully affirmed during a planned Sportsman and Outdoor Recreation Legislative Awareness Day set for Tuesday, March 20 in the “Well” section of the Legislative Office Building in Albany.
Experts from SCOPE (Shooters Committee on Political Education) and NYS Rifle and Pistol Association will be there to explain how permit regulations and other existing and proposed anti-gun legislation abridges constitutional freedoms.
The Erie County Chapter of SCOPE has chartered one bus and can arrange for more, if interested area sportsmen sign on for the outing. The cost is just $20 to register for the trip that departs from the Southgate Plaza at 4 a.m. that day.
To register online, go to scopeny.org, and leave your name and contact phone number on the registration form. By mail, write to: Erie County SCOPE, Box 215, Buffalo, NY 14220. For more details, call 685-4387.
The entire purpose of the 2nd Amendment is so that the people can take their country back by force if required. It isn’t for hunting, it isn’t for sport, it isn’t for self defense, it is so that the people can be as armed as the government, so that when oppression occurs, the people can correct it.
Why we let the liberals rephrase the debate all the time I do not understand.
Probably for the same reason that Republicans allow liberals to run their primary debates. A rampant urge to be liked. Barf.
It is a source of continual ammazement for me that the same lunkheaded leftists who wanted to overthrow the govenment in the’60’s now want to be the government and make it impossible to overthrow. These county nazis somehow feel they are divinely empowered to rule others. They are precisely what the founders had in mind when they wrote the second amendment.
Permits are issued at the county level and are valid for most of the state, but exclude NYC and some surrounding counties. Albany has it's own restrictions.
Some counties issue unrestricted, most "target & hunting" with no legal definition of either.
Each pistol you own must be listed on your permit and you have to own a pistol in order to apply for a permit, but you cannot possess the pistol without the permit. In fact, you cannot "possess" any pistol unless you have a permit - and yes, shooting a friends pistol counts as possession.
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don’t forget that even cops can’t carry in NYC unless they are on duty unless they are NYC cops.
This is one of the most restrictive states in the union that I know of. It is absurd
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