IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED
Governor Cuomo Close To Deal On Sweeping Gun Control
Contact Your Legislators Today and Urge Them to Oppose This Plan
The backroom deals and meetings continue in Albany with little to no input from the law-abiding firearms owners, businesses, and manufacturers that proudly call New York home. Instead of focusing on the criminal misuse of firearms, Governor Cuomo is exploiting tragedies to strip away your Second Amendment rights. Senate Republicans and Democrats seem to be supportive of these new restrictions which will include a complete ban on all modern sporting rifles, and reducing magazine capacity arbitrarily from 10 rounds to 7, what is next 4 rounds? This restriction will impact almost 80 percent of semi-automatic handguns in New York. The magazine restriction will leave many New Yorkers unable to defend themselves and their family since most manufacturers do not make 7 round magazines. In newspapers throughout New York both sides say the deal is imminent and could come as quickly as Monday.
Here are some of the issues contained in the package being negotiated between Governor Cuomo, Co-Leader Dean Skelos, and Speaker Sheldon Silver:
1. An outright ban on ALL modern sporting rifles. Governor Cuomo even suggested confiscating legally owned firearms!
2. Outlawing all semiautomatic hunting shotguns with a pistol grip.
3. Further restricting your ability to defend yourself and family by arbitrarily restricting the magazine size. New York already restricts magazine capacity 10 rounds and seeks to furthur reduce magazine capacity to 7 rounds.
4. Limiting how much ammunition you can purchase AND possess.
5. Registration of all ammunition purchases.
6. Statewide New York City style gun registration; knowing full well criminals won't ever register their guns.
7. Re-registration and permit renewal every 5 years with ever increasing fees.
8. Mandatory gun storage laws, like the one the US Supreme Court struck down in the Heller decision.
Co-Leader Skelos is quoted in newspapers today saying that Republicans favor “limiting high-capacity firearm magazines.”
You must act immediately and call Governor Cuomo, your state senator and your assembly member to demand they respect your Second Amendment rights and not support legislation that burdens and harasses you the law abiding gun owner.
Tell them to instead focus on the criminals who are the problem.
Find your elected officials here.
Call your representatives. They are meeting behind closed doors and it doesn’t sound like they are going to abide by the three day rule for posting a bill before voting on it!
http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/
This wouldn’t have stopped the shooting of the 4 fire fighters in upstate. It wouldn’t have stopped the shooting of 9 bystanders at the Empire State Building, because they were all shot by police.