New York's 'SAFE' Act: The 'Rape' of the Second Amendment

American Thinker ^ | February 5, 2013 | Michael Filozof

[neverdem]

In January, the New York State Legislature passed the Orwellian-sounding "SAFE" (Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement) Act. The act was debated in closed session without committee hearings, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed it into law within an hour of its passage -- after waiving the required three-day public comment period. Cuomo bragged that New York now has the "toughest assault weapons ban" in the country but claimed that the law respects the Second Amendment and preserves the rights of "hunters and sportsmen." The former is true; the latter is a bald-faced lie. Even if you do not live in New York, you should be very worried, because the SAFE Act is a harbinger of what Democrats in the federal government will do nationwide if they can.

The SAFE Act is far worse than you might imagine. Harold "Budd" Schroeder, member of the NRA Board of Directors from New York, described the law as "the rape of our gun rights." That is no exaggeration. The law is as harsh as (or harsher than) the gun laws of some European nations that do not have a Bill or Rights or a Second Amendment.

The most widely reported provision of the law is the total ban on the sale of military-style rifles classified as "assault weapons," effective Jan. 15. The provision forever prohibits anyone other than a law enforcement agency from acquiring such weapons, including the popular hunting and target variants of the AR-15 rifle. Current owners of such rifles must register them with the state by 2014, and the registration must be renewed every five years. This gives the state a list of persons from which to confiscate them in the future, and the five-year renewal provision gives the state an excuse to find ways to deny ownership once every five years....

[from occupied ga]

Think Atlanta as opposed to the balance of your state.

It isn't that I don't understand that even in NY there are conservatives. The problem with NY is the winner take all nature of electoral politics. If you're outnumbered by even a small margin, then you have no say. And in NY conservatives are outnumbered by a large margin.

You should be praying for your fellow ‘like-minded’ FReedom-loving gun-owners in NY State instead of launching immature attacks on us.

My prayers or lack thereof won't change a single mind in NY. I know what people there are like. I had the misfortune to live both upstate and in the Bronx before escaping to a better place. I can assure you as rare as conservatives were in Tompkins county they were nearly non-existant in the Bronx. On those few occasions when I got into political discourse with liberals, you could tell that logic and facts were not important. They were true believers, and as we know "For true believers no proof is necessary and no disproof possible."

I don't launch attacks on you. I simply state the facts about the politics in the state. The facts being that conservatives have no voice there. The ONLY voice anyone hears coming out of NY is the endless rant of higher taxes, gun control, globull warming, etc. You personally may indeed be a conservative, but you have no say and no way to change the votes of statists who dominate NY politics at both the federal and state level. And as you mentioned virtually every upstate population center is a hotbed of tyrant wannabe statists/democrats. I agree you're living in an occupied state same as I am. But two things: I at least am aware of the nature of what comes out of Atlanta, And I don't try to paint a rosy picture in defiance of the facts.

At least here the occupiers are occasionally handed a defeat. Case in point the greedy NFL franchise demanded a new stadium paid for by the taxpayers. The governor (R) fell on his knees to kiss the Falcon's owner's backside and tried to ram a significant chunk of the capital expenditures onto the taxpayers. The legislature voted NO. Atlanta's black Democratic mayor then decided to put $200,000,000 on the backs of Atlanta taxpayers, and the black democrats who make up the majoity of the Atlanta city council went along with it.(most are so dumb they have to be watered twice a week - look up Hank Johnson as a typical black democrat from Atlanta) Unfortunately, too many state funds are given to Atlanta to consider this a clear victory, but at least it was a small vistory against the state/big busniness exploiatation of the taxpayer for private gain.