And, after passage, they are still writing it as we "speak"...
Posted on 03/21/2013 8:44:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If Andrew Cuomo has truly had an epiphany about his approach to gun regulation, it’s not really evident from this admission. The New York Times reports that Cuomo will now try to rush some changes into his banner gun-control legislation that forced New York gun owners to use magazines that no one manufactures, with even the one exception to the rule found to be unworkable (via Legal Insurrection):
In the wake of the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York pushed through the State Legislature gun control measures that included not only a tougher assault weapons ban but also a tighter restriction on the maximum legal capacity of gun magazines.
But after weeks of criticism from gun owners, Mr. Cuomo said on Wednesday that he would seek to ease the restriction, which he said had proved unworkable even before it was scheduled to take effect on April 15.
The gun-control law, approved in January, banned the sale of magazines that hold more than seven rounds of ammunition. But, Mr. Cuomo said Wednesday, seven-round magazines are not widely manufactured. And, although the new gun law provided an exemption for the use of 10-round magazines at firing ranges and competitions, it did not provide a legal way for gun owners to purchase such magazines.
Now, one might think that after having been embarrassed by his own ignorance — and in the face of a number of critics who pointed these issues out from the beginning — Cuomo would advise the legislature to repeal the bill and start over again. One would be … wrong. This New York governor has decided to correct one idiocy with another, emphasis mine:
As a result, he said, he and legislative leaders were negotiating language that would continue to allow the sale of magazines holding up to 10 rounds, but still forbid New Yorkers from loading more than 7 rounds into those magazines.
Er, what? Will the police be around to check how many bullets are loaded into each magazine? And, by the way, will criminals be deterred from loading rounds 8, 9, and 10 into the magazine? The whole idea of magazine limits is to limit those with criminal intent from firing too many bullets without having to reload, at which point the law expects the disarmed to rush the criminal rather than shoot back and hope he’s worse at reloading than they will be at beating someone into submission. How will Cuomo’s latest idea deter criminals, who will have zero fear of having a gun inspection before committing their crimes?
“Hey, let’s go rob that bank. Get your guns ready, and — oh yeah, don’t load more than seven bullets into each magazine.”
Furthermore, if that kind of restriction was at all useful, then why pass a law forbidding 15-round or 30-round magazines at all? Just pass a law that says no one can load more than seven bullets into the magazine, and voila! Problem solved, right?
William Jacobson calls this new idea “irrational and arbitrary.” It’s also dumber than a box of rocks, and anyone with a hint of self-awareness would have realized it before the press release went out.
And this MEGAPUTZ is going to run for POTUS in 2016? Unbelievable!!!
In other words, when someone has little to lose or reason to cooperate ....
What it should read:
And, by the way, will criminals be created by loading rounds 8, 9, and 10 into the magazine?
And, after passage, they are still writing it as we "speak"...
the whole thing needs to go as does many things which this so called royal family has done whether immigration to lawsuits to social issues and especially to the military and the social experiment.
None of this really counts because it is all done with an eye to 2016 and cuomo’s presidential campaign, in which he will brag that he was the first in the nation to take on the gun culture with a sensible, reasonable law designed to protect our helpless children.
Wait and see. It was all about being first out of the chute.
cuomo worships at the altar of cuomo. Everything else is window dressing. What can you say about someone even the kennedys found to be an insufferable pr**k?
All future mass shooters and bank robbers will be required to check in with the local police station to have their bullets counted before being allowed to proceed with their plans.
If that was the case, he is as much of an idiot politically as around guns. Gun control is huge loser politically. All the politicians know it.
Obama thought his “magic” could change all that. He is has already lost a good deal, and will lose more, I believe.
Organized Crime requires political corruption to work.
Organized crime deals in vice,
Cuomo condones vice.
second amendment fundamental rights combat vice.
cumo hate the second amendment.
Yet another supid ass Dem who runs off on mission of inoculating himself as a full fledged leftie who will ram thru a law to rule over citizens. Seems to be a habit with them. No big picture or detailed understanding of what’s it really going to do visa vie cause and effect.
Frankly, they are far from as smart as they think they are, plus they’re lazy when it comes to detailed, comprehensive work and knowledge.
Yet another supid ass Dem who runs off on mission of inoculating himself as a full fledged leftie who will ram thru a law to rule over citizens. Seems to be a habit with them. No big picture or detailed understanding of what’s it really going to do visa vie cause and effect.
Frankly, they are far from as smart as they think they are, plus they’re lazy when it comes to detailed, comprehensive work and knowledge.
Barack Obama: That ObamaCare law I signed turned out to be utterly unworkable, huh?
If you bet on his being an idiot, most people would avoid the wager.
***expects the disarmed to rush the criminal rather than shoot back****
And if you count your shots you can drop the magazine with a live round in the chamber to take care of anyone that rushes you while you reload.
I learned that little trick from cops who used to use .45 Colt pistols and others without a magazine disconnect.
As for rifles, same goes since they don’t have magazine disconnects.
***Exactly how would one load only 7 rounds into an M-1 Garand?***
During WWII it was standard procedure among soldiers to eject a partially used clip and reload with a full 8 rounds.
Would not want to use five or six rounds, then later, during a firefight have to use the last two or three, then “ping” and have to reload under fire.
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