[FatherofFive]

What appalls me is the blatant, unapologetic attempt by a state government to shut down an organization which has every right to exist, for purely political reasons.

This is why this country was founded on the principle of limited government. Unfortunately, this is a states right issue.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Or states’ wrong? It’s not as though a state had never gotten slapped down before for impinging on a federally guaranteed right.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Maybe we can thank the Gaystapo for that gay marriage, because that is now the syrup of ipecac that is going to get the system to vomit up not just that, but the rest of the poison.

[NonValueAdded]

So let's look at the NY state constitution.

Let's start with Article 1:

Section 1. No member of this state shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land, or the judgment of his or her peers, except that the legislature may provide that there shall be no primary election held to nominate candidates for public office or to elect persons to party positions for any political party or parties in any unit of representation of the state from which such candidates or persons are nominated or elected whenever there is no contest or contests for such nominations or election as may be prescribed by general law. (Amended by vote of the people November 3, 1959; November 6, 2001.)

I think we have them right there, but let's continue.

ARTICLE XII (9)
Defense
Section 1. The defense and protection of the state and of the United States is an obligation of all persons within the state. The legislature shall provide for the discharge of this obligation and for the maintenance and regulation of an organized militia.

Can't well defend and protect the state when the qubermint makes an end run around the RKBA.