Got Ammo? Not Without License States New City Gun Control Bill

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1865&dept_id=152958&newsid=7952178&PAG=461&rfi=9 ^ | May 8th 2003 | Keach Hagey

[from occupied ga]

My only request is that you don't "throw the baby out with the bath water". Not every New York resident is a stereotypical New Yorker.

I'm sure there are a few conservatives in NY (yourself for one), but I'm going by the statistical likelihood, and odds are most are somewhere to the left of Stalin and want that viewpoint inflicted on the rest of the country. Seriously, can you even own a .50 BGM in NY? (This is a 2a thread)

[facedown]

...co-sponsored by Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria),...

Isn't this the same idiot who proposed that NYC secede from the state?

[MortMan]

To be honest, I don't know if the .50 BGM is legal here. I haven't looked at higher-powered firearms because I don't have any place to shoot them safely (I live in town - no shortage of viable targets, but the police get itchy:-)

So, whereabouts in the occupied peach state do you hail from?

(BTW - A small confession: I'm not a native New Yorker. I was born in Houston - LOL)

[from occupied ga]

So, whereabouts in the occupied peach state do you hail from?

Burbs north of Atlanta. My question about the .50 bmg was to illustrate that NY is an anti-2a anti conservative state. I think (but I'm not sure, that's why I asked) that full auto ownership is forbidden in NY (except of course to the police)I know it is forbidden in NYC.

[Teacher317]

As my uber-liberal professor stated very clearly, the best way to overturn a law is to find a single exception to be recognized, then expand the number of exceptions until that law is efgfectively destroyed. This is what they are doing to repeal the Second Amendment without a Constitutional Convention (and subsequent revolt). Persons formerly convicted of violent felonies was the exception and made it acceptable to seeraly infringe on people's 2A rights... and now it is everyone. First it was guns that were "too powerful", shot "too fast", held "too many rounds", then anything that shoots a projectile. Now it is the projectiles themselves.

[Teacher317]

By the way, I am thinking about reactivating my Law School's Second Amendment Society. Do any FReepers out there have any ideas, advice, or experience that might help me out? Thanks!

[merak]

New Yorkers need to do something. Meanwhile, this should be good for business in other states since it will send New Yorkers to gunshows in the other states for ammo. Somebody might mention this to the NY chamber of commerce.

[merak]

New Yorkers need to do something. Meanwhile, this should be good for business in other states since it will send New Yorkers to gunshows in the other states for ammo. Somebody might mention this to the NY chamber of commerce.

[Teacher317]

"The popular National Rifle Association defense “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” leaves out a key technicality: it’s the bullets that do the killing."

Well, if you want to be technical, it is the massive blood loss that does the killing. That blood loss comes from the hole in the body. That hole comes from the bullet. The bullet comes from the gun (very quickly, I might add). The gun comes from the person who obtained it, loaded it, carried it, drew it, aimed it, and pulled the trigger. The inanimate objects (the gun and the bullets) do not know if they way they are being used is legitimate. Only the person does, therefore, only the person should be punished for any unlawful act.

Unfortunately, liberals don't have the requisite IQ points to figure this out, and they blame the inanimate objects... and punish the innocent with their "solutions".

[John Doe #1]

I live in the mountains and there are rocks all over the place. There's even signs along the roads that state,
"Watch Out For Falling Rock". We just heard how dangerous rocks are especially in Texas. Then there's bathtubs...
knives...pillows... Oh,No! Does this mean I have to give
up my favorite pillow,too? (sarcasm)

[CholeraJoe]

License my a$$.

You don't have to buy a license to exercise freedom of speech or religion. You don't have to buy a license to protect yourself against unlawful search and seizure or self-incrimination. You don't have to buy a license to vote.

What gives any government the power to license Second Amendment rights?

[Destructor]

"Unfortunately, liberals don't have the requisite IQ points to figure this out, and they blame the inanimate objects... and punish the innocent with their "solutions".

Right you are on that point!