The following is direct from the NYS Assembly website. These people have NO idea what they are doing. If you are in NY please call and write them before they screw us any more!
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<br>The latest is Assembly Bill #47 which makes selling or POSSESSING ammo for a handgun a FELONY unless you have a handgun permit IN THAT CARTRIDGE!
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<br>So if you shoot 38s in your 357 your a felon because you don't have a permit for a 38. If you have 22LR does that make you a felon because there are 22 pistols? How about 7.62x39? How about every other cartridge in a contender?
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<br>They are ABSOLUTELY CLUELESS!
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<br>ok ok the rest is directly copied, red it and weep at the idiocy. The worst part is that they don't even know the effect of these things!
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<br>The Assembly's
<br>15 Point Plan To
<br>Stop Gun Violence
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<br>The Assembly Majority's "Cease Fire" agenda to stop gun violence would enact
<br>strong new laws to keep guns out of the hands of our children, help prevent
<br>school violence tragedies, crack down on violent criminals who use firearms and
<br>enact common-sense measures to ensure that guns are possessed for lawful
<br>purposes like self-defense, hunting and target shooting.
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<br>The Assembly package includes the following measures...
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<br>1.
<br>Keeping children safe from gun violence � The Children's Weapon Accident
<br>Prevention Act
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<br>This bill would require trigger locks to be sold with all guns in New York
<br>State. The bill would also make it a felony for an adult to carelessly leave a
<br>gun accessible to a minor, where the minor used that gun to cause death or
<br>serious physical injury. This legislation is contained in the Assembly's "Safe
<br>Schools\Safe Children" initiative (A-6899-a, passed Assembly).
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<br>2.
<br>Getting guns out of the hands of our kids � Establishing 21 as the minimum age
<br>for handgun use
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<br>This legislation would establish 21 as the minimum age to obtain a handgun
<br>license in New York State. Current New York law provides no minimum age limit
<br>for handgun possession (A-8223, Koon).
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<br>3.
<br>Banning deadly assault weapons
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<br>This legislation would ban the sale or possession of military-style assault
<br>weapons and ban ammunition clips containing more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
<br>The bill would also provide consecutive sentences of up to 15 years for those
<br>who use assault weapons to commit violent crimes. This legislation is contained
<br>in the Assembly's "Safe Schools\Safe Children" initiative (A-6899-a, passed
<br>Assembly).
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<br>4.
<br>Cracking down on illegal gun traffickers � Enactment of Ari's Law
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<br>This initiative would establish permanent statutory authorization for a program
<br>funded in last year's state budget by the Assembly to assist district attorneys
<br>in investigating and prosecuting gun traffickers. The bill would also require
<br>local police departments to work with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
<br>Firearms to trace illegal guns to their source and require the Division of State
<br>Police to establish an illegal gun source database to assist in gun trafficking
<br>prosecutions. The bill would require a license in order to possess a "Gun Kit"
<br>from which a firearm could be produced. This legislation is named in honor of
<br>Ari Halberstam, a student murdered in an attack on the Brooklyn Bridge several
<br>years ago (A-7702, Silver).
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<br>5.
<br>Keeping guns out of the hands of violent felons
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<br>This bill would bar anyone convicted of a violent felony from ever possessing a
<br>gun, whether or not that felon had received a certificate of relief from
<br>disabilities or certificate of good conduct (A-388-a, Kaufman).
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<br>6.
<br>Closing the gun show loophole
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<br>This bill would require anyone selling guns at a gun show to possess a valid
<br>firearms dealers license, to ensure that appropriate background checks were
<br>conducted on all purchasers. Under current law, gun shows are unregulated arms
<br>bazaars where minors, violent felons and others can often obtain guns, with no
<br>questions asked, from unscrupulous sellers (A-8224, Matusow).
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<br>7.
<br>Getting "Junk Guns" out of circulation
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<br>Federal law currently bans the importation of cheap, poorly made, easily
<br>concealable "Saturday Night Specials" or "Junk Guns." These weapons are often
<br>the gun of choice for violent felons. Under current law "Junk Guns" can be
<br>freely manufactured and sold within the United States. This legislation would
<br>require the Division of State Police to use the standards developed by the
<br>federal government in banning imported junk guns to develop a list of
<br>domestically manufactured junk guns currently available for purchase in New
<br>York. This list, of the most poorly made and dangerous handguns on the market,
<br>would be provided to the Legislature, so further action could be taken to
<br>restrict or ban the use of such weapons (A-4939, Hochberg).
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<br>8.
<br>Stopping bullets and saving lives � The development of "Smart Gun" technology
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<br>New technology allows the manufacture of firearms which, through the use of
<br>fingerprint identification, bar code scanning or other means, allows a handgun
<br>to be fired only by its authorized user. With "Smart Gun" technology, a child
<br>who picks up a gun owned by their parent � or a violent felon who wrestles a gun
<br>away from a police officer � cannot fire that gun. "Smart Gun" technology
<br>promises to save thousands of lives. This bill would require the Division of
<br>State Police to develop a standard under which all guns sold in New York would
<br>have to utilize "Smart Gun" technology and submit that proposed standard to the
<br>Legislature. Additional legislative action would be necessary before "Smart Gun"
<br>technology would be required for guns sold in New York (A-1232, Koon).
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<br>9.
<br>Tracking internet gun sales
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<br>This bill would require carriers shipping guns into New York to notify the State
<br>Police of gun shipments and carry manifests with detailed information on such
<br>guns including which guns had been purchased through the internet. This
<br>additional information would assist law enforcement agencies in prosecuting
<br>illegal gun trafficking cases (A-3498-a, Englebright).
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<br>10.
<br>Closing the gun license loophole & requiring gun safety courses prior to handgun
<br>use
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<br>This bill would enact the common-sense requirement that persons who wished to
<br>own handguns in New York first take a gun safety course. The bill would also
<br>reform licensing laws to require that handgun licenses be recertified every five
<br>years. Under current New York law, outside the New York City suburban area,
<br>handgun licenses, once received, are valid forever. Under current New York law,
<br>a handgun licensee can commit a violent crime, become mentally disabled, move
<br>out of a licensing jurisdiction or even die without having action taken against
<br>their license. Requiring license recertification every five years would impose
<br>little burden on legitimate gun owners. It would, however, allow law enforcement
<br>authorities to weed out persons who were no longer fit to use a gun (A-6552-a,
<br>Pretlow).
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<br>11.
<br>Gun license suspension for intoxication or drug use
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<br>Persons who drive while intoxicated or while using unlawful drugs face stiff
<br>penalties. Yet there is currently no sanction applied to persons who carry
<br>loaded guns on their persons, in public, while drunk or using illegal narcotics.
<br>This bill would suspend the gun license of anyone who was drunk or under the
<br>influence of illegal narcotics in a public place or in a car while carrying a
<br>loaded handgun (A-1249, Lentol).
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<br>12.
<br>Stopping criminals from getting state owned guns
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<br>Guns owned by the state and used by law enforcement authorities have in the past
<br>often been sold to gun dealers when new guns have been purchased by the state.
<br>Some of these state-owned guns have later been used to commit violent crimes. To
<br>stop the State of New York from becoming a pipeline for illegal gun sales and
<br>gun use, this bill would require that used state guns be either transferred to
<br>other law enforcement agencies or destroyed (A-1379, Eve).
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<br>13.
<br>Stopping gun license evasion
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<br>This bill would require that a long gun purchaser's address be checked when they
<br>buy a gun to see if the purchaser lived in New York City, where licenses are
<br>required in order to own a long gun. New York City residents would have to show
<br>a valid New York City long gun permit to purchase a gun. Under current law, City
<br>residents can evade New York City licensing restrictions by buying long guns
<br>outside New York City, where no license to possess a long gun is required
<br>(A-7669, Englebright).
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<br>14.
<br>Outlawing disguised guns
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<br>Legislation enacted in 1998 prohibits the possession of "disguised guns." The
<br>1998 law banned such devices as "key-chain guns" or "cane guns" which could not
<br>be readily identified by law enforcement entities as guns. This bill adds real
<br>guns designed to look like toy guns to the types of "disguised guns" prohibited
<br>by New York law (A-8234, Lentol).
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<br>15.
<br>Combatting gun thefts
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<br>Gun thefts � from gun shops, homes and automobiles � constitute one of the most
<br>significant ways that guns go from law abiding users to violent criminals. This
<br>legislation would simply require that all gun thefts be promptly reported to the
<br>police to assist law enforcement agencies in recovering these dangerous weapons
<br>(A-377, Destito).
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