Author: Curtis

Thursday, April 19th, the Capital District chapter of SCOPE will have an election meeting at the Nassau Sportsman’s Club at 7:00.  The Nassau Sportsman’s Club is located at: 370 Boyce Rd, Nassau, NY.

Come vote!  We will have an opening for Treasurer if anyone wants to run.

Hello Friends,

A Capital District SCOPE member could use a hand.  His name is Fred Phelps and he has been battling a pre SAFE Act second amendment case for several years and is trying to go to the U.S. Supreme Court over it.  He can’t afford the cost and his attorney put together a go-fund-me page to gather funds to pursue the lawsuit.

https://www.gofundme.com/2ndamendappealtosupremecourt

He has been added to the NICs database after a temporary admission to a mental institution, where he was evaluated and released as as not being adjudicated mentally ill.  He has no criminal record.  He wants to retire and enjoy the rest of his life hunting and fishing but is not allowed to purchase a rifle.

I talked to Fred personally and I also talked to his attorney and they are both decent people.  If you can spare some money, please help support Fred and his lawsuit.

From Dailyfreeman.com

Teacher’s aide arrested, fired for having loaded gun in Rockland County school.  The school, in Rockland County, serves an autistic student body ages 5 to 21.

Police said the 9mm handgun was discovered in the handbag owned by Gillian Jeffords, 24, of Warwick, who has been working for Rockland County BOCES since last September. She was charged with the felony of criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds.

She was fired on Friday, according to News12 Hudson Valley, after initially being suspended……. more here

WANT TO BE AN ACTIVIST?  Email, write or call the district attorney and tell him to bury the charges,  https://rocklandgov.com/departments/district-attorney/contact-district-attoney/  or call the school  https://www.rocklandboces.org/special-education/jesse-j-kaplan-school/

 

Governor Cuomo is pushing a proposal to extend the NICS waiting period from 3 to 10 days when there’s a delayed response to a NICS check. The legislation A.2406 passed the state assembly on March 6th. The companion bill S.1414 now sits in the state senate codes committee where Senator Andrew Lanza is the chairman. Senator Lanza’s contact information is phone: 518-455-3215, his email: lanza@nysenate.gov. Please contact your senator and Senator Lanza and ask them to kill S.1414.

S.1414, Is a proposal to extend the waiting period to ten days when a purchaser receives a delayed response on his NICS check. A delayed response can be because the potential buyer’s name is on the terror watch list, a list that has been proven to be flawed, to say the least. The most well-known example was the inclusion of the late Senator Ted Kennedy and musician Yusuf Islam, also known as Cat Stevens on the government no-fly list. Being on the terror watch list  does not mean you have been convicted of any crime, therefore denial or a delay, because you happened to end up on this list, is not only a violation of the Second Amendment but also the due process rights as guaranteed under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S Constitution. We oppose this legislation.

The biggest problem plaguing the current NICS system is the incompetence within the government bureaucracy, both at the federal level and the states. The problems that exist need to be addressed within the bureaucracy and not at the expense of law-abiding Americans.

If you can make it, try to go to this tomorrow.

Saratoga Springs’ city council will consider a measure to ban the sale of guns at a downtown venue.

A special city council meeting is set for Friday at 11 a.m.

Called for by Democratic Mayor Meg Kelly, the only item on the agenda would authorize the mayor to sign an addendum to the lease agreement between the city and Saratoga Springs City Center.

The multi-purpose venue has hosted more than 100 gun shows over three decades.

It’s not the first time there’s been a call to ban the sale of firearms at the City Center. Demonstrators protested a gun show held months after the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.

In October 2013, 2011 shooting survivor and Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and fellow Democrat New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman toured a gun show at the City Center.

From: http://wamc.org/post/saratoga-springs-city-council-consider-ban-gun-sales-city-center

There is an example from our recent past.

One particular group that has seen “compromise” and incrementalism used as a way to strip them of their rights is smokers. This is what happens when you compromise with liberals.

Comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla has made this point many times on his show.  It certainly exemplifies how a slope quickly becomes slippery and, if your interest is simply compromise, you can compromise your rights away.

To paraphrase Carolla, there was a time when you could smoke in restaurants. They are private property, and if the owner wanted to allow smoking, smoking was allowed. Then the government (liberals) decided smokers should be herded into their own area of a restaurant, the “smoking section.” So they went so smokers in the main dining room and said, “We’re going to need you to sit over here, in this side room You can smoke all you want, we just don’t want other people to smell it while they’re eating. You understand, right?”

Smokers, not wanting to cause a scene and knowing some non-smokers could be annoyed, happily complied.

Then the government comes back and says, “We’re going to need you to move to the bar area when you smoke. People are drinking there, and eating here, so it’d just be better if you moved over there.”

Smokers picked up their ashtrays, “Sure thing,” they said, and moved to the bar.

The government comes back and says they need smokers to step out front. “If you could just stand out front and smoke, that would be much better for everyone, OK? Don’t worry, there’s an awning and a heater, so you’ll be protected from the weather.”

Smokers picked up and moved outside.

“If you could move 50 feet from the door, that would be very helpful,” the government said next. “People smell smoke as they walk in the door and we don’t want that. Thanks.”

And now smokers are stuck down the block, wet and wondering how this happened. If someone had come up to them at first and said, “Hey, get down the street if you want to smoke,” it never would have happened, they wouldn’t have stood for it. But little by little, inch by inch, they moved because each move was small and seemed like a compromise.

Now smokers are never getting back inside, even if the owners of a bar or restaurant want them to. Their rights are gone, the private property rights of the owners are gone, and it was all done in the name of compromise.

There is no compromise with someone who doesn’t want you to exist, there is only incrementally losing ground until you no longer exist. A right diminished will never return, government does not cede back power once seized.

Trying to appease leftists never works because nothing short of everything they want is ever enough for them.

If people who support the Second Amendment start to compromise with liberals whose ultimate goal is to strip everyone of their right to defend themselves, it won’t be too long before they’re out on the street in the rain with the smokers. Never give them an inch.

Taken and adapted from: https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2018/03/04/do-not-give-an-inch-on-the-second-amendment-n2457078

To all supporters of the second amendment:  NOW is the time for all the second amendment support factions in the state and in the country to unite together and support each other!  NOW.  We can argue later, after this crisis is over.  This current attack on our rights is the worst it has ever been, and we have to fight it together.  Every single  second we fight with each other is a second we are not fighting the enemy, and that makes the enemy stronger, and we may all be defeated because of it.

Whether or not you support every aspect of another groups position, get over it, we have more in common with each other than we have with those trying to take our rights away from us and our children.  Even if some of us dislike or hate each other, it’s time to put our personal hatred aside for the greater good.  Be a UNIFIER, not a DIVIDER!

Have courage to tell the dividers to stop and adjust their sights to the gun control crowd.  We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Kinderhook Sportsman’s Club is holding a Veteran’s Appreciation Day April 28th
This is a really good cause and if you could help a little it might make a difference in a Vet’s life.  Check out the video and go fund me page below.

Last years’s event:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuZ2Cs7KB7k
https://www.gofundme.com/veterans-appreciation-day-ksc

 1) NY: Parma Man Accidentally Shot from Half Mile Away, Civil Suit Follows after Charges Dismissed

This one is old news but I had not heard of it.  In October 2016, two men were target shooting in rural New York. They were sighting in rifles for the upcoming deer season.  They could see about a thousand feet, but there was no obvious backstop on the flat ground. They had two .308 Winchester rifles, a Del-Ton AR, and a pistol. It was about 4 p.m.  Almost half a mile away, unseen, Kevin Flannery was shot by them while mowing a lane on his property.   Charges were dismissed, but a civil case was filed in November 2017.  more here.  KNOW YOUR BACKSTOP 

2) HOME INVASION ROBBERY SUSPECT SHOT DURING STRUGGLE IN HORSEHEADS, January 2018

Deputies said Daiquan Bythwood, Zhamere Charriez of Elmira and Drew Stansfield of Horseheads, NY had a loaded 22 rifle and broke into a home on Overlook Drive around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday and demanded cash. Deputies said an occupant of the home then struggled with Bythwood before the homeowner grabbed his own shotgun from his bedroom and shot Bythwood and struck him in the hip with a load of buckshot.  All three suspects then left, deputies said.  more here

From: http://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/cuomo-heastie-push-for-statewide-bump-stock-ban/71-508239062

Cuomo, Heastie Push For Statewide Bump Stock Ban
Bump stocks, used in the Las Vegas mass shooting, could be banned if Governor Cuomo and Speaker Heastie get their way. Gun rights advocates say they’ll pressure the State Senate to defeat the bill.

Author: Steve Brown
Published: 6:35 PM EST January 15, 2018

Five years ago today, Andrew Cuomo signed into law the SAFE Act, a package of gun control reforms the Governor has described as a model for the nation.  Now he and the Assembly Speaker would like to add to it with a ban on bump stocks.  The devices, used in the Las Vegas mass shooting in October, transform a semi-automatic weapon. A single pull of a trigger with a bump stock equipped firearm can produce a continuous flow of bullets, like an automatic weapon.

Months later, investigators are still at work. An official report on the investigation has not been released.  But last week, Carl Heastie identified a bill banning bump stocks is high on his legislative priority list for 2018.

Assembly Bill 8717 proposes to make it illegal to possess, manufacture, transport or sell bump stocks in New York State. A spokesman says Governor Cuomo supports the bill.  “‎The use of bump stocks is currently illegal in New York, but we would support legislation that builds upon our strongest in the nation gun safety laws and further restricts possession of these deadly killing machines,” says Rich Azzopardi (Cuomo’s spokesperson).  That leaves the only question mark on the issue in the State Senate. 2 On Your Side reached out to Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan asking whether he will support or oppose the legislation. We got no response.

But gun rights advocates like Tim Andrews, president of SCOPE-NY, know the State Senate is where the fight will be.  “I think our best hope of doing that is obviously in the Senate. I’m not saying by any stretch of the imagination I believe it would necessarily be easy to do. But that would be our focus. We will put all the pressure on we possibly can. We feel we have to,” says Andrews.

Andrews says control issues need to be handled on the federal level or they will not work. And although the influential National Rifle Association has signaled it believes the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms should regulate bump stocks, the Republican-controlled Congress has not taken up the issue.