Author: Curtis

From the 7/15/17 Western Free Press:

In the political world there is much controversy about legislation and legislators. New York just closed their legislative session and there is little to brag about by the governor and the legislators, The governor and leaders obviously disagree, but many issues were ignored and little was done for the taxpayers of the state to improve laws.

Among the casualties were necessary amendments to the SAFE act to correct the huge infringements to the Second Amendment. The biggest one is the lack of due process dealing with the confiscation of property and destroying of gun rights…………..   find the rest here

I’ve heard of people shooting at cans, melons and jugs before, but this study shoots at breast implants.  The study shows that breast implants slow the velocity of a bullet, but don’t replace bullet proof vests.  more here

 

complete article from Ammoland: (www.ammoland.com/2017/07/cmp-sales-1911s-one-step-closer-house-passage)

Excerpt:  Fairfax, VA – -(Ammoland.com)- On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2810, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2018.

Included in the bill is a provision that would make U.S. Army surplus 1911 .45 ACP pistols available to the American public through the Civilian Marksmanship program (CMP).

In November of 2015, then-President Obama signed the NDAA for Fiscal year 2016 into law with language that authorized the Secretary of Defense to transfer 1911s no longer in service to the CMP for public sale. That language made the transfers subject to the Secretary’s discretion and capped them at 10,000 per year. Unsurprisingly, no actual transfers were made under the program while Obama remained in the White House.

This year’s language, however, would effectively make the transfers mandatory and would remove the yearly cap.

The NRA thanks House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) for their steadfast support of this important provision.

Upon completion of the Senate NDAA, the House and Senate will convene a conference committee to resolve the differences in their bills. If you would like to see 1911 sales return to the CMP, please contact your U.S. Senators and Representative and urge them to keep the House language on this matter intact in the final bill they send to the president. You can contact Senators and Representative at 202-225-3121.

 

From the July 14, 2017 Arcade Herald….

Residents, officials and special interest groups filled the chambers of the Wyoming County Board of Supervisors at its Tuesday, July 11 meeting to be heard on a proposed amendment to a weapons ban

The local law banning weapons from county buildings has been in effect since 1994. The proposed amendment excludes police officers, peace officers and those “licensed by New York State Penal Law 400(2)(f) to have and carry a concealed weapon.” Wyoming County residents, members of the Shooters Committee on Political Education and representatives of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence were all present to voice their opinions on the amendment……

More information is here: http://www.mywnynews.com/arcade_warsaw/news/latest_news/article_21119a98-66ff-11e7-995d-eb67804b6762.html

The vote was postponed until September but the record is being kept open to allow further comments on the topic, in case you want to comment. (http://www.wyomingco.net/Board/Main.html)

Hello Capital District SCOPE Members,

After many months of our chapter email not working, we established a new email account. Many thanks to one of our members for setting everything up.

At the next meeting we want to set up some committees that members are interested in. If you have committee ideas, please present them at the meeting.

Also, our Secretary position is still open. If you can read and write, take notes, and type them, please consider running for Secretary. Our Treasurer, after doing it superbly for years, would like a break. If you want to to be Treasurer, let us know.  We need you.

Thanks for your time and keep in touch.

Curtis C
Chairman, Capital District SCOPE

A detailed legalese discussion of the transfer of ammo in NYS is presented in a White Paper by the Arbalest Quarrel (see the link below).

http://www.arbalestquarrel.com/pdf-white-papers/wp-1001.pdf

According to the Arbalest Quarrel, you may download and share Arbalest Quarrel White Papers as informational material only. Any and all editing or modification of these White Papers is strictly prohibited.

Update 7/5/17: The shooter had three 10 round magazines on him but only used one of the three. (NY Times)

Update 7/3/17: The rifle used in the shooting was illegal in NYC and was purchased upstate in Schenectady 8 days before the shooting (NY Daily News).

CNN reported the firearm as an “assault rifle”, here is a reported picture clearly showing it as a NYS (un)SAFE Act compliant rifle.  It should be noted that without the “evil features” it does not meet the NYS politician derived definition of an assault rifle.

 

What does this mean?  The’re coming!  The downstate democrat gun haters are going to say they haven’t done enough with the SAFE act and it’s time to ban the sale of all semi-auto rifles or all AR-15 style weapons (like in Massachusetts) and register the rest, with no permission to transfer.  Put on your big boy and big girl pants and be prepared to fight this when it comes.

Many anti-gun gun groups lump homicides and suicides together as “gun violence”, as well as including accidental discharges, self defense shootings and shootings by police officers.  They use the statistic that there are 30,000 deaths from gun violence per year.  Yet about 20,000 of those deaths are suicides.

Yes suicide by gun is a violent act for sure, but but it is not “gun violence”.  If we talk about suicide by gun as gun violence, we also need to talk about hanging (rope) violence, wrist slitting (knife) violence, pill violence, bridge jumping violence, drowning (water) violence, and even auto-erotic asphyxiation violence.

Also, the guns aren’t violent, the people who use them to commit homicides are.

If it looks like there is no way out for you, except to end it all, talk to someone.   Hold on, you’re only human, your second wind is coming. (Billy Joel)

National suicide Prevention Line:  1-800-273-8255   24 hours / 7 days

Somebody Local to Talk To:   ALBANY Capital District Psychiatric Center Crisis Unit / Hotline  (518) 447-9650 24 hours / 7 days

Thordsen customs has come out with a GEN III FRS-15 featureless stock for New York compliance that New Yorkers might like.

This new design builds on what they learned from previous versions and through customer feedback. It offers a better look.  You can order it with the buffer tube cover, or keep the buffer tube cover from your old Thordsen stock and just order the stock portion.  At first it may look like a thumbhole stock but the stock and buffer tube are not connected.  You can see more here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_88lumNmIo&t=0s http://www.thordsencustoms.com/frs-15-gen-iii-rifle-stock/

Taken and edited from Ammoland:

In a fiery dissent on June 26th, 2017 with regard to the court not taking up the Peruta case,  along with Justice Clarence Thomas, Gorsuch demanded that the Court take this case and other Second Amendment cases in order to protect the rights of citizens living in states that do not respect the Second Amendment.

From the dissent on how the Heller case speaks clearly on the issue of carrying firearms for self-defense:

As we explained in Heller, to “bear arms” means to “‘wear, bear, or carry upon the person or in the clothing or in a pocket, for the purpose of being armed and ready for offen­sive or defensive action in a case of conflict with another person.’” The most natural reading of this definition encom­passes public carry. I find it extremely improbable that the Framers understood the Second Amendment to protect little more than carrying a gun from the bedroom to the kitchen.