Capital District SCOPE

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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.

Not many local newspapers or media covered the rights rally in Albany, NY. However, many citizen journalists caught the event with their video cameras.

Gun rights Rally, Albany NY

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.

Chris Tague will speak at Coxsackie Sportsmen’s Club on Thursday, April 12th, 2018

A special election to replace Assemblyman Peter Lopez will take place on April 24th, 2018. Mr. Lopez was a vocal critic of New York’s unSAFE act. The Meeting is scheduled to begin at 7:00 PM on April 12, 2018. Coxsackie Sportsmen’s Club is located at 97 Reservoir Rd. West Coxsackie, NY 12192. The meeting is open to interested voters – the club’s membership meeting will take place after the meeting with Mr. Tague. A flyer for the event is attached, please feel free to print and distribute.

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on Thursday, April 5th from 12 to 2 pm at the Moreau Community Center, 144 Main Street, South Glens Falls, NY 12803.

The second amendment will be the key issue.

Anti-second amendment protesters will be there in force.

We need to show up with our pro- 2A signs and show them that there are more of us than there are of them.

Please try and get there by 11 am. Bring your pro 2A signs that you have used in the past, even old anti-safe Act signs.

Weather will be sunny, the mid-30s.

We need to outnumber the gun grabbers. Forward this to your pro-gun friends.

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/

 

Candidate for NY Assembly 102 District

Chris Tague (R) will be at the Barn and Bistro in Westerlo, NY for a meet and greet. Mr. Tague is a candidate in the special election to replace Peter Lopez to be held on April 24th.

Mr. Lopez was an outspoken opponent of the unSAFE act and stepped down from the Assembly after he was appointed Region 2 administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The event is sponsored by the Westerlo Republican Committee. The event is scheduled to take place on March 21, 2018, at 5:30 PM and the Barn and Bistro’s address is 288 State Route 143, Westerlo, NY.

A flyer for the event can be found here.

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.