the Rubicon is in dead ahead...
Posted on 01/15/2013 6:01:07 AM PST by shortstop
It seems odd that the government of a free people would pass secret legislation in the dark of the night.
But then, New Yorkers are not a free people.
And Andrew Cuomo is not a democrat.
He is a monarchist.
And by noon today, a secret, un-debated effort to criminalize tens of thousands of law-abiding, tax-paying New Yorkers will be in place. In the interest of his presidential ambitions and in the name of public safety, Andrew Cuomo and the coven of servile evildoers that is the state legislature have castrated the Second Amendment and enslaved the people.
Cuomo’s bid to out Hitler Obama has worked.
The people are measurably disarmed.
What George the Third could not achieve, Mario the Second has.
With no public notification or discussion, with all details of the legislation held completely secret, Andrew Cuomo has outlawed an entire class of firearms – casting a very large net over hundreds of guns he calls assault rifles.
Any firearm with a flash suppressor or a pistol grip or a collapsible stock or a flashlight mount or, in many cases, a detachable magazine, is rechristened an assault rifle and, by noon today, will be illegal to purchase in the Archduchy of New York. Those who already own such beastly devices will be required to register them with the state and may never transfer them to anyone except the state.
You can’t sell them, you can’t give them away, you can’t leave them to your kids in your will. The right to own them dies with you.
The biggest selling American rifle of the last eight years is now illegal in Cuomo’s New York. Millions of Americans own them, tens of thousands of them are manufactured annually in the state of New York, but New Yorkers are not free enough to own them.
Because the government knows best.
Even more nefarious is the magazine capacity limit, which says, one year from this date, no New Yorker can own a magazine that holds more than seven bullets. Unrealized by most is the fact that many common rifles and handguns don’t come with magazines holding fewer than 10 bullets.
Millions of American .22 rifles – the traditional firearms of children – have magazines holding 10, 14 or 18 rounds.
Grandpa’s M1 Garand, the one he used to free Europe, comes with an 8-round clip that, after 60 years of sitting in the closet, just became contraband. Ditto for home-defense shotguns, which come standard with 8-round magazines.
And the handgun of the age – the Glock – doesn’t make, for most of its firearms, magazines holding fewer than 10 rounds.
What that means is that you will able to own the gun, but not the magazine that allows it to function. You can own the gun, but you can’t make it shoot.
Details of the magazine ban are unknown, as is every part of this legislation. As this day dawns, the bill has been passed by the Vichy French of the state Senate, but its contents and text have not been made public.
That’s how the “land of the free” operates these days – at least as governed by the Emperor Cuomo.
But one of the whispered aspects of the bill is, in addition to a limit on the number of rounds in a magazine, a limit on the number of magazines a person could own – specifically, two. Whether that is two per gun, or two per gun owner, the overseer hasn’t yet found time to communicate to the field slaves.
That means that when the home invasion hits your house, the handgun you rely on to protect your family, the one designed to hold 17 rounds per magazine, will fire just 14 times, if you stop to change clips while they’re raping your wife.
If not, you better hope you never come up against more than seven rounds of trouble.
Because young Andy has decided, as the Dauphin of Albany, that you can fight for your life with seven rounds, but not eight. The criminals, whose guns and magazines are all illegal anyway, can come high capacity, but you, you are going to run out of ammo right about the time the bad guy pushes his muzzle up against your forehead.
You will be a martyr to his presidential ambitions.
And if you aren’t, your freedom certainly will be.
As New Yorkers learned last night, nothing stops Reichsleiter Cuomo.
Also rumored to be in the legislation is a provision calling for the re-issuance – and periodic re-issuance – of all pistol permits in the state. Those permits will be reissued under new statewide guidelines not yet promulgated by His Eminence the Governor.
What’s that mean?
That means that people who have lawfully owned handguns in New York must all now come hat in hand and bow before the sharia of the Hudson. If you don’t meet the standards of Kim Jung Andy, you lose your permit and you lose your guns.
All that’s been said on that count is that permits must now be issued under a uniform statewide standard. That raises the question of whose standard will become statewide?
Will it be the standard of Wayne County, where concealed-carry permits take about a month to process? Or will it be the standard of Monroe County where those same permits take as long as a year and a half to come through? Or will it be Onondaga County where you wait a year and are uniformly denied the right to carry the gun for self-defense?
Or will the new New York State standard be the standard of New York County, where no permits are issued to the general public whatsoever?
Those questions are unanswered.
Also unanswered is when the lieutenant governor – so important to the function of the state that he lives five hours away – will turn in his high-capacity magazines. A former police officer, he was known for years to carry a personal Beretta with a double stack that his political patron just made a felony.
Speaking of police officers, this law just castrated their guns, too. On duty, they can carry the high-capacity magazines all modern guns were designed to hold. Off duty, they join the citizenry in the under-gunned category. Ditto for the day they retire.
This makes it a lot easier for the bad guys. When you’re attacking an armed citizen, just count to seven, and then you’ve got him.
But wait, there's more. The legislation also says that every purchaser of every kind of ammunition must go through a background check.
Every purchaser or every kind of ammunition.
So the night before deer season opens, when everybody remembers they need a box of shells, you better hope there's somebody awake in Albany to answer the call from WalMart and look up your records.
A box of .22s for plinking? Background check.
A box of shells for skeet? Background check.
That creates hassle and expense, both of which will be borne by the law-abiding gun owners of New York.
But this isn’t about guns, it’s about freedom.
And last night in New York it took a staggering blow. Not just in the loss of Second Amendment rights, and a contemptuous governor who vilifies any who complain about his legislation, but in a process that bastardized representative government.
When you pass secret legislation in the dark of the night, you are not doing the people’s business, you are giving the people the business.
Right up their back end.
The concept of representative government died in New York last night, so that the governor could advance his personal ambitions.
On July 26, 1788, New York became the eleventh state to ratify the Constitution. On January 14, 2013, New York became the first state to disavow it.
So let it be written, so let it be done.
I have lived on NYS all of my life. We live in the Upper Delaware Valley and share a common border with Pennsylvania. The folks in my neck of the woods are akin to country folk you would find anywhere in rural America. Nobody voted for this ! Firearms are part of the culture. The problem is that most folks just took their second amendment rights for granted and are to busy making a living to follow the all the BS that goes on in Albany. The people need to wake up and smell the coffee. Maybe this was the call. This is the face of fascism. Bloomburg and his cabal, including the governor and his democratic machine will have their way. NYS needs a constitutional convention to make the necessary changes to restore government to the people and that is not likely. Most old Democrats think the party is still that of their father’s. It is a bunch of self serving socialists and the Republicans in NYS are no better. I am not a happy camper right now.
It took some time to find it but I now know that my State Senator voted NO! Good for her! At least they’re giving me a year to try to sell my house and get out of here. I’m seventy years old and I keep telling my friends that “I’m glad I’m closer to 90 than 9 years old”.
I'm not at all sure they know better. I think they use it as part of a divide-and-conquer strategy over gun owners.
That sporterized 30-06 with a handy hunting scope is next to go because it is also a dangerous "sniper rifle". Before these tyrants are finished, there will NO guns in the hands of law abiding citizens, even for hunting ducks and deer - unless they agree to let you check out one and some limited, counted ammo at the local police station at their convenience.
All those death dealing instruments of violence will be only be in the hands of their reliable "law enforcement" and criminals. Now "everybody" will be safe, especially them!
You know, about like it is in that fine example of freedom, peace, and public safety... Mexico!!??
But then, I think you already know that.
Perhaps I haven’t made this clear enough:
I don’t like you.
grow up kid
no thanks newbie
the Rubicon is in dead ahead...
Cuomo and the taupe colored Obama are like Frank McCourt’s alcoholic father dragging his dead child’s coffin around to to different bars for free drinks. The difference is, while McCourt’s dad was a slave to his alcoholism,Cuomo and Obama do it as pimps promoting the death of innocents in their quest for power.
The people of this Demo-crap nation, particularly the MSMerde, denigrate McCourt’s father for his physical weakness, yet exalt, Cuomo/Obama for their prostitution of the innocent, murdered children of Newtown to promote their ambition for political control of the dimwitted and un-witted...
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