Firing Lines April/May 2014 Fighting for Your Second Amendment Rights Since 1965

SCOPE, inc.

Volume XXIII, Issue III

Firing Lines April/May 2014 Fighting for your Second Amendment Rights since 1965

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: SCOPE is growing SCOPE Chapter and BoD Information 2 ————————————————————————— Operation P.A.C. 3 to Meet the Challenges ————————————————————————— SAFE Axt charges 3 ————————————————————————— You don’t get fat 4 ————————————————————————— By Stephen Aldstadt full fledged chapter status, and we have NY Senator Maziarz 5 ————————————————————————— added new committees in Steuben and Project Appleseed 6 SCOPE's mission to protect and ————————–————————————————- Schuyler Counties. We expect by the time of Check your address label 7 preserve the right to keep and bear arms here this printing we will have graduated the ————————————————————————— SCOPE voter app 7 in New York is vital to preserving all of our Chautauqua County committee to a full ————————————————————————— civil rights. Once the Second Amendment is Rat Tat Tat Cartoon 7 fledged chapter and we will have an operat- ————————–————————————————- gone the rest will surely follow. With the ing committee in Chemung County. SCOPE member clubs 8 ————————–————————————————- passage of the NY SAFE Act, New York's We have a larger job than we have Legal defense fund 9 ————————–————————————————- ranking in the Freedom Index went from ever been burdened with before. We will SCOPE member clubs 8 ————————————————————————— dead last to dead last and not even close. need to continue our growth in membership Legal defense fund 9 It is imperative that we work to push ————————————————————————— to meet the challenge. We will need to under- DEC meeting 10 back this law. It will not be easy. It will not take a massive voter registration drive to ———————————————————————--—- Cartoon 12 happen quickly. It will require a stronger, make sure all six million legal gun owners ————————–————————————————- larger, better organized SCOPE to meet this Genesee County 13 get registered, educated, and motivated to get ————————–————————————————- challenge. Our resolve is steadfast and we out and vote on Election Day. This will take Global gun control 14 ————————–————————————————- are growing to meet the challenge. a patriot army of volunteers to accomplish. Gun registration 15 The real strength of our organization ————————–————————————————- Local chapters and committees are Not on my watch 16 is our grassroots activists. Our county chap- the best way for our members to get involved ————————————————————————— ters and committees provide local representa- Business Associate and make things happen. If you go to the Members 17 tion, help us to identify and rate elected offi- web-site www.SCOPEny.org you can get the ———————————————————————--—- Does law ignore justice 18 cials, and do the lion’s share of membership latest information on where and when your ————————–————————————————- Monroe County meetings 18 recruitment that keeps the organization grow- local chapter/committee meets. There you ————————–————————————————- ing. will find contact information for the officers Crazy gun owners 19 ————————–————————————————- SCOPE started the year 2013 with and leaders in your area. Come to a meeting. Are you registered? 19 twelve chapters. They are Central New York ————————–————————————————- Get involved. We cannot afford to sit back Repeal Safe Act Signs 20 which covers Onondaga, Cortland, Oswego, and let things happen to us anymore. If we let ————————–————————————————- SCOPE Application 20 and Madison Counties, Dutchess County, the NY SAFE Act stand it will be only the ————————–————————————————- Erie County, Genesee County, Monroe beginning. It will be just the beginning on Join SCOPE Today! County, New York City, Niagara County, the infringements on your rights, the begin- SCOPEny.org Ontario County, Orange County, Orleans ning of the end of your liberty. County, Wayne County, and Yates County. If you would like to get involved but SCOPE added seven new local committees in don't have a chapter or committee in your A well Regulated 2013. The first was the new Capitol District county, contact us at 315-27-SCOPE. We are Militia, being nec- committee, which encompasses Albany, Co- working to form new committees all the essary to the secu- lumbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga, and time. It only takes a few dedicated activists rity of a free state, Schenectady counties. We then added Al- to get your local committee started. We have leghany County, Cattaraugus County, Chau- the experience and the resources to assist you the right of the tauqua County, St. Lawrence County, Wyo- in making it happen in your county. People to keep ming County, and a North Country Commit- The stakes are high. We cannot af- and bear arms, tee that includes Clinton, Essex, and Franklin ford to lose this struggle. Join us. Get in- Counties. volved. Become part of the solution. shall not be So far this year in 2014 the Capitol infringed. District Committee has been ungraded to a Firing Lines page 2

SCOPE PHONE NUMBERS Kathy Kristy Jerry Ruff, Treasurer NIAGARA CHAPTER 716-696-2434 716-397-7064 Russell Petrie, County Chair To contact SCOPE: [email protected] [email protected] Phone: 585-733-5968 Contact: Stephen J. Aldstadt Will Conta, Secretary [email protected] David Carlson 716-857-0381 [email protected] 585-300-4365 Niagara Chapter holds it’s 315 27-SCOPE [email protected] [email protected] monthly meetings at the American Legion Hall, 2589 Youngstown SCOPE Board Members Membership Chairman DUTCHESS CHAPTER Lockport Rd in Ransomville at SCOPE Chapter Chairs are also John Krull, David T. Warshaw, JD, Chair 7:00pm on the third Thursday of Board Members 13 Bird Lane 716 832-8013 each month. [email protected] Poughkeepsie, NY 12603-5001 President of SCOPE 845-849-1839 Stephen J. Aldstadt NEW YORK CITY Ken Mathison [email protected] COMMITTEE 716 846-5448 585 967-1040 No regular meetings, business is Dave Forgione – Chair [email protected] [email protected] conducted via email and social (646) 319-0106 media [email protected] Chairman of the Board Harold 'Budd' Schroeder Paul Rusin Jim Lesczynski – Secretary 716 861-9302 585 659-8335 ERIE COUNTY Michael Justice – Treasurer [email protected] [email protected] Carl A. Leas, Chairman [email protected] [email protected] 1st Vice President Jim Nowotny, Webmaster 716-656-0350 Monthly Meeting is a visit to a Gerry Cumbo 716 584-1221 Herb Berry, Treasurer gun store and/or a range. Nor- 716-983-1629 [email protected] [email protected] mally we're doing this on a Tues- [email protected] 716-825-4174 day evening, but that may change SCOPE CHAPTER Frank Boncore, Secretary depending on the hours of our 2nd Vice President INFORMATION [email protected] target location of the month. Mike Mastrogiovanni 716-674-3523 Contact Dave Forgione at (646) 315 652-4597 ALLEGANY COUNTY 319-0106 for meeting details or [email protected] Nicholas Massel, Chairman Erie County Chapter holds join our low-volume email list by 585-593-0131 monthly meetings every third sending a message to:scope- Secretary [email protected] Thursday of the month. Meetings [email protected] Gary Zielinski, Secretary Ricky Whitney, Treasurer begin at 7:00 p.m. in the [email protected] 585-928-1001 'The Chicken Coop', VFW Post NORTH COUNTRY [email protected] 8113, 299 Lydecker Rd. in West COMMITTEE - Clinton, Essex Treasurer Steven Speta, Secretary Seneca. Located at the intersection and Franklin Counties Carl Leas 585-596-1101 where East & West Rd ends at Chairman: Rose Recor 716-656-0350 [email protected] Lydecker. (518) 569-9607 Secretary: Ed Duda [email protected] Treasurer: Frank Whitelaw CAPITOL DISTRICT GENESEE COUNTY Helena Kosorek, Chair Bill Fox Sr. - Chair Bob Brannan [email protected] 315-573-9088 585-356-4992 ONTARIO COUNTY Gary Brodock, Mem. Secretary [email protected]. Gary Zielinski - Secretary [email protected] [email protected] Bruce Balduf - Vice Chair [email protected] Ray Kosorek, Treasurer [email protected] Kevin Issing - Treasurer [email protected] Tom Frew-Treasurer [email protected] 585-749-0115 The Ontario County Chapter has CATTARAUGUS COUNTY [email protected]. its meetings on the third Monday Robert C. McNally, Chair Helen Headley - Secretary of the Month, at the Canandaigua FIRING LINES PO Box 133 585-768-2591 Sportsmen's Club, on Emerson Franklinville NY 14737-0133 [email protected] Road. The meetings start at 7:00 716-790-9948 Editor - Ralph Esposito PM. [email protected] NEW meeting information, Sec- Butch Beverlin, Treasurer ond Tuesday of every month 7 ORANGE COUNTY To contact SCOPE 716-515-5724 PM, at Calvary Baptist Church, Mike Kubow, Chair and FIRING LINES [email protected] 3515 Galloway Rd., Batavia NY (845) 496-1183 Call (315) 27-SCOPE Mary Beth “Beth” Swanson, Sec 14020. NEW chapter web site is [email protected] Or Write: 716-713-2693 www.geneseecountyscope.org Joe Eldred Secretary/ Treasurer [email protected] SCOPE Our meetings will be the second Post office box for chapter corre- Meetings will be at 7:30 PM, the PO Box 602 Monday of each month at the spondence is still Genesee 3rd Saturday of each month. 21 Tonawanda NY 14151-0602 Franklinville Conservation Club, County SCOPE, PO Box 1659, Claremont Trail, Blooming Grove, 6:30 pm Batavia NY 14021 - 1659 NY. Call Mike at 496-1183 for All written material is information. copyrighted by the author and CENTRAL NEW YORK MONROE COUNTY or SCOPE, Inc. Permission is Onondaga-Cortland-Oswego- Chris Edes - Chair ORLEANS COUNTY granted to use all or part of the Madison Phone (585) 202-7741 Emerson 'Tinker' Young, Chair published articles in the Firing Mike Mastrogiovanni , Chair [email protected] Bob Rowe, Vice-Chair: Lines as long as credit is given [email protected] Ann Clark, Treasurer to the author and SCOPE,Inc. 315 652 4597 NOTE: The April Meeting Date Mary Ellen Hammill, Secretary Dick Woods, Treasurer is the 4th Tuesday April 22. The RC PRODUCTIONS time and place are listed below. Monthly meetings second Monday Meetings 3rd Tuesday of the of every month at Albion VFW, month at 7:30 pm NEW MEETING DATE & Platt St., Albion, NY. Time: 7 PM Place Clay Sportsmen's Club PLACE Monroe County meet- For more info contact Tinker at Location Henry Clay Blvd north ings take place the Third Tuesday 585-765-9122 of Rte 31 of the month 7pm at the American Be sure to join our new SCOPE Legion, 260 Middle Rd, Henri- Orleans Facebook page at CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY etta, NY, 14467. There is no meet- https://www.facebook.com/ Sid Compton, Chairman ing the month of December. groups/588255081215016/ (716) 969-6604 [email protected] (Continued on page 3) Firing Lines page 3

(Continued from page 2) WAYNE COUNTY John Piczkur, Chair SAFE Act Charges Thrown Out SAINT LAWRENCE (315) 597-2198 Jamie Briggs-Chairman [email protected] By Ralph Esposito [email protected] Chairman: John Piczkur 315-771-1374 Co-Chairman: Bob Brannan Paul Wojdan, who was arrested in Lockport, Tim Prashaw -Treasurer Secretary: Chuck Hillis (Niagara County) NY in October 2013 has had the [email protected] Treasurer: Deane Fisher 315-528-3118 charges dismissed. Joel Lappiere -Secretary Meetings are held the 2nd Wednes- What was his heinous crime? He had 10 bul- [email protected] day of the month at the Palmyra 315-486-2909 VFW Post 6778, 4306 Route 31at lets in the magazine of his legally owned handgun. 7:00pm. All are welcome, for infor- Wojdan was a passenger in a car that was stopped for a SCHUYLER COUNTY mation email WayneCounty- organized and established a County [email protected] for questions routine traffic infraction. During the stop Wojdan told Committee on March 13. Elected and updates. the officer he had his legal handgun with him. The gun officers are: Les Wilson- chairman WYOMING COUNTY was inspected by the officer, who removed the maga- [email protected] COMMITTEE zine and counted the bullets. Wojdan was arrested for 607-857-3309 Chair: Michael Alan Kehl Eric Dalecki- secretary 716-866-1398 having 10 rounds instead of 7 in the magazine, a viola- [email protected] [email protected] tion of the NY SAFE Act. 631-804-5654 Treasurer: John E Doyle Mark Rondinaro- treasurer 585-786-2099 After several appearances in court, Judge [email protected] [email protected] William Watson ruled in favor of the defendant and The next scheduled meeting is 7PM Secretary: Kathleen Ricketson dismissed the charge. Hamburg, NY attorney James April 10 at the Montour Falls Moose 585-535-0670 Lodge 426 Wyoming County Committee Tresmond represented Mr. Wojdan. Tresmond said meets 2nd Thursday of each month at “Tell everybody that we are still fighting the good STEUBEN CHAPTER The Wyoming County DSS Building John McHenry, Chairman Doody Street Warsaw NY fight. We have a victory in Lockport.” 607-382-2351 (Across from Tim Horton’s) This case will be important in future cases [email protected] . YATES COUNTY where people are charged with a violation of the NY Lafrone Harrison, Secretary John E. Prendergast SAFE Act. The court did refuse to grant an injunction 607-968-0075 (315) 781-2334 James Plaisted, Treasurer [email protected] that would have delayed the enforcement of the NY 607-525-6316 Leigh Williams, Vice Chair SAFE Act. As of 3/24/2014 the police had not yet re- [email protected] Bill Button, Treasurer leased Mr. Wojdan’s gun. Linda Hardy Secretary Firing Lines page 4

to protect themselves against the at- aggressive drive to register voters YOU DON’T GET tacks by the Ku Klux Klan. The who are gun owners and to get them FAT OVERNIGHT SAFE act in New York has been lik- to the polls in November to vote the By Budd Schroder ened to the old South Jim Crow Laws anti-Second Amendment politicians where one class of people was de- out of office. A pro-gun sheriff had a good prived of certain civil rights. In New The organization also is analogy. “You don’t suddenly wake York the laws are discriminating holding rallies and seminars to edu- up and realize you are fat.” He con- against the honest, law-abiding gun cate the public on the stupidity of this tinued to talk about how weight is owners. The pro-gun activists claim type of legislation. Information on accumulated an ounce at a time, and that it is discrimination because noth- rallies and seminars can be obtained all of a sudden you find you can no ing in the law affects criminals be- at SCOPENY.ORG. For those who longer put your clothes on without cause they don’t obey laws whatever value freedom, understand the defini- some effort either by inhaling or let- they are, and there are enough gun tion of “infringed” and wish to pro- ting out your belt another notch or laws already on the books to cover tect their Second Amendment rights two. The weight gain comes slowly the criminal misuse of firearms. the time in ripe to get involved. Those but realization suddenly appears. The Instead of raising penalties who resent politicians who are insist- longer you delay the quest to regain for the misuse of firearms, the politi- ing that the government should be your old slim shape, the harder it is to cians have placed bans on guns be- more powerful than the people, can do. cause of cosmetic features and on become active before the water boils He also talked about bald- magazines because of capacity. They and the freedom frog gets cooked. ness and that you can notice that your want to have everyone to have a Freedom isn’t free and it hair is getting thin. If someone points background check for private sales, takes time and effort to pay the price it out, you can joke that “who wants even between friends and relatives. to keep it. New York residents are fat hair?”, but suddenly you realize Criminals don’t get their guns at gun facing a crisis and it is up to them to you have a lot more face to wash than stores if they are ineligible to own a change the situation and throw the you ever had before. What is the gun. The laws against straw pur- despots out of office. We get the point of these analogies? chases, which means having an eligi- government we deserve, and we de- Simple! It is the way ble person buy the gun, and lying on serve better. Any revolution is better Americans lose their freedoms. Little the 4473 form at a gun shop is a fed- resolved with the ballot rather than by little the politicians keep testing eral offense and carries a heavy the political waters to see how much prison term. NY SAFE Act News! infringement of rights the public will Under Project Exile, a felon A letter from NYS Senator George in possession of a firearm can be sent stand for, and how long it takes them Maziarz To the Leader of the NYS to get used to having less freedom to a federal prison for ten years. Senate Republicans Senator Skelos than they had before. Some states do not cooperate with the requesting complete defunding of the federal law enforcement agencies to The old analogy is about the NYS SAFE Act. frog in water. He is comfortable in put the felons away. This is the way cool water and when the pot is on the a law should work. Laws should pro- Page 5 stove under a low flame, he doesn’t tect the public, not be written to make notice the change in temperature until not having a piece of paper (permit) a he is cooked. Then, it is too late. criminal offence. NEW TIMES! The damage is already done and you A person who has a semiau- The Second Amendment Radio tomatic rifle with a bayonet lug Show Is back on the air! can’t revive a dead frog. This analogy is applicable to should not be charged with having an Now on WYSL the gun control problem. For decades “assault rifle.” By definition, an as- 1040 AM, 92.1 FM sault rifle is one capable of automatic the politicians have been conning the Wednesdays at 8 pm and every Saturday at public with the initial “All we want fire which is one that keeps firing as noon and 6:00 pm , also on the Internet 24/7 at: is……” and then when the ink is dry- long as the trigger is held back. For 2ndamendmentshow.com ing on the document the politicians all practical purposes, machine guns • come back with: “That’s a good first have been prohibited since 1934. • SCOPEny.org The gun owners of New • WYSL1040.com step.” Gun control started in the York have mobilized to fight back Each week hear guests like Larry Pratt, Gun South to keep the newly freed slaves against the gun grabbing politicians. Owners of America and Stephen Aldstadt, from having guns and a viable means SCOPE, (Shooters Committee On President of SCOPE on the show. Political Education) has begun an Stop by for a listen! Firing Lines page 5

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wave until the jagged edges of our Project liberty and freedom are worn down June and eroded. Worn down until all that is left is a submissive nonthreatening Jun 7 & 8 - New Bremen, NY - Fish Appleseed smooth surface that can and will be & Game Club By: Nick Cirillo / Josey Wales walked upon by the feet of oppression and tyranny. Those soiled feet shall Jun 7 & 8 - Burlington Flats, NY - How does a free people stay trample upon the people now exposed Fish & Game Club free? How did the American people and helpless. When those soiled feet even get free in the first place? You now have their way they will dance Jun 21 & 22 - Hopewell Junction, NY do know that America by design was with the devil. The once robust sharp - Whortlekill Rod & Gun created by people for people with the rocks protecting the shores of Amer- power to govern themselves. Though ica have nearly all withered away and July there are a few stipulations and re- have rendered her people defenseless. quirements in order to take the idea Project Appleseed instruc- Jul 12 & 13 - Westchester, NY - Blue and simple words off the page of a tors have assembled the 2014 calen- Mountain Sportsman Center specific document and bring them to dar of Project Appleseed events so life in our world. So I ask what it will that we can provide New York State Jul 19 & 20 - Rotterdam, NY - Iro- take to make the point to a people that citizens some refuge from the storm. quois Rod & Gun Club their liberties past, present and future Project Appleseed is part of the are being relied upon by their unvary- greater solution. Project Appleseed Jul 26 & 27 - New Bremen, NY - Fish ing participation in government. shall provide education on history, & Game Club Without participation there is no heritage & rifle marksmanship so that achievement. What will it take to we can revitalize our Constitutional August combat the constant bombardment of Republic. We will not quit nor falter distractions on a people in order to until our job is done and liberty is Aug 2 & 3 - Lake George, NY - divert them from their inherent re- restored. That is why we exist, so that Dunham's Bay Fish & Game Club sponsibilities to their government? others can know the truth, for it is in Trying to get the attention of the giving that we receive. So let us give September American Citizen and inform him or to our Republic — give back to her her about the truth of our Nation and all she has given since her birth on Sep 6 & 7 - Saugerties, NY all that it implies is a daunting task. April 19th 1775. This proclamation is (LadySeed) - Fish & Game Club Project Appleseed has volunteered to to the American citizen to awaken. take on that job. Project Appleseed Come to a Project Appleseed event Sep 13 & 14 - Kinderhook, NY - Kin- has set into motion a program devel- and get educated on history, heritage, derhook Sportsman Club oped specifically in teaching the his- rifle marksmanship and civic involve- toric beginning of our Nation’s birth. ment. Please visit our website home- Sep 20 & 21 - Saratoga Springs, NY - A Constitutional Republic supported page. www.appleseedinfo.org SaraSpa Rod & Gun Club by its body of citizenry. All the questions above and the examples of suc- April Sep 27 & 28 - Rotterdam, NY - Iro- cess are attributed to personal respon- quois Rod & Gun Club sibility. Now take that personal re- Apr 12 & 13 - Kinderhook, NY - Kin- sponsibility and add it to the collec- derhook Sportsman Club October tive group in order to secure the Re- public’s liberties. That is what we Apr 26 & 27 - Saratoga Springs, NY - Oct 11 & 12 – Westchester, NY - need on a grand scale for the Repub- SaraSpa Rod & Gun Club Blue Mountain Sportsman Center lic’s welfare. Please take this into account as we stand and watch yet Apr 26 & 27 - Coxsackie, NY - There will be other events another year go by with the unfortu- Sportsman Club added to the 2014 calendar as this is a nate steady erosion of the idea of working schedule so please visit our America. They say that time does not May web page for updated informa- wait for anyone, but keeps on going. tion. Project Appleseed is a 501(c)(3) If you miss the bus well, then you May 3 & 4 - New Bremen, NY - Fish non-profit National program and walk. Has the American citizen & Game Club holds events in almost every state. missed the bus? How many buses For information call Nick @ 917 359- have we missed and is the last bus May 3 & 4 - Otisco Lake, NY - Rod 5606 or check the website. quickly approaching? Will this be the & Gun Club www.appleseedinfo.org last chance to ride the bus of liberty? Has time been kind to us, or has time May 10 & 11 - Westchester, NY - been a bit obnoxious? Has time been Blue Mountain Sportsman Center kind to our Country, or has it slowly and steadily seen the erosion of the May 10 & 11 - Livingston, NY - Kali- ideals of America as our politicians coontic Rod & Gun enacted unconstitutional legislation? In the same way an ocean wave pro- Winter is over, time to put up a new May 24 & 25 - Saugerties, NY - Fish Repeal the SAFE Act lawn sign. gressively beats down upon the rocky & Game Club coast, crashing wave upon crashing Page 20 Firing Lines page 7

SCOPE’s SAFE Act VOTER App Check your address label By Jim Nowotny for your renewal date With elections barely over S.C.O.P.E., (Shooters Committee on Political Education) is declaring a vic- From the membership chairman, tory for gun owners in Western New With this newsletter your expiration date is in- York. cluded on the address label. It will save SCOPE time S.C.O.P.E. says, that despite all of Cuomo's bloviating, New York and money if you can renew your membership a is still the most over taxed, most over month or two before your membership is due to ex- regulated, least business-friendly, and anti Second Amendment democrat pire. dominated state in the nation with the highest debt per capita. Now many are You can use the membership application in the starting to realize that New York does- n't look like a state whose governor newsletter or go online to www.Scopeny.org to re- deserves a second term, much less a new. Presidential nomination. This year we instituted the SCOPE’s SAFE Act VOTER App. Thanks The democrat party will have John Krull to deal with the facts that because of Governor Cuomo’s late night antics of Membership Chairman January 15th 2013, the Erie County Legislature is now Republican con- trolled. S.C.O.P.E. reminds its mem- Renew your membership today! bers that while not all democrats are gun control advocates, almost all gun control advocate are democrats. S.C.O.P.E. notified its members of the candidates running for office and graded them A through F on their Second Amendment stance and their position on the so called NY S.A.F.E. Act. This rating is available to voters online, on an app, or print- able by county. SCOPE now turns its focus to the 2014 Elections of the State Assem- bly and Senate positions. We will refine and hone the SCOPE SAFE Act Voter App for the upcoming elections on “One One Four One Four”. 11/4/2014.

Get the app at: SCOPEny.org Firing Lines page 8

Gowanda Rifle Club Oakfield Rod & Gun Club SCOPE Member Clubs Delchenego Rod & Gun Club, Inc. Evans Rod & Gun Club Iroquois Rod & Gun Club Mendon Conservation League The following are clubs that are Lyons Rod & Gun Club Somerset Conservation Club members of SCOPE. If you plan to join a Genesee Valley Conservation Club Hudson Valley Sportsmen's Association club, please try to join one that is a Barrington Rifle Club Outlet Rod & Gun Club SCOPE member. If your club would like Yates County Federation Gorham Coon Hunters to become a SCOPE club member please of Conservation Clubs Walworth Sportsman’s Club, Inc. give SCOPE President Stephen Aldstadt Little Beard Club Inc Thruway Fish & Hunt Club Springwater Rod & Gun Club, Inc. Chemung County Federation a call or drop us an E-mail. Dunham's Bay Fish & Game Club of Sportsmen, Inc Saranac Lake Fish & Game Club Lime Lake Sportsman's Club, Inc. Allied Sportsmen of WNY Inc Waterloo Rifle & Pistol Club Bath Rod & Gun Club, Inc. Bog Trotters Rifle & Pistol Club Inc Livingston Co Federation NYS Sporterifle, Inc. Erie County Conservation Society Inc of Sportsmen's Clubs Mt Morris Sportsman's Club, Inc Glen-Coe Conservation Society Inc South Bristol Fish & Game Association Inc. Twin City Shooting Club, Inc. CAL Shooting Club Sodus Bay Sportsman’s Club Northstar Sportsman's' Club, Inc. Rochester Brooks Gun Club Wolcottsville Sportsmen Club A-ON-DO-WA-NUH Sportsman’s Club, Inc. Whortlekill Rod & Gun Club, Inc Sheridan Transit Rod & Gun Club Orleans County Houndsmen Boston Valley Conservation Society Ten-X Shooting Club Inc & Conservation Club Lackawanna Conservation Inc East Aurora Fish & Game Club Inc Genesee County Fish & Mohawk Rifle & Pistol Club Inc Holley Rod & Gun Gun Club Game Protective Assoc Niagara Frontiersmen Pistol Club Iroquois Arms Collectors Assoc of WNY Middlesex Conservation Club Springville Field & Stream Inc Niagara County Sportsmen’s Assn. Ontario Rod & Gun Club, Inc. Tonawanda’s Sportsmen's Club Square Deal Sportsmen Inc. Conservation Club of Brockport Wayne County Federation Richburg Rod & Gun Club New Paltz Rod and Gun Club, Inc. of Sportsmen’s Clubs Conesus Lake Sportsmen's Club, Inc. Deer Search of WNY, Inc. Scio Rod & Gun Club Hornell Sportsman Club Red Creek Conservation Club, Inc. Wilson Conservation Club, Inc. Hawkeye Bowman, Inc. Grand Island Rod & Gun Club, Inc. Elma Conservation Club Wood & Brook Sportsman's Club Schenectady County Conservation Council Hamburg Rod & Gun Club Inc Pearl River Gun Club, Inc. Millgrove Sportsmen's Club, Inc. Greene Rod and Gun Club Long Lake Fish & Game Club Pheasants Forever Chapter 843 Attica Rod & Gun Club, Inc Hartland Conservation Club Northern Chautauqua Rifle & Pistol Club Alabama Hunt Club Lima Gun Club Brunswick Sportsman Club, Inc. Niagara Frontier Pistol League Alden Rod & Gun Club East Branch Club Buffalo Revolver & Rifle Club Inc Almond Rod & Gun Club, Inc. Valley Cottage Sportsman's Club Woodlawn Sportsmen's Club Hill Top Gun Club Painted Post Field & Stream Club Dalton Gang Sportsmen Club, Inc. Ramapough Sportsmen Association Inc. Lodi Rod & Gun Club, Inc. Black Rock Fish & Game Club Inc Lyons Rod & Gun Club, Inc Federated Sportsmen’s Monroe Chester Sportsmen Club Inc North Woods Sportsmen’s Association, Inc. Clubs of Cattaraugus Cty Blasdell Rod & Gun Club McCavanaugh Pond Club, Inc. Depew Rod & Gun Club Chautauqua County Federation of Sportsmen Northern Dutchess Rod & Gun Club, Inc. Indian Lake/Blue Mountain Bergen Rod & Gun Club Bison City Rod & Gun Club Inc Fish & Game Assoc. Holland Rod & Gun Club North Forest Rod & Gun Club Lakewood Rod & Gun Club, Inc. South Shore Association of Onedia Lake Inc. Rochester Rifle Club Cattaraugus Rod & Gun Club Cloverbank Sportsman's Club Inc North Troy Stag Rod & Gun Club, Inc Grape Country Coon Hunters Assoc. Olean Rod & Gun Club Inc Baldwinsville Rod & Gun Club, Inc. North Shore Sportsmen's Association Yates County Sportsmen's Association Newark Rod & Gun Club Dutchess County Pistol Association Neighbors Gun Club, Inc. Dansville Fish & Game Protective Assoc. Adirondack Federation of Sports Clubs, Inc. Honeoye Fish & Game Club Burlington Flats Fish & Game Club, Inc. Ripley Rod & Gun Club Camillus Sportsmen’s Club Clinton Fish & Game Club Pathfinder Fish and Game Club, Inc. Clay Sportsman’s Club Westfield Fish & Game Club Bridgeport Rod & Gun Club, Inc. Redfield Fish & Game Club Western New York Practical Pistol League Dorie Miller Rifle and Pistol Club Seneca County Federation of Izaak Walton League, Keuka Chapter Sportsmen's Club of Clifton Park Sportsmen's Clubs Oatka Fish & Game Club Schroon Lake Fish & Game Club, Inc. Five Point Rod & Gun Club Big Game Recovery Long As We Live Hunt Club Canandaigua Lake Duck Hunters, Inc. American Legion Riders Post 355 Pine City Sportsmen's Club, Inc. Four Point Rod & Gun Club, Inc. Clarence Shooting Club Cayuga County Sportsmen's Association, Inc. Polaris Shooting Club Elbridge Rod & Gun Club Canandaigua Sportman's Club, Inc. Shawangunk Fish & Game Assn, Inc. New York State Muzzleloaders Coxsackie Sportsmen's Club Canaan Rifle Club, Inc. Association, Inc Chestnut Ridge Rod & Gun Club West Falls Conservation Society, Inc. Western & Central NY Safari Club The Sara-Spa Rod and Gun Club, Inc. Sackets Harbor Sportsmen's Club, Inc. Hidden Valley Lodge Wincrest Sportsman’s Association, Inc. Freeport Junior Club Wyoming County Wildlife Federation Chemung County Rod & Gun Club New York Houndsmen Kent Rod and Gun Club Conservation Association ABATE of NY, Ontario Chapter Bailey Mountain Fish & Game Club, Inc. Suburban Pistol League Williamson Conservation & Sporting Club Firing Lines page 9

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Please consider a donation to the SCOPE Legal Defense Fund. Recent bat- tles have had a substantial impact on our funds, and the new NY SAFE Act lawsuit will need to be funded. Please help SCOPE continue fighting New York's anti-gun laws through law suits that need to be funded. We must fight the anti-gun politicians on all fronts. This is especially important with the enactment of the SAFE Act. Send your donations to:

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March 11, 2014, DEC Overall I thought the meeting (Federal EPA Dollars) which was dis- went well and was worth the time and cussed. It was pointed out the DU and meeting with Commis- effort. Glad to see the Commissioner NWTF representatives present were sioner Joe Martins willing to travel and listen to folks among a large group in DC last week around the state. All the attendees that met with a number of Congres- By Larry Becker – President New were cordial and business like and sional staffers to encourage support of York Sportsmen's Advisory Council. there was a lot of good constructive GLRI funding. And support from the conversation. Commissioner and Governor’s office The meeting was called by the com- would be helpful to maintain the fund- missioner and held at the Syracuse Habitat ing which results in improved water DEC office. quality, and fish and wildlife habitat. The DEC stated that there The DEC indicated positive support. Attendees: will be a premium on getting habitat DEC: Commissioner Martins, Doug work done, though the contracting Access Stang – Assistant Director, DFWMR, process for agency staff is cumber- Chris Ballantyne – Special Assistant, some. That’s not a fault of the DEC Access was brought up. Spe- Dan Bishop - Regional Natural Re- but part of the overall state process for cifically private land access programs sources Supervisor contracting. and opportunities to publicize the gen- State Police: Kevin Bruen – Assistant A question was raised regard- eral obligations law that provides pro- Counsel ing the process to obtain habitat stamp tection to landowners for allowing free Sportsmen’s Organizations: Sarah funds to help leverage the dollars we access to their property. We know the Fleming – Ducks Unlimited (DU) spend on habitat projects. The process law exists but it would be helpful to Regional Biologist, Andrew Weik – and explanation for distribution of the strategically publicize the information Ruffed Grouse Society (RGS) Re- funds is good and understandable in outlets that landowners receive. The gional Biologist, Doug Little – Na- too. The DEC staff has the flexibility governor has a proposal in his budget tional Wild Turkey Federation to recognize quality projects to utilize to close some deficiencies in the cur- (NWTF) Conservation Field Supervi- those funds to help make them bigger rent law. There is push back on the sor (Northeast), Larry Becker – NY- and better. It is an opportunity when part of lawyers who think that the re- SAC Chairman, Steve Aldstadt – conservation organizations are work- vision is too broad. There will be SCOPE State President, Bud Schroe- ing with DEC staff on a solid habitat changes but unclear as to how it will der- SCOPE Chairman project idea to talk about whether it look once amended. Overall this is A note regarding those in- would be worthwhile to request stamp positive and there should be a public vited: The Commissioner is holding at funds. It is also an opportunity to lev- awareness campaign once the revision least four of these meetings around the erage funds related to larger multi- is in place. There are provisions in the State and is inviting representatives partner projects to allow for as much proposed budget to create more and from different organizations to each match as possible. Note: there is about better access on state lands. meeting. For example: I am aware $256k in the Habitat Stamp account there was a meeting held in Albany a but money is only trickling in at about Hunting & Fishing week or so ago and there were leaders $16k a year. there representing the NYS Conserva- We also talked about the It was mentioned that while tion Council and other Sportsmen’s need to continue managing state we want to expand opportunity when organizations. lands. Improving habitat will posi- and where ever possible, The NWTF Also note that these are not tively benefit species diversity, abun- State Chapter also will fully support official meeting notes per se, I do not dance, and hunters. Opportunity can reductions in fall turkey opportunity make a good secretary at meetings, be increased simply by improving the when the research has concluded and and the notes do not cover every point habitat of existing public lands. A lot the next wild turkey management plan discussed. My intent was to capture of habitat work is done on our WMAs, has being developed. This is based on the “essence” of the meeting as accu- etc. The DEC recognizes a lot more the population decline of wild tur- rately as I can remember. I have work can and should be done on state keys. The chapter has full confidence bounced this summary off a couple of lands and that they are encumbered by in the research and we look forward to others that were present to help make resource (labor and financial) con- working with the DEC staff on the sure I have not distorted anything. straints. They feel partnering with pending regulations changes that will Rather than try to quote a specific conservation organizations can help to result from the work. individual I will mainly refer to the a certain extent. A great point was raised by person that made the statement in gen- DU brought up the Great RGS regarding the Pennsylvania Men- eral terms such as “the DEC”. Lakes Restoration Initiative funding (Continued on page 11) Firing Lines page 11

(Continued from page 10) www.nysafeact.com and/or calling burn for you to pick up. tored Youth Hunting Program. http:// 855-529-4867. • Permanent transfer of firearms is www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/ limited to spouse, partners, chil- server.pt? • Purchases of ammo for clubs and dren, step-children. However, open=514&objID=622413&mode=2 not-for-profit events such as a there are work-arounds. If you The suggestion was to continue reduc- youth pheasant or waterfowl want to transfer a gun to your son ing the age barrier in NY through pro- hunt. The answer is that it is al- -in-law you can transfer to your grams like P.A.’s it would have huge lowed and you can even order daughter and she can transfer to benefits. There was a comment that and receive through on-line sup- her spouse. the NWTF also supports that program pliers. The NYS Safe Act website • If you have your pistol permit and would be glad to help carry the states “Anyone acting on behalf rescinded full confiscation of all flag when appropriate. of an organization that runs and firearms only applies if the pistol General fund money is being controls a shooting range, hunting permit is rescinded because the committed to address fish hatchery club, training program, safety pistol permit holder is legally problems in 2014. The intent is to program, or competition club, banned from possessing any am- appropriate more each year until the where that organization provides munition and any guns. hatcheries are up to standard. ammunition for use on that range • There will not be any background Crossbow – DEC supports and not for retail purposes, can checks related to ammo pur- the implementation of crossbow use register as an Organizational chases until a data base is opera- after it is provided legal authority by Keeper of Ammunition. The rules tional and certified. “The SAFE state legislature. It will need to work are the same for not-for-profit Act provides that background through the regulatory change process and for-profit organizations.” checks and record keeping re- after provided the legal authority. • Reporting the loss of ammo only quirements imposed on all retail applies to individuals if a gun and sellers of ammunition are sched- Conservation Fund ammo is stolen. Dealers must uled to take effect 30 days after report if ammo is stolen. the Superintendent of the New The issue of the potential of • Semi-auto shotguns with pistol York State Police certifies that a the State to “sweep” the Conservation grips are not considered assault statewide license and record data- Fund was discussed and the problem weapons. Rifles with pistol grips base is operational for such a is fixed for now. The DEC stated that are considered assault weapons. process. That certification has not it is not the Governor’s intent to Any semi-auto that has a detach- yet been made as the system is sweep the fund now or in the future. able magazine is considered an being developed. Therefore, there The issue of spending freezes assault weapon. is no set start date for that ele- was discussed and the fact that al- • You can add a pistol grip or tele- ment of the law to begin. All sell- though there is a shortage in personnel scoping stock to any firearm that ers of ammunition will receive in the Division of Fish, Wildlife and does not have a detachable maga- advance notice before the certifi- Marine Resources there are salaries zine. cation is made in order to ensure being paid out of the fund for person- • Temporary loans of firearms are a smooth process.” The superin- nel not directly related to that divi- legal and not considered a trans- tendent wants a system that will sion. There was no denial or defense fer. not be a time consuming imposi- of this other than they have to live • Giving ammo to a friend is legal. tion for either the buyer or the within current guidelines and con- Reloading ammo for a friend is seller. straints and there is money being legal as long as you are not in the • Modifications can be made to spent out of the General Fund from business of making a profit in remove the features that classify some line items that offsets this. doing so. the popular AR-15 as an assault

• Purchase of reloading equipment weapon. However, these modifi- SAFE Act and components is not covered cations must be “gunsmith qual-

under the safe act and can be ity” and cannot be done in a man- Important note: The following is done on-line. ner that makes them easily re- my recollection of what was said at • You can purchase ammo on line versible by the user. the meeting and is not legal advice! if it is delivered to a major outlet • It was pointed out that we need to It is your responsibility to confirm store. Example: You could order be careful about which cases we any of these issues that do or could a case of ammo through Bass Pro use to illustrate how the SAFE impact you. Confirmation can be and delivered to the store in Au- done by reviewing (Continued on page 12) Firing Lines page 12

(Continued from page 11) from 2:30 – 4:30. We finally called a Act violates our second amend- halt at 5:00 since most of us had a 2- S.C.O.P.E. is ment rights. We lose credibility 3 hour drive home. Again, the meet- if we back people that are truly ing was worth the time and was con- offering you the breaking the law over and above structive. the onerous SAFE Act provi- convenience of sions that impact law abiding gun owners. E-mail delivery of I think we all would have liked to spend some time at the end of the FIRING LINES meeting allowing the Commissioner and other DEC staff the opportunity If you want to help to let us know how we can help Winter is over, time to put up a them. As well as discuss some other new Repeal the SAFE Act SCOPE by having the Firing lawn sign. Line delivered electronically issues. The meeting was scheduled Page 20 and help us save some much needed funds go to this SCOPE site to sign up for Electronic Original cartoon by Rick Settembre Delivery.

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Genesee County Happenings

Hi all, just a note on what's been happening in Genesee County in the last month or so. We were at the summit meeting in Syracuse at the Clay Sportsmen club with all the other second amendment organizations in NY State. It was great to meet people from around the state who have the passion of saving our Constitutional and God given rights. We formed what we call the Second Amendment Coalition. It doesn't cost a thing and any group can sign on. You can be a gun club or archery club etc., anyone is welcome to join. All of us need to be united in 2014 and fight as one. We are still going to gun clubs in Genesee County, Livingston County, Monroe County and Orleans County. Our chapter also went to Niagara County to set up a table for a Gun Raffle at the Shawnee Fire Dept. I would like to thank Carl Hyde, Glenn Adams, John Zimber and new- comers, Dick Lewis and Scott Hutchenson, who have offered to help me at the Safe Act Presentations. We have been giving presentations at churches, fire departments and the Leroy VFW. Terry McCulley has been organizing our tables at gun shows in our county - thanks Terry for heading this up. He has a bunch of good people that help him in Dave Moore, Larry Strobel, Ken Moore, Mo Davis, Corky and Pat Shaw, Anne Comosh, Bob Dash and Dick Lewis and last but not least Lynn Williams who drives from Ontario County to help out. We could not do what we do if it Ken also go to the Reservation and 3009, or go to our website to find the wasn't for all their help. sign up people to vote. Many thanks locations that have them available. We had an Honor Flight for all that you do. Lastly I would like to thank a special from Rochester, NY at our March Our chapter has some differ- person who has been there for me meeting with 4 World War II Vets to ent money making projects going on. ever since I took over in Genesee talk about their experiences in the First is our Henry Golden Boy Raffle County. John Piczkur from Wayne war. Jack Foy, Jack Cippolla who which is one of a kind Genesee County has guided me and at times I fought in the Battle of the Bulge and County SCOPE Edition and the dona- have probably driven him nuts. I can't D-Day and we had locals Jack Fay tion for this is $2.00 for each; 3 for thank you enough John for all your and Sherman Booten also there who $5.00 or 7 for $10.00. You can con- help and guidance. I hope that when fought in the war. Thanks to all who tact John Zimber at 585-739-2765 for you do leave on your next adventure donated, we collected $523.00 to tickets. There will also be a cash raf- that things go well. send a war veteran to Washington. fle. All money that we collect goes to Bill Fox Chapter Chair. Carl Paladino was at this the Pac or the Defense Fund. meeting along with Steve Aldstadt Let's get people signed up to and Budd Schroeder. It was long but vote so WE CAN TAKE NEW well worth it. A thank you to Ken YORK STATE BACK. If you are Moore and Kim Bauer for making interested in making a donation for phone calls for the chicken barbeque the new lawn signs that we have, you and the Albany Bus trip. Kim and can contact Tim Grooms at 585-201- Firing Lines page 14

back to the United Nations. But who’s firearms. If you want to view the de- The global gun listening? bate you can link to it here: What is IANSA? It is an www.youtube.com/watch? control agenda umbrella group of more than 500 ci- v=DAC2drbnfCg. Or buy the DVD By Alfred W. Grimaldi vilian disarmament groups. Funding is rate and The Great UN Gun Debate. provided by a motley crew of opu- Who are the American proxy I was, like many on the front lence, including the Hungarian born members of IANAS doing the work of lines in defending the Second Amend- billionaire George Soros, the govern- the UN? These Include: LCAV (Legal ment against infringements not par- ments of the United Kingdom, Bel- Community Against Violence, a law ticularly well-informed as to the inter- gium, the Netherlands, the Rockefel- firm based in San Francisco; this is a national impetus of “gun control.” I ler foundation and others. Last year I group lobbying state and local gov- am part of the 43% of Americans that was in charge of bringing a busload of ernments around the US giving will- actually read one book or more per my irate gun owning people to Albany ing governmental accomplices a copy year and what I discovered is that the to protest the SAFE Act. I had a cap- of their model “assault weapon” bill lobotomized political class is a mani- tive audience and I had requested a which unfortunately we now have in festation of a more sinister and deeper bus with a DVD player. I showed New York courtesy of this group), the problem: the United Nations. The them the 2004 televised debate in the Violence Policy Center (VPC) and United Nations? Yes the United Na- library of George’s College in London New Yorkers Against Gun Violence tions. The UN’s NGO between Wayne LaPierre, executive (NYAGV) to name just a few. But (nongovernmental organization) vice president of the NRA and the who’s listening? called the IANSA (International Net- chair IANSA, Rebecca Peters. It was On the return trip from Al- work on Small Arms), Amnesty Inter- called The Great UN Gun Debate. bany to Dutchess County I showed national and Oxfam constituent a tri- She had this to say: my captive audience the movie U.N. umvirate known as Control Arms, the Me by Amy Horowitz. Suffice to say premier international civilian disarma- “I believe semiautomatic rifles and that most were appalled and wanted to ment organization that has its cross- shotguns have no legitimate role in buy copies of the movie to distribute hairs on Our guns, ammunition, and civilian hands. And not only that, so that others would know about the by extension our Second Amendment. handguns have no legitimate role in UN. You can view real UN here in In matters of regulation all roads lead civilian hands… I think that Ameri- this 2 1/2 minute trailer from the can citizens from the rules movie U.N. Me. Where the head of that apply to the rest of the the UN Counterterrorism committee, world. That’s what we’re Javier Ruperez cannot even define (the UN through the terrorism as the UN is tasked to fight IANSA) working for.” it under UN Resolution 1373, passed Here’s the IANSA’s play- on 28 September 2001: http:// book: Common Elements unmovieme.com/. Better yet, buy the in Firearms and Ammuni- DVD and watch the whole film with a tion Control Legislation: A group of your buddies to see how the Framework for the UN is involved in everything but Strengthening of Regula- “peacekeeping.” You can watch an tions,” in Small Arms and interview of Ami Horowitz, the film’s Light Weapons: Legal as- producer here on Youtube: https// pects of National and In- www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp- ternational Regulations, Hfmm5zWA. Threatened with death vol. 4, Arms Control and if he released the movie, he definitely Disarmament Law, eds. upset the establishment. If you do not Erwin Dahinden, Jule want to watch the 60 minute CSPAN Dahlitz, and Nadia Fischer interview, you can read an interview (Geneva: United Nations), by The New American magazine 139-141. Registration is the at:www.thenewamerican.com/ epicenter of all IANSA’s worldnews/item/13128-an-interview “gun control.” Besides this -with-ami-horowitz-the-producer-of the UN does not recognize a un-me. The UN cannot even define right of self defense. But terrorism, it wants to regulate the ac- who’s listening? cess and ownership of firearms by Anybody who civilians. It would be like a global knows firearms knows that BATFE only worse with little to no all firearms are capable of accountability. firing beyond 100 meters. Firearm enthusiasts need to Further on in the debate she realize that we are facing an interna- contradicts herself, saying tional effort to destroy the Second that she would allow Ameri- Amendment through proxy groups cans to possess single shot rifles. Their agenda is a total (Continued on page 15) ban on civilian ownership of Firing Lines page 15

won with less than three million job, will the crime rate go down? Ask GUN votes. If the gun owners register and an anti-gun politician that question REGISTRATION go to the polls to voice their objection and see what kind of answer you will to the SAFE law, Cuomo can be de- get. LEADS TO feated. In New York, this is a situa- CONFISCATION The tempers of the hunters, tion that can come up after the April By Budd Schroeder target shooters and people who own 15 deadline. SCOPE is planning to guns for protection are starting to hold a huge rally in Albany on April The New York SAFE law, show. People are demonstrating 1, to protest the law. The objective is which does nothing to curb gun vio- against the law and against the people complete repeal of this law. If not lence, is still in the forefront of sports- who voted for it. Some are initiating repealed, the efforts will be concen- men’s discussions. The bill, which law suits against provisions of the trated on defeating the politicians who was passed with a “message of neces- law. The stupid provision regarding voted for it. It will be done either sity” literally in the middle of the limiting a ten round magazine to only with primaries or in the general elec- night has taken more than a year to be seven rounds has been struck down tion. fully in effect. The provision regard- already by a federal court. More deci- Gun confiscation is a major ing the process of ammunition pur- sions are pending. issue for New York gun owners up- chasing needing a background check Gun owners know from his- state. New York City has had gun has been stalled because the State tory that registering guns is the prel- registration for decades and with the Police do not have a process to do so. ude to gun confiscation. It has been SAFE law in effect, many of those Some necessity! strongly resisted on a federal basis, who had semi-automatic firearms So called “assault weapons” but some states have passed registra- registered are reporting that the police are supposed to be registered by April tion bills. Connecticut passed an will not renew the registration on 15th and there obviously has not been “assault weapons” registration law in those guns. They have to sell those a rush to comply with the law. The the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting guns or surrender them. The guns number of registered guns is a deep, and the media have reported a very were legal for more than 20 years and dark secret within the confines of the low compliance rate. The deadline now with the stroke of the Cuomo State Police. Even legislators are un- has passed and it will be interesting to pen, possession of the guns makes the able to get a count. Many believe it is see how the state police will enforce honest gun owner a criminal. because most of the gun owners are the law. Information on gun control defying the order and are not register- Since only law abiding gun can be obtained on line at http:// ing their guns. Resentment of the gun owners are affected by the law, the www.libertynewsonline.com/ owners is mounting. chances are that the guns belong to article_301_28420.php where the SCOPE (Shooters Commit- tax paying citizens who, if convicted article describes how the 1968 Gun tee on Political Education) is organiz- and sent to jail, will then go off the Control Act was patterned after the ing a voter registration drive to get rolls of contributing financially to Nazi gun control law used by Adolph more gun owners registered to vote. society. They will then become a fifty Hitler to disarm the Jews first, then Depending on what data is considered to sixty thousand dollar per year ex- the German people who were not with the estimate of the number of people pense (as a prisoner) to the state. his party. owning guns in New York State is Logically, this is a bad deal for the More information on how between four and six million people. state. It will also break up a family if gun control was founded on racism in This is significant because in the last the father is no longer a breadwinner America can be obtained at http:// election, Governor Andrew Cuomo and the family may have to resort to scope.org/short-history-of-gun-control (Continued from page 14) public assistance. -in-the-usa/ Both sites are very infor- connected to the United Nations’ Sociologists have determined mative. IANSA. Two excellent books on this that a child raised by a single mother Freedom isn’t free and we topic both by Wayne LaPierre. The has a much greater chance of becom- get the government we deserve. first is The Global War on Your ing a criminal or a problem in society Americans deserve to keep their free- Guns. The second one is America Disarmed: Inside the U.N. and than one raised in a family with a dom and deserve better government. Obama’s Scheme to Destroy the Sec- mother and father present. The chil- We need better politicians in office ond Amendment. An excellent elec- dren are usually better educated and and the ballot is much better than the tronic resource is The Global War on much better off financially. bullet to maintain and achieve both. Guns at www.I2I.org/ So, if a father, whose only gallantarchive.php. We ignore such connections will own detriment. crime is having an unregistered gun is SCOPEny.org taken from a family and a productive Firing Lines page 16

it be foreign or domestic. Please, signed exactly to protect freedom Not On My give a round of applause for those loving people from the likes of them. who have and do serve us and our Its purpose today is just as great and Watch American freedom. They give us the needed as in days past. We have de- By Tim Gard opportunity to live in love and peace fended many other nations from tyr- because of their sacrifice of both in anny and paid a high cost. Now this I am a veteran of the United many cases. time we must defend our homeland. States Air Force, I served as a Secu- We are once again facing an But we will play by the rules of this rity Specialist in the 509th bomber enemy of the free state of America. Constitution. We will go to the polls squadron. One of our pilots by the This time it is a domestic attack and defeat them in the voting booth. name of Capt. Tibbets flew his ship, against our Constitution, not foreign. Get registered, get educated, the Enola Gay to Japan. He flew that A hideous domestic attack against our and get out to vote. historic mission that sent a message American posterity, they started with in the form of a nuclear weapon to the abortion and it has grown to encom- Japanese government stating our in- pass freedom of speech (hate speech sistence that they stand down in their laws), even the free practice of relig- attempt at world domination. Unfor- ion in public. Now, they want our tunately, the group had to repeat guns. Apparently our posterity was themselves, but the 509th saved the not enough. Well, “not on my watch lives of many of our brothers, sons brother, not on my watch.” and fathers in doing so, and helped us Because we are men of establish once again freedom from peace, not war, we must attempt to tyranny. defeat this hideous enemy in the fash- I would like to extend a ion provided by our Constitution. A heartfelt 'thank you' to every Ameri- document our enemies claim to be can serviceman past and present for aged and of no modern value. They their defense against tyranny whether are wrong. Our Constitution was de- SCOPE Business Associate Membership

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upstate counties. They get the ques- gal (except for police) in New York. DOES THE LAW tion of “why should we worry about a A semi-automatic firearm Republican majority in the Senate if requires a trigger pull for each shot IGNORE they are going to vote like Democ- fired, the same way a double action rats?” revolver works. As for the cosmetic JUSTICE? The passage of this bill features that make a firearm illegal, By Budd Schroeder proved that all of New York is domi- those features have no bearing on its nated by the corrupt political actions function. However, not allowing a When a bad law hits close to of the political power emanating from pistol grip or thumbhole stock makes home, people start paying attention. New York City and Long Island. it much more difficult for a disabled As this column is being written we do New York City rules, at least so far. person with one arm to fire the gun not have a verdict on the case in The law was deficient from accurately. But, obviously some Chautauqua County involving Benja- the start. It stated that a magazine New York legislators don’t think dis- min Wassell, who sold an AR 15 rifle could hold only seven rounds of am- abled people should be able to hunt or to an undercover agent of New York munition until someone told the idiots target shoot. When is the last time State. According to major media he that most semi-automatic guns came someone was murdered by a person is being charged with five felonies with ten round magazines. Then, wielding a bayonet on a gun? That is under the SAFE act. after they found out that the police another feature that really doesn’t Basically, Mr. Wassell is were not exempt from the law, they have a high place in the murder statis- being charged with selling an illegal made a few adjustments like cops tics. weapon. He tried to sell it to a Fed- could carry ten rounds, but civilians For Mr. Wassell the question eral Licensed Dealer who told him could put only seven rounds in the comes up on whether putting him in that he couldn’t buy the gun because magazine unless they were at a gun prison for trying to sell his gun is it was illegal. Mr. Wassell was given club range. The seven round limit really going to make society safer. incorrect information. According to a applied even if the person wanted the Will leaving his family without a lawyer with whom I discussed the gun for home defense. breadwinner improve the state? Will matter, a FFL dealer can legally pur- Finally, a federal judge said spending about $60,000 a year to put chase the gun and sell it out of state. that provision was not constitutional him in prison help the police cut the Mr. Wassell could have registered the and the seven round limit was thrown violent crime rate? Perhaps this is a gun and by the stroke of a bureau- out, but (according to an Onondaga proper time to start a movement to crat’s pen and a piece of paper, the County District Attorney) that deci- make jury nullification a viable part gun would be legal. sion was effective only in Western of the criminal justice system. When If found guilty of a crime New York. Cross a county line and the legal system stops being fair or Wassell can be sentenced to more you are suddenly a criminal. Now logical, justice must come from the than a year in jail under any of the that really doesn’t seem like a good actions of the people. felony charges because he tried to sell way to cut down on violent gun crime his private property that was perfectly as a law is supposed to do. legal before Governor Cuomo But, back to Mr. Wassell and MONROE COUNTY rammed down the worst gun control his problem. The SAFE law makes a NEW MEETING law in New York’s history. It was semi-automatic gun illegal if it has DATE & PLACE passed in the middle of the night with certain cosmetic features like an ad- a “message of necessity.” Several justable stock, a pistol grip that ex- From May on Monroe Republican Senators under the tends below the frame, a thumbhole County meetings have “leadership” of Sen. Dean Skelos stock. a threaded barrel, flash sup- allowed this to happen. Most gun pressor or a bayonet lug. changed to the Third Tues- owners and people who believe in the First, they classify the semi- day of the month, 7pm at Constitution, call them RINOs which automatic rifles as assault weapons. the American Legion, 260 is “Republicans In Name Only.” This is a deliberate ploy to confuse Middle Rd, The majority of the votes the uneducated public. An assault Henrietta, NY, 14467. came from southeast of the Tappan weapon is one that is able to fire mul- Zee Bridge which would be consid- tiple rounds with one pull of the trig- April Meeting will be the ered the heartland of the liberal phi- ger. For all practical purposes, ma- 4th Tuesday losophies. The cozy relationship be- chine guns have been highly con- April 22, 2014 at 7 pm, tween Cuomo and Skelos is making it trolled by the federal government American Legion . difficult for Republican Chairmen in since 1934 and have been totally ille- Firing Lines page 19

criminal charges. also lumped in conservative Chris- Crazy Gun RIT used the First Amend- tians and those who are pro-life as ment to defended his right to free persona non grata in NYS). speech and express his views. Of This is a warning of things Owners course if Torcello’s suggestion were on the horizon and how some in enacted, many peoples freedom of our government are thinking. We, and the First speech would be taken away. Albeit as freedom loving Americans, can for the greater good of the world ac- fight back. But it means you must Amendment cording to the professor. be registered to vote and vote in But what about the First every election. Also, get your family By Ralph Esposito Amendment you ask? Don’t people and friends registered, make sure have a right to disagree? He addresses they are informed and they vote. We have all heard it, maybe this with, “We must make the critical not directly being called crazy be- distinction between the protected cause you own guns, but it was im- voicing of one’s unpopular beliefs, plied. What do you need a gun for, no and the funding of a strategically or- Are you one needs a gun that can fire blah, ganized campaign to undermine the blah, blah. They use tragedy and lies public’s ability to develop and voice registered? informed opinions.” In a nutshell — to point fingers at us. As if we are in By Ralph Esposito some way responsible. if you don’t like the official version of the truth you better keep quiet and When gun owners politely By the time you read this the point out facts whether it be criminals not organize (anyone read Orwell’s with illegal guns, a history of mental 1984?). date for the NY SAFE Act registra- illness, or as in the “fast and furious” How does this relate to the tion of privately held “assault weap- gun running debacle our own govern- Second Amendment? Imagine if this ons” will be close or passed. If you ment was selling the guns to crimi- progressive’s (liberal) desire actually became law. Yes, at first they would have not registered you are considered nals (in an effort to show why we a criminal by New York State, Get need more restrictions on our rights). shut down the dissension on global They ignore the facts. Bring up facts climate change, but then how easy caught and you may lose more than such as in John Lott’s book More would it be to move against any view your gun and have to pay a hefty fine, Guns, Less Crime and they dismiss that would be deemed to “undermine you may lose your right to vote. If or worse laugh at the facts. the public’s ability to develop and you have registered your rifle they If you get upset that you are voice informed opinions.” In other words, stop any group from challeng- have you on their list. being used as a scapegoat for their NY City has had a long gun gun control schemes they point again ing the politically correct way of and say “it is dangerous for him/her thinking that they demand. Organiza- registration for a number of years, it to have a gun because they are an- tion’s like SCOPE, Gun Owners of has been turned into a de facto gun gry.” Don’t even bother to mention America or the NRA to name but confiscation program. Will this hap- three would be ripe targets. the Constitution or Bill of Rights and pen in NYS? Odds are the governor they have a conniption on the spot. Of course, it could not possi- bly happen here? Does the name and his anti-gun minions will lay low They are outdated for today's society for a while but eventually will try to — only useful when it’s their free- Abraham Lincoln ring a bell? He doms and rights that are in question used the Sedition Act of 1798 to stop pass legislation requiring registration or when they use it to further their criticism of the Federalist govern- of all long guns. If any more democ- agenda. ment. In all 17 people were charged rats are elected to the NYS Senate it One recent case in point and 10 were convicted. Many of them were newspaper owners and even one will be duck soup to get any anti-gun professor Torcello, from the Roches- legislation passed. ter Institute of Technology (RIT) congressman. Granted it was a time (Rochester, NY), just released an of war but it still had a chilling effect The beauty of having all long essay on global climate change. In it on freedom of speech and political guns registered is that they can then he demanded that anyone who is en- dissent at the time. put restrictions such as renewing the gaged in “misinforming the public” Will it happen? Right now registration, charging for the registra- should be considered “not only cor- the political climate is not right for such a law. However both Governor tion and renewals, perhaps even a per rupt and deceitful, but criminally neg- gun charge and confiscation if you ligent.” Now he is writing this about Cuomo and President Obama do not “global climate change,” formerly tolerate those who disagree with don’t renew the registration on time known as “global warming.” (Perhaps them. Our Governor, Andrew (don’t expect the state to send you a this would not be the time to remind Cuomo, has stated that those of us reminder). How much can you afford who believe in the Second Amend- the good professor that a few centu- to pay? ries ago the prevailing scientific view ment when it comes to owning semi- auto rifles like the AR-15 “have no This is why we must get out said the earth was flat) The professor to vote and get our family and friends is saying that anyone who disagrees place in the state of New York.” Yes with the official state position is lying he meant both the guns and the gun registered and voting. to the public and should be liable to owners. (to be fair to the governor he From: SCOPE, PO BOX 602, TONAWANDA, NY, 14151-0602 NON-PROFIT Address Service Requested U.S. Postage PAID Webster, NY Permit # 91

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