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Official journal of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, the state’s official NRA affiliate Vol. 60 No. 2 USPS 996-700 April 2021

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President Women in the J. Scott Sommavilla Chairman of Cowboy Action Shooting Sports Westchester, NY Shooting Committee Tom King (914) 747-5001 713 Columbia Turnpike Chairperson [email protected] Dave Meyer PO Box 278 70 Rosemont Drive East Greenbush, NY 12061 Jackie Emslie 17 Corlies Ave. Past Presidents Amherst, NY 14226 Phone: (518) 272-2654 Phone: (716) 838-4286 Fax: (518) 274-4972 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Robert Kamholtz [email protected] Phone: (914) 475-4901 [email protected] 4123 Osage Lane Advertising Sales Manager Ormond Beach, FL 32174 Treasurer Carl Gottstein Directors Tor y Brainard 713 Columbia Turnpike Brenda Leder 3105 Schindler Drive PO Box 278 PO Box 278 Charlie Beers III Pearl River, NY 10965 East Greenbush, NY 12061 East Greenbush, NY 12061 Glenville, NY Phone: (518) 469-5312 Phone: (518) 470-7874 Phone: (518) 272-2654 Fax: (518) 274-4972 [email protected] [email protected] Dr. Robert Cornute 33 Locust Grove Road [email protected] John Butcher Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Secretary Lockport, NY General Information Stephen D. Kraynak Phone: (518) 272-2654 Charles J. Meyer th 158 Willow Lane (518) 272-2654 1120 7 Ave. [email protected] James Collins Scotia, NY 12302 Watervliet, NY 12189 www.nysrpa.org [email protected] 177 Violet Ave. Floral Park, NY 11001 Willard E. Doughty Phone: (516) 775-6597 9221 Leatherstone Lane Smallbore Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526 Charles J. Meyer John Cushman 158 Willow Lane 107 Truberg Ave. Scotia, NY 12302 Patchogue, NY 11772 Phone: (518) 265-3555 Phone: (631) 475-8125 [email protected] [email protected]

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2 BULLET magazine Contents April 2021 Vol. 60 No. 2

Your Board of Directors ...... 2

President’s Message...... 4

Getting to Know Your Shotgun Through Dry Fire and Dummy Rounds. . . 5

Collector’s Corner...... 8

Top Training Tips from Pro Shooters...... 9

Notes from Brenda ...... 12

To Purse Pack—Or Not...... 14

NYSRPA.org: Strategic Email Campaign ...... 16

D is for Deluded...... 20

Gun Control’s Crisis of Credibility...... 21

NRA Files Brief to Supreme Court to Take Concealed Carry Case . . . . 22

NYSRPA 2021 Directors Election Ballot...... 23

Pistol Director ...... 24

NYS Pistol Team Application 2021 ...... 24

Member Clubs...... 26

NYSRPA Individual Application...... 30 Deadline for submissions for the June issue of Bullet magazine is: April 21, 2021

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The official journal of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association 3 President’s Message by Tom King

Escape from the Gulag! progressives will push freedoms boundaries to silence our voices. The picture in this article is the reason Thankfully, a few step up! America will always be free. A cadre of dedicated, brave and committed Below you will see a billboard designed individuals still have the cajones to and paid for by a member of the stand up, speak their mind and stick NYSRPA board of directors. That man their neck out to protect our U.S. Brian Olesen is a shooter, collector, Constitution and American values gun-store owner, range owner and as we were taught in school. Love of a long-time friend. He has turned country, love of freedom and respect down numerous requests for television for each other will carry the day. The interviews with the comment that he same spirit that carried our veterans did this to protect our rights not garner through our many wars, that is alive notoriety. in our first responders and that burned People, this is what it will take to win brightly in the chests of the founding back our freedom. You must stick out fathers is still alive in all Americans. your neck, speak your mind and join Unfortunately, today it is harder to the peaceful movement to take back our rights through the voting booths ignite. The mainstream media has Join the struggle! Join the NRA! clouded the truth more than the fog and courts. We need to stand up and tell our employees (the politicians) Join the NYSRPA! Get involved and of war blankets a battlefield. The de- work as campaign volunteers, drive platforming of President Trump, the that they work for us, we set the rules not them and the time has come for elderly people to the polls, contact your NYSRPA and many other conservative elected officials, defend your rights. voices by Facebook and other social- them to live by the same rules and regulations that we do. But it is most important to speak your media sites shows the lengths the mind respectfully and intelligently. We will take back America in 2022 with your help. Thank you, Brian Olesen, you are a great American! Please sign up for the NYSRPA email alert list at nysrpa.org.

4 BULLET magazine Getting to Know Your Shotgun Through Dry Fire and Dummy Rounds For a more enjoyable first shoot, practice mounting and manipulating your new shotgun before your first range session.

If you have never fired a shotgun, there are a few things you can practice without setting foot on the range that will help you feel more confident and comfortable. Using inert dummy rounds and working with the shotgun that you will shoot can make your first shotgun shooting experience much more enjoyable. First Things First Shims may come with your shotgun. The very first step, as with any work that goes into your shoulder, the pistol to look straight down it). Your comb off the range with a gun, is to make grip that you wrap your shooting hand adjustment can change depending on sure that you have an empty gun and around, and the fore-end that your whether you have a thinner or fuller no live ammo anywhere near where support hand holds onto. You may face and your cheekbones. You are you will work. Reviewing the rules of have a cheek-pad or comb that can likely going to want to add/subtract a firearms safety is always a good way to be adjusted. shim or maybe flip it (sometimes shims start a session working with any gun or for cast are ambidextrous). shooting skills. Your shotgun may have even come with shims that can adjust how your Set up in front of a mirror or camera, Why Dry Fire a Shotgun? gun “casts,” which impacts where and look at how the gun fits you. Is the The idea of dry firing a shotgun may your eye sits in relation to the rib of length of pull too long or too short? sound unproductive to experienced your shotgun (you want to be able Does your eye look straight down the shotgun shooters. However, for a new shotgun shooter, just familiarizing yourself with how the gun works and understanding how to mount the gun properly is a big deal! Even experienced shooters who compete at the highest levels of shotgun shooting still get “fit” for a shotgun, even though they know some of these basic things that the new gun owner doesn’t. Working with an empty shotgun is going to help the new shooter. Getting to Know Your Shotgun Understanding how your shotgun works is the first step. Every shotgun has a stock, consisting of a buttstock Here, the dominant eye of the shooter is looking down the shotgun rib.

The official journal of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association 5 rib? If you see the top of the rib as if looking from above, you need to adjust the drop (this can be done with a shim, if your gun comes with them). If you are too far to one side, you might need to add or flip the shim that adjusts cast. need website For more on proper shotgun fit, check out these other articles and videos on this site that will help you understand what to look for. How to Hold a Shotgun Properly holding your shotgun will allow you to check if it fits correctly. After checking that your gun is set up Here, the shotgun is too far off the shoulder. as optimal as possible for you, you are going to want to practice mounting it. Your mount will help you get a good sight picture and allow you to manage recoil. It comes down to getting the gun in the right position in your shoulder and placing your face firmly on the stock. The shotgun’s recoil pad needs to fit into the “pocket” of your shoulder. If you bring your dominant arm up and forward, you will see that it creates an indent in your shoulder. You want the gun to sit there, because the closer the gun is to the centerline of your body, the less the recoil will push your body from one side, causing you to twist and take more time to come back on target. Here, the shooter demonstrates proper check weld. Also, having as much of your body mass behind the gun as possible will

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6 BULLET magazine allow you to effectively control the kickback. The shotgun should not be on your bicep or lower on your arm. If you have to get into some contorted position and your gun is on your bicep or shoulder, odds are that the length of pull is too long for you, and you need a shorter buttstock. By holding the stock out on your arm, or edge of shoulder, you are allowing the recoil to impact a small part of your body without mass behind it. It can be uncomfortable, give you a bruise and cause you to hate shotgun shooting. Soarness from the effects of recoil. Next, put your face firmly on the stock. Shotguns recoil like any firearm. The from recoil sooner. It will also ensure a magazine is loaded full and then recoil can be short and snappy with consistent sight picture. one more is put on the carrier.) lots of muzzle rise, or slower and more Basic Manipulations • Unload a full shotgun magazine of a “push” straight back. The type Once you know how your gun fits and tube of gun (gas-operated vs. inertia) can how to hold it, you can go over basic • Lock your bolt back affect what you feel, and so can your manipulations with dummy rounds. • Engage and disengage the safety ammo. Ammo needs to carry enough This will help you understand the way every time you pick up the gun or power to cycle the bolt and make the your particular shotgun works. put it down shotgun function. If you choose to • Load and unload shoot a pump shotgun, because it’s Wrapping It Up • Chamber a round manually cycled, you can get away When you spend a little time really with shooting lighter/softer rounds • Clear the chamber getting a feel for your gun and learning that can feel friendlier to your body. • Clear a round off the lifter (if more about how it should fit your But no matter how your gun recoils you load improperly and cause a body and how to use it, you are going or what ammo you shoot, getting shell to “ghost load,” which is a to enjoy your time on the range with your face down on that stock as if it way to load one extra round in confidence. is glued in place will help you recover a semi-automatic shotgun, i.e., This article is reprinted with permission one is loaded in the chamber, the and written by Beck Yackley.

Deadline for submissions for the June issue of Bullet magazine is: April. 21, 2021

The official journal of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association 7 Collector’s Corner by David Bock

Over the years I’ve had people ask Speaking of McCollum, you may military small arms, Hatcher’s Notebook me where I got some esoteric piece of know him better from the Forgotten by Gen. Julian Hatcher is an excellent technical firearms knowledge or where Weapons YouTube channel. Another choice. W. W. Greener’s book, The I learned about some unusual aspect of Gun and Its Development—while firearms history. occasionally self-serving—is another In this column, I’ll try to answer both great resource for early firearms those questions as well as provide development history. resources for those who would like If your collection is more specific, you to expand their knowledge in these may want books that focus on a certain subjects. brand or period. First off, I’ve been studying firearms I have a particular fondness for Smith and firearms history for over 30 years. & Wesson Revolvers, so I have a copy Not in any professional capacity, but of the Standard Catalog of Smith & as a hobby. It’s a topic that’s always Wesson by Jim Supica and Richard fascinated me. For most of that time, Nahas. In addition, I have another my references were print sources and to book on the general history of Smith a large degree they still are. & Wesson from 1857 to 1945. As a The photo accompanying this article companion book, I have the Standard is one of my shelves of reference Catalog of Colt Firearms by Rick books. The left-hand side is taken up Sapp. These are excellent books for almost entirely by a nearly complete identifying your particular firearm, but set of Shooter’s Bibles dating back less so for determining a value. While to the 1930s. The right-hand side is these books have had several editions, more eclectic with the bottom shelf they’re not published frequently containing a number of old issues of excellent YouTube channel is enough to be up to date in that regard. American Rifleman magazine—some C&Rsenal, where Othais and Mae If you want to figure out values, the dating back to the 1920s. dive into the history, design, and use of best options at this time are The Blue Note: This picture does not include my (primarily) World War I firearms. On Book of Gun Values or final sale prices reloading books or most of my books a related channel, Mark Novak talks from closed online auctions. on gunsmithing. about conservancy and restoration. A few things to keep in mind with As you can see, I have shelves full of Even though there are more, these these sources, a new edition of the blue reference material, some of which have are my current top online sources for book is released every year, usually been out of print since before I was historic firearm information. in April. Make sure you have the born. These books are out there and While discussion boards and newest printing for the most up to date are worth looking for if they fit your Facebook pages can have some good information. There also are regional interest. In addition, there are new information, you have to be able to sift variations in values that the book books coming out every year. it out from the mass of opinions and cannot attempt to cover. Case in point, Ian McCollum recently repeated anecdotes that make up most With the auction sites, you’ll released a book on the history of of their content. sometimes see an excellent example French long arms called Chassepot Since it makes up the majority of my of a firearm go for a surprisingly low to Famas: French Military Rifles, reference library, let’s go back to print. price and the next week a mediocre example go for a shockingly high price. 1866–2016, and is a must-have for any Primary sources always are better. (continued on page 13.) collector of French long arms. For example, if your interest is U.S. 8 BULLET magazine Top Training Tips from Pro Shooters Ready to up your game? Check out these tips from some of the country’s top female competitive shooters.

I recently participated in a Ladies Day shoot at a nearby range, which included several professional female shooters, and boy, was I impressed! Their focus on technique, concentration and skill was fascinating. By the end of the morning I had picked up a few tips, especially about how to handle a higher-caliber handgun (as I am currently in the market for a .45-cal. 1911). I’ve played various sports over the years, and if there’s one thing I’ve noticed, it’s that when you compete with better athletes, it has a positive impact on your game. Not only can you pick up Gabby Franco tips from watching them, but they can give you constructive criticism after watching you. Ready to up your game? Check out these tips from some of the country’s top female competitive shooters. Start with a plan. “This tip may seem obvious but many people don’t create a training plan,” says Gabby Franco, Olympian, former Top Shot Competitive Shooter, and Walther Arms brand ambassador. “Most of the time people just go to the range and shoot and that’s it. But especially now with the ammo shortage it’s more important than ever to value your time Dakota Overland and your resources.” Gabby suggests that you train for at “Your training plan should act like a repetitions, a particular technique least one hour a week at the gun range, road map and take you where you want gets embedded in your long-term and focus on one technique at a time. to go,” says Gabby, explaining that the memory. Ideally, she says, you should For instance, if you’re practicing your difference between “working memory” focus on one technique during your draw, dedicate that training session and “long-term memory.” For example, practice, repeating it several times for to practicing your draw quickly and during training you employ your 30 minutes to one hour each session. shooting accurately. working memory, and after several “That constant repetition is going to The official journal of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association 9 practicing the things that they’re good at,” says Overland. “It’s more fun doing things that way, and less work.” But she’s quick to add, “You’re not really going to see a whole lot of improvement if you just continue to practice the things that you’re good at because you’re still going to fall off in those weak areas.” Overland says that last year she was trying to work on her movement and transitions between guns, because once you figure out the shooting it’s not too hard to keep up with that. “Movement was a weak area for me,” she admits. “I noticed that I was losing time in competitions, so I spent a lot of time practicing my movement so I can decrease my time.” help your brain transfer this knowledge first, then, you can make necessary Overland suggests you keep track of from the working memory to the long- adjustments.” Franco suggests instead the areas of your shooting with which term memory.” of focusing so much on hitting the you’re not happy, and then take a class, Franco notes that it is all right to work bullseye, you should focus on the steps hire an instructor, watch pro shooters on several techniques at one time, but you are taking to accomplish that goal. who instruct, or watch videos that will it will take you longer to master each “You will learn what you are doing help you achieve your shooting goals. skill. “Once a skill is embedded in your right and wrong when you follow this “If your budget is tight, sometimes just long-term memory, you will perform principle.” asking another shooter to meet you that action faster and efficiently. Your Franco recommends asking yourself at the range to watch you shoot can brain will know exactly how to do it,” the following questions: What steps yield helpful information. Ask if they she says, adding that this recollection are you taking in your technique? How see anything they do that you are not time is critical if you’re in shooting well are you applying the shooting doing, in order to be successful,” she competitions, where seconds can make fundamentals? Examining all the says. the difference between a podium finish details of your technique will give you “I also recommend recording yourself or finishing lower. a lot more information. “If you focus while you’re shooting or practicing, You can use your phone or a notebook, on how you are working through the and going back and watching that but I like the Shooting Journal offered equation, which is your technique, this video,” says Overland. “You will by A Girl & A Gun Women’s Shooting will result in much better results and probably see things about your League. improvement.” stance, for instance, or your grip, that you might not notice while you’re Change your focus. Franco says she Prioritize your weak areas. “For shooting.” sometimes sees people focusing so me, I started becoming a lot more much on trying to hit the bullseye that successful when I started to focus on Practice quality over quantity. they forget about the technique. “I see practicing the areas that I wasn’t nearly According to Overland, practicing shooting as a mathematical equation,” as good at,” says 17-year-old Dakota by sheer volume is not the answer. she says. “When you have a problem Overland, USPSA Multi-Gun Ladies “I noticed a huge difference in my in math, you don’t focus on the Champion, and brand ambassador shooting and my success once I started result. You need to solve the problem for Benelli and Federal Premium to become more consistent with my Ammunition. “Everybody enjoys practicing,” she says. “Before that, I 10 BULLET magazine would practice without any real plan, everything when it comes to shooting. practiced for several hours a day and end up wasting time and ammo. Confidence doesn’t have to mean that for four months. She placed third But now every time I practice I make you go out thinking you’re definitely in the ladies division, but was very sure I have a plan that works towards going to win. It means that you know disappointed. “Looking back, I realize my skill-specific goals. Everyone that you’re capable of it. Confidence now I had very little confidence. I had is built differently physically and means doing as well as you want to no sense of mental game and how to mentally, so you have to figure out and meeting the goals that you set for handle myself,” she says. “I placed what works for you in order to get the yourself.” third in the ladies division, which most out of practice.” Overland says she firmly believes that was a podium finish, but I was still Overland also suggests you look at you can’t have a losing mentality and disappointed because I felt I could have the big picture for higher-quality be surprised when you lose. “If that’s done better.” practices. “For example, with long- the case, you really need to change Then she read the book, With Winning range shooting, I am now focusing on your mental game. As long as you in Mind and says it changed her life. making the shot. Hitting the target don’t shoot worse than you usually “Now, I repeat over and over that I is much more important than just shoot and put what you can forward am capable of winning. I feel that now trying to go fast. I had to learn to take it will be good,” she says. “I started that I have more confidence in my the time to breathe, pull the trigger winning when I started to train my shooting ability, I have won all of my correctly, and make sure that the shooting and I stopped losing when competitions lately. I would dedicate sights are on. If I did all that before, I started to train my mental game. I all of my success last season to my my times would have been a whole lot came to the conclusion that proper, mental game.” faster.” confident mindset is probably one of Maureen P. Sangiorgio is an NRA- Change your mindset. “I feel that the most important if not the most Certified Firearms Instructor/Range changing my mental game to one of important factors in my success.” Safety Officer and an award-winning more confidence has made the biggest While preparing for an international writer. This article was first published difference for me in my competitions,” competition in France, Overland by Maureen Sangiorgio on February reflects Overland. “Confidence is 26, 2021.

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The official journal of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association 11 Notes from Brenda

Thankfully, we are starting to new gun owners across the whole our members’ families have benefited experience signs of spring. It’s been an country. Ammunition companies are from this insurance policy. Since we exceptionally long winter especially desperately trying to keep up with the started this program, over $450,000 in since everyone has been confined from demand. Why isn’t our association claims has been paid to our members. socializing. I have missed seeing lots of and the NRA flooded with new You may be surprised to learn that we members at the gun shows. memberships because of all these have members in most states across Your NYSRPA turn 150 years old new gun owners? Good question. the county. Many people maintain this year! I’d like to offer a special We should be. their memberships even though they thank you to everyone who has sent I also have been getting quite a few move out of state. They know that in donations. It truly helps our cause. calls from members who are being many times what happens in New It seems like everything we do costs contacted by an insurance company York and/or California has a way of money. We really appreciate our regarding their $4,000 accidental spreading across the country. We even generous members. death and dismemberment insurance have a member who lives in Hawaii. If With the Biden Administration we policies. If you receive a phone call you are planning a move out of state, will be under constant attack. We need about your policy, ask which company please consider maintaining your state to stick together and recruit. There are the person represents. If he or she membership. an estimated 4-6 million gun owners replies, National Income Life it should Don’t forget that Father’s Day will in New York state. These people must be on the up and up. Always ask be coming up in June. Consider believe in our Second Amendment, so the person for his or her name and getting a membership for that why aren’t they all members? Only a get their phone number. Sometimes special guy for Father’s Day, visit few of us are fighting for gun owner’s members make appointments to meet the website (NYSRPA.org) for an rights here in New York. Why aren’t with an agent, and then they need to application form. change their appointment and they the other gun owners helping us fight? Our Facebook page has been de- call me at the office. I will not have the I have been getting calls about platformed, so we have started an agent’s information. Over the years, we the ammunition shortage. This email alert list to keep members have had a good working relationship shortage is because there are so many updated on the latest information. If with National Income Life. Many of

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you are not receiving our emails, please the Reynolds Building in Winston- go to our website and sign up to get Salem, N.C. these alerts. John Raskob was the lead developer Since New York is known as the and financier of the building. The Empire State, I thought I would give Empire State Building project created you some interesting facts about the jobs for 3,400 workers at the start of Empire State Building. The Empire the Great Depression. Many of the State Building is one of the most pieces, like the steel beams and outer famous skyscrapers in the world. It’s limestone, were manufactured off-site on Fifth Avenue in New York City. to precise measurements, so they could It was completed in 1931, and at that be easily and quickly put into place time it was the tallest skyscraper in the as they arrived. The building used world. It held this title for more than some 200,000 cubic feet of limestone 40 years, until the World Trade Center and granite from Indiana as well was built in 1972. It took just over one as 730 tons of steel and aluminum. building makes over $80 million a year year to build—construction began in Over 100,000 rivets were used in the off tourism—of course, that was before March of 1930, and it opened on April building to fasten the steel beams the COVID-19 pandemic, which we 11, 1931. It was a model of efficiency together. all know has changed many things throughout the world. and modern construction techniques. Today the Empire State Building is an The roof height of the Empire State office building for many companies. The style of the Empire State Building Building is 1,250 feet. If you include It contains 2.7 million square feet is called Art Deco. There are 1,860 the antenna on top, it is 1,454 feet of office space. It is owned by the steps from the street level to the top tall. There are 102 stories and two Empire State Realty Trust. In 1986, floor. Fortunately, for people like me, th observation decks—one on the 86 it was designated a National Historic there also are high-speed elevators. nd floor and one on the 102 floor. Landmark, and has been renovated to It is considered by many to be The architect who designed the be one of the most environmentally America’s favorite building. It certainly building was William F. Lamb, it took efficient skyscrapers in the world. is one of my favorites! him two weeks to complete the plans. Around 3.5 million people visit the His inspiration for the building was observations decks each year. The

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Welcome to the vagaries of online in the development of military small ammunition development and auctions. arms. I also was lucky enough to come manufacturing, or political resources. My primary resource for Colt semi- across an early edition of Sixguns by Of course, once you’ve added these automatic pistol development is Colt Elmer Keith. Pretty much anything by books to your reference library, it’s Automatic Pistols by Donald Bady. In Ian Hogg (no relation to David Hogg) essential to read them. Sometimes regards to the AR platform, nothing is worth adding to your library, though more than once. some of the information is dated. comes close to The Black Rifle by Blake As usual, if you have an idea for future Stevens and Edward Ezell. Small Arms There are many more books in my articles, please send an email to info@ of the World and Handguns of the World reference library, but I think you nysrpa.org with “Collectors Corner” by Ezell, while currently out of print, get the idea. And, I didn’t even get in the subject line and make sure to are must haves for those interested into the books on gunsmithing, include your name for proper credit.

The official journal of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association 13 To Purse Pack—Or Not As with any other carry mode, there are drawbacks to carrying the defensive handgun in a purse or bag.

I can remember when the first purses with pistol pockets came out. I really felt sorry for the ladies because they looked more like something you’d carry carpenter tools in than female stuff. Fortunately, manufacturers got serious about the project and quickly came up with more fashionable bags that might actually appeal to a lady. Since those days, men’s shoulder bags have also made an appearance. And, while they might not be all the style in Horsethief, N.M., the cosmopolitan gentleman has the same option as the ladies for carrying his defensive handgun. Bags with a designated pistol pocket handgun. One doesn’t have to worry bag, he becomes armed and you aren’t. are most valuable because they allow about someone seeing the firearm and One might argue that this is the reason a person to carry a larger, service- getting all upset. It virtually eliminates for carrying the bag with the strap in size handgun when he/she might the question of brandishment in the across-body mode because it makes not otherwise be able to. Just about those states where that is part of the it more difficult for someone to grab. everyone does his best shooting with concealed carry law. People who adhere to this theory have a larger handgun but, especially in simply never seen a purse snatcher at warmer climates, there may be quite Always keep in mind work. Ask any veteran big-city cop a number of months when it is simply about purse snatchers and you’ll soon not practical to try to conceal it on the that it is really not realize that if the purse snatcher can person. a bag; it is another see the bag, he can get it. And he’ll get In addition, the defensive bag makes it quicker than you can stop him. carrying extra ammunition extremely Another problem with purse/bag carry easy. And the defensive shooter kind of holster with a is the tendency for a person to lay it also has room to carry some sort of down while tending to other business. less-than-lethal defensive tool if so loaded gun in it. At the point that you lay the bag down inclined. With the variety of bags However, as with any other carry and are no longer able to reach out and available today, the defensive shooter mode, there are drawbacks to carrying touch it, you have lost control of your can pick and choose to find one that is the defensive handgun in a purse or defensive handgun. And, of course, the serviceable as well as fashionable. bag. The first is that a person might be problem is compounded when you get One of the real advantages to carrying the victim of a purse snatcher instead forgetful and walk off and leave it. in a bag or purse is the fact that it of an armed attacker. When one of The final issue that I find with completely conceals the defensive these crafty folks makes off with your bag carry is that a proper pistol 14 BULLET magazine presentation takes much longer than shoulder is not conducive to a quick another kind of holster with a loaded if the gun were secured in a waistband draw by any stretch of the imagination. gun in it. With that mind set, decide if holster and it takes two hands to access In the final analysis, I can’t tell you if it will work for you. the firearm. When time is of the purse/bag carry is good or bad. That is This article was first published by Jim essence—and, believe me, when you something that you have to decide for Wilson on March 31, 2020. are being attacked, time is critical— yourself. It is my hope you will do that the presentation will be slow and after making an honest assessment of especially so if you only have one hand your own personal defensive needs. to use while you fight the attacker off Be conscious of its advantages and its with the other. Getting a gun out of shortcomings. And always keep in something that is swinging from your mind that it is really not a bag; it is

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NYSRPA.org: Strategic Email Campaign Circumventing the censors by Carl Gottstein

When Twitter censored a U.S. president, we to the death for your right to say it.” This all just carried on business as usual. After all is not true anymore, now the left slams all President Trump was not the first person to doors shut on debate or discussion, leaving see his posts “fact checked” or “disappeared” American freedoms locked behind them, after he crossed tech tzars shifting an disenfranchising millions of voices that irrationally policed “line” in the sand, but I vehemently oppose the left’s communistic believe he should be the last. These invisible ideas. It is a precursor, an eerily similar tyrants censored and then silenced a leader modern adaptation of Rome’s fall. All the of the free world and we all just carried on while, Nancy and Chuck are completely in America like it was OK. self-absorbed and yet thoroughly without Spoiler: It is not OK! self-awareness, and do not get me started on Sleepy Joe. The Emperor, Senate and I remember when noble men in opposition Congress have no clothes. They know not to my thoughts would proudly state: “I may what they do. not agree with you Carl, but I would fight

17 History’s most valuable lessons Machiavellian efforts ensured the left’s destructive harassment of individuals have been irretrievably lost on all current, unexpected, and tentative grip and businesses by a hateful cancel- who irrationally hate their fellow on U.S. national power. culture, and of course the piece de Americans and would happily All because one side will not hear the resistance: The permanently aggrieved deconstruct the greatest republic of cries and howls of warning from the left’s favorite night out, looting states ever to freely self-assemble on other. Divided we fall. and mob violence. Culminating in this earth. successful social-media de-platforming Will our Second Amendment of opposition voices, we are left with America’s staggering debt and protections be lost as quietly and a recipe for left leaning lop-sided Washington, D.C.’s irrational uncontested as the First Amendment outcomes of present-day political spending may well and truly ensure protections seem to have been? With battles and all future culture wars— our rapid fall from global economic barely a whimper? American legacy unless we form an action plan and leadership—it will if our competitors media’s reconstruction of reality is make it work. in China and Russia have anything always favoring the left. Couple that to say about it. The recent shift in with cowardly—and some would say We must create an unbreakable power to leftist hands has enemy borderline traitorous—U.S.-based network. How will America’s freedoms nations salivating for our downfall. global corporations bowing and and her bedrock conservative values A downward trajectory is now well echoing the left’s public shaming of survive the current state of open underway, led and controlled by anyone who disagrees. In addition, hostilities? The solution starts with the same scheming hands whose add irrational, abusive and incredibly you. Sign up for our emails at

18 BULLET magazine nysrpa.org. Only if we are united, How do I know this? How do I come trustworthy, and reliable advocates are motivated and well-informed can to this place? The left already has taken first silenced. we counter the left’s propaganda and NYSRPA CEO Tom King and me off Only in a vacuum of silence can their resulting disunity. Facebook without cause or warning. lies prevail. Facebook has prevented the highest Do not get me started on our public Deceitful politicians often direct profile Second Amendment advocates school system, or should I say the misinformation to the masses in New York state from owning and left’s indoctrination stations that unchallenged. This resulting in the administering Facebook pages, and teach everything but critical thinking. left’s disheartening and some would so now we are forced to deal with this Critical Race Theory, it all adds up say undeserved victories at the polls. problem firsthand. to serious problems for America. The Will you help spread the truth and short-term result is ignorance of our Help us fight back. Sign up for our work with NYSRPA to make a essential freedoms and an ill-fated and emails to help us defeat the left’s difference? Ask yourself, where are the irrational expectation of unequal and Orwellian controls. “It’s a republic, if media’s questions and outrage about all elevated liberties for everyone not born we can keep it.” So please, support our the hundreds of recent riots? The BLM of the same skin color as our founding efforts. Share this message. We are not and Antifa’s social unrest agitation fathers. Do you want to be part of the willing to bend a knee to the anti-gun that was once again conveniently and solution? Sign up for our emails. and free speech cancel-culture mob, with precision timing ramped up then So long as Americans are being and we will not go silently into the spontaneously combusted! Hundreds censored based on personal beliefs and night. It is important that all people of millions of dollars in property purveyors of conservative values are have a right to speak up and state damage has led to media silence. effectively silenced on social media their point of view. It is the American Democrats just laugh out loud. Our platforms, our only real hope for way! We will continue to speak up mainstream media is obviously part continued growing influence is going and make our voices heard with all of the left’s disinformation machine old school. Email alerts will evolve the strength and unity we can muster. that must be checked in real time and during election season into direct There is might in our numbers. Do countered with facts that are clear and action. We must include plans and you want to help fight back? Will you present. Help us do that. Sign up for put mechanisms in place to circumvent share this article and help grow our our emails, go to nysrpa.org and censors and continue communicating underground network’s reach and sign up. influence? Please do, and ask your with each other. P.S. Remember when President gun-owning friends to sign up for our Censorship of voices in opposition Obama was re-elected doing the same emails, too. to the left is happening in America’s thing? He always was gaslighting, race social-media town halls, too. We must Since when have ideas reflecting the baiting to insight the Black community counter this with dedicated efforts. founding father’s vision of America to riot. Terrifying the American Maybe we will billboard our thoughts. become so alien to some people living electorate. It worked then too. Happy People who refuse to pander or bow in America? Why must people who coincidence? Want to be ready next down to the ideas of the cancel-culture believe “shall not be infringed,” now time? Sign up for our emails at lynch mob are targeted for network be purged from social-media platforms nysrpa.org. destruction, and no one dares question in today’s America? You know why. the lynch mob in today’s America, not The powers that be at Facebook felt it unless you want to be next. We will necessary to remove NYSRPA CEO not bow down or submit. We must Tom King and NYSRPA advocate unite and hang close together or as Carl Gottstein because the only someone once said, we shall surely way our rights can be stripped from hang alone. all of us is if our most vociferous,

The official journal of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association 19 D is for Deluded

Last June, New York City Mayor Bill valued.” “Most importantly, keep a safe fowling-piece or other firearms in de Blasio (D) and his wife shared their distance!” the city.” vision for police reform. The mayor She may as well have added, “Project a Residents who opt to seek help from spoke of the need to fundamentally giant bat symbol onto the night sky.” someone in a “position of authority” change the nature of policing, One of the “D” words missing from and call the police may find that including reallocating “functions the tweet is “Disarmed.” New York the criminal is done and well away within policing right now that [could] City’s weapon laws make it all but before help arrives. The most current be done better by civilians.” His wife, impossible for a person to defend data indicates that on average, NYPD Chirlane McCray, told the interviewer themselves or others against “hateful officers responding to a 911 call that a society without police officers violence and harassment.” about a “crime in progress” are on the patrolling the streets “would be like a scene in just under eight minutes on It is unlawful for any person to carry nirvana, a utopia that we are nowhere the highest priority (“critical”) call – or possess, in any public place, street, close to getting to.” burglaries, robberies, armed violent or park, a knife with a blade length At the same time, Mayor de assaults, and “shots fired.” Callers for of four inches or more. The City’s Blasio slashed $1 billion from the city’s the next highest priority, “serious” gun laws are very restrictive and police budget and diverted the monies crimes in progress (auto theft, other complex. Permits are required for the to youth groups and social services larceny, other assault), can expect to possession and purchase of long guns. programs. He assured residents wait almost ten minutes, on average, To lawfully possess a handgun in the that the funding reallocation would and other “crime in progress” calls city, a substantial investment of time not jeopardize public safety and have an average response time of 17.26 and money is required to get a license effective policing. The City’s Police minutes. – even those with a valid New York Commissioner called the cuts – which State pistol permit must apply for and The incredulous responses to Ms. included a hiring freeze, a $352 obtain a separate “special permit.” The McCray’s tweet ranged from, “This is million reduction in overtime, and a license application fee for a handgun just replacing policing with untrained cancellation of recruit and cadet classes is $340 ($140 for a rifle or shotgun), interventions and it’s insane on the – “a recipe for disaster.” plus $88.25 for the mandatory face of it,” to “What have you been Consistent with the beliefs espoused by fingerprint cards. Carrying is generally drinking[,] woman?” NYC’s First Couple, a recent tweet by forbidden unless the person has a As NYC politicians continue to work the Ms. McCray urged residents to license of a class that specifically their way through the fundamental become their own neighborhood authorizes concealed carry. Reciprocity reform of the police service to the first responders and “intervene when doesn’t exist as the city does not nirvana that lies beyond, disarmed and witnessing hateful violence and honor any other states’ permits to defenseless citizens in the Big Apple harassment.” carry. It is a crime for any person can hardly be blamed for choosing the Her tips, summarized as Distract, authorized to possess a handgun of a only “D” word tip in Ms. McCray’s Delegate, Document, Delay and particular caliber to possess handgun advice that makes any sense: “keep a Direct, include interrupting and ammunition of a different caliber safe distance!” “engaging directly” with the victim, within the city. As we reported This article is reprinted with permission “supporting the person in crisis” earlier this year, the processing of from NRA-ILA. by taking notes or a video during license applications by the NYPD has the incident, asking for help from essentially stalled. To top it all off, someone in a “position of authority,” New York City makes it a crime “to and checking in afterwards with “the fire or discharge any gun, pistol, rifle, survivor” to show them “they are

20 BULLET magazine Gun Control’s Crisis of Credibility

Who can you trust? We live in the credible messengers for suicide, Instead, let’s discuss another finding era of fake news, spin, and shifting homicide, and accident prevention. from a different survey. This study narratives. Everything seems to be The most credible sources were, on “Medical Students’ Knowledge, political. Maybe that’s the wrong in order, law enforcement, current Attitudes, and Beliefs towards question. Maybe we should be asking, military personnel, veterans, and Firearm Ownership and Reporting” “who do you trust?” Recently published the National Rifle Association. was conducted by doctors – medical research has the answers. Even respondents who did not and PhDs – and a medical student, Anti-gun activists want you to trust own a firearm or otherwise have and was published in the Journal of doctors with no constitutional law or a firearm in their home rated the Education & Social Policy. From the law enforcement expertise. They also NRA fourth – well above medical abstract want you to trust celebrities, people professionals and celebrities. “In this study, medical students famous not for their ability to craft Celebrities are used – willingly, were queried on their knowledge, policy but their ability to entertain the perhaps as true believers or as attitudes, and actions surrounding masses – or at least some segment of fans of the attention – to attract firearm ownership using a short the masses. attention to the cause. Doctors survey. Results found that students Social media has given celebrities a and medical professionals are used overwhelmingly believe gun platform that amplifies their opinions because they supposedly lend an control is an important issue and and importance based not on merit but air of authority and credibility to the majority support gun control. popularity. the issue…except that they do not, However, less than 40% of students were able to pass a 10-question quiz A paper published in the journal as this survey confirms. No one on current gun laws.” Preventive Medicine examined who would mistake the paper’s authors the American public trusted most for being pro-gun activists. The lead That is a…generous explanation of as messengers on firearm safety. author, Doctor Michael D. Anestis, the findings. On average, students The authors asked respondents runs the New Jersey Gun Violence who took the quiz on gun laws to rank 14 types of people and Research Center at Rutgers got 5.9 out of 10 questions correct. organizations in terms of credibility University. Only 36% got at least seven of ten to discuss firearm safety. The NRA’s high ranking as a credible questions correct. The medical authors focus on suicide prevention, messenger on these issues should students – primarily studying at but the messengers were also carry some weight, but we are George Washington University ranked on credibility for homicide often vilified and used as a foil by (20%), Georgetown University prevention and accident prevention. gun control activists. Their general School of Medicine (80%), and The results? strategy has been to use the NRA Howard University (6%) – know virtually nothing about gun laws. Doctors and celebrities were last. as a boogeyman, an unreasonable That isn’t possible – they can’t obstacle to enacting their “common More than 90% said gun control is both be last. Doctors were ranked sense” efforts to strip the gun important to them and that their 12th out of 14 and celebrities were rights of millions of Americans. attitudes on gun ownership are actually last. “Casual acquaintances” Recognizing that the NRA is both unlikely to change. Eighty-four were 13th. This infographic provides a leader in actual gun safety – with percent (84%) said gun control a very useful breakdown of the millions of Americans trained by would reduce crime, yet a sizeable study findings across racial and NRA-certified instructors – and a majority couldn’t pass a quiz on gender groups. Celebrities and beacon of credibility on the issue gun laws. How can they credibly doctors or medical professionals should cool these efforts, but we estimate the impact of gun control were consistently rated as the least won’t hold our breath. (continued on page 22.)

The official journal of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association 21 NRA Files Reply Brief Urging Supreme Court to Take Conceled Carry Case

Today the NRA-ILA and the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association filed a reply brief asking the Supreme Court to hear a case challenging New York’s restrictive concealed-carry- licensing regime. This case challenges New York’s requirement for applicants to demonstrate “proper cause” to carry a firearm. New York regularly uses this requirement to deny applicants. New York’s practice is unconstitutional because the Second Amendment “guarantees rights to ‘keep and bear arms’ to all ‘the people,’” the brief argues, not just to the select few that the state deems worthy. The NRA is dedicated to protecting case was previously called New York the Second Amendment rights of its State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. The NRA and its allies petitioned members, and this action is just the Corlett. The change in names is due to the Supreme Court to hear this latest in the NRA’s fight to protect and the Superintendent of the New York case on December 17, 2020. The expand the ability of all Americans State Police having changed since the NRA received amicus support from to exercise those rights. This is the lawsuit began. 23 state Attorneys General seeking to fifth time that the NRA has asked “safeguard their citizens’ fundamental Please stay tuned to www.nraila. the Supreme Court to hear a Second rights, including the right to bear arms org for future updates on this and Amendment case in the last three in self-defense outside the home.” New all of ILA’s efforts to defend your years. York filed a Brief in Opposition on constitutional rights. February 22, 2021. This is the final The case is called New York State Rifle This article is reprinted with permission step in the petition process. & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen. The from NRA-ILA.

(continued from page 21.) if they don’t know the existing laws? How will that “gun safety the publicly available resources on How can doctors advise patients on training” be developed? We have the NRA-ILA website. firearms or related topics if they can’t no expectations that NRA, or any It seems some doctors know where pass a simple quiz on gun laws? other pro-gun point of view will to turn to find a credible source for To reduce this ignorance of gun laws, be used when future generations of firearms policy information. doctors are indoctrinated into the the authors advocate to “increase So do the American people. gun safety training and interventions anti-gun agenda, BUT…the doctors This article is reprinted with permission during medical school.” who conducted this study used from NRA-ILA.

22 BULLET magazine NYSRPA 2021 Directors Election Ballot

VOTE FOR FIVE (5) CANDIDATES

Joel Abelove Rensselaer, N.Y. ______Charlie Beers Glenville, N.Y. ______John Butcher Lockport, N.Y. ______Glenn Hancock Adams, N.Y. ______John Greene Stormville, N.Y. ______Scott Sommavilla Valhalla, N.Y. ______

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To be eligible to vote, you must be a life member of the association or an annual member for five continuous years.

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Ballots must be recieved by Monday, July 19, 2021

The official journal of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association 23 Pistol Director by Steve Kraynak

This issue of the Bullet will contain It also would be helpful if you sent Regrettably, there will be no New the 2021 Camp Perry Pistol Team me an email to state your intention to York State Indoor Precision Pistol application. Please take note of the shoot on the team or not, ahead of the Championship this spring due to the mailing deadline of Saturday, May deadline. It is recognized that many COVID-restrictions, and the problems 15, 2021. It would be helpful to apply of the team applicants may not have that it creates for the indoor ranges. ahead of the mailing deadline. the opportunity to fire in any outdoor We can only hope that things will If you are applying for a slot on the matches prior to the mailing deadline, improve going forward. New York state teams please take the but keep in mind it is important to get If you have access to email, please time to complete all of the questions your application mailed in on or before make inquires with regards to joining that are asked on the application— the mailing deadline, so I can start the NYS Camp Perry team to me at in the past applicants leave certain setting up the team roster. Applicants [email protected]. I hope to questions blank. This is not helpful! may submit scores to me as they are hear from you and look forward to If you are uncertain about any of the able to attend competitions prior to seeing you all on the firing line. Good questions, please contact me and I will Camp Perry. I can then consider these shootin’! help you in any way I can. scores and make adjustments to the team alignments, if needed.

24 BULLET magazine NYS Pistol Team Application for 2021 Camp Perry National Matches Please print information legibly!

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