Firing Lines March/April 2019 Fighting for Your Second Amendment Rights Since 1965 INSIDE THIS ISSUE

S.C.O.P.E., Inc. Shooters Committee on Political Education

Volume XXVIII, Issue II

Firing Lines March/April 2019 Fighting for your Second Amendment Rights since 1965 INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, SCOPE Chapter and the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. BoD Information 2 ————————————————————————— Newsletter Deadlines 2 ————————————————————————— SCOPE P.A.C. 3 ————————————————————————— Gun owners Extinct 4 Up Against Albany ————————————————————————— Good men must act 5 ————————————————————————— We Cannot Win When Gun Owners Walk Away Confiscation 6 ————————————————————————— Gun Control divides 6 By Tim Andrews, would simply ignore. ————————————————————————— History of Bill of rights 8 S.C.O.P.E. President Another problem with this legisla- ————————————————————————— Judicial systems 9 tion is that it provides an exception for a per- ————————————————————————— The New York State Senate and son under the age of 16 who is the holder of a SCOPE Member Clubs 10 ————————————————————————— Assembly passed legislation (A.2686A and hunting license. That begs the question: what Business Members 12 ————————————————————————— S.2450A) requiring the mandatory storage of about parents or organizations that want to Boycott 14 firearms, rifles, and shotguns. While the leg- enjoy the shooting sports with children that ————————————————————————— Are we just subjects 15 islation may seem reasonable on the surface, don’t require a hunting license? Will Boy ————————————————————————— 2019 16 as is often the case with legislation passed Scouts and other youth shooting sports be ————————–————————————————- with little public input it will do little to pro- prohibited with this law? Or how about a NYS representatives 18 ————————–————————————————- tect the most vulnerable. Additionally, the parent who wants to teach their child to SCOPE application 20 legislation will negatively impact parents and shoot, because those sports don’t require a ————————————————————————— organizations who wish to enjoy the shooting hunting license? Will someone under 16 be sports with young people. prohibited from all recreational shooting? Join SCOPE Accidents involving firearms with Finally, in 2008, the Supreme Court young people are at an all-time low. When ruled in D.C. v. Heller that mandating a fire- Today! accidents do occur it’s likely to be in a home arm be made inoperable for immediate self- SCOPEny2A.org where the firearm is possessed illegally. defense is unconstitutional. Thus, the adult perpetrator is not likely to be Whether intended or not, this is an- “Nobody made a swayed by a mandatory storage law. Think other in a series of attacks on law-abiding greater mistake about it in these terms — if you’re someone gun owners. Thousands more children perish who doesn’t consider the safety of your chil- each year from drowning, suffocations or than he who did dren enough of a reason to practice responsi- motor vehicle accidents than from accidents nothing because ble gun ownership, how in the world is some involving firearms. We’re in the middle of he could do only law passed by Albany politicians going to an opioid epidemic where thousands of New make a difference? The fact is, “law-abiding York’s children are dying at an alarming rate. a little.“ gun owners” are some of the safest people on This legislation has more to do with politics Edmund Burke the planet. than saving children. A better way to address firearm We have contacted the governor’s safety, especially for kids who live in less office to urge him not to sign this legislation. than desirable circumstances, would be to He’s often said he’s not trying to take away A well Regulated offer training to those children in schools on the rights of law-abiding gun owners, here’s Militia, being neces- what to do if they encounter a firearm. If the a chance for him to prove it. sary to the security goal is to protect children award-winning I’m not saying anything you already of a free state, the programs like the NRA’s Eddie Eagle pro- don’t know when I say we have a very diffi- right of the People gram, with the fundamental message of, cult fight in New York State. We can proba- to keep “Stop, Don’t Touch, Tell An Adult,” would bly claim the mantle as the most anti-gun and bear arms, accomplish more than a mandatory storage state in the union. It’s easy for some of us to shall not be law that criminals or irresponsible adults (Continued on page 5) infringed. Firing Lines page 2

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Effectively defending the 2nd Amendment requires us to go on the offensive. We cannot wait, unprepared, for the next assault from the radical left. Although we may have a friend in the White House, Cuomo and the radical left still reside in Albany.

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politics. SCOPE-PAC Politicians and candidates look at each individual and organization in terms of can they help, can they hurt me or do they matter at all. We P.O. Box 12711 can help candidates in a number of ways but the most effective is with Rochester, NY 14612 money, that’s where SCOPE PAC comes in and where each individual gun owner can help. There is estimated to be about 4 million gun own- Or online at: ers in New York and if all those gun owners just donated a dollar each month we would have millions to work with. All we are asking is that www.SCOPEPAC.com you, our members and other gun owners donate at least that much to SCOPE PAC. It’s not a lot to ask, so please help.

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Left Wants Gun Owners bureaucrats to eventually decide if Do you keep a gun for pro- you live or die. Will we soon be see- tection? You’ll have to have it to Become Extinct ing an organization called “Planned “safely stored”. So, if someone is Aging”? threatening you or your family, sim- By Tom Reynolds, Anyone want to bet against ply ask for a time out while you S.C.O.P.E. Treasurer and Board prostitution becoming legal, as long search for your key, unlock the gun, Member as the far left can tax it to fund their find your bullets and load the gun. “free stuff”? New York State Assembly SCOPE’s (and all 2A or- The important point in all of Members, based primarily in New ganizations’) biggest challenge is these is how quickly the left has taken York City, are trying to make it getting gun owners to vote. Like these issues from never publicly spo- unlawful for anyone to hold contests most people, gun owners won’t react ken of to actual legislative proposals. or competitions involving hunting or until a crisis hits them like a 2 by 4 The SAFE Act of 2013 was fishing wildlife. No firearms raffles over the head. Unfortunately, that the toe-in-the-door moment for gun either. crisis is easily predictable based on control. It’s been the proverbial slip- On the federal level, the left the previous actions of far-left liber- pery slop ever since and the slippery wants to add semi-automatic rifles als; once they gain control of the gov- slope just got worse after the 2018 and shotguns to the to the national ernment, they become the govern- elections. Firearms Act of 1986. These would ment, and they never stop going for Many hunters who only own all have to be registered or else pos- more. There is no such thing as a shotgun or a rifle have sat quietly sessing them would be a federal vio- “Common sense gun control” to the on the sideline before and after the lation. left, short of total gun confiscation. SAFE Act was passed. Now that the Unless gun owners begin to At one time, the “Numbers leftist New York City liberals com- exert themselves - by voting - gun Racket” was illegal in New York. pletely control the New York Gov- owners will have to be added to the Never letting a chance to make more ernment, they are passing multiple Endangered Species List in order to money pass them by, politicians additions to the SAFE Act. Will survive. drove the “Numbers Racket” out of these provoke hunters to some ac- We must get gun owners off business by replacing it with LOTTO. tion? their butts and into the voting booth. At that time, there was a heated de- Thought you were safe from SCOPE chapters and individual mem- bate against the government encour- the government by only owning a bers must not only continue to be aging gambling. But once their toe- shotgun? Now the left wants you to active but increase their activity in was-in-the-door, gambling became get a $1 million liability insurance politics at the local level and like- perfectly fine–as long as the govern- policy. You will also need to safe minded organizations. The left is the ment profits. They then moved to store it instead of hanging it on the enemy of gun owners and, quite licensing casinos. Sports betting fol- wall. Failure to do so will result in frankly, Republicans have been less lowed. gun confiscation, fines and imprison- than pro-active in defending us and Whether you are pro- or anti ment. How is that for a 2 by 4? many of them need to be replaced. -abortion, the toe-in-the-door syn- Want to take someone out drome should be evident. When the hunting for the first time but they Supreme Court made abortion legal, don’t have a shotgun? If you let them they limited it to the time before vi- borrow one of yours, you will need to ability of the unborn baby. Thanks to be next to them at all times. If you technological advances, viability is should split up, you just broke the moving closer to conception. But law! abortion proponents, on the left, are pushing abortion well beyond viability and even proposing murdering the Please check your email for renewal reminders. baby after it is born. Some on the left are now questioning the value of providing If you have an email address listed with SCOPE, medical care to the aged, something that was unspeakable only ten years your renewal reminder will now come via email. ago. Remember the debate over Please check your email for renewal reminders. “Death Panels” under Obamacare? It was the toe-in-the-door moment for Firing Lines page 5

could spark the flames of change when coming lines stirred the troops to reenlist and Good Men (and Women) bined with other great ideas of like-minded stay in the fight. It reads in part: “These are Cannot Simply ‘Do citizens and could prove successful. I have the times that try men's souls. The summer no doubt that every member of SCOPE has soldier and the sunshine patriot, will in this Nothing’ plenty to say at home. We yell at the TV crisis, shrink from the service of his country; By David L. Sutfin, Steuben County and debate with friends and co-workers. But but he that stands it now deserves the love how many of us shout our thoughts and and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, The noose of socialism is ever ideas at home only to sit quietly at a meet- like hell, is not easily conquered; harder the tightening. All gun owners across our state ing, if you even attend. We need to build our conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” and this country, if combined, would be a voice, let them hear it in Albany, Washing- It goes on to remind us that we resolute voice. Think about what could be ton, D.C. and everywhere. Remember what have to work hard to keep our freedom, accomplished if gun owners stood together. Benjamin Franklin said, “We must hang especially from tyranny. How can we allow How can we sit back and let socialism be- together or surely we will hang separately.” everything that was earned by our forefa- come the reigning doctrine? Too many peo- During the American Revolution, thers, everything they fought and died for, in ple believe that this cannot happen, but we the Continental Army and the state militias each generation, slip into darkness? are falling fast. The ‘New Green Deal’, initially could not win battles because they We are losing our state and our abortions, illegal immigration and voting, didn’t work together. General Washington country to the spread of socialism. What will and the never-ending call for gun control are had the foresight to assign Baron von Steu- you do to help in this fight? The time is now precursors to an eventuality that is, in a ben, known as the drillmaster of Valley and the cause is great. word, frightening. Forge as the Inspector General. He created The founding fathers were bold We cannot allow this. How many training techniques to build cohesiveness enough to write their beliefs on paper. They of the Pro-Second Amendment groups are within the varied militias, in order to create pledged to each other their lives, fortunes bickering amongst themselves, all looking to one army. Writing his orders every night in and “sacred honor.” They immediately be- be the ‘leader’, wasting time and resources German, they were translated to French then came wanted men, treasonous to the crown. to achieve the result we all want? We need to English for the troops. This was challeng- Can’t we as patriots do something for this to open dialogue across the divide and leave ing work but he succeeded. The Americans cause? A quote often attributed to Edmund the bickering to Congress. In the meantime, started to win battles and eventually win the Burke, a member of the British Parliament, we need to get serious, organize, and stop war against tyranny. Today, we are not states: “The only thing standing alone. unlike those separate militias: SCOPE, necessary for the triumph Remember why we are fighting: GOA, NYSRPA, NRA. Our strength is in of evil is for good men to Our forefathers joined forces without our total numbers, not individual groups. do nothing.” phones, social media and other technologies Fortunately, that same winter, the Today it is our and advancements we have today. How? writings of Thomas Paine reached Valley gun rights. What will be Hard work, courage, and dedication to each Forge. General Washington was so inspired next and what will you do? other, and above all, to liberty. by “Common Sense” and “The American Write letters, to newspapers and Crisis No. 1” that he ordered it read to the your representatives. Go to meetings, town troops, most of which were in the midst of halls, and share ideas, even if you think your deserting or expiring enlistments. These ideas won’t change anything. Your idea now seemingly forgotten yet famous open-

(Continued from page 1) involved but you are a minority. Only to walk away. This is the time to join point fingers and to cast blame. a very small fraction of New York’s the fight! What’s S.C.O.P.E. doing? What gun owners are members of any Sec- This will be my last column about the NRA and the other gun ond Amendment civil rights group. as S.C.O.P.E.’s president. My term is groups in New York? However, one We must grow our numbers. up effective April 27, 2019 when we must remember we’re only as strong Gone are the days when politicians have our board and members’ meet- as the gun owners who support us. just wanted to ban semi-automatic ings and I will not be seeking reelec- The more engaged the gun owning rifles. With the unSAFE Act, red flag, tion. I will, however, stay on as a public is the stronger the pro-Second and mandatory storage laws every director and support our new leader- Amendment groups will be. gun owner is a target. Trap shooters, ship and continue the fight for our I recently read a comment skeet shooters, sporting clays, hunters Second Amendment rights here in on social media where a gun owner just to name a few. You’re as much a New York. Let’s all keep up the fight commented that until he sees positive target as the guy with the AR15 or by asking others to join us. results, he refuses to join any pro-2A the AK47. Every person in New York group in New York. Think about that is now one angry neighbor away from one, his attitude is exactly why we’re having his or her firearms confis- losing the battle. How can we win the cated. fight with people walking away? I The only way to turn this realize that most of you are the choir state around is with every gun owner and you understand the need to be joining the fight. This is not the time Firing Lines page 6

people and enemies of American lib- the Revolutionary War started at Lex- Confiscation Runs in erty. ington and Concord when the British Albany’s Blood Nothing has changed in 243 tried to confiscate guns and ammuni- years! tion. The New York Governor and The Governor and Mayor the Mayor of New York City then, as By Tom Reynolds were actively recruiting members of today, sided with gun confiscation. S.C.O.P.E. Treasurer and Board the Continental Army to switch sides Hopefully, the current officeholders’ Member and fight with the British. In addi- efforts will be as successful as their tion, they had formed a plot to kidnap predecessor’s earlier efforts. On May 21, 1776, the New or kill George Washington. Read more about this in Brad York Provincial Congress issued a Tryon later became a Major Meltzer’s The First Conspiracy . “Report on Disaffection.”It said: General in the British Army and led “Whereas his Excellency raids which slaughtered unarmed ci- —————————— George Washington hath lately exhib- vilians and burned down homes, ited to this congress sundry informa- churches and farms. tion and evidence, from which it ap- Mathews escaped jail and Gun Control pears that the enemies of American returned to be the Mayor of New Arguments Make liberty have a general communication York City (during the British occupa- with each other through this and part tion) and, later, becomes Attorney Little Sense but Serve of neighboring Colonies…and there General of Cape Breton Island. Leftist Purposes by are also several ill-disposed persons With all the effort to erase in the City and County of New York… any trace of history offensive to liber- Dividing the Country many of whom will most probably als, especially Confederate Generals, take up arms on the part of our surely such disreputable persons as a By Tom Reynolds foes…” New York Governor and a New York S.C.O.P.E. Treasurer and Board Enemies of American liberty City Mayor would have their legacies Member in New York? Ill-disposed persons in erased. Not so! Fort Tryon Park near New York City who will most proba- the northern tip of Manhattan above The Marjorie Stoneman bly take up arms on the part of our 190 th street as well as a street in the Douglas commission was tasked with foes? Whom could they have been Bronx and streets and buildings in investigating and reporting the facts talking about? Albany are named after him. of that tragic high school shooting in Answer: The Governor of Mathews has only the Mathews- Florida. New York (William Tryon) and the Muliner Playground in the Bronx to They recommended that staff Mayor of New York City (David memorialize him. and teachers, who are screened and Mathews) were these ill-disposed It’s well to remember that trained, be allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus. The reason given was that the shooter killed or wounded 34 people in less than 4 Empire State Weeklies minutes. Obviously, no law enforce- ment officer in the world could have responded from off campus and en- For all your printing needs gaged the shooter in that short amount of time. (As one famous saying goes, “When police are only minutes away, Job Printing you need something that goes 1,500 Newsletter and Newspaper Publishing feet per second.”) Since that time, a Florida Bulk Mailing Services judge, appointed by Barack Obama, ruled in a related case that the sher- iff’s deputies were not constitution- 46 North Ave., Webster, NY 14580 ally obligated to protect the students. This ruling did not break new ground (585) 671-1533 since there were similar previous rul- (Continued on page 7) Firing Lines page 7

(Continued from page 6) suggestion, “…was not a well thought trying to take away the guns that pro- ings. out strategy.”The university’s branch tect us. It’s not the Constitution - Should police departments of the American Association of Uni- since the left doesn’t believe in it – that print “Protect and Serve” on their versity Professors Union disagreed but only the fact that we already have police cars have to scrape “Protect” with him and it purchased and armed guns that has stopped them short of off as false advertising? the faculty, staff and students with full confiscation. Even people like From a positive standpoint, hockey pucks. Cuomo have to be concerned about the overwhelming number of police To paraphrase Sean Connery pushing people with guns too far. officers are willing to put their lives in the movie The Untouchables , Unfortunately, there are peo- on the line to “Protect” even if not “Only an Oakland University faculty ple on the extreme left who would constitutionally obligated to do so. member would bring a hockey puck rejoice to see America divided and From a negative standpoint, how do to a gun fight”. destroyed. And yes, I’m speaking you know which type of officer will Kate Steinle was shot and about you, Barack Obama. show up when your life is threatened? killed by a “criminal migrant” felon New York’s Governor An- who had been deported five times. drew Cuomo has come out firmly He should have been deported six against arming teachers. He said, “I times, since the San Francisco police really don't want to see a teacher in department had him in custody after the front of the room drop his or her his release from federal prison, but eraser or chalk and pull out a gun and San Francisco is a sanctuary city that start firing at a person who walks into does not cooperate with ICE and they the back of the classroom with a released him. gun…it's almost comedic, if it wasn't As Kate Steinle lay on the so tragic.” ground in her father’s arms she kept Is Cuomo afraid students saying, “Dad, help me, help me”. I might potentially be shot in a possible cannot imagine a worse moment for crossfire? What about those students father. who will definitely be shot if there is I don’t have to repeat the no armed person there to stop the idiotic claims by the liberal left that shooter? The latter instance better fits would have us believe that open bor- the definition of tragic. ders and sanctuary cities are the Advertising in Oakland University, in “moral” way of doing things. southeast Michigan, does not allow Thankfully, the Second FIRING LINES guns on campus. As an alternative, Amendment protects – not grants but We will be happy they have armed faculty, staff and protects -the right of self-defense. to assist you in students with hockey pucks. In a spur Unlike the liberal left, almost all gun composing and -of-the-moment comment, the univer- owners are non-violent and law abid- sity’s police chief first suggested it, ing. However, the liberal left keeps placing an ad since he was once hit by a hockey pushing more and more extreme just contact puck and it did,“…a fair amount of measures that put our lives and prop- [email protected] damage.” He later admitted that his erty in danger while simultaneously

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mise that was reached was that a Bill of ratification by the states. How- Abridged History of Rights would be considered once ever, it is thought that a huge debt of the basic Constitution was ratified. gratitude should be provided to those of the Bill of Rights Two of our most well- arguing against such a Bill of Rights By Rob McNally known Founding Fathers were on or more particularly, the entire Con- S.C.O.P.E. Chairman opposite sides of this fence. Thomas stitution for as Thomas Jefferson Jefferson, known as an antifederalist, wrote, “[t]here has just been opposi- The development and draft- did not attend the September convention enough” to force adoption of a ing of the Constitution led to a fierce tion, but wrote a letter in December Bill of Rights, but not to drain the debate. There were essentially two 1787 to James Madison, another well federal government of its essential sides in this debate. There were those -known founder, who sat on the fed- “energy.” George Washington was who favored a strong central federal eralist side of this fence. In the letter, known to remark in agreement, government, and those who supported Jefferson related that “[a] bill of “They have given the rights of man a individual rights and states’ rights. rights is what the people are entitled full and fair discussion, and explained Sound familiar? The difference is to against every government on them in so clear and forcible manner those that favored a strong federal earth” and that it was a mistake to as cannot fail to make a lasting im- government felt the individual rights leave such out of the Constitution. pression.” added through the Bill of Rights later Madison on the other hand was con- The largest argument against were inherent in such a strong federal cerned that a more protracted debate, such a Bill of Rights were those who government without the need of stat- should such guarantees of individual felt such rights needed no ‘spelling ing them explicitly. rights be added, would foil any at- out’ in that they were unalienable and Negotiations during the tempt at ratification. A year later (by of such a nature as not needing any Constitution Convention of Septem- the fall of 1788), Madison had such guarantee, with the 2nd Amend- ber 12, 1787 rejected a series of indi- switched sides and begun to agree ment regarding self-defense and pos- vidual right guarantees because the that a Bill of Rights was necessary. session of arms being an example. primary consideration was to set forth This was after the ratification of the But because of the ratification of this machinery with which to keep the Constitution had been achieved by 11 document we have a governmental federal government functioning in its current states in July 1788. ‘guarantee’; not a right ‘granted’, but infancy. It was suggested in many of The first proposal for a Bill a right ‘recognized’ by our own gov- the writings of those in attendance of Rights contained 12 amendments, ernment as ‘God-given’ and docu- over that summer, that the main fear not 10, and in fact, the task of pursu- mented in our Bill of Rights for refer- was another prolonged debate over ing this was undertaken by Madison ence. individual rights would prevent get- himself. He was known to have re- Sources: ting this mechanism up and running. ferred to his errand as “a nauseous • http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ Federalists believed this should be the project” due to the litany of details ftrials/conlaw/billofrightsintro.html primary focus (getting the govern- that went into the number of consid- • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ ment running) and had left out many ered ‘rights’ that needed to be de- United_States_Constitution#1788_ratif ic of the guarantees later provided for in clared. ation the Bill of Rights. Their argument You may do your own re- was that Anti-Federalists promised search to review all those ‘rights’ that just such a prolonged debate further were not specified, or ultimately were in the fall of 1787 if such rights were rejected either through debate or lack not included. Therefore, the compro-

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laws overlap, there can be problems. Then, there are intermediate The Federal and State For example, while some states have level appeals courts. People gener- Judicial Systems legalized marijuana under state law, ally have a right to use them if they By Henry Kramer people in those states can still be wish to challenge a lower court deci- prosecuted for violation of federal sion. In the federal system the appel- For many people, the U.S. drug law, as marijuana use remains late court is called the Court of Ap- court system is what they see on Law illegal nationally. peals and in the New York State sys- and Orde r or in old Perry Mason As for the court system, both tem it is known as the Appellate Divi- episodes. It usually relates to the federal and state systems usually fea- sion of the State Supreme Court. criminal law system and often at the ture three levels of courts of general These appellate courts mostly decide state – not federal - level. Although jurisdiction (excluding traffic courts, only issues of law and do not hold there are exceptions, the basic struc- small claims courts, and municipal new trials. In New York State there tures of the federal and state court and county courts). are four regional Appellate Division systems are pretty much the same The first (lower) level of Courts. At the federal level, there are although technically different. courts tries cases directly and decides four regional U.S. district courts for All Americans, except those both issues of fact and law. In New the Eastern, Southern, Northern and in the District of Columbia, and in US York State, for historical reasons, this Western Districts of New York. In territories such as Guam, have two level is called the Supreme Court. At New York State, decisions of these sovereigns, one federal and one state. the federal level, these are called U.S. state appellate courts are only binding County and local governments are not District Courts. Decisions made at precedents for that district. At the sovereign but only sub-divisions of this level in New York State are only federal level, decisions of the Courts state government. binding in that specific case. At the of Appeals are only binding within Some topics are covered Federal level, these courts would, their jurisdictional area though they exclusively under federal law such as historically, not issue nationwide con- do carry weight in the other U.S. Cir- radio stations, others such as gun stitutional decisions but this has been cuit courts. regulation are shared by federal and lost since Donald Trump became At the top of the pyramids state governments, and some, such as President and the most left leaning are the U.S. Supreme Court and the traffic laws, are by and large left to U.S. district judges now issue nation- (Continued on page 11) the states. Where state and federal wide injunctions.

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Parkland, Florida shooting, two anti- They include: Delta Airlines; United Captain C.C. gun organizations were ready for in- Airlines; Enterprise Holdings (Alamo, stant anti-N.R.A. action. According Enterprise, National ); Hertz; Avis; Boycott and the to Kristina Monllos, senior editor for and Budget . Best Western and Wynd- War on the Second Adweek , a $230,000 two-page ad was ham hotels. Stopped offering N.R.A. purchased in the New York Times. It discounts. Sirva Corporation which Amendment listed all Congressional members who owns Allied Van Lines and North By Harold Moskowitz had accepted N.R.A. political contri- American Van Lines ended N.R.A. butions along with their office phone member discounts. Additionally, The term “boycott” has been numbers. An action plan called for FEDEX publicly criticized UPS for around since Captain Charles C. Boy- the use of the hash tag (#) “Throw continuing to ship items purchased cott was subjected to social ostracism Them Out.” The ad was put together from the N.R.A. Store and stated its during the Irish Land War of 1880. by a Progressive Liberal counseling opposition to the sale of “assault ri- He was a land agent for an absentee firm called SKD Knickerbocker. Not fles” to civilians. British landlord. An entire town so- surprisingly some of the firm’s politi- The following computer- cially isolated him. The goal was to cal clients have been Barack Obama, associated corporations ended N.R.A. pressure him into lowering rents and Andrew Cuomo, and Michael discounts: True Car vehicle buying decreasing the number of evictions of Bloomberg. service; SimpliSafe digital premises Irish tenant farmers. In our nation, After Parkland, many corpo- protection; Teledoc tele Medicare ser- the “boycott” became an effective rations were pressured “morally” to vice; Personify Group Technologies; form of pressure by labor unions to make public their positions on gun- Paramount Rx prescription drug dis- improve working conditions. It was related matters or to break any eco- count; and Symantec (Norton) com- also used to help end discrimination nomic arrangements with the N.R.A. puter anti-virus protection. against African-Americans. Histori- Rachel Siegel, a national business A more serious threat for the cally, it has always been used as an reporter for the Washington Post, N.R.A. and firearm owners are the organized form of pressure to change wrote (3/21/18) that within two weeks actions taken by some banks and conditions viewed as “unfair.” of the shootings, four retailers altered credit card issuers. They control ac- Presently, it is being used as their policies on firearm-related sales. cess to credit and financial services an economic weapon against busi- Wal-Mart stopped selling firearms for the N.R.A. and firearm-related nesses associated with the firearms and ammunition to anyone under businesses. First National Bank of industry in general and the National twenty-one years old. Dick’s Sport- Omaha , the nation’s largest privately Rifle Association in particular. In the ing Goods and its subsidiary, Field held bank, has stopped offering the Progressive Liberal “war” against the and Stream stopped selling AR-15 N.R.A. Visa card. Republic Bank has right to keep and bear arms, the boy- rifles and high-capacity magazines. ended the N.R.A. Visa Prepaid Card cott is no longer a weapon aimed at They also raised their firearm sales (debit card). Other banks which have unfair practices. Today, it targets the age to twenty-one. The grocery chain taken steps to use their financial God-given individual right to self- Kroger , owner of Fred Meyer general power to control and weaken the fire- defense passed down to us by the stores, raised their firearm sales age arms industry are J. P. Morgan Chase, Founders. The N.R.A., seeking to to twenty-one. L.L.Bean also has Citibank, Amalgamated Bank, and preserve that right for future genera- stopped selling firearms and ammuni- Bank of America. Citi Group an- tions has become the “lightning rod” tion to those under twenty-one. In nounced that it will drop any retailer of their efforts to end firearm owner- addition, L. L. Bean felt it necessary selling high-capacity magazines or ship in our nation. to announce that “L. L. Bean does not bump stocks. It requires its retailers It doesn’t take more than a and never has supported the N.R.A.” to do background checks and to raise relative handful of emails repeated The Mountain Equipment Co-op the firearm purchase age to twenty- over a period of days with anti- stopped selling equipment brands one. It hinted at future restrictions N.R.A. or anti-gun messages to pres- such as Bolle, Bushnell, Camel Bak, requiring manufacturers to stop mak- sure corporate public relations direc- Camp Chef, and Jimmy Styks being certain types of weapons and to tors. Fear of perceived negative pub- cause they are made by Vista Out- deny certain retailers shipments of lic opinion is sufficient to produce doors , a Utah-based firearm manufac- their firearms. The Amalgamated changes in policy toward firearm- turer. Another outdoor equipment Bank requires that its retail clients not related sales and the N.R.A. 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(Continued from page 14) good example of that, and it is a prob- were short $380 million dollars and that makes or sells “military style” lem. The state elections are now a nobody knows where the money went weapons for civilian use. part of the federal election process or how it was spent. According to Statistica, The and the petitions for candidates have Nobody seems to Statistic Portal, about forty-three per- to be carried and signed in the throes care. There doesn’t seem to be any cent of U.S. homes own at least one of winter. rush to find out or to at least run an firearm. That could translate into This is not a problem in the investigation on the subject. Those in over 100,000,000 firearm owners. city where the population is pretty charge must figure it is “business as We should all learn from the Progres- much condensed in high rise housing. usual” and nothing to cause con- sive Liberals. Even a handful of calls It is simple and convenient for those cern. Power and money are the rulers and emails have an impact on corpo- collecting signatures for candidates in Big Apple politics, and upstate rate America. We should “push endorsed by the party, making it easy residents can only shrug their shoul- back” against the misguided bullying and quick. ders and groan. actions of these businesses. Together For the upstate people who This brings up a subject that we should also use our “collective” get the petitions signed, it is an en- has been kicked around for dec- spending power to reward supporters tirely different matter. Most of the ades. The idea is that the state should of Second Amendment rights and people live in independent dwellings be split up like Virginia and West boycott those which help to weaken and the party carrier has to go door to Virginia were more than a century and destroy those rights! door to find people registered with the ago. This won’t happen now, because party to sign the documents. It isn’t the population in a state gives the —————————————— easy in the upstate environment. Peo- state political power in the federal ple don’t want to answer the door if government. No politician is willing they see a person with a clip board to give up power in a power grabbing Are Upstate citizens coming up what could be a snow system. filled driveway or sidewalk. There is however a bill being just subjects? They don’t want someone written to make New York three dif- By Budd Schroeder with snow on their feet to come into ferent districts for governing with one the house and they don’t want to being upstate New York, one being We are in the third month of stand in a cold doorway to sign a po- Long Island and the big piece of the state legislature banging out laws litical petition. In the good weather, it population of the Burroughs of New that are the priorities of Governor was much easier to find people will- York City and a couple of adjoining Andrew Cuomo. This means we, in ing to open their doors and sign the counties. It would not change the Upstate New York, are being sub- petition and often the person was al- functioning on a federal level regard- jects, rather than citizens. All legisla- ready outside mowing the lawn or just ing the number of senators and con- tion that is submitted by the Democ- enjoying the sunshine. gressmen and the influence there. rats gets passed because the Republi- Not many people will say However, it would make cans have virtually no voice in the that the upstate weather is pleasant in laws different for the sections of the lawmaking process. late winter and early spring. It takes state as it would be say, between New The Republicans lost the hardy and dedicated party people to York and New Jersey. What would majority in the Senate last year and endure the negatives to make it possi- be illegal in New York City would for all practical purposes are just fill- ble for the candidate to be on the bal- not necessarily be illegal in upstate or ing seats. Since the majority rules in lot. It takes a lot of effort and often Long Island. The laws regarding the the process, the Republicans do not sacrifices to get the necessary quota SAFE Act would be a good example have the same effect on changes or of signatures to run for an office. But of how it could work. new legislation being passed. The the new rules are easy for the Big In the City, guns are re- majority votes are within the New Apple and therefore all must obey. garded by most as being only for cops York City borders. Long Island is in For those citizens who live and security forces. They view gun that majority now as well. and work in the upstate counties, the possession as undesirable for citizens Those in the upstate coun- attitudes and political practices of and only criminals have them. Up- ties might as well consider themselves New York City seem strange, almost state attitudes are that guns are for to be given short shrift when it comes like another country. It is a different honest citizens and protected by the to legislation since whatever the NYC way of life and corruption takes on a Second Amendment of the Constitu- politicians want, they will pass the life of its own. A recent, short lived tion. laws that govern the whole state. The news article about an organization run new election laws and rules are a by the mayor’s wife said that they (Continued on page 16) Firing Lines page 16

if it was permitted by the school down. The court ruled that stun guns 2019, a year gun district. may not be banned, however the state may place restrictions on them. Stay owners in NY will Banning bump stocks. While not a tuned for the 2019 rollercoaster. not soon forget big thing it does set precedent for banning features and accessories. By Ralph Esposito (Continued from page 15)

Mandatory storage of all firearms The New York City politi- Yes with the loss of the NYS cians view the Constitution as an in- senate to total democrat control last owned in an approved gun safe convenience to their agenda and if not election, NY gun owners are starting destroyed, at least should be able to to feel the love from Governor Mandatory liability insurance if you own a gun. ignore. Upstate has an entirely differ- Cuomo and his minions. They have ent attitude and thinks gun control introduced and are in the process of Background checks for ammuni- should be focused on the criminal passing a number of new gun control misuse of firearms. When it comes to laws under the so called “SAFE Act tion. laws, we should know by now that 2.” These include: one size doesn’t fit all. Limits on ammunition purchases for some guns. Purchases will be Taxation by geography could Red Flag laws that could revoke be different and so could rules and your Second Amendment Rights if allowed only 3 times a year. Also limiting the amount purchased to regulations on businesses. Upstate you are suspected of being a risk to could have difficult unfunded man- yourself or others. This includes twice the guns capacity. dates removed or adjusted to meet reporting from your family doctor local demands and ability to afford. (s) or children's teachers. Banning guns made with the 3D printing technology. Assemblyman David DiPietro is working on this project. It Going from a 3 to 30 day waiting Some of these have passed deserves study and support. More periods for those who get a delay information will be forthcoming as it on a NICS check. With today's ex- others are going through committee now. With the democrats in control progresses. The state is in a horrible tensive data bases on all of us and condition of corruption and incompe- computer information retrieval 30 those that have not already passed stand a high likelihood of passing. tence. It needs changing and this days is excessive. could be a good first step. All is not lost as there are Prohibit teachers and other em- several lawsuits challenging specifics ployees from carrying licensed of the SAFE Act still in litigation. We handguns on school property even even had a win recently when the ban on stun guns in NYS was struck

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