Donation: $2.50 Official journal of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, the state’s official NRA affiliate Vol. 60 No. 3 USPS 996-700 June 2021 NYSRPA Lawsuit Goes to Supreme Court Your Board of Directors President Women in the Brian Olesen Chairman of Cowboy Action Shooting Sports 1702 Central Ave. Shooting Committee Tom King Albany, NY 12205 713 Columbia Turnpike Chairperson Phone: (518) 817-2223 Dave Meyer PO Box 278 70 Rosemont Drive East Greenbush, NY 12061 Jackie Emslie J. Scott Sommavilla Amherst, NY 14226 Phone: (518) 272-2654 17 Corlies Ave. Westchester, NY Phone: (716) 838-4286 Fax: (518) 274-4972 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (914) 747-5001 [email protected] Phone: (914) 475-4901 [email protected] [email protected] Advertising Sales Manager Treasurer Past Presidents Carl Gottstein Directors 713 Columbia Turnpike Brenda Leder Robert Kamholtz PO Box 278 PO Box 278 Charlie Beers III 4123 Osage Lane East Greenbush, NY 12061 East Greenbush, NY 12061 Glenville, NY Phone: (518) 469-5312 Ormond Beach, FL 32174 Phone: (518) 470-7874 Phone: (518) 272-2654 Fax: (518) 274-4972 [email protected] [email protected] Tor y Brainard [email protected] John Butcher 3105 Schindler Drive Secretary Lockport, NY Pearl River, NY 10965 General Information Stephen D. Kraynak Phone: (518) 272-2654 th Dr. Robert Cornute (518) 272-2654 1120 7 Ave. [email protected] James Collins 33 Locust Grove Road Watervliet, NY 12189 www.nysrpa.org [email protected] 177 Violet Ave. Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Floral Park, NY 11001 Phone: (516) 775-6597 Charles J. Meyer Smallbore 158 Willow Lane Scotia, NY 12302 Charles J. Meyer John Cushman 158 Willow Lane 107 Truberg Ave. Scotia, NY 12302 Patchogue, NY 11772 Willard E. Doughty Phone: (518) 265-3555 Phone: (631) 475-8125 9221 Leatherstone Lane [email protected] [email protected] Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526 Marie D’Amico Pistol Phone: (518) 272-2654 Stephen D. Kraynak [email protected] 1120 7th Ave. Watervliet, NY 12189 John Greene [email protected] PO Box 278 East Greenbush, NY 12061 (914) 804-0158 High Power Chairperson [email protected] George W. Kline 6 Carrie Lane Glenn Hancock Nanuet, NY 10954 57 Wardell St. Phone: (917) 709-3691 Adams, NY 13605 [email protected] Phone: (315) 408-7340 Junior Chairperson Liz Joy [email protected] Jennifer Schmitt 713 Columbia Turnpike Maria Mann PO Box 278 Port Jervis East Greenbush, NY 12061 [email protected] Phone: (716) 397-4378 [email protected] Tel: (518) 272-2654 2 BULLET magazine Contents June 2021 Vol. 60 No. 3 Your Board of Directors ...........................................2 President’s Message ...............................................4 Big Networks Needed in our Future ..................................5 Increase In Firearms Ownership Among Women .......................6 Collector’s Corner ................................................8 Long Island Director ............................................10 Opinion: The Road We Could Have Taken ..........................12 NYSRPA Endorsements for the NRA Board of Directors. 13 Self-Defense: On the False Security of “Safe Spaces” ................... 14 New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Corlett ...............16 Congratulations Brenda Leder ....................................20 NYSRPA 2021 Directors Election Ballot ............................23 Will You Join Us at The NRA Annual Meeting and Convention? ........ 24 Member Clubs .................................................26 Notes from Brenda .............................................29 NYSRPA Individual Application ..................................30 Deadline for submissions for the August issue of Bullet magazine is: June 21, 2021 The Bullet (USPS # 996-700) is published 6 times a year (February, April, June, August, October, December) by the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, 713 Columbia Turnpike, East Greenbush, NY 12061. Periodicals Postage Paid at East Greenbush, NY and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Bullet, 713 Columbia Turnpike, East Greenbush, NY 12061. NYSRPA is a nonprofit organization affiliated with the National Rifle Association—for the purpose of promoting safety and education in the sport of shooting and hunting. The Bullet is sent to members of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association (fair market value: $5 per year or $1 per copy.) Published in the U.S. by PIA Management Services Inc., 25 Chamberlain St., Glenmont, NY 12077-0977. Postmaster send change of address forms to: 713 Columbia Turnpike, PO Box 278, East Greenbush, NY 12061. The official journal of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association 3 President’s Message by Tom King Readers this President’s Message is As more information becomes going to be a little different. It will be available, we will update you via divided into two distinct segments. So, our MeWe page and email alerts. here goes: Please keep in mind that these NYSRPA v. Corlett legal challenges are extremely expensive and your financial and I think everyone probably has social support of the NRA and heard that the NYSRPA’s lawsuit NYSRPA is much needed and has been granted certiorari by greatly appreciated. Thank you for the U.S. Supreme Court, but the your support! details after that are ever changing Social media depending on who you are listening to or reading. Here are the facts as As I write this, I cannot believe known at this time: the lack of support for MeWe as • The case will most likely be an alternative to Facebook, Twitter argued in September or October. and the like by gun owners and conservatives. Remember Facebook • A decision will be announced has de-platformed many conservative sometime later. voices, gun groups and most our efforts and intimidate anyone who • The attorney arguing the case will importantly President Trump. A has the courage to stand against them? be Paul Clement, a former U.S. month before the presidential election, Is $2 per month for MeWe too much solicitor general and partner in Facebook notified Carl Gottstein and money to support a platform that the firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP. me that our pages were being taken allows freedom of the press for those • The case originally was filed in down for failure to meet community that want to express the truth? 2018 (#20-843) standards. However, it never told us It is time to dump Facebook and what standards were violated, and it • There are opinions regarding the Twitter for platforms that allow us ignored our requests for appeal. A few result and the position of the to speak our mind and publish our days ago, Facebook announced that Supreme Court—opinions are thoughts. not facts. it was upholding the ban of President Trump and it was a lifetime ban. Please support MeWe and Parler and • The NRA was partnering with keep your eyes open for President Readers, what is wrong with us? Why the NYSRPA to make this Trump’s new platform. Help them do we continue to support people who hearing before the Supreme grow! Reestablish freedom of speech in do everything in their power to subvert Court possible. social media. Valad Electric Heating Corp. Arthur Cecchini 65 Leonards Dr., Montgomery, NY 12549 (914) 631-4927 4 BULLET magazine Big Networks Needed in our Future by Charlie Beers No. The headline of this article isn’t pins, odd ball reloading dies, carbon arc as the sun slips below the Sangre de referencing Ted Turner or some other cutting rod, gasket sets, recoil springs Cristo Mountains. In mid-February media mogul. I mean networks, such as and even a spare mail box. of 2021, I found myself dressing for MASH 4077 Radar O’Reilly’s kind of I have been blessed in life and travel. work when a friend from Whittington network. For example, once, when I was in called. She was broken down in Do you have those people in your life Ithaca, N.Y., I realized I didn’t have Canyon, Texas. She asked me, who, like Radar, could trade three half my wallet. I was unable to wire myself “Charlie, don’t we know someone gallons of Rocky Road ice cream for a money, and I had no cash or credit here?” Sure enough, we did and her condenser and point set for a Model A cards on top of my nearly empty tank problems were solved in two phone Ford? In a world of interrupted supply of gas. A young female bank teller calls. chains, social media and web hosting lent me her own cash. She was repaid As we wonder what comes next with bans and hoarding we cannot have the following day in abundance. I COVID-19, the economic volatility large enough networks. have traded aircraft sparkplugs for and even our ability to worship and I grew up among farmers, union beer in Talkeetna, Ark. And, a week’s meet in groups, I remain certain that workers and Adirondackers. All three long problem while on an off-shore our challenges are far from over. I groups know how to save, barter and tugboat was solved when I called the believe that networks of friends are the connect. I have been blessed with owner of the former engine warehouse great force multiplier in life, as valuable network role models since I could scale in Schenectady, N.Y. I was able to as a winch or come-along when you are my crib. I have two uncles, who were second-day air ship the last OEM wallowed in the mud. As I spoke with GM mechanics on Long Island, who fuel injector pump kits on the planet a friend in Texas during the February can source any part or skill for whatever to Port Fourchon, La., because of a ice storm, I was reminded of the you have in trade. Maybe if I am ever carpenter who had apprenticed under power of networks. A retired dentist, fortunate enough to need a paint job on my grandfather.