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End of Gun Ownership in NY?

Not quite but according to Mike Kubow and George Rogero of the (NY) Orange County Shooters, it's getting close:

NY has some of the most repressive gun laws of any state including an Assault Weapons Ban and registration of all handguns but that is not good enough for anti-gun Sheldon Silver, and anti-gun rights groups. Several bills, some written by gun haters from Washington D. C. and California, have passed the NY Assembly that would have a severe impact on gun owners and close all gun stores in NY.

One bill requires all gun stores to close if they do not have a million dollar insurance policy that does not exist and will never be offered by insurance companies. Another bill requires that guns have a 10 lb trigger pull but the worse bill is the new “Assault Weapons Ban” that would require registration of many common rifles and shotguns and end the sale of new firearms that fit this very broad definition and totally ban many competition handguns.

How broad is this definition? So broad that handguns used in Olympic Competition would be declared “Assault Weapons” and illegal to possess even if you already own these guns. These are not cheep, high capacity big caliber guns that are banned. These are 22 caliber competition guns costing more than two thousand dollars that only hold 5 rounds and are too big and heavy to use for concealed carry. It is as silly as calling a javelin or shot-put used in Olympic competition an “Assault Weapon.”

Their goal is not to control gun crime because the bills do not punish criminals; in fact Sheldon Silver deleted death penalty language from a recent bill that punished criminals who kill police. Their goal is to end all private gun ownership one-step at a time. When NY’s AWB passed it was only anti-gun people like NY Senator Schneiderman who said: " I am disappointed that this bill doesn't do more." ... There are a lot of nasty weapons ... that we should be banning."