Author Archives: Mike Centola

31 Crimes That Are Considered *Better* Than Having More Than 7 Rounds

As with the current NY SAFE Act, having more than 7 rounds of ammo in your magazine is defined as criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, a Class D Violent Felony. A felony is defined as a crime punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year. We consider these crimes [...]

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Obama’s 23 Executive Actions Towards Guns

Breaking News. President Obama formally proposed the most expansive gun-control policies yet, and initiated 23 separate executive actions. Require Background Checks on All Gun Sales Address unnecessary legal barriers in health laws that prevent some states from making information available about those prohibited from having guns Ensuring federal agencies share relevant information with the system. [...]

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SHOT Show 2013 Coverage Begins Next Week!!!

Once again we’ll be attending media day and walking the show next week for SHOT Show 2013!! Stay tuned as we provide coverage from Las Vegas for this year’s largest firearms show in the country!

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Christmas Eve Shooting in West Wester, NY

This morning in Webster, just outside of Rochester, four firefighters were shot when responding to the report of a structure fire just after 5:35 AM. Two of the four firefighters, Lt Mike Chiapperini and Tomasz Kaczowka, were fatally wounded. This is horrible news, and our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of [...]

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Daniel Defense Episode 1 Featuring Rob Pincus

I figure this is appropriate here because of Rob’s involvement in our site and training extensively in NY. This is the first in an eleven-week video series designed to introduce you to Daniel Defense, and provide practical tips and techniques to defend yourself, your family and home with your Daniel Defense M4 Carbine. Over the [...]

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New I.C.E. Training Website is Live

Rob Pincus, founder and managing editor at I.C.E. Training, is one of my personal friends and a big inspiration to many of us in the firearms training industry. He has spearheaded many aspects of training that you can find throughout a great deal of other curriculums out there. I wanted to pass this along that [...]

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NYFirearms.com Online Store Now Open!!!

At least a year and a half in the making, we finally managed to get an online store attached to this website. We have been planning and researching and planning and researching, and then we did some more planning after some research. Finally, we found a system that is going to work great for us [...]

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Firearms Appreciation Month 2012

Once again, this year, we’ll be celebrating Firearms Appreciation Month, September 2012! Another year in a row, we’re the #1 firearms blog/community website in NY, so we’re going to celebrate and promote firearms appreciation and awareness. We are going to be posting some great topics throughout the month, and even have some guest bloggers and [...]

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Support Joe DeBergalis!!

As many of you know, we, as in NYFirearms.com, as well as myself, personally, have supported NYSRPA (New York State Rifle & Pistol Association) for quite some time now. We’ve held raffles, advertised in their newsletter, and generally sent as many people towards them as we can. We truly believe in their organization. I personally [...]

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SHOT Show 2012 Coverage on NY Firearms!!!

Stay tuned for SHOT Show 2012 coverage starting tonight. We’ll be posting up all the pics and video from yesterday’s SHOT Show Media Day at the Range! For now, follow our twitter feed at @nyfirearms! We’ll be tweeting pics all day and all week long! Then each night we’ll be posting up a full day’s [...]

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Injured Operator Care Course – Feb 26 2012

Three of our sponsors are holding a class in Buffalo this February called Injured Operator Care. The class is taught by Ed of Pathfinder Operations, and it is going to be held on Feb 26th at Northtown Center, 1615 Amherst Manor Drive, Williamsville, NY 14221. It is hosted by VRI Tactical and FTWNY. Who Should [...]

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REVIEW: MDTS Carbine Retention & Combatives DVD

While I’m down here on vacation, I’ve been watching various firearms DVD’s so expect more of these reviews from me! Anyways, I watched this latest one from Personal Defense Network. PDN is one of the premier websites to find personal defense video and training. They offer many DVD installations of various training installments and more. [...]

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PFC Training in January

This January, NY Firearms will be sponsoring several classes offered by PFC aka Progressive F.O.R.C.E. Concepts. For those of you who don’t know who PFC is, Las Vegas based PFC is a training and instruction company that specializes in providing integrated small arms, physical defense and tactics instruction that is innovative, comprehensive and intense. To [...]

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NEShooters Summit 2012 Announced!

NEShooters has just announced their 2012 Summit. This year they will again have some of the best trainers and instructors in the industry. If you missed this last year, then now is your chance to plan early for it! What’s even better is that NYFirearms is an official sponsor of the event for 2012. What [...]

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Information Security

According to Wikipedia, Information Security means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction. Most people would take that definition on consider that it only relates to big networks, servers, computers and more. Unfortunately, so many people take this for granted, that it is not surprising [...]

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