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Category Archives: News
NYSRPA Membership drive
NYSRPA, the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, is having a membership drive with some great prizes including a custom made CQC-S exotic skin holster from Alessi Gun Holsters. For each person you sign up you’ll receive a chance to win. NYSRPA is a great organization that looks out for our interests as firearm [...]
SCOPE proposal for renewable pistol licenses
I was taken aback by an email I received today. It included a proposal from SCOPE that supports renewable pistol licenses. In the email SCOPE justifies the view by saying “Based on the high probability of the passage of one or both of these bills, which we feel it is not realistic to blanketly oppose, [...]
New York Sportsmen’s Outreach Day – January 12, 2010
Every year the New York Senate Majority Conference has an “anti-gun day” in Albany. This year Senate Minority Leader Brian Kolb and NYSRPA are sponsoring an outreach day to advocate the Second Amendment. New York’s sportsmen are invited to participate in the outreach day on January 12th, 2010 . NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre [...]
Gillibrand and McCarthy’s gun control bill
Kirsten Gillibrand’s website has a press release regarding proposed legislation to curb “illegal gun trafficking” into New York. The press release has quotes from a lot of public officials in New York including the mayors of Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, Binghamton and Buffalo and Monroe County DA Mike Green.
Take a look at this blog post on [...]
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News article on increased hunting and fishing license fees
The Democrat and Chronicle published a long article regarding the increased fees for sporting licenses which took effect on October 1, 2009. The fee increase isn’t anything new and was previously reported on in our blog here before the fee increase was final.
Rockland county man wins appeal after gun confiscation
A Rockland County man surrendered 3 handguns, 3 rifles, a shotgun and shooting accessories to the sheriff’s department pursuant to a temporary order of protection as he went through a divorce in early 2002. When he returned to claim his property in mid-2006 he learned that his property had been destroyed. Last week the appellate [...]
Sales of GSG-5 rifles to cease by 1/31/10
H&K had filed an infringement lawsuite against German Sport Guns GmbH and its U.S. distributor, American Tactical Imports, Inc. The suit and all counterclaims have recently been settled.
Terms of the settlement are that production and import of the GSG-5 rifle cease by 10/9/2009 and all remaining units can be sold until 1/31/2010.
If you want a [...]
Rochester Personal Defense in the news
I was sitting in the automotive shop waiting for my car to get some new tires and watching the news in their lobby this afternoon. I looked up and who do I see on the TV??… Dave Jenkins of Rochester Personal Defense.
Read the article here. There is a video of the segment on the website.
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Mossberg 930 SPX: Shotgun of the year
O.F. Mossberg and Sons was recently awarded the Shooting Industry Academy of Excellence 2009 Shotgun of the Year award for the Mossberg 930 SPX (Special Purpose Extreme). The shotgun is similar in function to Mossberg’s other 900 series autoloaders and features a 7+1 shot capacity with a Choate magazine extension, 18.5″ cylinder bore barrel, LPA [...]
Welcome to the new NYFirearms.com
I’m sure you’ve already noticed the recent changes. We’ve upgraded our forum software and revised the look of the blog to match. We hope this makes for a better experience for all of our users. If this is your first visit please sign up for the discussion forum and join our community.
Rome Daily Sentinel editorial on guns recovered in Mexico
The Rome, NY Daily Sentinel published an editorial on President Obama’s comment that ninety percent of the firearms recovered in Mexico are traced back to The United States.
A link to the editorial can be found HERE.
Obama’s 15 words
“More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States”
Those 15 [...]
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9th Circuit Court: 2nd Amendment incorporated to states
In Nordyke v. King the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has ruled that the Second Amendment is incorporated against the states and local governments. The ruling was written by Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain with a concurring opinion from Judge Ronald M. Gould. The suit was originally brought about in an attempt [...]
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Utica mayor, David R. Roefaro, to get tough on guns
In his state of the city address, David R. Roefaro, the mayor of Utica, NY declared war on illegal guns. Although the intent is noble, the method will likely trample the right of law abiding gun owners. Some quotes to note from his address include saying that guns are a “gateway to drugs and a [...]
Posted in News Tagged guns, illegal, Mayors against illegal guns, politics, state of the city, Tihart, Utica 1 Comment
GSG-5 fake suppressors now ATF regulated