Biden, Reciprocity, Stefanik and Hearing

 

Biden, Reciprocity, Stefanik and Hearing

2nd Amendment defenders should be happy that Joe Biden is riding – into - the – sunset and it’s probably best to forget Obama 2.0 as just a bad mistake.  Move on!  But in case anyone tries to rehabilitate his reputation on 2A matters (or his Vice President should reappear on national politics), here is a handy resource out of Ammoland, that covers their many anti-2A efforts.

An In-Depth Look at our Incompetent President’s Antigun Actions

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Reciprocity between states on gun carry is becoming a bigger deal and proposed bills are being introduced.  The upcoming edition of Firing Lines has a big article that explains the ins-and-outs of Reciprocity.

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Elise Stefanik is the Congresswoman for NY’s 21st Congressional District and President elect Trump has nominated her to be his Ambassador to the U N. 

She is off to a good start.  In November, she denounced the U.N. as a corrupt "den of antisemitism."  Trump is not a fan of the U N, so this could get interesting. 

However, with the Republican control of the House of Representatives so close, the election for her replacement will be critical to both parties.  She is not expected to resign her House seat until confirmed by the Senate.  Once confirmed and she resigns, Governor Kathy Hochul will have 10 days to schedule a special election in the following 70 to 80 days.  So, the 21st will have about three months without a Representative.

The 21st is rated a ‘solid’ to ‘safe’ Republican district and Stefanik won in November 215,996 to 132,447.

In lieu of a traditional primary election, the Republican and Democratic nominees will be internally selected by the party committee chairs for each of the district’s 15 counties. 

The issue is far from decided as GOP sources told the Albany Times Union that Assemblyman Chris Tague, former congressional candidate Liz Joy and Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin are currently the leading potential candidates.  The party chairs have also considered a range of New York Republicans, including NY State Senator Daniel Stec, former U.S. Senate nominee Joe Pinion, Rome businessman Joe Rutkowski, StickerMule CEO Anthony Constantino, Assemblyman Robert Smullen and Ogdensburg native Josh Parker.

All the leading candidates are considered strong supporters of Donald trump.

The Republican’s selection process is also politically tethered to the Conservative Party, whose chairs in the district are expected to try to align their selection with the GOP’s. 

Although a solidly Republican district, Democrats are hopeful that the tight timeline of the special election will help them make inroads.

Lynne Boecher, chair of the Warren County Democratic Party, said that the party chairs had interviewed 10 candidates for the nomination. They will soon be moving forward with a “select number” for follow-up interviews, 

One Democratic hopeful, Blake Gendebien, has already raised $265,000 toward his campaign. Gendebien runs a 1,000-acre dairy farm in St. Lawrence County and previously served on the Lisbon Central School Board. He joins 2024 NY-21 contender Paula Collins as a candidate for the nomination, as well as retired Army Lt. Col. Steven Holden, Jay town Councilman Knut Sauer, Middleburgh Mayor Timothy Knight and Clinton County educator Rod Driscoll. 

SCOPE will keep you informed on this important election as things start to sort out.

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Congressman Ben Cline (R-VA), joined by 38 additional House Members, reintroduced the Hearing Protection Act in the 119th Congress as H.R. 404.  NY Congresswoman Claudia Tenney is a co-sponsor.

The Hearing Protection Act would remove suppressors from the burdensome requirements of the National Firearms Act (NFA) and require purchasers to pass an instant NICS check.  This change will make it is easier for law-abiding hunters and sportsmen to access these hearing safety devices.

New York State is one of the few states where hearing suppressors (aka silencers) are illegal.

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Sorting out 2024 Sales-Shipping-Consignment Items Still up for Sale

 

                                 Back Yard Resident

  Well, deep subject; 2024 was a slow year for me sales wise shipments were 111-- 56 via UPS --55 USPS.

I had 50 new customers and 7 return folks.

State most shipped to was Texas with 13, the #2 state was California.  Yes CA stepped it up in 2024.

Postage cost were up again a good 6%- 

PMC Ammo cost went up another 2% Plenty of powder available however some of the old favorites pre plandemic are not being manufactured.  Hopefully once the Ukie supports is cut off American sport shooters will see price a decrease with more inventory.

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NY Governor Hochul Doubles Down on Conservative Name Calling

 

Last Minute Events Kathy Hochul says that if you vote Republican you are ”anti-woman” and “anti-American.”  Well, what else would she expect from people the Democrats call “garbage,” “Hitler”, “racist,” “fascist”, “deplorables,” who only cling to their “guns and bibles.”  Kamala Harris and the Democrats have been walking back positions they took over the last 4 years.  It’s difficult to tell where Harris stands on the 2nd Amendment, based on her contradictory statements.  I joke.  Actually, it’s not.  She will do everything possible to neuter the 2nd Amendment. Amongst the Democrat walk back positions is the border wall.  Politico, (of all places), reports:  “Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) once described the border wall as “a racist monument” and called for it to be torn down. Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) called it “stupid” and “useless.” Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) said a wall across the entire border would be “a gross waste of money.” Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pa.) called it “a silly idea.” “But all four Democrats — and several others who once opposed it —tout their commitment to border security and willingness to crack down on illegal immigration.” Could it be they are all in very contested elections and they are reading polls that indicate the vast majority of Americans disagree with these politicians’ stances on border security?  To be sure, you can count on their strong support for border security - until after the election. Harris maintains she will not ban fracking but her campaign committee says she will not approve permits – which are necessary to frack.    Proposition 1 on your ballot would add gender identity to the New York State Constitution.  Radical, left-wing activists are actively working to redefine what male and female mean. In July, H.R. 9218, the Defining Male and Female Act was introduced by Republicans in Congress. This bill would formally add the definition of “male” and “female” to the U.S. code, defining both by one’s biological sex.  HR 9218 would be in direct opposition to Proposition 1, if they both should pass. Democrats want to pass Proposition 1 while opposing HR9218.  Republicans oppose Proposition 1 and want to pass HR9218.  The Tuesday vote will determine where the country is going on the issue of boys becoming girls and using girls’ bathrooms and playing girls’ sports. Today, the NY State Regents is scheduled to lay out their plan for revised graduation requirements.  Students could qualify for diplomas by passing traditional Regents’ exams, or they could earn an occupational certificate or by volunteering for public service.  Currently, the state requires students to pass at least four exams — in English, math, history and the sciences, in order to graduate. It has been this way since 1865.  Under the new plan, passing exams would become optional. What better way to hide the failure of many government public schools, especially inner city public schools, than to do away with the measurement that demonstrates their failure. Illegal voting an issue?  In July, Congressional Republicans passed the SAVE Act, which would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. However, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not brought it to the floor for a vote. Last week, Republicans introduced the JAIL for Alien Voters Act, which would make it a felony for illegal aliens to vote. The Biden / Harris administration is responsible for distributing absentee ballots to military service members.  Military service members are complaining that they have not received enough absentee ballots to vote before Election Day.  Representative Brian Mast (R-FL) wrote, “Other service members also stated that when a request for a federal write-in absentee ballot was made, they were told the base’s stockpile of such ballots was depleted and had not been replenished." Democrats rabidly protect the right to vote, by destroying protections against illegal voting.  But they are considerably less rabid about military service members voting. Hey, priorities are priorities! And gun owners in NY will love this: The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic submitted a criminal referral to the Department of Justice, recommending that former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo be charged with making criminally false statements to Congress. Governor Cuomo made three criminally false statements under oath: That he was not involved in reviewing or drafting the New York State Department of Health Report, which was used to counter criticisms of his administration's nursing home policies during the pandemic. That he had no discussions about a peer review of the New York State Department of Health Report. That he had no knowledge of any external individuals outside the New York State Department of Health reviewing the Report. Attorney General Merrick Garland has aggressively gone after anyone associated with Donald Trump who could be accused of making false statements or even the most minor infraction.  Will he pursue Cuomo? The mainstream media is ardently anti-Trump.  But they are no longer as meaningful as they would wish.  Joe Rogan’s interview with Donald Trump has been viewed at least 42 million times on YouTube. That number does not include people watching/listening on Spotify or X, where the interview is also available. DONATE HERE S.C.O.P.E. Shooters Committee On Political Education https://scopeny2a.org/

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PRESS AND PROTESTS SHOULD CHALLENGE DEM CRIME REFORMS

 

PRESS AND PROTESTS SHOULD CHALLENGE DEM CRIME REFORMS

- by Bob Lonsberry 2024

When you call the police, they come.

But now the police have called us, and we should come.

On Friday, in the lobby of the Public Safety Building, Chief Dave Smith of the Rochester Police Department lingered somewhere between rage and heartbreak, thundering in exasperation and emotional fatigue about one more crime and one more death and one more illustration of the fact the laws and lawmakers of the state of New York are on the side of the criminals.

This involved Thomas Chase, a 92-year-old retired college professor who spent the last 30 years as a volunteer piano player at a nursing home. Chief Smith leaned into the wreckage of Mr. Chase’s car on Thursday, his lifeblood still flowing from his shattered body, and recited the Lord’s Prayer as a service at his passing.

Mr. Chase’s car had been hit by a 17-year-old blowing like hell down East Avenue in a stolen Kia.

It was the 17-year-old and two confederates and 10 minutes before they had been one side of a shootout on Maria Street. Between then and the moment of impact there had been a car change – from one stolen Kia to another – an attempt to ram a police officer, and the headlong sprint away from the screaming blue and whites.

And then the crash into a sainted elderly man the next town over.

And that was pretty sad. But, with more than 30 years on the job, Chief Smith has seen dead people before. And with his Christian faith and the cross on his uniform denoting his chaplain training, he’s prayed for victims before.

But this was different.

Because this vehicular homicide had so many accomplices. The governor, the speaker, the majority leader, Harry Bronson, Jeremy Cooney, Samra Brouk, Jen Lunsford, Demond Meeks, Sarah Clark, and all their co-conspirators in the state capital. All have blood on their hands. All the way to their elbows. They had a part in killing Thomas Chase, and in victimizing hundreds of others who were slain, raped, beaten or robbed by criminals freed and empowered by the “criminal-justice reforms” of the Democratic Party.

That 17-year-old? The one behind the wheel and behind the crime? He is a parolee – already, at 17 – who was arrested a dozen times in Rochester alone last year for stealing cars and smashing them into businesses to steal and loot. His most recent arrest was for another stolen car in the Buffalo area four weeks ago.

He has been arrested over and over and over by the police, and turned loose over and over and over by the politicians. Raise the Age, a specific piece of legislation pushed by the governor, speaker, majority leader and every member of the local Democratic delegation to the state legislature, removed him as a juvenile from any sort of real accountability. Bail Reform, a specific piece of legislation pushed by the governor, speaker, majority leader and every member of the local Democratic delegation to the state legislature, turned him loose repeatedly with nothing more than an appearance ticket. Less is More, a specific piece of legislation pushed by the governor, speaker, majority leader and every member of the local Democratic delegation to the state legislature, made it virtually impossible for his parole to be violated, even when he was charged with subsequent felony crimes.

And so he was free.

The politicians set him free.

To get in a shootout on Maria Street, to almost smash into a cop, to kill a kindly retired professor in Brighton.

And Chief Smith stood there on Friday in the lobby of the Public Safety Building fit to be tied.

He was calling for help.

And it’s our time to answer.

The direct moral culpability of specific local and state politicians must be acknowledged and protested – by the people and the press.

Dog-and-pony show appearances in the Rochester region by the governor, speaker and majority leader should be protested loudly. Let every ribbon cutting, airport press conference and glory-seeking stop by any member of this troika of lawlessness be met with pickets and protests.

And let the local press stop being lapdogs for politicians who treat them like PR functionaries. At every appearance by visiting office holders, and at every press event or public appearance of Jeremy Cooney, Samra Brouk, Harry Bronson, Demond Meeks, Jen Lunsford and Sarah Clark, let local reporters have the courage to make every question be about criminal-justice reform. If the people, sheriff, chiefs, district attorney and activists decry the carnage imposed by these reforms, why are reporters not persistent in pressing those in power on the issue?

If the press is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, no one is more comfortable, powerful, privileged or elite in this community than those who have voted to support the laws which killed Thomas Chase and others across Rochester.

This is not a partisan undertaking – math and mail-ins assure that Democrats will win every countywide and state legislative election in Monroe County for generations to come – so the press wouldn’t be hurting the Democratic Party, with which it is apparently allied, but it would be helping the people of Rochester, which whom it should be allied.

It’s time to go Ida Tarbell and Jacob Riis on this subject. Neglect by the elites – through poisonous legislation – victimizes the people of Rochester, who are disproportionately poor and non-white. Somebody should stand up for them.

And somebody should answer the call of the police.

They did their job. Over and over and over. And Thomas Chase still ended up dead.

It’s time to answer the call.

Protest all visits of senior state officials to Rochester, and make every public appearance by Democratic state legislators a press conference on criminal-justice reforms.

It’s time all of us – the people and the press – were fit to be tied.

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Roy Stroh 50 cal Flintlock Swamped 46" Barrell

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Beautiful wood reddish stain

Roy made this rifle for an older gentleman I shoot with when he lived in NE Georgia a few years back.

Shot to sight in and one woods walk

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OAL 61-½+_

LOP 13-½+_

46"+- Barrel nice brown Swamped 

Breech 1.012

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Muzzle 8.67

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