At 11:30am today State Senators Zellnor Myrie, Brad Hoylman-Sigal, and Julia Salazar and Assemblyman Demond Meeks will join New Yorkers Against Gun Violence and other gun control advocates at a rally, Million Dollar Staircase, Third floor, state Capitol, Albany.
From a legislative, political and public relations standpoint they do nothing for New York. It's not that they can't. They see 2A as a partisan issue and absolutely, positively will not talk with Democrats.
They have some value with legal actions, but I think either SAF or FPC could easily...
Nope.
The only reason for the BoD keeping Wayne and his cronies around at this point has to be because they believe getting rid of him and cleaning house would be more damaging to the NRA corporation and to BoD members themselves. Something very big has not yet come to light.
A second bill has been to the City Council requiring the NYPD establish a so-called gun buy-back program, INT 916-2023.
The wording is a little different from INT 892-2023 which was introduced a few weeks ago.
Next week's legislative agenda:
S-1212 , Establishes environmental standards for ambient lead and lead contamination, advanced to 2nd Reading. No companion.
Joint public hearing for Assembly and Senate Codes, Corrections and Judiciary committees Monday January 30 @ 10:00am .
Assembly...
Nassau Co. Legislator Joshua Lafazan took at shot a County Executive Bruce Blakeman in his most recent presser:
Here is a draft of the mandatory storage bill.
New York City INT 892-2023, This bill would require the Police Department to establish a monthly gun buy-back program, whereby individuals may voluntarily and anonymously surrender to the department a working or non-working unloaded gun or parts thereof, in exchange for a sum of money to be...
S-929, Relates to limiting ammunition for assault weapons to two times the capacity of an authorized weapon over a one hundred twenty day period, has the enacting clause stricken. The bill is dead.