Guns, guns, guns
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It’s regular whitetail deer hunting season in the North Country. The Watertown Daily Times reports that the DEC is issuing 35,000 Deer Management Permits to hunters who didn’t get licenses earlier this fall. And if you’re curious, Mountain Lake PBS can tell you the difference between antlers and horns.
The Albany Times Union reports that the state may not be ready to start conducting background checks on people who buy ammunition by January 15th. The background check is part of the New York Safe Act, the major gun law passed last year. State officials told the Times Union that the date is a “placeholder.”
A man from Tennessee was arrested at JFK when he tried to check in for a flight with two pistols, two magazines, and two .22 rifles. Here’s the New York Times story.
And the NY Daily News reports on guns for sale on Instagram.
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“Placeholder,” huh? Some law. Now we are at the mercy of arbitrary, capricious regulations and governments that feel free to ignore niceties like dates and definitions. What is the point of regulations and programs that do not work? Laws in a well governed country aren’t based on “it’s a good idea and we’ll work out the details later,” especially when lives and liberties may be at stake.
I don’t think that any of those “antlers” in the picture are from animals that lived in NYS.
Larry, it is like the federal government. Ooops! Well we can just delay as necessary.
Did they have to delay the civil rights laws or the Americans with Disability’s Act? Maybe they did, anyone? Our government is quickly losing its competence and folks will lose confidence in it in the process. Sad no matter what side of the aisle you sit on. If a law is smart and makes sense it works.
Sarah, Why the title? The two gun stories are gun related but hunting season isn’t really about guns unless you are a non-hunter.
Surprised I have not heard any stories here on the shortage of ammunition in many popular categories of hunting ammo. I stopped into the Blue Line in Saranac Lake this past Friday (I prefer to shop there rather than the big chain stores on my way up north) to get some ammo and they didn’t have what I wanted and barely had anything. Weird. What is going on?
Looks like it is just goo old demand:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2013/10/20/is-the-obama-administration-the-cause-of-gun-ammunition-shortages/
“Scott Blackwell, president of Freedom Group, an American firearms manufacturer holding company that includes Remington, Bushmaster and DPMS, said, “Most of the ammunition we make at Remington goes to the consumer market. Our supplies, therefore, haven’t been affected by government contracts. It’s clear to us that any lack of supply in the marketplace has been from consumer demand for our quality products. To meet this increased demand we’re investing and growing.”
Remington Arms Company announced it’s spending $32 million to expand its Remington Ammunition Plant in Lonoke, Ark. The expansion includes the construction of a new building. The expansion is projected to be in operation by the second quarter of 2014.”
Also this:
“There are now more than 5 million women participating in the shooting sports, an increase of 46.5 percent since 2001. The number of gun owners in America surpassed 100 million a few years ago, according to the NRA. Reportedly, NRA membership now exceeds 5 million. More gun owners means more ammo being shot.”
There was a run on ammo after Newtown and the SAFE Act, a lot of stores in New York ran very low in January and February. I haven’t checked in a while — maybe it’s still that, or maybe there’s something new going on.
“Guns, Guns Guns”
That title describes the anti-gun tone loud and clear, along with the two unrelated gun stories which have absolutely nothing to do with responsible hunters who go through the legal hoops to hunt and shoot safely and legally.
If you really want to snark about too many guns in the US, start with the US government agencies like DHS who have armored vehicles, automatic weapons, and hollow point bullets, all for domestic use.
Brian Mann had a nice story on what hunting is about yesterday.
Ron, I don’t think there are too many guns in the US and I am glad that DHS has the things you listed.