New York Gun Control Fails

Another mass shooting, more media BS.

You probably heard that the Buffalo chumbucket is a right-wing white supremacist. From what I’ve heard, I’m willing to buy the white supremacist part, but right-wing?

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“I would prefer to call myself a populist. But you can call me an ethno-nationalist eco-fascist national socialist if you want, I wouldn’t disagree with you.” He also repeatedly attacks capitalists, and rejected the conservative label because, he wrote, “conservativism is corporatism in disguise, I want no part of it.”

An eco-fascist national socialist? Doesn’t sound very right-wing.

Of course, reports have it that he used an evil AR-15 assault weapon.

Again, not so much.

The UK Independent reports on Sunday morning the New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced the gun was acquired legally.

ABC 7 indicated the attacker used a rifle which was purchased at a store in Broome County, New York.

A lawful, commercial purchase (not a private sale) in New York means the weapon was NY SAFE compliant; that is, not an assault weapon. Reports do claim he had noncompliant magazines holding more than 10 rounds.

Interesting that some asshole was able to lawfully purchase that gun…

…considering that, as is becoming all too common, he was previously known to authorities. It seems that he threatened to kill people at his high school, and was “Baker Acted*” less than a year ago.

But no seems to have thought of using New York’s “red flag” law to supposedly keep him disarmed while he wandered the streets unsuperised. Thus, he could still lawfully purchase his murder weapon.

Where are we at?

  • Assault weapon ban didn’t work.
  • “High capacity” magazine ban didn’t work.
  • Red flag law didn’t work.
  • And since the red flag law didn’t work, neither did the point-of-sale NICS background check.

Clearly this calls for more gun control that won’t work. And maybe some more censorship laws… that won’t work either.


* Technically, “Baker Act” refers to the Florida law allowing people to be taken in for a mental health evaluation, but every state — including New York — has the equivalent. I find it helpful to use the general term “Baker Act” for them all.

 

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2 thoughts on “New York Gun Control Fails”

  1. NY is a piss-ant fifedom (does not make the top 25 in U.S. land area). NYC is a shi7-sliver of that. And it doesn’t matter what its population is, they can pack another umptillion illegal aliens within their borders and it won’t represent another square inch of AMERICA, or its values.

    NY’s problem is NY’ers who haven’t told their idyet aywhole neighbors who needed a job (their “gov’t”) to pack their shi7 and go home. Those idyet neighbors asked for the job to “serve” their constituency, and instead they attempt to “rule”, and claim that they can and do “protect” their constituency, and they are dead wrong on all counts.

  2. Let’s say the ‘shooter’ was an adult (21+ years of age) and not otherwise a “prohibited” purchaser / possessor of a fully-automatic belt-fed machine gun.

    Let’s say that person had the means to purchase such a weapon and completed and submitted the ATF&E’s Form with appropriate fees.

    Let’s say, the ATF&E approves the purchase and the person goes down to their local gun store to pick up their purchase, and they also purchase 100K rounds of ammo.

    If that person went out to their car, and dialed the FBI offices in D.C., and told whoever answered the phone that he was driving there (from NY) to “shoot everyone there”, he would likely be able to accomplish that before that information made it through the proper channels to anyone who could interdict him.

    Long story short, the NICS system is an “honor system”, it assumes everyone using it has honor, and relies WHOLLY upon that honor. Any federal or local agency enforcing such matters is only there for clean up and paperwork AFTER THE FACT. And that should be printed in bold letters at the top of every form 4473.

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