Brickbat: Don't Take Your Guns to Town

David Riley, commander of the American Legion Department of New York, said the group has asked lawmakers for clarification of a new state law banning firearms from "sensitive locations" such as public parks, museums and sports fields. He said the language of the law would seem to ban veterans groups from firing the traditional three-volley salute during patriotic events and veterans funerals. Some historical re-enactors have expressed concern about the law's impact on their use of firearms during re-enactments. In a statement, the office of Gov. Kathy Hochul said those groups are misreading the law and their concerns are misplaced.

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[Adans smith]

So the law is working as intended.

[SQRLSY One]

Can you say "arbitrary and capricious law enforcement"? (That pleases the King's Men just fine and dandy.)

[Fist of Etiquette]

In a statement, the office of Gov. Kathy Hochul said those groups are misreading the law and their concerns are misplaced.

Go ahead and print that statement out and give it to law enforcement when they come for you. I'm sure prosecutors and courts will honor it as well.

[Quicktown Brix]

Translation: You are too dumb to understand. Shut up and be ruled.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

I foresee another SCOTUS decision in Hochul's future. One that, again, goes badly for her.

[flag58]

Some people see that as a badge of honor.

[sarcasmic]

I used to work across the street from a cemetery. Those volleys get real old, real fast.

[Don't look at me!]

It’s awful getting roused from a drunken stupor when they honor a dead veteran.

[Agammamon]

Everything is a problem for you. Get a grip.

[John F. Carr]

Massachusetts once accidentally banned the annual ceremony commemorating the Battle of Lexington and Concord because the historic muskets did not have trigger locks. Lawmakers were embarrassed and amended the law to exempt antiques.

[mpercy]

Many reenactors have recently-made rifles that are manufactured to look like antiques or even operate as an antique would, but the rifles are not antiques.

[Ecoli]

New Yorkers don't need three guns to salute. A standard middle finger salute works fine.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

And then there's the Bronx salute

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Some historical re-enactors have expressed concern about the law's impact on their use of firearms during re-enactments. In a statement, the office of Gov. Kathy Hochul said those groups are misreading the law and their concerns are misplaced.

Yeah, just like the Washington law that says any transfer of a firearm is illegal without a background check. The supporters noted that people who said, "So I can no longer transfer any of my firearms?" and they responded, "No, you misread the law based on the definition of transfer we secretly keep in our heads".

[psmoot]

If The Orange Man can declassify documents by merely thinking it, the governor of Washington can decide what transfers are legal by just thinking it too.

[mpercy]

Government in action, folks.

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Federal authorities are investigating after a couple in Houston, Texas who purchased a lot of 100 gun cases from a military surplus website ended up with a surprise inside one of the boxes: fully automatic M16 rifles.

The couple say they assumed they were buying empty rifle cases, and were hoping to turn around flip the products on eBay, but when they were going through the cases after they’d been delivered, a friend cracked open one of the boxes and discovered it was chock full of select-fire rifles.

The couple found at least a dozen fully automatic M16s designed strictly for military use.

Not sure what to do, they reported it to authorities.

Within hours, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seized the single box and quickly got a search warrant for the storage unit containing 100 more. Experts were shocked by what they found.

“It’s almost surreal to believe something like that happen nowadays. It’s incredible,” said retired Houston police captain and former Marine Greg Fremin. “It’s unbelievable to think weapons of that grade, military-grade weapons, would be shipped in containers would be shipped across state lines and somebody have access to that. It’s pretty shocking,”

Fremin says the military carefully tracks all its weapons, because any misplaced weapons can be extremely dangerous.

https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2022/09/27/texas-couple-who-ordered-surplus-gun-cases-get-fully-automatic-surprise-n62723?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&recip=4474886

[WuzYoungOnceToo]

Man, I never find any cool extra surprises in the stuff I buy.

[The Obsolete Man]

Wouldn't it be easier to make everything illegal and let the government decide who deserves prosecution? Oooohh....

[Davedave]

A perfect example of why gun regulations are needed. Gun nuts just can't be trusted to make sensible decisions for themselves, like, y'know, not planning events involving a) joe public and b) firearms.

It really is this simple: people who can't be trusted to behave like sensible, rational adults don't get the freedoms we give to sensible, rational adults.

The gun nuts have demonstrated that they are, as a group, not sensible, rational adults. Nor are they even trying to police their own via education and social pressure. Nope, nope, nope. You don't get to play with guns anymore because you've repeatedly shown that you will behave like spoilt children when doing so.

If you don't want gun controls enshrined in law, then for god's sake get a grip on things by yourselves. You're leaving no option.

[docduracoat]

They are not misreading the law.
New York’s draconian new gun law, instituted after the Supreme Court “Beuen” decision, clearly states no firearms allowed in public parks or any sensitive location.
So no civil war re enactment and no veteran salutes.
This law will be struck down as well, and then N Y will pass a similar one in a game Of whack a mole.
New York is in open rebellion against the Supreme Court.
And the executive branch is ignoring it