Here’s an idea: Read the bills you sign into law
Cuomo is backtracking from SAFE:
A Cuomo administration source is flatly denying the governor’s claim that his new anti-gun SAFE Act was carefully drafted, saying the governor himself wasn’t even aware of some provisions when it was hastily enacted into law.
“The governor thought the limit on the size of [gun] magazines would only apply to assault-style rifles, not to handguns,’’ said the source.
“That’s why there’s the big problem now with handguns, among other things in the statute.’’
The legal sale of virtually all semiautomatic handguns will soon be impossible because Cuomo’s law limits the size of bullet-holding magazines to seven shots, virtually none of which are manufactured for sale.
“Much of what’s in the law was drafted by people connected to Mayor Bloomberg and the Brady Center, not by the governor’s staff,” the source said. “That’s why there are so many problems with it.’’
He got his marching orders from Bloomy and the Brady Bunch, I guess.
March 27th, 2013 at 2:50 am
I guess they never heard of a seven round mag for a 1911.
March 27th, 2013 at 9:59 am
I guess you never heard of the word “virtually.”
March 27th, 2013 at 1:26 pm
Would be interesting if it was required that a bill be read aloud before any vote on the bill. I bet most of them would be rather short.
March 27th, 2013 at 5:30 pm
This is good news, actually.
It means that Cuomo is looking at the end of his political ambitions over this law. Right now, he’s doing some furious CYA, punting the blame to Bloomberg and the Brady people.
The short of it: even in NY, gun control is a loser, and Cuomo is looking to save himself. His mistake was believing the garbage emanating from the NYT and relying on political advice from Bloomberg.
He miscalculated — badly — and he’s looking for patsies.
March 27th, 2013 at 7:47 pm
I sure hope someone in NYS goes after the lot as the elections come around simply asking voters
Do you really won’t an elected official who panics so easily in the face of, well, no crisis? What can we expect when real leadership is needed? Perhaps we should ask the victims of Sandy?
March 27th, 2013 at 9:54 pm
I wish that you folks that think this will hurt Cuomo politically were right,but you’re not. Sure, a drop in approval ratings, a lot of gnashing of teeth by us gun owners, and maybe the 7 round limit gets fixed. But at the end of the day the truly horrible stuff in the SAFE ACT – the AW ban and registration, background checks for every transaction and for ammo,and a state database of gun owners, isn’t going anywhere.
If Cuomo runs again (and he will unless he decides to try for POTUS) he’ll win in a landslide. And the Republicans are going to lose MORE seats in the state senate next go around.I know this sucks but it’s what’s going to happen.Most of the people in NY VOTED for this. They should rot in hell as far as I’m concerned but no one ought to be suprised. It’s not like Cuomo came out of nowhere like Obama did. The people in NY have known what he was like for years.