PA Bill Number: HB1661
Title: Further providing for schedules of controlled substances; and providing for secure storage of xylazine.
Description: Further providing for schedules of controlled substances; and providing for secure storage of xylazine. ...
Last Action: Act No. 17 of 2024
Last Action Date: May 15, 2024
Schumer vows to fight Cornyn reciprocity bill 'tooth and nail' :: 02/18/2015
To hear anti-gun New York Sen. Charles Schumer describe a national concealed carry reciprocity bill filed last week, the end of the world as he knows it is approaching, a quote in yesterday’s New York Daily News suggested.
Said the perennial Empire State gun prohibitionist: “This bill is a menace to New York and would allow potentially dangerous people from other states to carry concealed weapons in our grocery stores, movie theaters and stadiums, without even notifying the police.”
One shudders to think that a law-abiding citizen might dare to legally carry a sidearm for personal protection anywhere without first notifying the cops. Evidently, Schumer believes that some gun-toting yahoo from Podunk on the prairie is going to trot all the way to the Big Apple and force a bag of potatoes into his shopping cart at gunpoint. Schumer should know that New York criminal types do this already, and it's a safe bet they don't tell police, either.
Cornyn, a common sense Texan with a genuinely sensible gun law proposal, rounded up bipartisan support for his measure, the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2015. Introduced last week, the legislation got quick attention from Second Amendment groups. The National Rifle Association and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms both support the idea, which Schumer is already demonizing as something of the anti-Christ of legislative proposals.
“It is a nightmare for our law enforcement officers and the community,” the veteran gun banner told the Daily News, “and I will fight this legislation tooth and nail.”
Schumer has company in his disdain. Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said the Cornyn bill “is evil and dangerous.”
John Richardson, writing on his blog No Lawyers, Only Guns and Money, observed yesterday, “You might respect anti-gun politicians a little bit if they brought reason to the debate. However, given the statement…from Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in response to the introduction of The Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2015, there is little chance of that happening.”
Schumer has never seen a gun control proposal that he didn’t quickly embrace. He was a driving force behind the 1993 Brady Law. He supported the ten-year ban on semi-autos passed during the Clinton administration, and he wanted to make it permanent rather than see it lapse. He wants to limit magazine capacity.
According to the Huffington Post, back in December 2012, Schumer told CBS’ Face the Nation that, “Those of who are pro-gun control have to admit that there is a Second Amendment right to bear arms... once we establish that there is a constitutional right to bear arms we should have the right admit, and maybe they'll be more willing to admit, that no amendment is absolute after all.”
While Schumer seemed willing to acknowledge there is a Second Amendment, he just doesn’t want anyone to exercise that particular constitutional right. At least, it appears, not until after they notify the police.
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Suggested Links
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- 'Unconstitutional' says judge: CCRKBA wins case on interstate handgun transfers
http://www.examiner.com/article/schumer-vows-to-fight-cornyn-reciprocity-bill-tooth-and-nail
