“Gun magazines packing the massive firepower of up to 30 bullets should be long gone from New York since state lawmakers banned them in 1994,” nydailynews.com reports. “They’re not.” Dum-dum-DUMMMM. “The Daily News this week accompanied State Sen. Eric Adams (D-Brooklyn) to two gun stores near Albany that routinely sell the high-capacity clips.” Adams? I spoke to his office yesterday, about the $4 million dollar SNUG (GUNS spelled backwards) Violence Interrupters program. And no, I didn’t make that up. So now it’s high-capacity magazines, eh? In New York? How is that POSSIBLE? . . .
Both stores Adams visited claim they sell the old, legal models.
At Guns Inc. in Rensselaer, a Daily News hidden camera looked on as Adams bought two 30-round magazines for an AK-47 assault rifle.
The senator used his credit card to buy the clips – at $42.19 each – and walked out less than five minutes later without even having to show identification.
Because he doesn’t have to! I call loophole! As does Adams and his pals at the New York Daily News.
Legal experts say there is a glaring loophole: There’s often no way to tell when a magazine was made.
No law requires gunmakers to put a serial number or any kind of identifying mark on a clip unless it was made during the now-expired federal assault weapons ban, which ran from 1994 to 2004.
The New York ban did not expire, and gun control advocates warn gun owners and stores could potentially buy new magazines in another state and pass them off here as a pre-1994 version.
“All somebody would have to do is show an old receipt. You couldn’t know for sure,” said Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
“This is why we need stronger federal laws because even when states do the right thing, it’s hard for them to do so effectively when you can just go to the next state.”
To quote Brian, wait, what? Adams didn’t go to the next state. Double loophole! Of course, simple possession of a new high cap mag in New York is a crime. So . . . we need another law? Yup.
Adams is proposing similar legislation[(to the federal high cap mag ban mooted by fellow New York pol Carolyn McCarthy] for New York.
“This bill is going to close the loophole so the clips are banned, period,” Adams said. “The more rounds you’re able to discharge prior to having to reload, the more dangerous you are.”
While the News seems to be shilling for Adams and his ilk, at least they end with a withering rebuke. Well, it would be withering if politicians like Adams had any shame. Which, of course, they don’t.
“What are they going to ban next?” asked a manager of Guns Inc., who refused to give his name. “I think a state senator has more to do and worry about in this environment than how many bullets a guy can put into a gun.”
The real crime in this case is that a single magazine should cost $42.19.
“The more rounds you’re able to discharge prior to having to reload, the more dangerous you are.”
Why do these folks ALWAYS assume the position that the ONLY use for guns is a nefarious one? Can’t they concede (or conceive) that the majority of 30 round MAGAZINES are in the possession of law abiding citizens and the only targets to whom they are more dangerous (a loaded term) are either made of paper or unlawfully invading our homes? Why is it that in the hands of a civilian a 30 rounder is inherently “dangerous” tools of wanton destruction but in the hands of a PFC or Patrolman they become “valorous” aids in the cause of freedom regardless of the application of said magazines respectivly?
The state is that great inverter of morals, in which that which is wrong on a small scale is made righteous in the minds of men by achieving it on a mass scale and dedicating institutions and whole nations to it. Robbery becomes taxation, mass murder becomes war, and clips of mass destruction become the valorous aids of peace.
Well I’m okay if they decide to ban clips over 10 rounds I just don’t want them to come after my magazines.
lulz
A 30-round mag for a moron with an IQ around 30. There’s a certain symmetry at work there, wouldn’t you say?
That same state senator is sponsoring a bill to register all firearms in New York State.
We can only hope he meets up with a mugger armed with a six shooter. Wait, we need to ban those too.
I didn’t see any “clips” in this article…
“The senator used his credit card to buy the clips – at $42.19 each – and walked out less than five minutes later without even having to show identification.”
Or did you mean that you saw magazines which were referred to as clips?
Maybe it’s a “Prince” thing – …the clips formerly known as magazines.
Carolyn “its the shoulder thing that goes up” McCarthy…no more words necessary
$42 for a hair holding device?
Is it just me or the idiots trying to restrict firearms and their components/accessories know little to nothing about them?
Why are they chasing a bunch of crap, if they want to ban anything g ban handgun most are useless unless for a hunting application and most of the gun crime is pistol related, look at the facts and a criminal will hunt down a full auto before settle with a semi auto high capacity rifle anyway.
Wow, this report was probably over looked by lots of this sites users, and look now, tomorrow they vote on this same issue
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