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No one is willing to stand up and defend the rights of gun owners. This was a long time in coming, but gun owners were complacent. They are to blame. Only 4 million member in the NRA? Every gun owner should belong. The politicians only listen the thosae who are well organized.
Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) has just passed into law (in the words of the Associated Press) “the nation’s toughest gun restrictions” since the deadly massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School:
Jumping out ahead of Washington, New York state enacted the nation's toughest gun restrictions Tuesday and the first since the Connecticut school massacre, including an expanded assault-weapon ban and background checks for buying ammunition.Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the measure into law less than an hour after it won final passage in the Legislature, with supporters hailing it as a model for the nation and gun-rights activists condemning it...
Many organizations on the left wish they had the type of governmental access wielded by the NRA and other pro-gun groups.