Gun Raffles Targeted By New York State Senator

By Cam Edwards

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New York State Senator Jim Gaughran, who represents a portion of Long Island, has been trying to pick a fight with the NRA for over a year now. Back in 2018, he unsucessfully tried to convince the Inn at New Hyde Park to cancel a Friends of NRA dinner, and he’s tried to stir up protests against the restaurant and event space again this year. He’s also taking things a step further by introducing legislation to ban gun raffles in the state of New York.

“You shouldn’t be able to simply walk into a catering venue and walk out owning a firearm,” said Gaughran. “This law will protect public safety and advance New York’s commitment to common sense gun reform. You can’t raffle off a bottle of wine, so why can you raffle off a weapon of war?”

Gaughran can’t really believe that someone’s just strolling out of a catering venue with a gun they just won in a raffle, can he? I’m going with “duplicitous” over “stupid” here, but I think he wants voters to believe that’s exactly what’s happening. Of course any gun won at a Friends of NRA dinner is going to go …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms