NY Gun Owners See New Bill As Assault On Their Rights

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Ed Andrieski

No one is surprised to hear about a new anti-gun bill out of New York. Governor Andrew Cuomo has made it very clear that he blames the gun industry and gun owners for pretty much every ill in the universe. I’m fairly certain it’s our fault the Arch Duke Ferdinand was killed, thus sparking World War I.

However, this latest one is riling a lot of people up even more than usual.

A State Assembly bill to ban charity gun raffles is not scheduled for a vote and lacks a Senate companion bill. Yet local gun owners say they are still alarmed by what they see as an all-out assault on their right to own weapons.

“I think it stinks,” said Mark E. Fraunfelder, an East Aurora firefighter, at a Saturday gun raffle in Elma. “It’s a great way to raise money, and they’re trying to take it away from us. All the different laws they’ve passed – they’re just trying to take our guns.”

“The governor is just running roughshod over the whole state,” echoed fellow attendee Ken King. “He just gets whatever he wants now. … Once the Republicans lost the Senate, he’s got no one challenging …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms