NY State Police Won’t Enforce Pistol Recert Rules For Now

By Tom Knighton

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo doesn’t care about gun owners. In fact, I can’t help but believe that he’s really alright with turning legions of law-abiding New Yorkers into criminals simply because they own guns. This is especially clear since he did so little to deal with the clusterflop New York law because with the requirement that even people with lifetime gun permits would need to recertify.

There was a lot of confusion over the law and a lot of people didn’t get notification of their need to recertify.

Now, at least, there’s a little bit of a reprieve. It seems the New York State Police won’t be enforcing the recertify rules just yet.

With thousands of pistol permit holders yet to re-up by the end of the month, state police say they will not take action on those who “unknowingly failed to recertify.”

As of Wednesday, authorities say that just 262,114 New Yorkers have submitted a pistol permit re-certification. However, with an estimated 1.2 million formerly lifetime permits in circulation and the SAFE Act-mandated re-certification deadline looming, officials say they are not looking to take anyone’s guns.

“To be clear, the State Police will not be confiscating weapons from those permit …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms