Second Amendment Freedoms Deserve Promotion & Protection
By Ammoland
Opinion by Tom King, President of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association.
New York – -(AmmoLand.com)- The ongoing call to keep gun stores closed (and attack the National Rifle Association for fighting for them to remain open) is as misguided as it is predictable. What’s sad is that it comes as no surprise that the anti-Second Amendment crowd seeks to leverage the COVID-19 health crisis to the benefit of their failing attack on constitutional freedoms of law-abiding New Yorkers.
The NRA recently filed a lawsuit against Gov. Cuomo and New York State for implementing an order that:
“effectively and indefinitely suspended a key component of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution – shutting down all gun stores in the State of New York, including federally licensed gun stores, by deeming them ‘non-essential’ businesses.”
By failing to list gun shops as “essential,” Gov. Cuomo eliminated the only way of legally purchasing firearms in the state. Given the Governor’s well-known contempt for the self-defense rights of rank-and-file Americans and his intense dislike for the NRA, this failure …Read the Rest
Source:: AmmoLand
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