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Please move all sharp objects away from your computer and unload any weapons in a 20 ft radius before reading this article. I am not responsible for any damages to your person or property as a result of reading this idiot's article.
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Virginia’s gun laws are killing New Yorkers
http://www.buffalonews.com/149/story/75360.html
Douglas Turner
Updated: 05/14/07 6:41 AM
Even the slaughter of 32 Virginia Tech students and faculty has not dissolved Virginia’s morbid obsession with handguns.
A top aide of Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., carries a loaded pistol into a U.S. Senate office building, gets arrested and then is released with no sanction.
After declaring he has “nothing but loathing” for those who would use the massacre to strengthen the state’s gun laws, Gov. Tim Kaine issues a fig-leaf directive that might have prevented Seung-Hui Cho, who was mentally ill, from buying handguns.
Now, the state’s attorney general, Robert McDonnell, has warned New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg about the undercover agents the mayor sent into the commonwealth to “sting” Virginia gun dealers who sell weapons illegally.
Bloomberg sued 27 out-of-state dealers because his cops tell him that many of the black-market
guns used in killings and other crimes in New York City came from Virginia.
Shamelessly, McDonnell warned Bloomberg that his agents could be convicted of felonies under state law banning covert filming of gun sales.
The Buffalo Niagara region has a huge stake in stopping the flow of weapons from states with weak laws and less enforcement.
Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown said McDonnell “should be as aggressive in enforcing the law that prevents illegal guns from getting into the hands of criminals as he seems to be in enforcing laws that protect the gun lobby.”
Erie County District Attorney Frank Clark said the largest sources of illegal guns taken from criminals in the region are from Virginia and Ohio. The sellers come into Buffalo, Clark said, “like Fuller Brush salesmen, selling four or five handguns at a time.”
In Virginia, anyone with a driver’s license can buy one gun a month, effectively no questions asked, as the Cho disaster proved.
Exactly how many back-alley weapons come to New York via the Virginia pipeline these days is known to the Justice Department and few others, thanks to a bill drafted in 2003 by Rep. Todd W. Tiahrt, R-Kansas, and passed by the then Republican Congress.
In its last public report, the government said Virginia was the largest source of illegal weapons taken in New York State. Four of five such weapons were from out of state. That was in 2003. Since then the information is supplied sparingly on a need-to-know basis to prosecutors.
Is it a coincidence that the National Rifle Association, the mother of all pro-gun lobbies, has given Tiahrt more than $44,000 for his last five campaigns?
Bloomberg, Brown and the other 214 members of Mayors Against Illegal Guns want the Tiahrt amendment repealed so they know the sources of smuggled instruments of death.
Although congressional Democrats are slow to use their new majorities to firm up gun control, some are supporting repeal of the Tiahrt amendment.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, DN. Y., is among them.
“Whether you are pro-gun control or anti-gun control, repealing this amendment gives cops the tools they need to stop the bad guys and protect the good guys,” Schumer said.
One former supporter of Tiahrt’s law, Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., now wants repeal. Police “should have access to all data they need to successfully prosecute crimes,” he said.
Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, isn’t so sure.
The Tiahrt law does not stop law enforcement from obtaining data needed “to catch criminals who have committed gun crimes and prevent them from striking again,” Higgins said.
“I support protecting the confidentiality of persons exercising their constitutional rights,” he said. “I will take a close look at any proposal to change that policy.”
dturner@buffnews.com
Please move all sharp objects away from your computer and unload any weapons in a 20 ft radius before reading this article. I am not responsible for any damages to your person or property as a result of reading this idiot's article.
(I thihk he went to school with Trejbal)
Let's see just how much his inbox can hold!!
Virginia’s gun laws are killing New Yorkers
http://www.buffalonews.com/149/story/75360.html
Douglas Turner
Updated: 05/14/07 6:41 AM
Even the slaughter of 32 Virginia Tech students and faculty has not dissolved Virginia’s morbid obsession with handguns.
A top aide of Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., carries a loaded pistol into a U.S. Senate office building, gets arrested and then is released with no sanction.
After declaring he has “nothing but loathing” for those who would use the massacre to strengthen the state’s gun laws, Gov. Tim Kaine issues a fig-leaf directive that might have prevented Seung-Hui Cho, who was mentally ill, from buying handguns.
Now, the state’s attorney general, Robert McDonnell, has warned New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg about the undercover agents the mayor sent into the commonwealth to “sting” Virginia gun dealers who sell weapons illegally.
Bloomberg sued 27 out-of-state dealers because his cops tell him that many of the black-market
guns used in killings and other crimes in New York City came from Virginia.
Shamelessly, McDonnell warned Bloomberg that his agents could be convicted of felonies under state law banning covert filming of gun sales.
The Buffalo Niagara region has a huge stake in stopping the flow of weapons from states with weak laws and less enforcement.
Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown said McDonnell “should be as aggressive in enforcing the law that prevents illegal guns from getting into the hands of criminals as he seems to be in enforcing laws that protect the gun lobby.”
Erie County District Attorney Frank Clark said the largest sources of illegal guns taken from criminals in the region are from Virginia and Ohio. The sellers come into Buffalo, Clark said, “like Fuller Brush salesmen, selling four or five handguns at a time.”
In Virginia, anyone with a driver’s license can buy one gun a month, effectively no questions asked, as the Cho disaster proved.
Exactly how many back-alley weapons come to New York via the Virginia pipeline these days is known to the Justice Department and few others, thanks to a bill drafted in 2003 by Rep. Todd W. Tiahrt, R-Kansas, and passed by the then Republican Congress.
In its last public report, the government said Virginia was the largest source of illegal weapons taken in New York State. Four of five such weapons were from out of state. That was in 2003. Since then the information is supplied sparingly on a need-to-know basis to prosecutors.
Is it a coincidence that the National Rifle Association, the mother of all pro-gun lobbies, has given Tiahrt more than $44,000 for his last five campaigns?
Bloomberg, Brown and the other 214 members of Mayors Against Illegal Guns want the Tiahrt amendment repealed so they know the sources of smuggled instruments of death.
Although congressional Democrats are slow to use their new majorities to firm up gun control, some are supporting repeal of the Tiahrt amendment.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, DN. Y., is among them.
“Whether you are pro-gun control or anti-gun control, repealing this amendment gives cops the tools they need to stop the bad guys and protect the good guys,” Schumer said.
One former supporter of Tiahrt’s law, Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., now wants repeal. Police “should have access to all data they need to successfully prosecute crimes,” he said.
Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, isn’t so sure.
The Tiahrt law does not stop law enforcement from obtaining data needed “to catch criminals who have committed gun crimes and prevent them from striking again,” Higgins said.
“I support protecting the confidentiality of persons exercising their constitutional rights,” he said. “I will take a close look at any proposal to change that policy.”
dturner@buffnews.com
