Anyone get the feeling that the law doesn't work for them anymore, except the gun lobby?
By Andrew Chung
As President Joe Biden and Congress (click here) ponder how to respond to the latest U.S. mass shootings, the Supreme Court is due to decide a major case that could undermine new efforts to enact gun control measures while making existing ones vulnerable to legal attack.
The justices are expected to rule by the end of this month in a challenge by two firearms owners and the New York affiliate of the National Rifle Association, an influential gun rights group closely aligned with Republicans, to that state's restrictions on carrying concealed handguns in public....
As President Joe Biden and Congress (click here) ponder how to respond to the latest U.S. mass shootings, the Supreme Court is due to decide a major case that could undermine new efforts to enact gun control measures while making existing ones vulnerable to legal attack.
The justices are expected to rule by the end of this month in a challenge by two firearms owners and the New York affiliate of the National Rifle Association, an influential gun rights group closely aligned with Republicans, to that state's restrictions on carrying concealed handguns in public....
Americans now settle scores with guns. Do Red Gun Laws include disarming men of their guns if they have ongoing surgical pain? It sounds like the man needed a lawyer that can sue for malpractice. Oh, wait. That is virtually meaningless, too.
June 2, 2022
by Celina Tebor, N'dea Yancey-Braff and Ryan W. Miller
Police released new details (click here) Thursday about what led a gunman to kill four people in a shooting at a medical center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the latest in a wave of deadly gun violence occurring across the United States.
Tulsa Police Department Chief Wendell Franklin identified the four people killed as Dr. Preston Phillips; Dr. Stephanie Husen; a receptionist, Amanda Glenn; and William Love, who was with a patient. Franklin said the gunman, identified as Michael Louis, recently had surgery and targeted Phillips, who performed the surgery.
"We also have a letter on the suspect, which made it clear that he came in with the intent to kill Dr. Phillips and anyone who got in his way," Franklin said. "He blamed Dr. Phillips for the ongoing pain following the surgery."...
Military assault weapons have no place in the USA democracy. They cause problems with law enforcement.
May 31, 2022
Governor Kathy Hochul, (click here) Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Speaker Carl Heastie today announced that ten bills have been introduced in both the Assembly and Senate that would tighten New York's gun laws, close loopholes and directly address the gaps in our laws exposed by the horrific shootings in Buffalo, Texas, and around the country. The bills would: require information sharing between state, local and federal agencies when guns are used in crimes; make threatening mass harm a crime; require microstamping for new guns; increase accountability for social media platforms; eliminate grandfathering of large capacity ammunition feeding devices; prohibit the purchase of body armor for anyone who is not engaged in an eligible profession; strengthen the Red Flag law by expanding the list of people who can file for Extreme Risk Protection Orders, and other measures; require that an individual obtain a license, with a minimum age of 21, to purchase a semiautomatic rifle; and close the "any other weapon" loophole....
...New Yorkers deserve to feel safe in schools, in grocery stores, in movie theaters, in shopping malls, and on our streets -- and we must do everything in our power to protect them....
Nice sentiment, however, New York it going to have the same problem it has today, without effective federal gun laws, I-95 will be traffiking the assault weapons anyway.
Sure, sure it is illegal. So what. Show me a State Trooper that will be safe at any time while they are willing to enforce the laws of New York State?
The article below is outdated.
Law Enforcement Trainer Volume: 12 Issue: 6 Dated: (November/December 1997) Pages: 34-36
By A J Westrick'
Officers are killed overwhelmingly by low- and medium-power firearms. Soft body armor provides an effective defense against those weapons. The use of concealable body armor threat IIIA will not defeat center-fire rifle threats, however. Many tactical teams are using level IIA/II tactical vests with optional plates in an effort to protect officers while supplying them with lightweight armor in which they can maneuver. There is a growing need for lightweight (hard) armor that can defeat 7.26x39, .223, and .308 bullets. Although blunt trauma is apparently a non-issue with low- and medium-velocity firearm projectiles on soft body armor, there is evidence that the hydrostatic shock involved with high-velocity (center-fire) projectiles is a survival issue, even if soft body armor could stop high-velocity projectiles. Body armor technologies are progressing at a fast pace toward thinner, lighter, and more comfortable protection. The manufacture of a small, thin, insertable (hard) plate for concealed and tactical body armor will provide a higher level of protection and assist in quelling officer fear of assault weapons....
The system is corrupt! It doesn't work for the people anymore.
On American Legislative Exchange Council (click here) task forces, corporate lobbyists and special interests vote as equals
with elected representatives on templates to change our laws, behind closed doors with no press or public allowed
to see the votes or deliberations. Members of ALEC’s Public Safety and Elections Task Force were in charge of
writing, adopting, or voting on all bills involving guns. Corporate members of the task force have included the
National Rifle Association (NRA), Wal-Mart, Reed Elsevier, the American Bail Coalition, Koch Industries, the
Heartland Institute, and Corrections Corporation of America....
