Andrew Cuomo, pictured discussing how much he likes herbal tea
I know Mario Cuomo is probably in his 80s now, but after another year of his idiot son, most people in the state would be willing to have the old man come back so long as it saves them from his idiot son, Andrew.
Andrew Cuomo has racked up many achievements in his political career. Ads calling Koch a Homo and rhyming that with Cuomo. Causing the financial crisis during his disastrous time in the Clinton Administration. And cynically jumping on the Newtown shootings to pass a gun ban that was about as well-thought-out as his Kennedy marriage.
There was, at it turned out, only one minor problem with his ban. (Well there are many actually.)
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday the state is not rolling back the nation’s most stringent gun control measure by keeping 10-bullet magazines legal, even though they would have been outlawed in a bill that passed earlier this year.
Cuomo and legislative leaders in state budget talks plan to change the law that was passed in January before a provision kicks in banning the sale of 10-bullet magazines. The gun measure outlaws the purchase of any magazines that carry more than seven bullets, the nation’s most stringent limit.
“There is no such thing as a seven-bullet magazine. That doesn’t exist, so you really have no practical option,” Cuomo said.
Sure some people would say that ramming through a law that no one had read at short notice was bound to lead to insane results like this. But Andrew Cuomo got his 15 minutes of national coverage screaming about how much he loves kids and hates guns, or whatever it is he screams about at every press conference. And now the idiotic bill has to be dismantled piece by piece.
He told reporters that any suggestion this will be a rollback of the law is “wholly without basis.”
No, clearly it wasn’t a mistake. There will be no rolling back of anything.
Cuomo said the state needs to allow the sale of handguns and rifles with 10-shot magazines, but New Yorkers will still be required to keep no more than seven bullets in them, except at shooting ranges and competitions. Violating the seven-bullet limit is a misdemeanor, but a violation if the magazine was in the owner’s home.
He says the law is still enforceable.
How is it enforceable exactly?
State Troopers asking people to show many bullets they have? If a shooter kills 10 people, he’ll be charged with an additional crime for having more than 7 bullets?
I can see that Governor Andrew Cuomo gave this almost as much thought as he did the measures that caused the financial crisis he was responsible for during the Clinton Administration.
But don’t worry. Andrew Cuomo has big ambitions. After bumping off a blind black governor using media smears, he plans to run for president.
Just think. One day Mario Cuomo’s idiot son could be President Mario Cuomo’s Idiot Son.
President Idiot Son?
Great Article
"Cuomo said the state needs to allow the sale of handguns and rifles with 10-shot magazines, but New Yorkers will still be required to keep no more than seven bullets in them, except at shooting ranges and competitions. Violating the seven-bullet limit is a misdemeanor, but a violation if the magazine was in the owner’s home. He says the law is still enforceable."
I haven't laughed that loud in a long time. Next up Andrew will be deciding appropriate auto speed limits on Mars.
"Sir, may I inspect your gun and it's magazine?"
"One moment please…"
Bang, bang, bang.
"Here you are sir."
If someone has a filled 15-round magazine in his home, how is the law limiting magazine capacity enforceable, even in New York? Doesn't the Fourth Amendment apply even in that post-Constitutional state? How would the cops have probable cause for a warrant? The owner would have to invite them in to search.
I hate to contradict Mr. Cuomo, but one of the finest (if not THE finest) handguns ever designed, the M1911 Colt .45 semi-automatic pistol, is designed for a seven-round magazine. It is among the most well-known (and widely-used) handguns that have ever existed.
There are probably about a hundred million M1911 7-round magazines in circulation. Bloody dolt. Engage brain before using mouth.
By the way, if there were going to be a gunfight between two good shooters, one using a Beretta 9 mm. M9 pistol with a 15-round magazine and the other using an M1911 .45 with a 7-round magazine, I'd be betting on the guy with the M1911.
I have a 7-round (not "bullet") magazine for my 1911 Government Model in .45 ACP. I guess it doesn't exist.
It's a lost cause to confuse them with the "casing-primer-propellant-bullet" conundrum. It just falls on deaf ears. It's a gun thing so it doesn't compute with them. Imagine their confusion when you teach them that propellants don't explode, just combust very quickly.
"Mario Cuomo’s Idiot Son Rolls Back Poorly Thought Out Gun Ban, Claims No Rollback"
Lesson From Colorado: Don't Trust Your Guns To Democrats
"Here's the lesson for other states, Democrats cannot be trusted with your guns–period. And given time and power, they will turn any gun state into a gun control state."
Yeah, and don't think you can just drive over into Kansas, Oklahoma, or Texas, where they still have sense, to get your Sig P226 9 mm., designed for the 18-round mags. The feds have that one blocked off – if you buy out of state, they can sell to you, but they have to follow the law of your state of residence. So no mags of greater than 15-round capacity unless you are willing to seriously break the law.
Fortunately, El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa and other county sheriffs in Colorado are planning to file a lawsuit to have the new law invalidated on the ground that it's unenforceable. Keep your fingers crossed.
And why should the citizen have to pay the $10 for the extra background check? Doesn't that extra expense act like a poll tax, or some other technique intended to chill the exercise of a Constitutional right? Doesn't it have a disparate impact on poor minorities?
In an earlier time, I would have been confident that Governor Hickenlooper and the legislators who backed the new gun control laws would be out at the next election, but I fear that Colorado has finally crossed the color line into being a blue state. Too bad; they move here from California because they like the Colorado life style, and then they want to change it to California.
I kind of like the idea of having to pay a fee to exercise one of my freedoms protected by the Constitution. We could then use it as precedent to require payment for the exercise of other freedoms. Just image if the lefties had to pay $10 to exercise freedom of speech; geez, the comments section of HuffPo and Slate and others would pretty much be empty. And then there is the one I REALLY like, let's put a $100 fee on exercising one's right to vote in national elections; might cut down on all the 'vote early and vote often' types that helped Obama be reelected. /sarc
Daniel, calling Andrew Cuomo Mario Cuomo's idiot son is a pretty serious injustice to the idiots of the world.
I like calling that dago Cuomo Il Deuce, for it fits better, and God help us if this idiot runs for President.
Il Deuce or Il Douche?
Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The goal is prohibition of private ownership of firearms." Janet Reno