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Extreme Hoplopobia

A legislator with too much time and not enough brains, by William Kates, Associated Press [1]

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – A New York City lawmaker’s plan to regulate antique firearms like other weapons could have severe economic repercussions for museums and historical societies around the state and prevent hundreds of living history events and re-enactments staged every year.

If passed in its current form, the proposal by Democratic Assemblyman Michael Gianaris of Queens would make the state the first in the country to require owners of antique guns, black powder weapons and muzzleloading firearms to go through a background check and purchase a license, said Ralph Walker, a legislative specialist with the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association.

Such is the proposal, and for the motivation:

The lawmaker said he determined such guns needed regulating following two incidents last year.

One incident involved a student at St. John’s University with a history of psychological illness who was apprehended on campus while in possession of a loaded black powder rifle. In the second incident, a convicted felon shot and wounded a New York state trooper with a black powder rifle.

There some twenty million of us New Yorkers.   And this idiot wants to regulate black powder arms because of two incidents, none fatal.   Black power arms are simply not a problem.  Stupid legislators are a problem.