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Invading the privacy of law-abiding firearms owners and tracking their purchases is Orwellian and is unlikely to accomplish anything other than multiple daily violations of the Fourth Amendment. The very nature of this legislation automatically suspects every gun owner in the state of planning a violent crime and allows their privacy to be violated. This is 2025, not 1984, and ‘Big Brother’ should not be watching anybody.
The irony here is stunning. Democrats are constantly harping about things they say are a threat to democracy. Shredding the Constitution is the ultimate attack on our democracy.
The legislation presumes criminals will buy their guns and ammunition using credit cards. It is yet another manifestation of the anti-gun liberal mindset that most criminals get their guns and ammunition through traditional retail outlets, which underscores how detached from reality these people are. This will only further drive the real criminal market for guns and ammunition further underground.
Contrary to what gun prohibitionists must believe, New York firearms owners enjoy all constitutional protections, not just rights protected by the Second Amendment. By signing this legislation, Gov. Hochul has reinforced the belief that she and other Democrats consider gun owners to be second-class citizens whose every move, and every purchase, must be monitored and regulated by a government that treats them with fear and disdain. We are left to wonder which constitutional right Hochul and her colleagues will erode next.
Alan Gottlieb
April 7, 2025
NY GOV. HOCHUL’S ANSWER TO VIOLENT CRIME: INVADE GUN OWNER PRIVACY | Citizens Committee For The Right To Keep And Bear Arms
Gottlieb wonders what right is next? I don’t wonder and I don’t think he does either. It is all of them. It is very clear freedom of speech has been under attack for years. Freedom of association and freedom of religion? Check. Right to a speedy trial? Check. Right to free and fair elections? Check. I could go on about taxes and many other things, but you get the drift.
Republicans have their faults as well with their insistence on infringements of social freedom.
I just want the government to leave me and my family alone in my underground bunker in Idaho.
“I just want the government to leave me and my family alone in my underground bunker in Idaho.”
Pretty damn selfish of you, Joe.
You should – not just “want” but DEMAND – the government, at al levels to leave you, and everyone else, alone whether in an underground bunker in Idaho, a 3rd floor walkup apartment in Queens, Calumet City in Chicago, or a Coral Gables, FL condo.
If we have a national Constitution that applies to all Americans it should apply equally regardless of where within the borders you live, or are at the moment. It’s binary – either it is, or it isn’t. The founders did not prescribe “variable” application of rights, nor do we present day citizens accept the concept.
If that means certain politcal malcontents and miscreants have to go to the gulag (or worse) pour encourager les autres, so be it; better the violators suffer than the citizens.
Thanks! That was spot on.
You beat me to it.
We are left to wonder which constitutional right Hochul and her colleagues will erode next.
Better to wonder which Constitutional right they won’t erode. It’s a very short list; you’d be left with an empty page.
But the qualifier “next” makes the difference. Hochul and her cronies (and most other collectivists) know they have to do it piecemeal. They’ll never get legislation passed that curtails all Constitutional rights at once. How would they sell that? “You people have far too much freedom for safety. Let’s just take care of that all at once.” How would that go over with the voters? (Don’t answer that.)
Nah, they have to do it a little at a time, to one right (or two at most) at a time. That way they can distract the voters by “protecting” some rights (for now) and only targeting those “dangerous” ones. Then cycle through and “protect” what’s left of the one just eroded while enacting new limits on another one that last season they “protected”. Rinse and repeat, always in the name of “safety”.
But ultimately, it’s like we’re saying. No Constitutional right is safe, no freedom is off-limits from erosion by the collectivists. The correct answer to, “Which right will they target next?” will always be, “Whichever they think they can get away with this term, and they’ll be back for the rest later.”
Because it will never be enough.
Here in DE the largest gun retailer had large quantities of ammo stolen and funneled to criminals.
This was being done by Cabelas employees. Instead of prosecuting the employees our state blamed and attacked Cabelas and passed laws aimed at the victims of theft.
They’re now busy passing laws that will drive FFL’s in the state out of business (most of our FFL’s are small kitchen table dealers)….because of a case where a teen stole a flatbed tow truck, drove through the wall of a gun store and stole guns and ammo.
The left wants to destroy ALL of our Rights. And they have made no bones about this. They haven’t tried to hide their agenda for decades.