Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:39 pm
NYC, Washington D.C., Chicago, etc etc...Baytown wrote:
Where are all the libo whackos screaming about violation of Fed law on that one?
Glenn
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NYC, Washington D.C., Chicago, etc etc...Baytown wrote:
Where are all the libo whackos screaming about violation of Fed law on that one?
Glenn
Thats why unfortunately I ignore NYC these days...dolanp wrote:FOPA 'applies' to NY but they are willingly and aggressively ignoring it.
Simply bitter sarcasm. NYC has opted to follow a very narrow definition of traveling with a firearm. Even in NY's Penal Code there is provision for someone passing through the state, and to a limited extent the city, going to and from a match. But the match has to be sanctioned by the NRA and the person has to have a certificate showing their participation along with a pistol license or registration from their home state.BobCat wrote:jimlongley,
You wrote, "Unfortunately, NYCity has managed to prove that FOPA does not apply there. If you are going to fly out of a NYC airport you had better not be traveling with a firearm, period."
Please forgive my literal-mindedness, but did they actually somehow prove this legally, or is your statement simply justified bitter sarcasm? I thought the FOPA was a Federal law - did they really manage to "repeal" it in NYC?
Thanks in advance for any clarification you care to provide. It is academic anyway - I have no plans to visit NYC, just curious.
Regards,
Andrew
After I left NY I lived in Bolingbrook for 6 years. The first place, after the miitary, that I (legally) owned a handgun.BobCat wrote:jimlongley,
Thanks for the reply! I still do not understand how NYC can "get away with" violating federal law. I suppose it is because it would take a test case going against them, and no one is rich and stupid enough to deliberately become such a test case. But if they do arrest a normal person who is complying with the FOPA - would not the NRA or SAF maybe take up the defense of said normal person?
Having grown up in Illinois, next to the big city on the lake - I actually deleted what I wrote originally, as there is no point in being offensive, rude, vulgar, profane, and viscous in a polite forum such as this - and thinking that "waiting periods" were normal, there is no way I would ever move back to someplace like that.
Regards,
Andrew