Interesting New York gun law

Interesting New York gun law
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Posted by: Russ Walden ^Ž

11/19/2021, 11:28:37

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From an article in America's 1st Freedom:

(Is The Left's Gun Control Faction Breaking Up, Nov 2021)

"New York considers a firearm 'loaded' if a person possesses it 'at the same time' they possess ammunition, regardless of whether the firearm is, in fact, loaded."

Think about that: My pistol is in a desk drawer in my office. Ammunition for it is stored in a box in the basement of my shop, which is fifty feet from the house.

My pistol is "loaded."

Go figure.

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Cue: (Slick Willie perjuring himself before Congress): It depends on the meaning of the word "is". --- LateForLunch ( 11/20/2021, 13:13:17 ) ( 830 bytes ) +1

"...as to suggest a firearm that does not have a round inside the mechanism is 'loaded'. - The first rule of gun safety prescribes exactly that, mah Brutha. If one treats all guns as 'loaded' (even if they aren't) this kind of tragedy is avo... --- TEEBONE ( 11/21/2021, 19:23:16 ) ( 2 bytes ) +1

Two discrete lexicons - legal and firearms training. --- LateForLunch ( 11/23/2021, 09:11:10 ) ( 570 bytes ) +1

"In a legal sense, it's not 'loaded' unless there is a live round in the chamber." - Of course. Erring on the side of someone else's word, however, makes that observation moot. "I didn't know." is a pathetic cousin of "The... --- TEEBONE ( 11/23/2021, 16:51:36 ) ( 2 bytes )