Assembly Bill A449 would establish a ten-day “cooling off” period before a federally licensed dealer could transfer a firearm after a transferee completes a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) 4473 Form and passes a background check through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
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As anti-gun as New York City is, I'm surprised the State hasn't had a 10 day waiting period for decades now.
Will the 'cooling off' period also apply to those who already own a firearm? Of course it will. Because when its a law for the lesser equal animals, they say the law must be equally applied.
ReplyDeleteWhy ten days? Why not 3 days or 5 hours or one hour? 'Cooling off', huh? Are gun buyers like bratty 12 yr old girls who hold a fiery grudge for days? Humans love round numbers and ten certainly is that. The peasantry should be happy it is only ten days, the ingrates.
Betcha it's 10 working days, so 2 weeks or more.
DeleteGood! I don't really want people in NY being armed. If they dont value everyones freedom, they dont deserve their own.
ReplyDeleteThe law only applies to those that follow the law. Criminals can get a gun anytime. The law is pointless.
DeleteIt's not all of us in New York, especially Upstate. It's all the democrat sheep in NYC and downstate that outnumber us.
DeleteThe Ghoul is going full Commie.
ReplyDeleteIllinois has a 3 day waiting period. But the state also require a Firearm Owner's ID (FOID) before the purchase. Presuming it's your first purchase, the waiting period for the FOID is supposed to be 30 days. Because of COVID, the waiting period has been months, some claim the wait was over 12 months at its worst. The State Police says backlog has improved, but won't say what 'improved' means.
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And thanks to ATF rules, if a serf from Illinois comes to Kentucky and buys a long gun, the Kentucky dealer has to hold the firearm for the waiting period. A couple of the big box stores were refusing to sell to Illinoisans for this reason. They didn't want the liability of holding a firearm in the storeroom that "belonged" to a customer.
Delete"Improved" means not as many people are complaining about the long waiting times these days.
DeleteI dare them to demonstrate that this measure does anything to prevent crime, rather than simply being an additional inconvenience that might prevent more applicants.
DeleteLet me get this straight. The powers that be in NYC have just about given carte blanche to all the cretins in the city but asking for no bail and releasing everyone with not even a slap on the wrist. So, the politicians are going to make the law abiding people in the state pay the price by not being able to purchase a firearm in a timely fashion. That's really going to stop the criminal element by making them wait 10 days to get a gun. what am I missing?
ReplyDeleteWhat are you missing? Empty space between your ears, and that makes you the enemy of the left.
DeleteThis bill is not about people buying guns. It is about people selling guns. This is one more item to trip gun shops up on. Get rid of the gun shops and then you have gun control in a round about manner. This is like passing a law that says you cannot enter a house if the door is locked to prevent robbery.
ReplyDeleteWell, using lie-beral "logic", I guess if NY can put a 10-day waiting period to practice your constitutional rights (for something actually spelled out in black and white in the Constitution), then all the conservative states can put a 10-month waiting period to get an abortion (that isn't actually spelled out anywhere in the Constitution).
ReplyDeleteWorks for me!!!
Recent neighbor is from Brooklyn. He is a pilot for Delta that is still based out of NY. He has gotten his GA Drivers license but his wife has not. He also got his carry permit even though he didn't own a gun. He was amazed that he was able to buy a Glock model 45 9mm and walk out of the store with it on the same day. I took him to an outdoor range and we put 500 rounds of my reloads through it and I showed him how to clean and lube his new gun. I also have him watching Newsmax instead of CBS and CNN. I have corrupted him.
ReplyDeleteYou're a good man, Tsquared.
DeleteI’m sure the good citizens of NYC will feel more secure with a law like that! 🙄
ReplyDeleteThat's why they're all down here at the Richmond Gun Show this weekend...
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not, there was a time when NY wasn't an asshole about weapons.
ReplyDeleteI remember the old man ordering a surplus .30 cal. carbine out of a magazine
back around 1962 or so and Railway Express delivered it to the front door.
It's an Inland, I still have it and it's great to shoot.
Well, I could hold a grudge for 10 days, even 365 days, so... But living in Tennessee, born and raised, getting a firearm is considerably easier.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many abused spouses this will kill?
ReplyDeleteIts about CONTROL only.
ReplyDeletewhat the hec is the context behind 'a cooling off ' period?
ReplyDeleteIn texas you can buy a gun at a gun show. Pass the background check and you are walking out the door 3 hours later with a gun. I dont know the current rules in NY, but maybe they are trying to shut down the gun shows.
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