Greg Ball thinks this is completely fine.
Unfortunately, it is the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association.
NYSRPA, in addition to supporting the 2nd Amendment right to keep and bare arms, apparently believes that the Founders would have deemed background checks for gun store employees was an unimaginable encroachment upon our liberties. NYSRPA’s hostility towards common sense crime control extends beyond to purely voluntary measures such as gun buyback programs.
Many patriotic and law-abiding New Yorkers own firearms and may even be part of NYSRPA without signing on to the more extreme aspects of that group’s agenda. Indeed, many New York Republicans take a moderate position on this issue. Republican Governor George Pataki signed the toughest gun control law in the nation (a law supported by Senator Vincent Leibell, the man Assemblyman Ball wants to succeed) and former federal prosecutor and Republican New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani endorsed gun licensing and mandatory written tests for gun owners.
However, Assemblyman Greg Ball is not one of these pragmatic New Yorkers. In the Assembly, he opposed a ban on guns that are disguised to appear to be toy guns, opposed a ban on cop killer bullets and supports repealing important portions of the gun control law signed by fellow Republican George Pataki. Assemblyman Greg Ball’s voting record makes it clear that, unlike New York’s mainstream Republicans, he is an ideologue when it comes to gun policy. Someone with Assemblyman Ball’s extreme positions belongs on the fringes of the Tea Party, not in the New York State Senate.
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