New York – -(AmmoLand.com)- The march for more gun laws in New York continues with on another assault on the rights of the citizens in what is truly becoming the Empire State. The latest is sponsored by state Senator James Sanders Jr. of the 10th Senate District which low and behold is over seventy-five percent Democrat and is in southeast Queens, some of the more crime-ridden parts of New York City.
The bill (S7065) (A01589) would make it mandatory that every gun owner in the state of New York get a mental health evaluation before they could purchase a firearm. This wouldn’t be a one-time thing, this would be for every gun and of course, these evaluations would have to be held at a location of the state of New York’s choosing and would be at the expense of the person looking to purchase the gun. This new assault on the rights of gun owners comes in the face of the ever progressive agenda of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s regime making it more than well known that gun owners in New York State are not only not wanted, they are on his list of targets and as he has said in the past if people don’t like his rules, then they are free to leave. The way things are going in New York, that’s getting to be the only thing they are free to do.
So, each time a gun owner wants to buy a gun, no matter what, they will have to seek out an approved mental health professional to have an evaluation performed.
For rural gun owners, where most people who own guns in the state happen to live, it would involve a drive to probably your nearest hospital. In my locale, that’s at least forty-five miles in one direction. Then there’s the cost of the expense to the price of the gun, which no one knows since it will be at the discretion of the doctor, and if the gun owner has health insurance if it will even be covered, etc.
Once the potential gun owner has the proof, he or she passed their mental health evaluation then they have to take that to the gun store and still fill out the paperwork. So, you can imagine this would be the death knell for all gun shows in the state because there would be no one walking out of one with a firearm purchased at all since the NICS check won’t even be able to be performed until the mental health screening is done. In fact, since most doctors don’t have weekend office hours, gun shops might as well close up because they won’t be doing much in the way of selling.
As usual, this new law would do absolutely nothing to keep criminals but it would another hurdle in a long line of infringements to law-abiding gun owners in a state where the ruling party with its new no cash bail law has dumped criminals back out on the streets to re-offend while law-abiding citizens are pleading with police and what few lawmakers are listening to reign in the lawlessness that is now just beginning to be realized.
There is also a larger and much more sinister motive to think about here. New York passed its own version of a Red Flag law last year, and unlike other states, it allows schools and just about anyone else to petition the courts to get an ERPO and have someone’s firearms taken away. Now can you imagine every gun owner now having to be subjected to a mental health exam, over and over again, where one wrong question, one misconstrued answer or even the bias of the doctor could not only prevent someone from legally buying the gun they were looking to get, but also lead to the police coming to the house and taking the rest and with a doctor’s word versus the citizen’s in court, the gun owner, soon to become the former gun owner, wouldn’t stand a chance legally.
This is just the ongoing pattern of gun control laws not only sweeping New York, and now Virginia and other states, but are just the tip of the spear of what the left really wants, to take guns by any means necessary. What these lawmakers couldn’t do one way is now being done another. I urge any gun owner in the state of New York to oppose this legislation, we can’t play the “it won’t happen here” game anymore, because when that gets said enough times, it does happen here, and it will happen here. This is an election year for all of the lawmakers in New York, and the cash bail law is proving to be so unpopular that it could cost a few Democrats their Senate and Assembly seats, perhaps enough to gain back some power, enough to keep Andrew Cuomo in check. Call your elected officials, write them, email them, and make sure they know where you stand, we are on our own here, we cannot rely on the NRA in New York which has sadly all but vanished.
The Founding Fathers never had a lobby group, they were on their own too, and New York was once part of the bastions of freedom from tyranny, I believe it can be done once again.
About David LaPell
David LaPell has been a Corrections Officer with the local Sheriff’s Department for thirteen years. A collector of antique and vintage firearms for over twenty years and an avid hunter. David has been writing articles about firearms, hunting, and western history for ten years. In addition to having a passion for vintage guns, he is also a fan of old trucks and has written articles on those as well.
A psychological exam should be mandatory for Politicians. For it is they who present the greatest danger to life.
Will potential auto licence applicants be required to do the same? Vehicles take more lives than guns every year. How about the purchase of alcohol or prescription medicines? Those can be deadly as well. This law is based on the presumption that you must be crazy to purchase a weapon and will do nothing but discourage purchase or ownership.
So what kind of testing will be required for the shrinks to pass in order to become an approved mental evaluationist? Sounds pretty much like you would have to be a commiecrat to me. Who gets the money? The fee sounds more to me like an extra form of taxation.
Prior to obtaining my Federal LEO credentials, I was required to successfully complete a mental evaluation. Questions asked during the session were, in part, do you think your Mom and Dad loved you enough? Did they spank you to much? Are you happy with your life? Point being, someone should have been asking the guy asking me the questions questions, as six months later he committed suicide! A Constitutional Right does not require expounding a need or want to anyone prior to the exercise thereof. Why are the servants always attacking the 2nd! Simply because if they can make that… Read more »
Meet the new Jim Crow. Take that literacy test, tell us the names of the wives of the Congressional delegation from Alabama, tell us how many angels can dance on the head of a pin and then you can register to vote. Jim Crow. The KKK should be very proud. They have convinced a black American to become one of them.
All ‘gun control laws’ are un-Constitutional: Article 6 states “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof…shall be the supreme law of the land”. Therefore, any federal or state legislative law, Executive Order or local decree not in 100% harmony with the U.S. Constitution, is null & void. When Americans obey the un-Constitutional ‘gun control laws’, they tell the tyrant they will accept any oppression and will accept those oppressions gladly. When Americans kneel and lick the hand of the tyrant (when they obey un-Constitutional ‘gun control laws’), they tell the tyrant… Read more »
I think that what NY needs most is a new govenor and not another Cuomo in any form.
How about a law requiring a shrink certify lefties to post on facebook, or twitter? We really need lefties to get a psych eval before they can run for office as well.
Damn. Perhaps they need to require mental health exam before anyone is allowed to go online, or vote, or buy gas for their car (assuming they are allowed to own a car). This goes way beyond “infringement”.
Sounds like NY legislators are pulling ahead in stupidity competition with CA.
I have a degree in Psychology and am a therapist. We can not prognosticate (even if someone has a mental disorder) if they are going to snap and become violent. So the entire notion of giving “everyone a test”…….ridiculous. New York is in big trouble . I have a gun for self protection only. It’s my constitutional right! The time has come where we are going to be forced to step up and defend our rights. I stood with the 22,000 plus gun owners at Virginia’s Capital (in 17 degree weather) to lobby against the laws which are coming our… Read more »