NSSF on NY Gov’s Comments: King Cuomo Should Look in the Mirror

By Larry Keane

NSSF King Cuomo Mirror
Gov. Cuomo’s hypocrisy is on full display with comments condemning alleged Trump tyranny.

U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- Three-term New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo recently bemoaned President Donald Trump’s leadership during the coronavirus pandemic, stating “We don’t have a king in this country. We didn’t want a king, so we have a Constitution and we elect a president.”

Perhaps “the Guv” should look in the mirror before opening his mouth.

Gov. Cuomo has used his daily time in front of press conference bright lights to knock the president. But he has his own king-like history of overstepping as the Empire State’s top elected official. That’s especially true now during the pandemic, and especially when it comes to the Second Amendment and the Constitutional rights of New Yorkers.

Shutters Gun Stores, Shuts Them Out

One of Gov. Cuomo’s earliest actions to combat the spread of coronavirus in New York included shuttering hundreds of firearm manufacturers and retailers by deeming them “non-essential,” despite the fact that the Department of Homeland Security specifically included gun stores and those workers as “essential” in its guidance. The firearm and ammunition industry in New York has a significant footprint with 5,500 jobs generating $1.44 billion in economic impact. Across the nation, that figure is more than 330,000 jobs and $60 billion in economic impact. But Gov. Cuomo didn’t think twice, instead using his authority to close them down. It’s no wonder he ranks among the least popular governors in America.

What’s worse than unnecessarily leaving thousands of New Yorkers in the lurch? How about refusing their offer to help save the lives of their neighbors? Nope – King Cuomo couldn’t be bothered to even respond. It’s not surprising. This is the same governor who despises pro-Second Amendment, law-abiding Americans, infamously mocking “Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are…pro-assault-weapon…? Because if that’s who they are…they have no place in the state of New York….”

Long Antigun Track Record

Gov. Cuomo’s disdain for the Second Amendment is deep and his king-like antigun record is long. Most notably he utilized the “never let a crisis go to waste” mantra and forced New York’s infamous gun-rights-restricting New York SAFE Act through in the middle of the night, the most restrictive anti-gun law in the country. It includes limits on magazine capacity that was too far even for a federal judge in New York who struck down the provision in 2013, and Gov. Cuomo was again denied by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 2015. His SAFE Act also included red flag laws that deny due process and bans on America’s most popular-selling centerfire rifle – the modern sporting rifle. Second Amendment rights groups across the state roundly disapproved. But once again, Gov. Cuomo displayed his animosity to the legal process and protecting the Constitutional rights of law-abiding gun owners, stating “You become sort of lawsuit immune,” when challenged on his order shuttering firearm businesses.

Even Gov. Cuomo’s neighbor to the south recognized the limits to his executive authority. New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy said he “wasn’t thinking of the Bill of Rights,” when he initially shut down gun stores, before relenting when faced with a lawsuit.

But Gov. Cuomo’s antigun bona fides traces back to his time as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Clinton administration where he threatened to have over 3,200 public housing authorities sue members of the firearm industry for a crime committed in those housing projects. Congress quickly put a stop to his threatened litigation. He also violated antitrust law in 2000 by conspiring with several big-city mayors to politicize law enforcement purchasing by collectively refusing to buy from any handgun manufacturer that didn’t sign a so-called “code of conduct” that sought to implement gun control that Congress would never pass. NSSF sued Cuomo and his allies in federal court prompting putting a stop to their illegal antitrust conspiracy.

Twenty-five years ago, New York’s venerated Republican U.S. Congressman Gerald B. Solomon took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives and boomed in support of law-abiding gun owners. Now more than ever America needs more of that – and Gov. Cuomo should take notice while running for a fourth term.

 


National Shooting Sports FoundationAbout The National Shooting Sports Foundation

The National Shooting Sports Foundation is the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry. Its mission is to promote, protect and preserve hunting and the shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of more than 10,000 manufacturers, distributors, firearms retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen’s organizations and publishers. www.nssf.org

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Laddyboy

Question: Are the People of New York that BRAIN DEAD that they keep putting a COMMUNIST DICTATOR into a position of power over themselves!?!?!?!? Vote the COMMUNIST OUT OF OFFICE – – he HAS BROKEN HIS SWORN OATH to DEFEND the CONSTITUTION!!!!!!!!

Valkyrie14

Brain dead no, outnumbered by the voting block of NYC, Long Island and Westchester county. Upstate NY Doesn’t have the population anymore since most blue collar industries have left the state due to its anti conservative mantra. The Emperor Cuomo and previous RAT governor’s except one have seen to that.

nobodyuknow

ladyboy . . . Unfortunately, YES THEY ARE!!! These brain dead Sheeple Lemmings are being drug around by people like Cuomo by the rings in their collective noses! Frankly, New Yorkers – particularly those from NYC – PLAINLY SUCK!!! They are nothing more than a group of BRAIN DEAD, PROPAGANDA DRIVEN D.A.’S!

Sandbagger

Ya and he’s ugly to

Green Mtn. Boy

Andy the Commie is the pot calling the kettle black but then the totalitarian left all have one thing in common, they are all Hyocrites.

Sandbagger

Ya and they’re ugly to

RJL

Dictators, tyrants, despots, and unjust, unrighteous monarchs. they have no place in a free constitutional republic, In which the United States of America is……………….
Anti-Constitutionalist’s=Anti-Americans=Enemies of the United States…

Doszap

Demon Cuomo, I am so sick of hearing you and seeing your UGLY ass face,please step in front of a bus.
As far as I am concerned NYC and California are not even AMERICA, and should be kicked out of the Union.
Your ideas and ideology is SO FAR from most Americans you are like ALIENS.

Sandbagger

Ya and his dumb ass brother to.

Valkyrie14

Emperor Cuomo’s edicts or be sued into submission, that’s how it works in NY now. His latest AG attack Bitc$ Leticia James is a real liberal POS who attacks at will with extreme prejudice and malice.

Sandbagger

Ya and she’s ugly to

nobodyuknow

Cuomo is nothing more than a two-bit, punk Communist who is looking for more power. This P.O.S. talks about the Constitution of the United States and obviously does not GIVE A SHIITE ABOUT ITS PROVISIONS! His only reason for invoking anything to do with the U.S. Constitution is to influence the low information Sheeple Lemmings who are being led around by the rings in their collective noses by people like him who populate the Communist Democrap Party!!!

Wild Bill

@nobody, All true, but it is working. The democrat governors are reshaping America to their vision. The next domino to fall is meat. Slaughterhouses are closed do the governors’ orders. There will be a meat shortage next. What is available will be very expensive.
Farmers can not take their beef, and hogs to market, but rather have to keep feeding them. Just what the libtards want, and all vegetarian nation.

Knute

Not quite all vegan. They know that won’t fly. They’ve already captured the sheep that are willing to buy that story. The thrust now is to get the rest of the sheep to accept bugs as meat! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-22508439 And on and on. just search for : “people eat bugs” There are thousand of items from all the elite media urging us all to forget beef and chicken and eat crickets and grasshoppers instead. Yeah, I can see that working out for them. If I could get people to pay me 3 bucks a pound for worms instead of beef, I’d… Read more »

Wild Bill

@Knute Knute, It is better that we leave the earth worms to the libtards. Patriots, perhaps, could buy a few extra cans of spam, Dinty Moore, and tuna while it is still on the store shelves … like this weekend.

Knute

Ohh, I agree! But then, I’m a cattleman. I not only raise cows, I milk ’em and make butter and cheese too. I love dairy almost as much as my T bones and Prime Rib.
I’ve been raising cows since I was a kid in 4H. I ain’t likely to give up my T bones for bugs now. 🙂

Wild Bill

@Knute Knute, Not asking anyone to give anything up. Just saying that the slaughter houses are closing due to the Chinese Corona virus. That should cause a meat shortage and price rise in the stores.
I’d rather have the Patriots have this knowledge before it gets to the libtards, that’s all.

Knute

Yup. I know you weren’t. I was just making a little (very little) joke about how likely the system is to talk me into giving up my home grown, home raised, home butchered, ground, packed, frozen, and processed by me so I know what happened at every stage, beef, for some bug concoction invented by Monsanto! The old saw about “two chances of that… slim and none!” come to mind 🙂 When enough packing plants close that “T” bones hit twenty or thirty bucks a pound I’ll have lots for sale! By then it might be twenty Federal reserve notes… Read more »

Wild Bill

@Knute Knute, My apologies. I misunderstood.

Knute

No sweat. I like my little jokes, even though I know pretty much no one else does. I crack myself up! 🙂

Knute

My general location is outside of Glasgow, MT. Since a few years back the ‘official’ “middle of nowhere”. https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/21/where-is-the-middle-of-nowhere/ So I’m not FROM the middle of nowhere… I have to start a vehicle (or saddle a horse… or bike or whatever) to GET to the middle of nowhere! 🙂 The middle of nowhere…. squared! The town wears it as a badge of honour. Somebody made up wooden plaques in the shape of Montana, with a dot in the upper RH corner labeled “Nowhere” and gave one to every business in town. Most of them display it right by the register.… Read more »

Knute

Yup. But Randy Weaver made a whole LOT of mistakes prior to the fed lockdown. Just like the ‘freemen’ in Brusett across the Missouri Breaks from me did. He’d have never even gotten on their radar if he hadn’t started going to those skinhead rallies. That he never joined… but that didn’t matter. Once they noticed him, and thought he could be forced into being a double agent, the fix was in… And just the remoteness still forced the attackers to go into lockdown mode… because they know they’ll be seen coming, and they at least DO know what all… Read more »

Dave in Fairfax

Oldvet, Nope, nobody in here but us chickens.

Knute

Oldvet) Thanks. I know I get a little verbose sometimes, but this was the perfect place for that little tale. Being a Montana local I hear most local gossip (you know how people like to talk… 🙂 ), but in this particular case I got it right from the horse’s mouth.
My ex-wife’s family owned the garage in Jordan, so it was a favorite story to laugh at the F’in Bunch of Idiots over at their table! I heard it over and over again at every holiday gathering. 🙂
I was still married back then.

Finnky

@Knute Knute – Driving that badly, it seems they were never trained. First rule of driving fast is to know your stopping distance and keep it within your sightline. Not at all hard to slow for a turn you can see coming, and if you cannot see it you should have already slowed. Duh. For some reason I though you were in Colorado like @USA and was thinking of asking about stopping by during the great meat shortage of 2020-2021. However Montana’s just a bit too far for a day trip. T-bone price may go through the roof, but if… Read more »

UncAl

We also “DON’T NEED” a loud-mouthed, ignorant CZAR, either; Comrade Cuomo!

joefoam

If he is truly ‘ one of the least popular’ governors in America, how does he continue to get reelected. Are NYC voters that stupid…oh wait, they elected DeBlasio too.

Sandbagger

When are New Yorkers going to realize Democrats don’t care about them at all . Especially Cuomo he’s a anti American anti constitution scumbag scamming off the backs of Hard working NEW YORKERS for his own personal gain. The dumacrats could care less about the middle and lower class Americans. All they want is to step on your throats control you and take every thing you own. Wake up N.Y. And all Americans worldwide domination is in the works and America is the last bastion of hope . Turn off main stream media and do your own research and good… Read more »

Dragonfly

Cuomo loves to hear himself talk. Unfortunately, 99% of the people having to listen do not.
DF

reno

all democRATS are wanna be dictators

Coelacanth

I used to like Guinea Pigs.

Sandbagger

How do they taste?

Dave in Fairfax

Sandbagger, You’ve never had tree rat? Try it with a sweet, hot BBQ sauce.

BadDad

Hmmm. I always thought tree rats were squirrels.

Dave in Fairfax

BadDad, They are. My guess is they taste a lot alike.

Dave in Fairfax

Oldvet, I love turning Osage. GORGEOUS color, Locust and Mulberry are a bit like it, and if you keep it out of the sun it stays golden a lot longer. (Insert post wearing out hole joke here.)

Yup. We get reds and grays here. When I was a kid we’d bark ’em so as to not mess up the meat. Fried with a beer batter, BBQ’d, even stewed they are good. Like pistachios though. We used to pot them out the back window. Nowadays the cops would have SWAT on your butt for doing that.

Knute

Diamond willow here in Montana has the same property, of not rotting when in contact with the ground. There used to be lots of them as fence posts, but they got too valuable for that and are mostly all gone now.
I happen to know of a diamond willow grove that still exists. I camp there too. It’s an awesome spot. I harvest a few pieces once in a while to make canes out of.

Finnky

@Knute Knute – Down here in Texas we have cedar. Not fancy like cherry wood, but to me a nice piece of cedar is beautiful. The grain has gross color variations, often a reddish-brown at core sort of like redwood) and lighter almost pine color further out, all of it with very strong grain and obvious growth rings. Grew up with redwood, but that is a rather soft wood. We had redwood floors in the house and even with strong varnish needed to treat it with care. Amazing that wood so soft can support trees so tall and long lived… Read more »

Wild Bill

This is totally unrelated to anything previously addressed a ammoland, before! A local station added “Hogan’s Heroes” to the line up. I had not seen this serial comedy since I was ten years old. Can anyone explain to me why Sgt Schultz, the German guard carries a 30-40 Krag rifle?

Greg K

Which variant? Springfield? Krag- Jorgensen?

Take a peek at the guns of Germany WW2…There are rifles that look strikingly similar. Certainly the Danish Krag Jorgensen could have made it into German hands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_firearms_of_Germany#Rifles

Wild Bill

@gk, I believe that it was the Hollywood variant, that made it into Stalag 13 hands! 😉

Greg K

Methinks you’re probably spot on…Good Eye!

Wild Bill

@OV, I just love those oldies. WETV has them all. Amazing that 55 years later, Andy Griffith, Bob Crane, and Richard Boone are the best thing on TV.

Knute

Perhaps because he sees (and knows) “NaaTHING”? 🙂 Like I said, I crack myself up.

Dave in Fairfax

WB, we’ve been getting Hogan and Gilligan and Black Sheep and all the good old shows for a while. See if you can get “Antenna TV” in your line-up.

moe mensale

Since when does the governor of one state wield any power or influence over the citizens of another state? Don’t you think that other governor will be a bit pissed off over the interloper who’s interfering in his state’s business? You’re an idiot. Still.

Sandbagger

Now this guy is cute !

Knute

Moe) It also appears that you are as unpopular as ever. Still.
Perhaps try some even bigger clown shoes? 🙂