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Hell, even that (middle-o-the-road) would be a huge improvement over the socialist pinkos that keep getting thrown our way.

How can he fight this? There will always be guilt by association in the minds of many no matter what is proven.

That is kind of depressing. Only two dealers in Long Island and one in Rochester throughout the whole state that are willing to transfer mail order ammo. And one of those in Long Island is into looking to make some good money with a $70 fee per transaction. I understand why it is so difficult to come up with these arrangements. It could very well be ammo sales lost by these NYS dealers.

Looks like it could be any of a dozen different animals that have spent too much time eating up those rotten apples under the trees. Could even belong to the guy in that boot that's in the picture.

All I hear is rumors of "big chains" dropping the sale of ammo because of the time and red-tape.

Well, this thread has certainly inspired me. Next year I have to try for 9 deer in 4 seconds. Is there anyway I can get 9 tags in NYS? Well, maybe I'll have to go out of state. I'll bet some of those guys in those speed shooting competitions could do it. They could probably get some lead somewhere in them. This could lead to a whole new sport ..... Speed shooting deer. Whack 'em and stack 'em boys! The winner is the one who gets lead in the most deer in the least time. Great fun ....eh?

I don't think New Yorkers would recognize a Conservative Republican if they saw one. My gosh ..... Pataki was labeled a Conservative Republican. Can you imagine that? It's crazy, anyone in NY that doesn't believe in give-away programs and cradle-to-grave welfare and income re-distribution is labeled a Conservative and the term is spit out like a curse-word here.

It is depressing to think of all the Republicans in NYS, trump is the best they can come up with. It just tells you that there is really something terribly wrong with the candidate selection process. There might also be something terribly wrong with the job also that makes any serious potential candidates run like hell from any consideration for nomination.

The man is a complete Bozo, but if he were the only candidate running against Cuomo, I would definitely vote for him. Let's see, who would I not vote for if they came up against Cuomo? Well maybe Putin, or somebody with Ayatollah in front of his name ...... maybe. No matter who the opposition is, Cuomo has to go!

But Cuomo and his merry band of gun-grabbers have succeeded in shutting down the mail order and internet purchases of ammo, and have gotten some of the major chains thinking that they should get out of the ammo business, which was most likely the original purpose. Ha-ha .... Nobody ever accused Cuomo and his cohorts of being stupid. Maybe a bit on the evil side, but still, very clever.

I believe that simply voting to replace all of the legislators would be a mistake. We did have supporters in that vote. Make the vote count. Strategically target specifically those that voted for the SAFE ACT as the ones who need to go. Don't send a message that regardless of how you voted on this act, there was no right answer. Straighten their minds out on gun issues. Make them understand that there is a correct way for them to think and vote on these kinds of bills.

I am not talking about voting very conservative republicans (although that would be ideal ....lol), I am talking about voting out those that voted for the SAFE ACT. In fact I did go out of my way to say that ideologies are not influencing my vote at all this time around. I am all about sending a message with my vote. That's all, it's a very simple concept. If the message is put across politicians will understand how to vote on gun issues, now and in the future. And I believe that if all or even most gun owners can be dedicated to that idea, that we would form a solitary focused voting block that could put that message across loud and clear for decades to come. I am not talking about a vote that will get the SAFE ACT repealed. I am talking about an effort that will get all politicians thinking right on all gun issues and understanding the dangers of voting in anti-gun directions. Once they are convinced that anti-gun support could spell the death knell to their careers, the SAFE ACT and all future similar efforts will take care of themselves. We need a show of solidarity and a return to a position of political power. The other choice is to do nothing and live with a future of accelerating and escalating gun control. Of course if we are going to be inundated from our own ranks with those attempting to demoralize the effort with dire predictions of certain failure, then yes perhaps it will be a vain attempt. We don't need people doing the antis work for them. The best way to ensure failure is to preach it.

Apparently memories are quite short. I believe that Rockefeller and Pataki were not Democrats. There are other examples where areas that were solidly democrat voted in Republican candidates. So the mistaken idea that only democrats can win in NYS is a flawed thought. And all these defeatist attitudes may be great aid and comfort to the enemy and great encouragement for the anti-gunners, but I certainly hope that not too many gun owners are buying into it. Look nobody is saying that it will all be a walk in the park, and nobody is guaranteeing that we can even pull it off. And we don't really even have to unseat every candidate that voted for that piece of trash law. But whining about how tough it will be and even trying to dissuade people from even trying is about as counter-productive an action as I have heard so far and certainly plays well into the hands of these anti-gun politicians who believe that their constituents have absolutely no recourse.

Frankly, the opponents to Cuomo and his sidekicks can be comprised of any kind of ideologues and I don't care. For me my vote is established by that voting record for the SAFE ACT. That is my litmus test this year. I am a one issue voter this year and that issue is to punish those who voted for that act, and to send a clear and distinct message that voting for anti-gun legislation will cost you your job. We have never had such a huge opportunity to make a statement that will last for decades......if we can stay dedicated to principle. Even though there appears to be flagging concern about what was accomplished by this little fascist, I still believe (or hope) that the bitter taste in our mouths over this can be worked into a frenzy and energized into unified voting action by the NYS gun and hunting organizations. However, I caution against becoming fragmented over other issues. If that happens, we lose this election, and the battle to save future gun owner's rights. If we can knock off even 50% of the legislators that voted for that bill, the message will be huge! And if we can take down Cuomo, we will have the legislaors trembling in their shoes anytime a gun control piece of legislation is even thought about.

That is absolutely correct. A determined and organized and focused minority will take out any politician they want to if they can stay dedicated to their principles and their disgust for these enemies of the 2nd Amendment. The big-city welfare staters do not all vote, and the ones that do are not singular in purpose and fragment their votes among all kinds of liberal causes. If we can act as a single dedicated voting block, I have no doubt that heads will roll. Also, if we fail to do this, all kinds of anti-gun politicians will be emboldened and will be coming out of the woodwork right at us. You can take that to the bank! Somehow we have to put the fear of God back into these people, and appeasement and thank you letters have no place in this fight. That is the message and the battle plan that I hope all of the gun advocacy and hunting organizations will be pushing.

No! I will not become them. I am not two-faced, and I don't even want to let them think for a moment that I am. I have just one focused goal, and it does not include making nice-nice with a demonstrated enemy of the 2nd Amendment. And that includes saying anything good to him or about him. To be just a little more frank about it, I hate his guts and will not rest easy until he and all his anti-gun buddys learn the career costs when they thumb their noses at gun owners. This is a vendetta, and I do not want him to ever think any differently. There is no purpose to sending the enemy thank-you notes and it only shows a lack of unity, and determination to be running around thanking him for anything or in any other fashion affording him any thought that we are a bunch of naïve jerks that can be walked over. It disappoints me that other gun owners do not have the same singularity of purpose and attitude.

And I can drive into any city across the US and see strings of generations of welfare recipients that have never known anything but a life of welfare income. Much of our welfare system results in a strangle hold on generation after generation that grow up dependent on the government for their existence and cannot seem to break the chain. For many it has become a way-of-life. It's a cruel system that enslaves the recipients with dependency and lowered expectations. Yes there are some who run onto hard times and need a hand up but there are a lot of others who are in that situation because they were born into it and previous generations were born into it. It is a system that needs cleaning, and very little can be said in defense of the way we conduct our assistance programs. Many of these have been modeled with an intent that it is to become a lifestyle for those claimed by it. The temporariness has been changed to assumptions that this is to be the way people will live and people have responded in exactly that fashion.

It's not paranoia if everyone really is out to get you .....lol.

I am now getting a bit of insight into why Cuomo and his merry band of anti-gun politicos feel they can get away with such heavy-handed mis-treatment of gun owners. In such a short time span, he throws a bone to hunters, and they all come groveling back to him licking his feet like some whipped dogs. My gosh, nobody seems to have any true convictions anymore that can't be bought off with some meaningless gesture. All I can say is get used to the SAFE ACT and all such future intrusions on your 2nd Amendment rights because the gun-owning population is now showing just how shallow their convictions really go. I was hoping that the disgust and discontent might last until the election of these filthy creeps came up, and now I find people who are already crawling back with their hat-in-hand, ready to bow down and thank the author of one of the greatest gun-grabs in history for a little scrap thrown to them on the ground. Well, thank you all for a little dose of reality.

Very good article, especially since I can see a need for the checks and balances placed on the DEC as an agency, and the need for over-sight to ensure that all of the state's citizenry are safeguarded and represented in matters of environmental conservation. The trick is getting the right checks and balances and ensuring that. From what I can make out, there doesn't really seem to be any guidelines as to what environmental issues belong in the control of the DEC and which ones belong in the legislature. It just seems to be very arbitrary to me.

As we bow down and worship the gods of technology, it seems that very few have bothered to look at where all this stuff is taking us. I mean really, how often do you ever see anyone concerned about the speed and lack of controls on technological invasion of privacy and the insertion of government into our lives. Sometimes someone may laughingly mention it, but there really doesn't seem to be any real alarm. And yet everyday the government gets another tool to remotely monitor and study us and wrap another tentacle of invasiveness around us. I hear others in other threads talk about armed insurrection over infringements on our 2nd Amendment rights, and yet there is really very little concern ever mentioned about how technological fire-power and super-invasive government surveillance has truly made that option quite impossible.

Batteries on my new Cuddeback Attack survived two nights of -7 degrees. 4 "D"-size Duracells

Of more recent vintage, two stand out as my favorites. The first was a super funny movie with Robert DeNiro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Kline, called "Last Vegas". No that's not a typo...lol. The second was War Horse. I have never seen a movie theater audience applaud at the end of a movie before, but everyone in the whole place gave the movie a loud round of applause. Great, great story!

It is amazing how completely different all of these nuts taste. The black walnut is a stronger flavored nut and nothing like an english walnut. To be honest, I don't remember how the butternuts tasted. The bad thing is that everything that you put any of these nuts into will make you fat ..... lol.

No butternuts this year. I don't know what happened, but in our area butternuts and acorns didn't come on like the other nut crops did. Maybe next year.