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How is the hunting in Putnam county? I was looking to deer hunt that county this year and see that Kent Hills and Caramel has available land. Any feedback would be appreciated.

Might have lost my hunting land this year and was thinking of hunting "Storm King" state park. Anyone hunt there and have any advice?

We became a target by being non-muslims. Google "Beslan, school, russia" to see what these terrorists are about. This bombing was a test, they are seeing what the dumb infidels will allow and accept. They are basically "testing the fence" with this one. These two are pattsies, just tools used by the ring leaders.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but he will not be executed if found guilty. His defense will probably go somthing like this: "He was a small boy from a foreign land who grew up confused with an older brother serving as his father image. An older brother who was anti-american because of the ridicule he suffered in this country. In fact that is why the older brother took up boxing. To defend himself from the American bullies. He learnt to hate and followed his olders brother's orders out of fear. The older brother proved his power over people by brainwashing his american wife" Plus we don't execute Muslims in this country. Remember 9/11? Go to www.youtube.com and search "Beslan, school" If you want to see the gene pool this guy came from. Killing children is their specialty.

ANTS, they are buying into the "gun show loophole" crap. You know, grandpa dies and grandma takes his guns to the gun show. Leroy shows up, buys them all up and heads to Chicago to use them in crimes. Of course this doesn't apply to handgun transfers, but they make the idotic public think gun shows are for buying crime guns. You want to reduce crime?? Increase CCW in that area. Chicago doesn't have a gun problem, it has a leadership and people problem.

We are not bickering, we are exercising our 1st amendment right. Something liberals don't understand either. Here is a link for the lawsuit against the SAFE law. Warning, the photo at the top of the article is disturbing http://www.humanevents.com/2013/02/04/empire-state-gun-owners-sue-to-block-states-gun-ban/

Ted usually spits out the facts quite well. I guess CNN needs a ratings boost , but not sure I can stomach watching CNN though. The Clinton New Network (CNN) always turned my stomach with their yellow journalism.

Agree to disagree. This is a political forum in the hunting section. It must be rememberd that (firearm) hunters are gunowners first and hunters second. Hunting and self defense are by-products of the 2nd Amendment NOT the reason for it. On this there is NO compromise. The NY SAFE law is an example of what happens politicians compromise on our behalf and without our consent.

Steve agreed, the NRA is NOT the all almighty. WE THE PEOPLE are....literally. But the NRA can help alert us and direct our resources to a common effort. Obama and Feinstein try to paint the NRA as some large corporate machine that benefits itself like Exxon/Mobil. The NRA is the largest and most powerful citizens group on the planet. Their power is a representation of our power. And if all gun owners maintained an NRA membership then NY would NOT have been able to pass its recent legislation.

Well put, not sure why that Obama loving gun hater is on this forum to begin with. Guess he couldn't find the Diane Feinstein forum.

Sadly you don't have any idea what you are talking about and clearly don't understand the 2nd Amendment. Sad but true, the imbalanced lower county Assembly reps out vote the upstate legislators. Yeh,Chicago's gun laws work great. Only 5 people were murdered in one days violence. Imagine how much higher it would be if they allowed the law abiding to carry concealed. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/27/at-least-5-die-in-shootings-on-bloody-chicago-day/

I am getting tired of hearing self hating gun owners blame the NRA for their own laziness. If you are a member of the NRA then you received the following. If you are not, then you are to blame for the loss of everyones gun rights. Action CenterMedia Center Feinstein Introduces Massive Semi-Auto Firearm and Magazine Ban Posted on January 25, 2013 Feinstein Introduces Massive Semi-Auto Firearm and Magazine Ban On Jan. 24, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) introduced S. 150, her long-anticipated bill to ban "assault weapons" and "large" magazines. Contrary to media claims that Feinstein wants to "reinstate" the 1994 ban, the bill will go much further toward her stated long-term goal of gun confiscation, imposing a host of absurdly broad definitions and onerous restrictions: Ban the sale, transfer, manufacture or importation of 157 named firearms. Presumably, these were chosen by looking at pictures, as Sen. Feinstein has said she did before introducing her first legislation on the issue in 1993. Ban all semi-automatic rifles that can accept a detachable magazine. This is because the bill would ban any semi-automatic detachable-magazine rifle that has even one "feature," particularly a pistol grip—which is defined to include any "characteristic that can function as a grip." Other features that would cause a rifle to be banned include a forward grip; folding, telescoping, or detachable stock; grenade launcher or (as an absurd propaganda move) rocket launcher; barrel shroud; or a threaded barrel. Ban all detachable-magazine semi-auto pistols that have any of the following: a threaded barrel, second pistol grip, or magazine that mounts anywhere other than the grip. The bill would also ban any handgun that is a semi-automatic version of a fully automatic handgun. Ban all semi-automatic rifles and handguns that have fixed magazines that accept more then 10 rounds. Ban all semi-automatic shotguns that have just one of the following: a folding, telescoping, or detachable stock; a pistol grip; a fixed magazine that can accept more than five rounds, a detachable magazine; a forward grip; a revolving cylinder; or a grenade or rocket launcher. As with the rifle provision, this could potentially ban any semi-auto shotgun, because all of them have "characteristics that can function as a grip." And of course, countless Americans have pistol-grip shotguns for home defense. Ban all belt-fed semi-automatic firearms, such as semi-auto replicas of historic machine guns. Ban all frames or receivers of banned guns, even though in many cases they are identical to the frames and receivers of guns that would not be banned. Ban "combinations of parts" from which "assault weapons" can be assembled. Read broadly, this could ban the acquisition of a single spare part that could be combined with parts you already own. Ban any "part, combination of parts, component, device, attachment, or accessory that is designed or functions to accelerate the rate of fire of a semiautomatic rifle"--a vague definition that could ban items such as competition trigger parts. Ban the sale or transfer of all ammunition feeding devices that hold more than ten rounds. Even those lawfully possessed before passage of the bill could never be transferred, even to your heirs through a will. Though not requiring registration of currently owned firearms under the National Firearms Act (as Feinstein threatened in December), the new bill would go far beyond the failed 1994 semi-auto ban by requiring background checks on the private transfer of any "grandfathered" firearm. Finally, unlike the 1994 ban, the new bill will not include an automatic "sunset" clause, so it would remain in effect unless repealed. In announcing the bill, Feinstein misrepresented the effectiveness of past semi-auto bans. For example, she claimed that Maryland's "assault pistol" ban had reduced crime. But in Maryland, the murder trend after the state passed its ban on so-called "assault pistols" was far worse than in the rest of the country. Similarly, in California, during the first five years after passage of the state's 1989 "assault weapon" ban, the state's murder rate increased 26 percent, compared to an 11 percent increase in the rest of the country. During the first five years after California expanded the ban starting in 2000, the state's murder rate increased 10 percent, compared to a six percent decrease in the rest of country. Feinstein also misrepresented the findings of a congressionally mandated study completed by Jeffrey Roth and Christopher Koper for the Urban Institute. In the handouts provided by her office, Feinstein claimed the report said "Assault weapons are disproportionately involved in murders with multiple victims, multiple wounds per victim, and police officers as victims." But here's what the report really found: "Some of our own analyses added evidence that assault weapons are disproportionately involved in murders with multiple victims, multiple wounds per victim, and police officers as victims" (emphasis added), but "We were unable to detect any reduction to date in two types of gun murders that are thought to be closely associated with assault weapons, those with multiple victims in a single incident and those producing multiple bullet wounds per victim. We did find a reduction in killings of police officers since mid-1995. However, the available data are partial and preliminary, and the trends may have been influenced by law enforcement agency policies regarding bullet-proof vests." The misuse and misinterpretation of study findings has become a common tactic of anti-gun politicians because they know that the 1994 ban had no real impact on crime. In one of the frequent moments of candor that make his allies cringe, Vice-President Biden admitted as much in an online forum Jan. 24, saying, "t is true that the vast majority of gun deaths in America are not a consequence of the use of an assault weapon" and that a ban "is not an answer to all the problems." Nonetheless, Biden claimed the ban is a "rational limitation" because in his opinion, people concerned about self-defense should just use double-barreled shotguns anyway. Despite advice like this, Americans have voted with their pocketbooks, buying about 50 million semi-automatic firearms--including nearly 4 million AR-15 rifles--since 1991. And, since the Supreme Court said in District of Columbia v. Heller that a handgun ban was unconstitutional in part because "handguns are the most popular weapon chosen by Americans for self-defense in the home," popular rifles should be just as firmly protected. To find contact information for your elected officials, use the "Write Your Reps" feature at www.NRAILA.org. You can reach your member of Congress by phone at 202-224-3121. Click here for tips on effective communication with your lawmakers, and don't forget to visit www.GunBanFacts.com for the truth about semi-auto bans..

There was a local one here on Long island in Huntington. Of course the article about it included false-hoods. http://www.newsday.com/long-island/towns/gun-rights-advocates-rally-in-huntington-1.4476222 Here's one example of the journalistic idocy. "Many of Saturday's participants vocally opposed and held signs against the new state gun laws, especially the restriction of ammunition magazines to seven bullets from the national standard of 10."

You know what, I don't think it was your fault after all. In facts its God's fault. He created the rain and an idiot like you. So hide behind your mistake and call others names. You are an embarrasment to gun owners. I only hope he created you sterile as well, so you don't pass on your diminished inteligence to others.

Your 10 rounds mags are grandfathered, but you can't load them with more than 7 rounds,inside or outside of the home. The criminal charge changes depending if you are caught inside or outside.

You can buy as many thumbhole stocks as you like,no law against that. But install it on a semi-auto rifle that has a detachable magazine and now you have an assault weapon and it must be registered.

It's attitudes like yours that hurt legal gun owners most. Don't lump the actions of illegal gun owners and those of us. Years ago a guy in a pickup truck broadsided a limo and killed the little girl riding inside. I don't remember anyone in the press associating that creeps actions with others who own pickups. So I don't see why you are doing the same. I would like to see the follow up to this story, which we never will. Was the brother arrested? Will Bloomberg lock him up for a year? The story should focus on the breakdown of the family and the mothers inability to properly raise her children. The illegal gun only proves what legal owners already know, that no amount of laws will prevent the actions of criminals.

Thumbhole stocks are not allowed with a detachable magazine firearm now. You must register it.

The NRA is not Exon/Mobil or Apple. They are the largest citizens group in the country. The power resides with us. The NRA alerted its members before this bill was voted on. If the members and non-members did not react and write their legislators as needed then you can't blame the NRA. Wake up already.

Kinda of hard to see what the NRA is saying when you are NOT a member and your head is up your A$$. If you're not with us,you're against us. New York: Governor Andrew Cuomo Seizes Your Gun Rights Overnight with Secret Deals, Procedural Shortcuts and Midnight Votes in Albany Public Input Prevented on Gun Control Debate to Advance Agenda and Political Career Governor Andrew Cuomo, in stunningly brazen fashion, took a hatchet to gun rights in New York with lightning speed. By cutting secret deals behind closed doors, eliminating public input and circumventing normal legislative processes, the Governor and state Senate passed sweeping anti-gun measures just before the stroke of midnight yesterday. Within 24 hours, Cuomo had his new gun control laws. Cuomo utilized a rarely-used executive trick, a "message of necessity" to bypass normal legislative procedures that are strictly followed on hundreds of bills each legislative session. Late last night as the clock approached midnight, the public was introduced to S. 2230,a hastily drafted bill that includes bans on commonly owned semi-automatic firearms and magazines, registration, and restrictions on ammunition purchases. This bill was released to legislators a scant twenty minutes prior to the Senate vote and quickly passed without proper vetting, committee consideration and debate, as previously reported on here. Today, S. 2230 faced the state Assembly where it passed by a 104 to 43 vote and was signed into law by the Governor within an hour of its passage, taking immediate effect. During Assembly debate, it became obvious that the haste with which the bill was drafted and passed resulted in innumerable errors and flaws, damaging gun owners even worse than bill authors probably intended. The NRA-ILA lobbyist spent several days in Albany meeting with lawmakers, but this deal was quickly and quietly being forged behind closed doors. Lawmakers from both political parties were even critical of the process in which Cuomo guaranteed only one outcome would prevail. Prior to this outrageous and undemocratic action, New York already had some of the strictest gun control laws in the country, and they have proven to be failures. When each of New York’s gun laws was enacted, politicians promised it would fix the crime problem. Years later, it is clear that they did not, yet anti-gun lawmakers want more of the same laws. Gun control has not worked because criminals, by definition, do not obey the law. Like previous gun control attempts, S.2230 focuses only on law-abiding gun owners and will do nothing to address public safety or crime. S.2230 expands the state's existing pseudo (semi-auto) "assault weapons" ban by outlawing pre-ban firearms, unless they are registered. This new state law also expands what is now considered an “assault weapon” and goes beyond the expired federal law. This statute also lowers New York's magazine capacity limit from ten rounds to seven. You can possess magazines capable of holding more than ten for one year, but you cannot sell or transfer them to anyone living in New York. State residents have one year from enactment to transfer or surrender them. Incredibly, S.2230 will also require background checks on ammunition purchases and prohibit online sales of both firearms and ammunition. It also includes universal background checks on all firearms transfers with certain exemptions for immediate family. S.2230 also requires mental health practitioners to report if someone is a threat to himself or others (without requiring an adjudication) and such person must surrender their gun. These failed gun control ideas will not address crime, but today Cuomo and his accomplices did irreparable damage to the constitutional rights of New Yorkers. In his recent state of the state address, Cuomo made it clear that passing gun control would be the first major issue of the 2013 legislative session. He seized the opportunity to exploit tragedy and put his own personal politics ahead of sound public policy. Your governing officials resorted to deception, secrecy and procedural gamesmanship because they were too afraid to let gun owners make their voices heard. In the short time this issue was before the state Legislature, hundreds of phone calls and e-mails flooded the Capitol. The politicians might be able to sidestep gun owners now, but the next election will be a different story. This legislation is still less than 24 hours old, and it contains many complex details and nuances that were secretly withheld from public view. NRA-ILA’s legal staff will continue to examine this new law and determine if future litigation may be appropriate. As we challenge these new laws, we will continue to report to our members, so please stay tuned and continue to visit www.nraila.org.

Buck up and pay for your mistake. You left it in the trunk, you got what you deserve. Not to mention the fact it could have been stolen. You give gun owners a bad name.

Correct, it is indirect confiscation. First year assault weapon registration fees may be $10.00 per firearm. Then next year $20.00 per firearm, and more the year after that. Up and up until you can't afford it and are forced to sell them, but wait.....Obama will have past his ban on the interstate sale of assault weapons. So simply say bye, bye.

They may have backed Romney but that didn't change their editorial content or liberal slant. Those poll results are shocking, I knew that the public supports gun ownership but not too that level.

Wow, I didn't know you polled the whole nation. Guess an actual poll done live by the public is rigged by the liberal newspaper that is hosting it. http://www.newsday.com/take-newsday-s-gun-ownership-survey-1.4441485

Very funny Mayor Bloomberg, but this site is for gunowners, not ignorant fools like you. If you don't respect my 2nd amendment right, I won't respect your 1st amendment right. So shut the EFF up and crawl back under your rock. Let's not forget that the gunowners created this nation, and all the freedoms you enjoy.