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Adirondack fox hunter and his quarry circa 1900.

New York: Senate Democrats Are Destroying Gun Safety By Removing NRA Trainer Certification More proof positive that New York Senate Democrats have never cared about “gun safety.” On Monday, February 5, the Senate Codes Committee is set to move on S.138A, which strips NRA certified instructors from state statute. Certifications expire Dec. 31, 2026, and the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) will then be responsible for creating curricula and promulgating rules and standards for trainer certification. Of course, there is zero evidence that they are willing or even capable of taking on the task. This bill passed the Senate last year, but it did not clear the Assembly before they ended their 2023 session. They are now bringing this legislation back early in the 2024 session, and everyone should be concerned. Please contact members of the Codes Committee immediately and respectfully request a “no” vote on S.138A by clicking the Take Action button below. For decades, the NRA has certified hundreds of thousands of trainers and has been the gold standard for firearms safety programs. There is no rationale for this move to eliminate these trainers, but the motivation is obviously purely political. This ill-conceived bill will impact almost everyone who carries concealed in New York as it will almost certainly throw the entire system into chaos, if not completely shut it down. Arguably every New Yorker is going to be impacted because they are eliminating firearms safety training as we know it. The agenda of Albany’s anti-gun Democrat Majority has become all too apparent – release criminals and disarm honest, law-abiding citizens. This has proven to be a recipe for disaster. For all their disingenuous talk about “gun safety,” eliminating the best training in the world seems to be more folly.

Fred Bear in 1959 on the Little Delta River in Alaska

International lawsuits threaten Americans' 2A rights: America's Second Amendment is deemed as a threat to the rest of the world. At least that's the narrative being used by the anti-gun group Global Action on Gun Violence (GAGV). The new organization recently raised a lawsuit representing Mexico against American firearms manufacturers and gun dealers over the claim that they are fueling cartel violence in Mexico. GAGV sees this as a potential new angle to exert international pressure on the U.S. to further limit Americans' Second Amendment rights. In its lawsuit, GAGV asserts that U.S. firearms policy violates its human rights obligations. This is an underhanded tactic to target American firearm manufacturers and blame them for the criminal actions of others. It seeks to further the entirely false claim that guns and not the individuals wielding them are responsible for crimes.

Private gun sale ban? In an effort to further infringe on Americans' Second Amendment rights, the Biden administration plans to soon roll out new ATF regulations that would effectively ban private gun sales. As Tristan Leavitt, president of the whistleblower organization Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research, argues, "Such an expansive rule that treats all private citizens the same as federal firearms licensees would circumvent the separation of powers in the Constitution, which grants 'all legislative powers' to Congress while requiring that the president 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed.'" The new regulations wouldn't merely require a background check for private gun sales; they also would create a new threshold for anyone selling a firearm, effectively requiring them to register as a federally licensed firearms dealer to legally sell a firearm. Of course, the question of what constitutes a firearms dealer is key, as it has previously been defined as the selling of firearms for "the principal objective of livelihood and profit." That definition of "dealer" would exclude the vast majority of individuals who have sold a firearm. Leavitt noted that the White House directed the ATF to create this regulation and that "whistleblowers say the rule is being drafted by Senior Policy Counsel Eric Epstein, who worked as the Phoenix Field Office's Division Counsel during Operation Wide Receiver (a precursor of Operation Fast and Furious)." Leavitt says that these ATF regulations would so blatantly infringe upon the Second Amendment that he believes the courts would quickly overturn them. Therefore, Biden's likely motive is political, making it a disingenuous gun control issue on which to campaign.

The leftists who feel sorry for these "brown people" have "white guilt" and want to alleviate it with other people's tax dollars. Leftists give far less to charities and always demand bigger government to solve everything. They also refuse to accept responsibility for anything that goes wrong with their agenda, since that will prove they are not "morally superior", just stupid.

I don't care what anyone's opinion is. Opinions are not facts and can be challenged. If you express an opinion, you should be willing to accept challenges to your opinion. If you have carefully formed your opinion, you should be able to defend it and do it civilly. If you get upset when others challenge your opinion and refute it with facts, you prove you have not thought it through and are just wishing it was a fact. If that is you, admit you are not open minded and will never change your mind, no matter how many facts refute what you believe. It's best you don't try to debate your opinion at all. The shouting matches we see on this board are the result of people not being able to open their minds and be civil.

We are not going to make it.

Back then many men could only afford one gun, so the shotgun was chosen as a do it all tool for hunting. It looks like the kid has a single shot of the H&R variety, maybe a Stevens.

Now that is something that should be a crime, considering all the damage they do when in office.

I think the point was we are not supposed to wear anything white while deer hunting.

To me, this seems pretty stupid, but they charged him with a crime. This is what NY thinks is criminal behavior? I think NY has plenty of serious crime it could be attacking, and this ain't it.

What if they get wet?

Wisconsin 1905

I'm confused. And I know of a number of high fence deer hunting places that raise their deer inside their fenced in hunting operation.

Once I hear the phrase "deer on the farm", I think of fences and feeders and big deer that are not wild. These deer make impressive mounts on the wall, but the hunter doesn't have a real adventurous, challenging, skill filled hunting experience to tell with it. This is what I think the desire for big antlers has created. The chance to pay a fortune to score a big antlered buck and show it off. The hunters can't claim to have strength or endurance as a skill set, as most are elderly and look like they couldn't make it to the top of my hill to hunt. They seem to be filling a bucket list with cash they don't want to leave to their heirs. The younger guys are hunting from an elevated stand with all the comforts of home and waiting for the feeder to go off to bring the deer in. Challenging? When I see these shows on TV, all I can think is how the public thinks this is what hunting is like today. It's sad.

When I was a kid we started hunting squirrels with "Wrist Rockets" and ball bearings when we found BB guns were not powerful enough. You get real good with them with lots of practice. It was fun and effective.

The only thing I can say about this is, Some people I know think I waste a lot of time hunting and should be doing other things that need to be done. When I'm successful in the field, with small game, waterfowl or deer, they seem surprised and actually applaud. It proves to them I have a skill set they do not, and they admire it. I can't say that doesn't make me proud.

I always felt the question "Why do you hunt?", coming from non-hunters is best answered with the question, "Why don't you hunt?" As for me, I hunt, and fish, for them same reason. I like to. If I have to explain it to you, you would never understand. I know a few people who like nothing better than staying home in their house. I don't ask them to explain, because I will never understand.