Funiciello said both bills are an overreach of federal authority.
He said local gun boards should be elected in each
municipality to determine, on a case-by-case basis, whether residents should be
allowed to buy guns.
“We elect responsible people who we feel are good with their guns,” said Funiciello, a bread company owner and political activist from Hudson Falls.
For now, I'm just going to paste the comment I left. Might come back to this.
“We elect responsible people who we feel are good with
their guns,”
What does that mean? All I can think of is Annie Oakley
(or Sarah Palin) shooting a silver dollar out of the air. It sounds as tho
non-gunowners need not apply. Illegal to be sure.
That brings up that many boards wold likely skew to everyone
or no one gets a gun, tho. How many blacks in the South (or Boston, to be fair)
would have gotten a gun 50 or 60 years ago? Good thing there's no prejudice
anymore.
Then there's, do you want to be on a board turning down a
psychopath's gun application? And betting he doesn't get one anyway? Being sued
might be the least of your worries. If the board is going to make a sound
decision, they're going to have to have access to criminal and mental health
records, presumably. Is that a problem?
These are questions off the top of my head. I trust there
are brighter people in the Derrick and Stefanik campaigns who can come up with
better inquiries. Maybe even the local media can before they make an
endorsement this time around.
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