“Proposed legislation in New York could make the state in the nation the first to block gun makers from selling pistols if they don’t take measures to prevent them from being able to be converted to fire like machine guns,” The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. “The bill … was drafted in response to the growing use of the attachments, called ‘pistol converters’ or ‘Glock switches,’ that are placed on popular semiautomatic pistols such as those made by Glock, said the bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Zellnor Myrie, a Democrat who represents a Brooklyn district.”
From S9225 (ACTIVE) – BILL TEXT:
“CONVERTIBLE PISTOL” MEANS ANY SEMI-AUTOMATIC PISTOL THAT CAN BE CONVERTED INTO A MACHINE-GUN SOLELY BY THE INSTALLATION OR ATTACHMENT OF A PISTOL CONVERTER…
What semiauto pistols (or rifles, for that matter) are not convertible, or how to render the ones that are no longer convertible, is left undefined. And that’s intentional.
When it comes to citizen disarmament, Myrie’s establishing himself as a player. As the article notes, Democrats control both houses in the New York legislature, and he has sponsored several of their “gun control” measures. In 2021, he was named “lawmaker of the year” by billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown and its funded subsidiaries Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action for fighting to sue gun makers for abuse of their products by criminals.
He’s pushed for financial discrimination against the gun industry, and wants to “amend the state’s criminal nuisance law, which states that individuals are prohibited from engaging in reckless or unlawful behavior that may violate the health and safety of others, to include the sale or manufacturing of products that endanger people’s health or safety, like guns.”
As for those doing the actual endangering and killing with guns? He makes a curious comparison.
“On 3/31/1817, the NYS legislature abolished slavery in this state,” he declared in a pinned tweet. “On 3/31/2019, we voted to reform the state’s criminal justice system. It was a vote to begin the journey of freeing my people from mass incarceration and the honor of my life to be a part of this historic time.”
“In 2021, as a rise in gun violence swept through communities of color across the state and the country, Senator Myrie wrote the first-in-the-nation gun industry liability law, aiming to hold irresponsible dealers and manufacturers whose dangerous weapons end up on our streets accountable in court,” he asserted on his campaign website. “He also sponsored a law that now requires the state to invest resources in hospital-and community-based violence intervention programs which are proven to break the cycle of gun violence. In 2022, in response to Supreme Court decisions Senator Myrie played a crucial part in strengthening New York’s current concealed-carry permit laws.”
We’ve seen how “violence intervention programs” “work.” Some examples:
- “Anti-violence worker busted with gun on Near West Side street, Chicago police say,” CWB Chicago reported in March. He’s charged with Class X armed habitual criminal and being a felon in possession of a firearm.”
- “The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a raid on the headquarters of Baltimore’s ‘Safe Streets’ program … reportedly on allegations that the taxpayer-funded community program is somehow mixed up with the very gang members they are supposed to be keeping in check,” The Western Journal reported last October.
- “Anti-violence program director pleads guilty in Orange County drug probe,” the Times Union reported that same month.
- “Head of Group Involved in NYC’s ‘Blueprint to End Gun Violence’ Hit With Gun, Drug Charges,” Townhall reported in August.
- “A former Boston Public Schools academic dean who led a double life as a member of the Latin Kings gang and shot a student pleaded guilty to racketeering charges,” Boston.com reported in 2022.
I could go on and on. Seriously. I’ve been noticing these things since 2007 when I learned about Hector “Big Weasel” Marroquin, who founded No Guns “purportedly to work against gang and gun violence in the inner city [and] charged with the sale of an assault rifle, a machine gun, two pistols and two silencers…It is his second weapons-related arrest in as many years.”
Back to this raving Myrie collectivist’s latest assault on the right of the people to keep and bear arms – if it “succeeds,” it won’t end up just applying to pistols:
…what law enforcement officials say is a growing threat: Handguns and rifles [emphasis added] illegally modified with a small device to shoot like machine guns. Referred to as “Glock switches” or “auto sears,” these devices have proliferated on the streets, officials say, amplifying the impact of gun violence. Tiny, cheap and easy to install, they are being imported from China, but also are being made with 3D printers.
The grabbers will include semi-auto rifles in the mix, and as long as they’re on a roll, why limit the qualifiers to internal devices like switches and sears? As long as they’re being redundantly obsessive, why not ban firearms that external devices like “bump stocks” can be attached to?
But no one’s talking about taking your guns – right?
So, Sen. Myrie, ban guns, sue manufacturers out of existence, jail gun owners exercising their rights caught violating your edicts, and “let my people (those committing the crimes) go,” because… racism? That’s the “commonsense gun safety” you and the despicable Astroturfers backing you are trying to impose everywhere, in Everytown…?
As peaceable gun owners we’ll go through the moves of opposing you through speech, through petitioning, through elections, and through the courts (even though we realize states thumbing their noses at the Bruen standard have virtually unlimited resources to drag their harassments on for years). But ultimately, say the Stupid Party blows it in November and the Democrats presume the power to stack the Supreme Court with rubber stampers for the violence monopolists, there’s one ultimate reality they (and you, Senator) will have to contend with from a core group of gun owners:
We will not disarm. If you’re stupid enough to push that, it’s on you.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll continue saying it, the gun and ammunition manufacturers, wholesellers, and retailers need to form a loose “guild” or “union” against these gun control states and (KOFF!) “legislators” (KOFF!) (tyrants). These tyrants DO believe in guns, but only in the “right” hands (their Chosen Ones kops and bodyguards). The firearms union need to tell these tyrants, “so long as you continue to push Gun Control, we will not sell or repair any guns, or sell any ammunition to your “Chosen Ones”. We know who you are. We have our own list. You’re on your own.… Read more »
you forgot the progs constituents, the criminals/gangbangers, will have firearms even after they push these stupid, do nothing laws. this paragraph is rich, “On 3/31/1817, the NYS legislature abolished slavery in this state,” he declared in a pinned tweet. “On 3/31/2019, we voted to reform the state’s criminal justice system. It was a vote to begin the journey of freeing my people from mass incarceration and the honor of my life to be a part of this historic time.” blacks are still slaves to the state of ny and the city because they cannot defend themselves from the criminal element… Read more »
How is letting criminals out early or no cash bail helping anyone. Everyone is subject when it comes to implementation of a new law like this, NY, OR, WA, CA, NM, you name it because as soon as one commie blue state shows that it can be done, the rest of the blue states come on board just like Red Flag laws.
In other words, you are not alone.
m44 – a bit late to this party – yer first line nails the problem but the antis flatly refuse to even admit that there is such a problem – they are too busy demonizing inanimate objects and their legal owners.
I can whole-heartedly agree with your thinking here, but in reality and much to our dismay, firearms and ammunition manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers are businesses that must place profits and growth above their support for the Constitution of the United States of America. In other words, they support the 2nd Amendment up to the point that it begins to erode their livelihood. Without a positive return on investment, they won’t exist long. If they do not exist, they cannot offer any 2A support. Most if not all governmental business is awarded on contract after competitive bidding. Most of these contracts… Read more »
This is EXACTLY where the industry takes the people for granted favoring the states and three letter nazi agencies (leos etc) over us. The industry ought to pick a side and not constantly screw their customers by arming the states that disarm, red flag, harm and kill their citizens. PARTICULARLY ATF!!!!!! Glock and S&W, ALL Ammo manufacturers ETC. should STOP ARMING ATF to kill American gun owners!!!!! SHEESH, it’s not that hard. CUT THEM OFF!!!!! How about ceasing to arm congressional protection details until they come to the aid of the American tax slaves? Be honorable like Ronnie Barrett. Be… Read more »
J. – makes ya wonder just how big of a percentage of their business is from us plain old ordinary people as opposed to those lucrative gubmint contracts.
IMHO Ronnie B has likely not lost enough business from denying certain entities the use of his excellent products, his company is still in existence after all.
The domestic enemy within.
Insanity. Any machine can be altered or modified to do things it was not designed for.
More proof that liberals only talk in STUPID is as STUID says!
Ban ALL Gun Prohibitionists and LiberaIs!
Gun control fails because it mistakenly assumes that the opposite of “Armed & Dangerous” is “Unarmed & Safe”.
Rac – ah but you left out the part of ‘unarmed and safe’ that places ya under the control of tptb.
FK New Yak , never been there and never plan on going there and as far as I am concerned it can be under 20 feet of water when the glaciers melt and we will be better off .
To be brutally honest, on 9/11, it felt like watching something happening in another country; not a tragic disaster in (my) United States.
i wonder how many of these gun ban proponents are moslims or back by moslim money? remember they like knives and an unarmed man against a knife wielding moslim in pretty much a lost cause. think on it if you can
BloomBERG, FeinSTEIN, Boxer, Kohl, Cellar, Metzenbaum, Schumer, LautenBERG, Nadler, et al. “It’s da moslims I tell ya.” LOL, I’m starting to see a pattern here.
I don’t like going in unarmed against a knife, but I have foubd myself in that circumstance on a couple of occasions. It is by no means a lost cause.
RTH – not been directly in a blade on blade confrontation but the experts agree that in such circumstances both participants will likely get cut, it just depends on who gets it worse.
Myrie is just another black racist protecting his criminal constituents. When the blacks stop committing 50% of ALL crime and 80% of INTERRACIAL crime (black on white), maybe then they won’t make up the majority of the prison population. In effect, we have 3-5% of the population (black) causing the majority of the crime for the whole country. All you have to do is watch the cop shows on TV or watch the evening news when they show the looters, they are mostly black thugs. As one black man stated on his podcast that I saw a few years ago,… Read more »
Did you see how the negro even got slavery into this story? If you really want to bring violent crime way down, keep young black men locked up until they have served their entire sentence.
Good grief; is it a “gun violence” problem, or is it a “people of color with guns” violence problem?
Good to read your premium product again, Mr. Codrea.
Guns Save more live than they take. Oh, Wait,…. a gun has never taken a life on its own accord. But often, just the mere presence of a firearm has saved the lives of the possessor.
Defy, defy, defy, defy, ignore, defy………FU$k ‘em!!!!!!!!!!!
“H.R. 7109 will soon be voted on in the House of Representatives and is the most important and consequential piece of legislation this year. If passed into law, the census would only count citizens in a state. Current law requires every person (regardless of legal status) to be accounted for. Why does this matter? Political power in the House of Representatives is based on 435 seats divided over the entire population of the county. In the past 3 years under Biden, as few as 10 million, but likely as many as 25 million illegal aliens have entered the United… Read more »
Logic similar to: “Because rapes happen, males must be banned.”
The REAL solution to ending all of this tyranny, is to hit it where it counts the most, which is in the 100% corrupted legal system/Matrix! THAT is where we have to end it. The tyranny begins in various places in governments, with the self serving politicians and bureaucrats. They are the ones who act as the tyrants they really are, and then they depend upon the completely corrupted legal system/Matrix to carry out their unlawful acts for them. Because the legal system/Matrix is a criminal cabal, and is violating its own rules and regulations and is committing crimes against… Read more »