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Immediately, April 9, 2014 Bernadette VanDeinse | (518) 455-5313

BLANKENBUSH BLASTS DEMOCRATS FOR BLOCKING SAFE ACT REPEALER BILLS


Assemblyman Ken Blankenbush (R,C,I-Black River) and Tom King, President of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association (NYSRPA) today blasted Assembly Democrats who recently blocked three of the assemblymans bills to repeal Gov. Cuomos so-called SAFE Act. The bills were held in the Codes Committee this week, meaning theyve been killed for this legislative cycle and will not be brought to the floor for an up or down vote. The audacity of the Assembly Democrats never ceases to astonish me. Instead of allowing these bills to come to the floor for an up or down vote, they chose to hide behind the committee process to avoid public pressure, said Blankenbush. Law-abiding New Yorkers are outraged by this infringement of their Second Amendment rights, and its my job to make every effort to help revoke this deplorable law and pressure downstate Democrats to repeal it. The sad reality is that one political party and one viewpoint dominate the Assembly the antiSecond Amendment voice of the downstate Democratic Majority. Upstate New Yorkers who oppose the NY SAFE Act ought to feel disenfranchised. This law is deeply flawed, and was passed in the middle of the night without input from law enforcement, mental health professionals or the public at large, added King. Blankenbush sponsors two bills to repeal the gun control law (A.5955 and A.5608). He also sponsors a bill that would reverse the provisions of the measure that redefine many guns, pistols and rifles as assault weapons due to what are essentially cosmetic modifications (A.5280). The Codes Committee is dominated by sixteen Democrat members who easily outnumber the six Republicans on the committee. Blankenbush noted that the current structure of assembly committees allows political bias to derail many legislative efforts. The governors so-called SAFE Act infringes on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding New Yorkers. This is not a Republican or Democrat issue, this is a state issue. We must recognize that downstate liberal special interests are hurting the citizens of this state, Blankenbush asserted. -30-

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