Sheriff's
advice: 'Toss gun-registration letters in trash' State
wants to create digital database of all handgun owners by Leo Hohmann
12/21/15
A sheriff in Fulton County, New York, is taking on that
state’s anti-gun establishment by defying an attempt to have legal handgun
owners “recertify” their right to bear arms with the state bureaucracy.
New York adopted the sweeping SAFE Act legislation in 2013
with most of the attention focused on a ban on “assault rifles” and
high-capacity magazines. But a little-known provision of the bill requires
every handgun owner to recertify their permit with the local sheriff or clerk’s
office by 2018. The counties are then required to upload the permit information
to a statewide digital database that is being created. The process must be
repeated every five years.
The state has sent out 500 “invitations” to gun owners in
several counties asking them to participate in an early pilot program. They are
asked to go online and upload their information on each gun they own.
Sheriff Thomas Lorey of Fulton County volunteered his county
to participate in the pilot program, only so he could send a message to the
bureaucrats in the state Capitol, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
“I’m asking everyone that gets those invitations to throw
them in the garbage because that is where they belong,” Lorey said at a recent
meeting with conservative activists. “They go in the garbage because, for 100
years or more, ever since the inception of pistol permits, nobody has ever been
required to renew them.”
The state wants to roll out the new online registration
database by February, Lorey said.
“I don’t think they’re going to be able to do it,” he said.
“Let’s have everybody’s permit expire the same day and let ‘em see what they’re
going to do with it.”
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