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More on New York's "musket loophole"
"Last week, The Investigators went undercover to expose a gaping loophole in New York state's gun laws. Now Governor Eliot Spitzer is promising to examine the problem more closely."
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"The black powder rifle's exemption from gun laws is one of the last remaining major gun loopholes in the state of New York. But the days of buying this deadly weapon no questions asked may be numbered.
Our undercover investigation showed with alarming clarity just how easy it is to get a black powder rifle in New York."
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Did they show with alarming clarity how much of a problem this has been for NY?
Posted by: b at October 23, 2007 06:14 PM
Yes. It's that damn deer lobby again. Just follow the money... and the trail of cracked corn.
Posted by: TJH at October 23, 2007 06:56 PM
Yeah, gotta watch out for those Amish drive-bys.
"Clippety clop, clippety clop, clippety clop. BANG, clippety clop, clippety clop."
Posted by: Gregg at October 23, 2007 07:19 PM
I obviously got ripped off.
My evil .50 caliber sniper rifle hasn't shot anyone, or anything, in at least a week. And it spent all of yesterday sitting harmlessly in my lap as easy targets (read: airplanes) flew overhead, blissfully unaware of the terrorist danger that lurked below.
Posted by: countertop at October 23, 2007 08:09 PM
No! No! No! It's not
"Clippety clop, clippety clop, clippety clop. BANG, clippety clop, clippety clop."
it's
"Clippety clop, clippety clop, clippety clop. Click FAWOOOMPH-POP, clippety clop, clippety clop."
Did the article happen to mention the last time someone knocked over a bank or liquor store with a flintlock? 1870 something?
Posted by: geekWithA.45 at October 23, 2007 08:13 PM
Apparently they didn't read my email about closing the convicted rapist loophole where they let unreformed felons run around in public.
Posted by: Jim W at October 23, 2007 09:08 PM
Ahhh, but Geek, theyy are willing to use the modern percussion cap system which minimizes that FAWOOMPH. Sheesh, they're not TOTAL luddites.
AFAIK, holding people up with a flintlock went out of style by 1860 or so, probably earlier. Heck we were up to percussion cap systems by the ACW, and even had cartridge firearms then.
OTOH, that "loophole" really isn't that wide since we can't buy bloody Colt peacemakers, Henry Rifles, Springfield Trap Doors, Winchester yellow boys (1866) or Winchester '73s without going through the whole NICS BS and all of them were designed for the Holy Black.
Posted by: Gregg at October 24, 2007 01:26 AM
The very first anti-gun person I see that says "why would you need a .54 caliber rifle for deer" is going to get punched in the mouth for being a retard.
Posted by: Ahab at October 24, 2007 06:41 AM
CA already treats muzzle loaders as other firearms.
Posted by: Andy Freeman at October 24, 2007 07:51 AM
Andy,
When did that happen? I know I haven't bought any new blackpowder guns in a while, but still...
Posted by: steveH at October 24, 2007 08:26 PM
Hey...I thought muskets were the ONLY kind of gun protected by the Second Amendment...and quill pens and the unamplified human voice the only things protected by the First...right?
Posted by: Doug in Colorado at October 25, 2007 11:06 AM
THE MEDIA as usual has it all wrong "loophole" There is no loophole
Antiques and replicas
Excempt from permit and certificate of registration requirements are antique rifles and shotguns incapable of being fired or dischatged orwhich do not fire fixed ammunition or those weapons manufactured prior to 1894 and replicas for which ammunition is not commercially available
Posted by: Norman at October 29, 2007 05:01 AM