NYSAFE

I used to own one of the weapons pictured until the canoe accident.

Via Guns

Legislation introduced in the New York Assembly that aims to repeal most of the draconian parts of the SAFE Act is still around despite efforts to marginalize it.

A bill sponsored by more than a dozen Assembly Republicans that has been quietly waiting its turn to be debated in that body for the past several months may soon get its chance after negative attention has been drawn to the state following Remington’s recent announcement to expand into gun-friendly Alabama.

“While I don’t begrudge another state from securing these high-paying manufacturing jobs, I do begrudge our own leaders for forcing the ‘SAFE Act‘ upon its people and hindering economic development right here in New York,” wrote Assemblyman Will Barclay in an opinion piece this week in the Oswego County Today. “Its passage has undoubtedly affected Remington Arms, located in Illion, New York, for more than a century, from expanding in its home state.”

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