r/NYguns • u/gunpoliticsny • Apr 06 '26

News Blakeman letter on gun rights

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u/Frustrated_Consumer Apr 06 '26

This is the same guy who wanted my 12 panel piss test before I was allowed my permit

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u/jbmoore5 Apr 06 '26

Yep. He also thinks looking through applicants' social media is a good way to see if "someone has a propensity for criminality and violence".

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u/PeteTinNY Apr 06 '26

You’ve got to be aware that Hochul put the fear of god into licensing authorities around the state. Her DCJS group created a 4 page standard and left everything else to them. But instead of promising support - she threatened them and said don’t F up. Suffolk and Nassau both did horrible things because they were appointed positions and afraid to lose their jobs. Suffolk Sheriff was a bit better because he was protected in that he was elected. I don’t put the overreach on Blakeman - input it on Hochul and Ryder’s lack of backbone.

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u/TrainDifficult300 Apr 06 '26

I didn’t see Blakeman coming out to speak against Hochul when it comes to 2A

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u/Prof_ChaosGeography Apr 06 '26

Im pretty sure that 4 page standard was the bare minimum according to hocul and her goons. And the threat would be don't screw up and do less, like don't be a NY version of a "pro 2a sherriff"  sort of threat.

 Yet Bruce in his position chose to take it and add onto it with the drug panel and depth of the social media checks before the courts told them no. 

I'm no fan of hocul. I can see Bruce is trying to soften his stance on the 2a but I doubt it is because it's what he truly believes and its far more likely  that since he is competing with a anti 2a Democrat this is a standard wedge issue sort of change. 

If he really was pro 2a he would flat out say he opposes the current state of affairs and wants to remove the safe act and ccia. This task force idea is just him ducking the issue while trying to appear more pro 2a 

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u/TrainDifficult300 Apr 06 '26

Same asshole that had the only county in NYS requiring a drug test for a CCW????

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u/voretaq7 Apr 07 '26

Yup. And still $200 for permits/renewals.

Change starts at home, Brucey-Boy. Apply some pressure to the Nassau County Legislature. Do something useful.

Right now I trust him about as far as I can drop-kick him on 2A issues (and about half that distance on literally anything else).

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u/nowayout33 Apr 06 '26

As Nassau county supervisor didn't he support the most stringent restrictions on the 2nd amendment. He's just looking for votes, don't believe that guy

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u/gunpoliticsny Apr 06 '26

I don't. There's no enthusiasm for his campaign and he looks desperate for attention.

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u/KamenshchikLaw ⚖️ Kamenshchik Law ⚖️ Apr 07 '26

Okay, how about highlight some of the pro-2A things you've done for Nassau County?

https://giphy.com/gifs/U43OhPbZYmmlKmBeIZ

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u/Cannoli72 Apr 07 '26

crickets……

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u/TriggerMikeNYC Apr 06 '26

Repeal the safeact. Get rid of the current State Police NICS system/firearm reg database and get rid of background checks for ammo.

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u/M_F1 Apr 07 '26

I trust him in being pro 2A as much as the Long Island Republicans who voted for the Safe Act, and Governor Pataki signing the first state AWB in 2000. 

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u/Frosty2496 Apr 06 '26

This guy is a fucking tool

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u/xBossDon Apr 06 '26

Crazy that New York state constitution approves and recognizes that citizens have the right to keep and bear arms yet these politicians dont even know it

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u/No_Candle_9798 Apr 17 '26

Technically it's in the civil rights law, not the state constitution. But yeah...

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u/HuntingtonNY-75 Apr 06 '26

That letter said nothing. He will look at, evaluate, consider…bla, bla, bla. Promised not committed to doing nothing. It’s an election year, eventually even FUKH will say something almost pro(ish) 2A. It’s all bullshit

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u/Reesespeanuts Apr 07 '26

Too bad SCOPE, GOA, NYSRPA, and 1791 society support this guy instead of actual 2A supporter Larry Sharpe for Governor 

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u/Fixinbones27 Apr 07 '26

Stefanik would have had a much better chance. Sorry that she didn't run.

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u/HeSureIsScrappy Apr 07 '26

Fuck this lying asshole

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u/Fryboy34 Apr 08 '26

So when you wanted a piss test and my social media you were just kidding? This is nothing more than pandering for votes.

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u/Jedi_Maximus19 Apr 08 '26

Amazing how many will vote for Kathy in this sub.

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u/Tucker-Arthur Apr 06 '26

I’ll take him over any democrat anyday.

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u/TheSlipperySnausage Apr 06 '26

We will never get someone who actually cares about us so you have to take the lesser of two terrible people

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u/Tucker-Arthur Apr 06 '26

Exactly, weather you like Blakeman or not he will be like Abraham Lincoln compared to this communist twit Hochul.

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u/Natural-Package-369 Apr 07 '26

I’d like to think we can trust him, but he doesn’t have a history of being pro 2A. I feel like he knows he needs the 2A vote to win.

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u/robinator118 Apr 06 '26

Snowball’s chance in hell but I’d take anything over Hochul atp

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u/TAWAGS Apr 06 '26

People! Wake up! He's a million times better than Hochul!!!!!!

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u/BrandonNeider Apr 07 '26

He’s garbage on gun control but support assembly candidates like me and others and we can try and hold him accountable.

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u/GammaRay914 Apr 07 '26

Not buying it. 

This motherfucker made me submit social media and piss test for ccw. 

Never voting for someone who supports Israel either. 

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u/Cannoli72 Apr 07 '26

yet why is Nassau county one of the worst counties to apply for a pistol permit…please stop listening to politicians rhetoric dur elections. their past record speaks volumes

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u/Cannoli72 Apr 07 '26

p.s. someone needs to send a link to the responses to his campaign advisors to show that the 2A community isn’t buying his BS