Why I am happy I don't live in NY

[2152hq]

Lots of on-line merchandisers won't ship certain items to NY (or MA or CA,,etc). Sometimes it's for a perfectly good legal reason, but more often than not it's a misconception of the current law. That and the abundant local laws make it much easier to just say no.

I can't get AIM Surplus to ship me a used, non C&R handgun even though I have an 01FFL and a NYS Handgun Dealers License. Their reason is that none of theirs has the 'fired shell casing' included needed for the NYS Ballistic FingerPrinting System. Tried to explain it was only for new pistols and if not included w/a new gun it was the NYS dealers responsibility to have it test fired before sale,,but,,sorry,,no sales to NY.
They won't sell a C&R handgun with a hi-cap mag clearly made before 1994 to NY. They err on the side of 'no hi-cap mags to NY'.

It's just their way and the way of a lot of sellers to avoid wading through the mass of laws here and other states.

The gunshows and shops are usually full of hicap AK and AR mags. Maybe not so much now as the recent run in such stuff.

I still haven't ever owned either

I guess the M1 Carbine will have to do. Plenty of 15 & 30rd'rs around for that.

Get the politicians the hell out of here and this would be a really nice place. Most of them are just passing through anyway to a job in DC.
OBTW, I was so glad to hear that Chucky Shummer has a CCW permit for NYC. He being so much more important than the denied unwashed masses and all.

 

[roarindan]

12944...
6 months the snow flies...
6 months the black flies!!

 

[G-Mac]

Hey "y'all",

I'll bet Silver even has a fake Southern accent!

 

[yashua-p]

L13 I do hope that you have more than you will ever use...I intend to use some for barter and whatever comes up. You can never have too much .22 or .762X39.

yashua

 

[markedup]

Six on, two off, change shifts.
Most of thirty-seven years.

Mark

 

[Muley Gil]

SC,

If you want to complain about NY, go ahead. As long as it doesn't bother Lee, I don't see a problem with it.

ladder13, and others,

If you don't like reading SC's posts about NY,

DON'T READ 'EM.

Besides, I like to see Yankees argue!

 

[Gun-runner]

Originally posted by animalmother:
Have never lived in NY and never will. I have never even been to NY.

I feel the same about the south after watching Deliverance.

 

[cmort666]

Originally posted by silvercorvette:

Originally posted by animalmother:
Have never lived in NY and never will. I have never even been to NY.

People have no choice where they were born, I stayed longer than I wanted to due to the fact I became a cop in NY and loved the job. After I retired I stuck it out a lot longer than I wanted to due to family obligations, but than God I got out. I just went back for Easter and hated it. Down here I was walking around in shorts, up there I froze my butt off. I had thought of visiting a couple times a year but I made a commitment to go back in Aug and after that it will be once a year

My best friend works for Microsoft on Long Island. He absolutely hates it. He couldn't find even a hovel for a decent price and couldn't even find a decent apartment. His wife is still in Delaware at their real home. He's moving to Redmond at the first opportunity.

I know how you feel. I was born in Chicago and lived there until I went to college and joined the Army. I had no idea what the real United States was like until I moved away. I can't stand the place and go back only once a year to see my elderly mother at Christmas. I always laugh when my relatives ask if my guns are "registered". I had fun at Christmas dinner explaining concealed carry to them. It was like explaining "plaid" to a blind man.

 

[ladder13]

Originally posted by Gun-runner:

Originally posted by animalmother:
Have never lived in NY and never will. I have never even been to NY.

I feel the same about the south after watching Deliverance.

 

[cmort666]

Originally posted by 2152hq:
It's just their way and the way of a lot of sellers to avoid wading through the mass of laws here and other states.

People who learn to deal with these idiotic laws sometimes just don't understand that other people just don't want to be bothered, and in fact consider the hassles to more than outweigh any possible monetary benefit.

I've totally failed to get somebody on another forum to understand that I simply won't take a gun to Illinois because it's not worth it to me to go to court to be proven "right" in a place where I don't want to be in the first place.

 

[silvercorvette]

Originally posted by cmort666:

Originally posted by silvercorvette:

Originally posted by animalmother:
Have never lived in NY and never will. I have never even been to NY.

People have no choice where they were born, I stayed longer than I wanted to due to the fact I became a cop in NY and loved the job. After I retired I stuck it out a lot longer than I wanted to due to family obligations, but than God I got out. I just went back for Easter and hated it. Down here I was walking around in shorts, up there I froze my butt off. I had thought of visiting a couple times a year but I made a commitment to go back in Aug and after that it will be once a year

My best friend works for Microsoft on Long Island. He absolutely hates it. He couldn't find even a hovel for a decent price and couldn't even find a decent apartment. His wife is still in Delaware at their real home. He's moving to Redmond at the first opportunity.

I know how you feel. I was born in Chicago and lived there until I went to college and joined the Army. I had no idea what the real United States was like until I moved away. I can't stand the place and go back only once a year to see my elderly mother at Christmas. I always laugh when my relatives ask if my guns are "registered". I had fun at Christmas dinner explaining concealed carry to them. It was like explaining "plaid" to a blind man.

What part of LI, I sold my place in Hauppauge but still have the house in Huntington my mother lives in. I started going back Thanksgiving and Christmas but hated the cold. One of the main reasons I left was to get away from the cold so it was silly to go back at the coldest time of the year. From now on it is once a year in the summer

 

[G-Mac]

Well, silver...

Judging from some of the pictures you've posted...your house in South Carolina, your two Corvettes on a rack lift, your full-auto Thompson, not to mention about every fifth post from you is about your latest firearms acquisition...

I'd have to say it looks like New York has treated you pretty well....looks like you've done OK to me.

So...bash away.

 

[ladder13]

Originally posted by Muley Gil:
SC,

If you want to complain about NY, go ahead.

Go ahead, be my guest. Be prepared.

 

[bk43]

Originally posted by S. Hammer:
I have a house bought and paid for in western NY state. Can't wait to retire from this ****hole state and move back home.

You think it's fun for those of us who have to listen to the New Yorkers constanting bitching about Florida? BTW, "you're doing it wrong and this is how we do it back home" gets a little old too.

Directions to I95 north are there for the asking.

Bob

 

[cmort666]

Originally posted by silvercorvette:
What part of LI, I sold my place in Hauppauge but still have the house in Huntington my mother lives in. I started going back Thanksgiving and Christmas but hated the cold. One of the main reasons I left was to get away from the cold so it was silly to go back at the coldest time of the year. From now on it is once a year in the summer

The office is in Hauppauge. I think he lives in the same general area.

He grew up in Saint Louis, then rural Missouri near Six Flags, a "town" called Catawissa. He's been a smallbore rifle competitor and (until he moved to NYC) a cowboy action shooter. He has to drive back to Delaware to shoot and hates it. He doesn't have a gun, and I certainly wouldn't live in NYC or Chicago without a gun, hence I live in neither place.

I've never lived any place that didn't have a brutal winter (including Kentucky), so weather's pretty much irrelevant to me. I was laid off in February, so I may have to move. When I go online to look for jobs, I don't even stop at listings with "CA", "IL", "NJ" or "NY" on them. I'd rather live in the Cleveland Metroparks and poach deer.

 

[ladder13]

People who equate NYC to the rest of NY are idiots, plain and simple. They need a lesson in geography.
Makes me wonder about our educational system.

 

[zercool]

Originally posted by bk43:
Directions to I95 north are there for the asking.

As long as you make sure you don't mention I81, which leads to REAL NY, instead of NYC.

 

[silvercorvette]

Originally posted by G-Mac:
Well, silver...

Judging from some of the pictures you've posted...your house in South Carolina, your two Corvettes on a rack lift, your full-auto Thompson, not to mention about every fifth post from you is about your latest firearms acquisition...

I'd have to say it looks like New York has treated you pretty well....looks like you've done OK to me.

So...bash away.

I didn't think your were that petty and jealous, I worked hard for every penny I earned, most of the time I put in 60 hours a week minimum. I don't have time to defend myself for working hard I have to go out and buy another gun

 

[G-Mac]

Originally posted by silvercorvette:

Originally posted by G-Mac:
Well, silver...

Judging from some of the pictures you've posted...your house in South Carolina, your two Corvettes on a rack lift, your full-auto Thompson, not to mention about every fifth post from you is about your latest firearms acquisition...

I'd have to say it looks like New York has treated you pretty well....looks like you've done OK to me.

So...bash away.

I didn't think your were that petty and jealous, I worked hard for every penny I earned, most of the time I put in 60 hours a week minimum. I don't have time to defend myself for working hard I have to go out and buy another gun

You have nothing that makes me jealous.

The only thing that is petty is your constant New York bashing.

You're gone...New York doesn't miss you...glad our tax dollars are still supporting your lifestyle.

 

[silvercorvette]

Originally posted by ladder13:
People who equate NYC to the rest of NY are idiots, plain and simple. They need a lesson in geography.
Makes me wonder about our educational system.

I usually mention that the whole state isn't as mucked up as the NY city area. Go back and read some of my posts where I said how nice northern NY is