{"id":8199,"date":"2014-01-16T12:26:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T12:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/16\/hoplophobia-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2014-01-16T12:26:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T12:26:03","slug":"hoplophobia-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/16\/hoplophobia-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoplophobia in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Maverick,<\/span><\/p>\n

Greetings from the least free state in the union (so says a George Mason study, anyway).<\/span><\/div>\n
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I thought you might appreciate an example of the terrible policy that leftist irrationality leads to. <\/span><\/div>\n
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I am a proud owner of a Smith and Wesson .38 revolver. I received this gun as a gift while I lived in Texas. In 2012 my wife and I moved to Rochester, NY. I thought that it would probably be a good idea to check the gun laws in the state. I discovered that I had to be approved for a license to keep a handgun in my own house<\/em>. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Despite this affront to my freedom, I decided I wanted to be a law abiding citizen. I found the application for the license online, only to read this, "…the processing of a pistol permit application can take approximately 6 to 9 months. This time-frame is just an estimate, and not a guarantee. Applications may take longer than 9 months to be processed."<\/span><\/div>\n
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How absurd! I guess if a burglar breaks into my house, I'll kindly tell him to return in 6 to 9 months, at which time I can properly defend myself, my wife, and my baby daughter.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The application packet, which is 24 pages in total (to be fair and honest, some of those 24 pages were blank, and some were directions. They are not all for info that I must provide them.), only grew more absurd. A couple pages in, I learn that I must provide four character references from people who have known me since I moved here and are residents of the county in which I live. Furthermore, since I have not lived here for 3 years, I must provide 3 additional notarized<\/em> character references from persons from the state or county in which I previously lived.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I'm sure it will come as no surprise that I am having second thoughts about completing this application. There are so many obstructions to me exercising my right that I don't know if I want to exert the effort to break past them all.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Best to you in this new year,<\/span><\/div>\n
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J. S.<\/span><\/div>\n
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It is small consolation, but it would be worse for my reader if he lived in NYC. Cf. John Stossel's experience<\/a> with the hoplophobes.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Dear Maverick, Greetings from the least free state in the union (so says a George Mason study, anyway).   I thought you might appreciate an example of the terrible policy that leftist irrationality leads to.    I am a proud owner of a Smith and Wesson .38 revolver. I received this gun as a gift … Continue reading “Hoplophobia in New York”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}