Visiting NYC, license required for shooting range

[paul0660]

I don't know how many times I have seen people arrested for bringing a firearm into the city on an airplane.

Make a guess. I would say, seen, zero. Read about, two. And then there was the VA CCW holder who thought it counted in NYC.

It's a bad place to be, or go through, with a handgun.

[glockman19]

NY City is a cesspool. Dirty, overcrowded, humid and wet.
There's no place like home.

[paul0660]

NY City is a cesspool. Dirty, overcrowded, humid and wet.
There's no place like home.

Good food, some stuff to see, and Revo war sights. Plus you can get in people's faces and they don't have a heart attack. Way overpriced on anything that isn't stolen.

I got to go there in the 90's a lot. It is an urban forest, and most people there don't know anything else.

They do vote.

[Sniper3142]

I lived in NYC in the early and mid 1990's. I owned two handguns -- legally. It was expensive and a pain in the rear. I had a target permit. First, I had to pay what I remember was about $500 to apply for a permit. I had to get fingerprinted. I had to be interviewed. That process took about three months. Then I had to purchase a gun, which then had to be approved by NYC. (Oddly enough, certain guns that are now verboten in California were fine in NYC -- such as the HK Mark 23.) I also had to join a gun club, which was about $1000 a year for a full membership.

Moving from New York back to California was like moving from California to Texas.

Yup, New York City's pathetic Firearm and Knife laws make California look like Free Amercia by comparison.

Yup New York city is so nazish. I don't know how many times I have seen people arrested for bringing a firearm into the city on an airplane.

Unless the person who was stupid and/or uninformed about NYC laws told someone they had a firearm there without the required license, no one would know. They could even declare it to the airline as required and no one would blink an eye.

[RonnieP]

Guys, you all forget about how Safe NYC is with all these laws on the books. Seriously, it's worth giving up some freedom for security.

Now all we need to do is pass a $1 tax on 1 oz of soda/sweeten drinks and $1 tax on every single cigarette or $1 oz tax for every smokeless tobacco (dip) and NYC will be a utopian paradise.

Oh, we need to raise the minimum wage to $100/hr so that everyone will have a livable wage and those taxes will help the economy.

[Flogger23m]

I believe pistol permits in NY are much like CCW in terms of what you must go through. No permit, no pistol shooting.

Interestingly someone on another forum I frequent lives in NY and got a new SBR BCM MK18 clone. Was signed off by the police as done in other states; he knew them on personal basis. Apparently in certain parts of the state the police are rather pro-gun. It is mainly NYC that controls the state vote wise.

[pc_load_letter]

Scratch NYC off my vacation list.

This is a sad statement really.

Because of a city\county\states firearms laws, you'd flat out not visit?

I guess you have no desire to see the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, or the 9\11 memorial?

If you are a veteran, would you completely write off DC? You would miss honoring those fallen heroes because of DC's firearms laws?

To each his own I guess but if I only visited states that had gun policies I agreed with, my vacations would be pretty boring.

I loved my recent trips to Boston, Newport RI, and I know plenty of people that greatly enjoy visiting our nations capital for the history and pride. And I've been to NYC three times...LOVE IT.

Never the less, it's your right to vote with your dollars but sad to think how much history and wonderful sights you will miss out with that narrow minded view.

BTW, a great number of NYC's gun policies were put in place by a R mayor, Mr. Giuliani.

[Grumpyoldretiredcop]

I'm a veteran and NYC and DC are definitely off my vacation list. Call it sad if you want, I call it voting with my dollars. I'd rather visit relatives in RI and fly in through Providence. I can see the Stature of Liberty from the air, good enough.

You can spend your cash supporting a leftist regime if you want. I call that sad.

BTW, Guiliani isn't an "R", he's a RINO.

[k1dude]

BTW, Guiliani isn't an "R", he's a RINO.

That's an insult to RINO's. He's a Democrat through and through.

[pc_load_letter]

You can spend your cash supporting a leftist regime if you want. I call that sad.

BTW, Guiliani isn't an "R", he's a RINO.

You complain about a leftist regime yet you're retired and opted to stay in the state and continue to pay taxes to moon beam??

Never the less, I think it's sad that you would avoid the Vietnam war memorial, WW2 memorial, 9\11 memorial, the amazing place of Ellis Island and others out of gun rights. But hey, I don't let something like gun rights keep me from enjoying the places that represent our country and liberty and that lives that have died for it, even if a state has worked against the 2A. Nice thing about this country is that we can have differing opinions.