A half-dozen sheriffs in New York state have reportedly announced their refusal to aggressively enforce a new highly restrictive gun law instigated by Governor Kathy Hochul.
Appearing on Fox News with host Steve Doocey, Fulton County, N.Y. sheriff and former district attorney Richard Giardino explained why the group feels the law is unfair and threatens to turn law-abiding gun owners into unwitting felons literally overnight.
“It’s a new law that unfairly targets law-abiding citizens who previously had carry-concealed and you could go into a store, into a restaurant, and then all of a sudden on September first they could be charged with a felony,” the sheriff of the county, population 53,324 and located at the southern edge of the Adirondacks noted on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday.
“We are not going to go in and arrest people who may not be aware of the law, we are going to educate them,” Giardino explained.
(Video: Fox News)
The law bans guns in so-called “sensitive areas” including churches, subways, and even large outdoor spaces such as state parks and Times Square.
Giardino also showcased a few Stalinesque aspects of the new law that, fortunately, have received a temporary restraining order from federal judge Glenn T. Suddaby earlier this month. Among these include provisions that want law enforcement to look at years worth of social media accounts, and find whom a person lives with.
“We’re not going to go on complaints that say, “Oh, my neighbor had a bulge in his side, we think he’s got a gun, and he’s in the store,” the sheriff asserted. “We’re more concerned with the criminals who are killing people and injuring people every day on the streets. We have limited resources.”
“Sheriff, before the state legislature here in New York state came up with this law, and passed the law, how many times did someone from the legislature call you up and say, ‘Hey sheriff, you’ve been in law enforcement for a very long time. What do you think about it,'” Doocey wanted to know.
“Steve, this is an example of what they did with bail reform, police reform, and criminal justice reform. There was no input from DAs, sheriffs, chiefs of police, from judges, from probation, parole officers,” Giardino lamented.
He went on to explain that data shows that more than 80% of violent acts in major cities are committed by gangs, not law-abiding citizens with a concealed-carry permit, also noting that there’s a group of individuals that call police pigs and ambush them, call them racists and more. In Giardino’s opinion, there is no other profession that has to put up with such abuse and attacks and still go out and do their job to the best of their ability.
Giardino and his fellow like-minded sheriffs are implementing unofficially what other states and localities have adopted officially under the “Second Amendment sanctuary” movement, itself a reaction to the sanctuary city and state movements in which jurisdictions refuse to enforce federal immigration laws.
Montana was the first state to attempt to become a Second Amendment sanctuary state and was successful in implementing this in 2021. A number of other states and dozens of localities have implemented similar statutes and directives restricting the enforcement of the constant encroachment by federal authorities and politicians on the Second Amendment rights of their citizens.
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