New York's Gun Registration Online Now

[jroger3]

Here's a link for you to register your AW. Remember you have to do it before April 15, 2014. So don't wait for the big rush this time next year.

https://firearms.troopers.ny.gov/safeact/awr/registrant.faces?OWASP_CSRFTOKEN=P5NF-IDZM-408W-8IOY-NQ3H-KMNR-2YVR-3DAY

[rickOshay]

Wonder how many Chuck Shummer's and Andrew Cuomo's and Mike Bloomberg's they get?

[ss355]

One can also register assault weapons in NY by mailing in a paper form that you print from a PDF file on that site. It would not be right for thousands of gun owners across the country to flood the registration office with fictitious registration letters. That might bog down the system.

[LRRPF52]

Gee, it should would be awful if a certain hacker group registered all of the NYC .gov firearms on that site. Criminals don't like competition, and they are usually shameless when they use their stooges in public office to do their bidding by removing people's capacity to protect themselves from criminal assault.

[davidj]

... Criminals don't like competition, and they are usually shameless when they use their stooges in public office to do their bidding by removing people's capacity to protect themselves from criminal assault.

That was exactly how the Sullivan Law came about. New York has a long Tradition of pandering to the criminal.

[bow shot]

"Remember you have to do it before April 15, 2014"

No, I don't have to register anything.

[LRRPF52]

New York City Council and PD have been occupied by organized crime for over 150 years, which is really an interesting saga in history in the US post-Civil War era. Before the US Civil War, a massive potato famine occurred in Ireland, causing the population of that great Nation to drop from 10 million in 1840, to 5 million in 1880.



As waves of Irish immigrants flooded into the US East Coast, the industrialist Northern States had difficulty integrating them, since they were agricultural-based people. When the Civil War kicked off, many Irish immigrants arrived on boats into New York Harbor, only to face riots and protests to the North's forced drafting of troops to fight the unpopular war with the South. Many mobs were fired upon with cannon loaded with grape shot, and the large immigrant classes referred to the NYPD as "coppers", because of the buttons on their uniforms.



While many able-bodied males were inducted into military service, the post Civil War era saw the rise of many street gangs in NYC, including the pre-war Roach Guards, Swamp Angels (NYC dock gang), Whyos, Yakey Yakes, and other 19th Century gangs. These gangs were involved in protecting liquor and whiskey importation in NYC's harbors, and skimming/theft is an always-present dynamic among alcohol and thieves.



With the amount of money involved in alcohol importation, these gangs naturally grew in power and influence that bled into politics. By the Prohibition Era, NYPD and NYC Council were fully-owned by mostly Irish organized crime. The Kennedy family traces its lineage in American politics with an entrance graced by liquor smuggling from Canada, in addition to banking schemes that defrauded people out of their fortunes.

When the waves of Italian immigrants began to hit NYC, the entrenched Irish mob passed laws to prevent their new competition from owning firearms, making racketeering and extortion much easier for henchmen from all the gangs that conducted such activities. The gaming and prostitution rackets were peripheral to smuggling and racketeering, where most of the money was.

It's important to remember that there is no historical period where these entrenched mobsters were cleansed from government...no, to the contrary, they expanded from city and inter-state trafficking, to buying political seats in D.C., where Irish, Italian, Russian, Cuban, and various organized criminal syndicates competed for Congressional and Senate seats like Monopoly board pieces, to help carve out larger illicit markets for their activities.



This expanded into the WWII era and post-War era where huge meetings would take place between the various mob bosses, often in Havana, Cuba, to discuss market adjustments after the deaths of certain members in the hierarchy, with agreements made about who would get what shares of the new illicit narcotics routes that were developed during the War, whether it was Bekaa Valley opium from the Levant, Tunisian hash, or Golden Triangle opium from Southeast Asia.

You can't gain a clear picture of US history without a thorough investigation into the prominence of organized crime, foreign influences on politics, and how all these forces interact with each other during times of war and peace. NYC being the Nation's central port of trade and commerce for so long is a highlight of a lot of these factors.

[bow shot]

Perfect piece.

[OLd Man]

I have always thought that there has to be some form of protection to run large long term drug distribution systems such as they have in Chicago. When there is a bust it seems to be small, maybe just weeding out the competition. Would you agree with that 52?

[LRRPF52]

I have always thought that there has to be some form of protection to run large long term drug distribution systems such as they have in Chicago. When there is a bust it seems to be small, maybe just weeding out the competition. Would you agree with that 52?

Not to derail the thread, but yes. I've studied the illicit drug trade and was involved in several Joint Task Force-6 Counter-Narcotics operations at the ground surveillance level, and have continued to keep up with the trade routes, financing mechanisms, street price index, market share shifts of the main narcotics (marijuana, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine), and the corruption that accompanies an industry with over a trillion dollars in volume a year globally.



Looking at the history above, you can see why unions, organized crime, and political parties go hand-in-hand. The history actually goes back further than that when you look into the East India Companies and the Opium Wars, Caribbean rum routes, & tobacco trade.

There are those who are sanctioned to traffic illegal narcotics, and those low-level fools who are not. When talking with friends of mine who have worked in an official counter-narcotics capacity, it's common to hear complaints of how their hands are tied.

If illicit trade was so prevalent in the 1930's, and booze-smuggling increased during prohibition to the point that police departments were the local security for the distribution of protected rackets, imagine the long-term consequences of that type of environment for local, county, State, and National politics.



Political candidates realized the necessity to have the backing of whatever power center would have the most effect on their ability to get elected. Many well-intended political aspirants were and are approached subtly at first, then co-opted by organized crime in schemes that ensure that the politician in question has a carrot and stick over their head.

The end result is that criminals largely direct much of the business of large city governments, with entire armies at their disposal in the form of unionized police, who fall in-line with the thug boss directives. This is a simple explanation of the dynamics of NYC, Chicago, Boston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Atlantic City, and Washington D.C. police departments.

Remember that Harry Reid got his job as a D.C. cop after his union Democrat Irish mob high school history teacher, Mike O-Callaghan, reversed his rejection from Georgetown Law school by calling some connections after Reid was denied entrance into the prestigious D.C. University, his grades not being up-to-par, which comes as no surprise if you've ever heard him open his filth orifice.

After graduating from Georgetown Law, Reid returned to Nevada, and became Lieutenant Governor along with...Mike O'Callaghan, then was strategically placed by O'Callaghan as the Nevada Gaming Commissioner, which is a position that manages the farce of keeping the Casinos appearing as legitimate businesses, not drug/racketeering/prostitution money-laundering fronts that they are (no receipts for gambling = billions in drug money).

The criminality has become so legitimized over several generations, that politicians take offense if you explain the history I'm describing-only problem is that many of them brag about it in their autobiographies, then have the audacity to entitle their books with shameless banners like The Good Fight, by Harry Reid.



The defecation-devouring smirk on his face says it all.

[bow shot]

Title stolen from the Bible; words from the Apostle Paul before he had his head lopped off. How absolutely sick... and typical.

[rasp65]

Since many of us have bought stripped lowers to built our own rifles. Can the good citizens of NY just bring in the lower for inspection to make sure it doesn't have any scary features?