New York bans gun ownership for 34,500 citizens without due process - MORE

◼ This is one case where I have to give the New York Times full credit. They have managed – at least in part – to dredge some information out of the New York State government which I have been unsuccessfully trying to obtain since May of this year. - Jazz Shaw/HotAir

The paper has now released details of a database kept by Empire State law enforcement of people who have had their Second Amendment rights terminated on the basis of being “mentally unstable.” The number of people in this database – created as a result of the odious New York SAFE Act – has swollen in a little over a year to more than 34,000 names.

◼ Mental Health Issues Put 34,500 on New York’s No-Guns List NYTimes

This should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Andrew Cuomo and the New York Democrat party. Efforts to get this blatantly unconstitutional law overturned in the courts have thus far failed, but this revelation should add new fuel to the fire and inspire people to redouble their efforts. For the vast majority of the people on this huge list, they have never had a day in court to challenge their accusers as to their fitness to exercise their Second Amendment rights, nor have they been adjudicated as being truly dangerous. In New York you can show up on this list and lose your rights simply because some anonymous “medical professional” (who doesn’t even have to be a doctor) has reported you.

What’s really shocking is that the Times actually got any information at all. New York has been secretive to the point of paranoia regarding the implementation of this law. As mentioned above, I began knocking on the doors of Albany over this issue back in May. I filed a series of Freedom of Information Law requests asking for the total number of persons who have had their weapons confiscated under the provisions of the NY SAFE Act, their names, addresses and the status of any charges filed against them.... KEEP READING

◼ And in other gun-control news: No Gun Permit Unless You Give Up Your Facebook Password - Political Outcast
◼ POLICE DEPT. REQUESTS FACEBOOK PASSWORD FROM GUN PERMIT APPLICANT: Request violates Constitution & Facebook's Terms of Service - Infowars

The department recently sent an applicant a form which asked for his Facebook username and password, and after the applicant complained, the department claimed the form was sent to him by mistake and was only used during face-to-face interviews when the department asks applicants for access to their Facebook accounts.

“It is… a common practice to view social media as a means to identify and determine character of a pistol permit applicant, in addition to other investigatory methods,” the department’s spokesperson told the applicant. “Typically all we ask is that an applicant access their account during an interview.”