This story just keeps getting better/worse. It all started when New York’s Director of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services [above, top left] used his handgun’s laser as a pointer to illustrate a Powerpoint presentation. In doing so, Jerome Hauer lasered the heads of his audience. In a secret subterranean room in the bowels of the New York State Police HQ. Where he was prohibited from carrying a firearm. This earned Mr. Hauer TTAG’s not-so-coveted Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day award. And then, weeks later . . .
Mr. Hauer responded to the firearms furor with all sorts of outrageous claims and unsubstantiated assertions. The most ridiculous of these: it was OK for him to carry where he was prohibited from doing so because he’d received verbal permission. From whom he didn’t say. And if you think that’s both a lie and, legally speaking, bullshit, today’s development [via blog.timesunion.com] will do little to disabuse you of that notion.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday said he is OK with his commissioners wearing weapons in the workplace as long as they have a license to carry.
Quick aside here: we still don’t know if Commissioner Hauer has a New York State permit to carry a concealed weapon. And even if he does now (what are the odds?), if he didn’t have one when he whipped out his pistol in the State Police HQ, he committed a felony. And should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, just as anyone else would be in a similar situation. Also, it’s one thing to “wear a weapon in the workplace” and another to wave it around in a conference, lasering attendees.
Cuomo qualified his statement to say he was comfortable with commissioners wearing a gun as long as they have a permit “and they’re in that field of work.”
He didn’t explain further.
Whether or not Governor Cuomo is “comfortable” with government officials breaking the law doesn’t change the fact that they’re breaking the law. Once again the gun grabbers’ hypocrisy is stunning. One law for us, another law for everyone else. Will no one rid us of these turbulent politicians? Without bloodshed, thank you very much.
Judges are held in *much* too high esteem, in my opinion. Most of them I’ve had contact with are either too incompetent or too lazy to make a decent living in private practice, and they crave the excellent retirement plans that most jurisdictions offer. They are certainly far from the legal scholars and paragons of wisdom and virtue that they would like for us to think they are.
Well, there’s no better proof of ruling by fiat and applying standards arbitrarily than when it comes from the person’s own mouth, I suppose. Not that I expect it will matter much. He’s basically untouchable.
Yup. In NY, the Cuomo’s are like the Daley’s in Illinois.
He’s basically untouchable.
Are you talking politically or ballistically?
“Will no one rid us of these turbulent politicians? Without bloodshed, thank you very much.”
Not as long as our own largely apathetic, politically illiterate, and willfully ignorant electorate still so completely buy into the patently false left-right narrative, no.
We could certainly avoid bloodshed at the State level.
As for D.C.? Well, I really sincerely doubt that the Powers That Be want to know what I would rather have happen to them, so I’ll keep those thoughts to myself. 😉
Wonder who died and made him God?
God. Apparently.
Gotta love the Kimber bashing going on here.
I’ve owned a cheap Kimber Custom II for about 11 years now. Only 1 FTF, in about 11000 rounds, including JHP. I keep the gun clean and oiled. You know the old saying: there are two enemies of firearms, politicians and rust.
It never ceases to amaze me how arrogant some politicians can be.
The normal parts if New York have got to get together and vote these people out of office. Cuomo is doing to the state what Bloomberg did to the city, taking it over as his own personal; fiefdom.
Dozens of gangbangers with guns driving on the sidewalk and shooting wildly in every direction is why nobody needs more than 7 bullets.
Put this guy in the middle of Oakland on a hot Saturday night and then let him talk about restrictions.
I’m in Oakland a couple of times a week in my company car, a retired crown vic cop car with the cage still in place. There are times I’m downright nervous.
Oakland has no gun stores and they don’t sell ammo there. According to the anti’s Oakland ought to be a crime free paradise.
Let’s back up and understand some basic facts. For most of us, California state law only allows us to have 10 round magazines. Only police officers (who are statutorily exempt from the mag limit) and those who purchased a magazine prior to a certain date (I think 2001, but not sure) are allowed to possess them. The lawsuit is brought on behalf of retired officers who, although they legally purchased their (nonroster firearms and) magazines, are required by the new ordinance to turn them in, or at least remove them from the City.
Its California. Why is this even newsworthy?
Bet there were dozens of cops, with MRAPs and plainclothes SWAT teams watching their every move. Unlike the Oakland gangbangers doing burnouts and shooting wildly.
Whole lot of butt hurt here today. I find myself wasting a lot of time skimming your articles and reviews… I like you’re styles. I don’t follow anybody’s reviews because honestly, I make my own decisions based off my own thoughts.
At least a 1911 is heavy as a brick, so you can throw it when it jams.
My CCO weighs 27 oz. Is stock. And has never jammed.
I am sooo glad I was able to return my C with QS for a full refund.
So, this dildo takes it out in public and displays it in a highly irresponsible matter and there won’t be ANY consequences? They’re going to overlook the law end of it AND the mishandling? I agree with whomever stated it above. How can anybody from either side of the debate be okay with this? Man, catch me in NY any time soon.
It’s interesting that the malfunction showed on the post pic is a “vertical stove pipe”. This is a very common malfunction in the FTE category for all auto pistols, not just the 1911. I have even seen them in movies.
Why does it happen? Well, there a number of causes. In a perfect world, with a clean, lubricated 1911, and in the hands of an experienced shooter, with prime ammunition, the fault is in the extractor tension. The extractor needs to be replaced.
That’s the short story in a perfect world.
However, this type of FTE is quite common with all auto pistols. The most common cause is operator error, as in “limp wristing”. With that kind of stove pipe the slide “fast cycles” and catches the round before it has time to exit. This happens because there is not enough counter recoil pressure applied to the gun so the slide never reaches the end of its cycle and starts going forward before the case clears.
The lower the mass of the gun in relation to its caliber, the easier it “limp wrists” – that much should be pretty obvious. This is why GLOCKS put out some impressive stove pipes because they have less mass while using snappy calibers like the .40 S&W. The more mass on a handgun, the harder it is to stove pipe one by limp wristing.
It can still happen for other reasons. Another one is a dirty chamber. A dirty chamber makes extraction more difficult because of friction. If the extractor spring tension is just so-so, the gun will stove pipe because the extractor will let go the brass. Still another one is a too strong recoil spring. Again the slide “fast cycles”, the gun gets out of timing and the slide moving forward catches the the brass before it clears.
Auto pistols are not cell phones. Cell phones have no moving parts per se. Auto pistols are very intricate spring and explosive driven machines with lighting speed movements and critically delicate timings between all the moving parts. They all demand attention to maintenance and proper operating form. To me it’s a miracle that they even work at all and this alone is a testament to the ingenuity of the people that first brought them into existence.
I’ve heard that if you get training it’s going to be used in court against you stance, and frankly, ifs bogus.
Everything will be use against you if it suites the prosecutor, your gun, how you carried it, what you were wearing, backup gun, ammo, hell what you had for supper could even be used.
Look, he’s a mad man, he had brisket for dinner, only a crazy, wannabe cowboy who is trying to turn our fair town into the Wild West would eat brisket!
The Constitution is there to remind all that the people have the power and only let politicians use it, as long as they behave. When will New Yorkers catch on and yank this idiots leash?
This is tremendously disappointing. Farago’s C was an outstanding shooter, and one of my favorite test pistols of all time.
This announcement from Caracal leaves a bad taste in my mouth, though, because all of the wonderful things the Caracal folks told us at the SHOT Show just four weeks ago were complete bullshit.
If Caracal didn’t have its shit together to sell guns this year, I have to question their enormous expenditure in bringing their Potempkin Village of display guns to the SHOT Show. Keeping their brand alive is an exercise in futility when there’s no product to sell.
As any marketing whiz will tell you, “Fix the product, *then* fix the brand.”
I don’t expect Caracal to recover from this, nor do I think it particularly deserves to. One can’t imagine Glock or H&K announcing a one-year hiatus on production and importation, because they’d lose their market and go bankrupt.
It’s a shame such a promising gun will never be available here, but this gun is now dead.
Every picture I see of dis guy reminds me of an angry evil Nave of Hearts. That condescending down turn of the corners of his mouth really creep me out.
As a Buffalo area NYer, I’ve suggested before that those who have NY State AND NY City carry permits should be explicitly excluded from any sort of free-state reciprocity agreements.
My apologies to NYC residents like Sean Hannity – but they are hardly innocent. They choose to live and make deals with a KGB-level thugocracy.
It’s hard to figure the motivation for his statements. Speculating, I think his whole POV might be that if you’re crazy and go on a rampage you can only kill 10-11 people before you have to reload? Does that sound right? Forget criminals, laws don’t apply there, the judge should at least know that. So is he going after crazy people who are not criminals that do mass shootings? Going after the absolute minimum vector of gun inflicted deaths? Why?
If so, why not seven as in NY, or six or whatever. In the end we all know that the whole thing makes no sense at all, AT ALL. I just don’t buy the whole thing. There has to be another more deep seated motive.
NUTS!
I actually considered this living in the Cadillac area. It would likely have been a very good business move. There are only three options in town: Wally-World, Dunhams, and one LGS (owned by a guy who the locals mostly wrote off as a cantankerous old fvcker. But I’m a cantankerous young fvcker, so we got along the few times I visited).
On top of that, there was NO ONE in the area hanging a shingle as a smith. A lot of garage smiths, but not one gunsmith business that I recall.
Now that I’ve decided to move to freaking Dayton, I really don’t see the ROI being very good….
My summer carry is a RIA 1911 CS 9mm, and it runs fine. My sweatshirt/coat carry is a RIA 1911 10mm or a EAA Match 10mm. All guns fail, and none of mine have ever failed enough for me not to trust my life to them.
The only gun I have ever owned that I didn’t trust was one I bought as an emergency gun I was gonna bury in a capsule in the back yard… a HiPoint. That gun was sold and replaced with a used Gen 2 GLOCK brand GLOCK 17 that I bought broken and frankengun’d to life with used parts. $250 total and I’m satisfied with its performance.
Most ignorant post ever, Robert. And what the HELL is an “horizontal stovepipe”?
Envision, if you will, a “horizontal chimney”.
Thanks for this great post addressing a commonly asked question. I’ll be linking to this for clients. I often say step one for an FFL should address whether local rules permit a home-based gun business–whether it’s zoning, HOA rules, etc. Of course, the online, appointment-only angle could create opportunities for many people, but it’s best to be careful. Overall we should all remember the reason we might pay retail prices for guns. The FFL is assuming all these risks, problems, and burdens, and it’s often fair, IMHO, to pay the dealer for that service. That said, there’s nothing like a private purchase, where legal, to make you feel like a free man.
Most of Oakland is actually quite nice. There are only a handful of small, bad areas with a gang problem. Any crime rate decrease can be attributed to one thing: gentrification.
Correct me if I am wrong, but we were founded as a nation of laws and not of men (in other words, laws apply equally to everyone). I guess if this idiot said that it was okay for one of his lackeys to kick a pregnant woman in the stomach they wouldn’t get in trouble for it because the Ultra Supreme Grand Chairman told them it was okay.
I swear. Kevin De Lame-o tries the same ammo bill every year.
Frack him and the horse he rode in on too.
I need to move before I get an aneurysm from all the idiots with power in this state….
Will they hold it against you, if you have EVER served in the Armed Forces?
YES!!!
The Criminal Justice “System” is not capable of discerning Truth, and the innocent victim(s) usually suffer.
But, there is a more involved answer… For the POLICE, and the PROSECUTOR, it is all political.
It is all about their efforts to be seen by the pansy public And Lying, manipulative, Liberal Media as “Law protectors”!!!
It seems more and more that the left is saying it is ok for THEM to carry but not for the right as if they (the left) are the responsibile ones with firearms. NOTE: All of the mass shooters except for one in the last 20 years were ultra left nutbags
Who Was Tougher on Gun Control, Barack Obama or Ronald Reagan?