You may recall our recent Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day post on New York State Homeland Security Commissioner Jerome Hauer. A reporter reported that Mr. Hauer drew his GLOCK and used its laser to enhance a Powerpoint presentation at a “highly secure state emergency operations center below State Police headquarters.” The kicker: the Commish’s laser lasered several members of a Swedish delegation. Let’s hope Mr. Hauer’s Homeland Security team members are better at damage control than the boss. “Spokesmen for Hauer and the governor’s office had declined to answer questions about the incident for weeks before the story was finally published,” capitalnewyork.com reports. “In an interview with Capital this weekend on a separate topic, Hauer [finally] denied the report.” Ready? So . . .
“This was an unloaded gun because I was taking it to the gun shop to get a different sight on it,” Hauer said.
Wait. So it’s OK to take an unloaded gun into State Police Headquarters? Well no, it’s not, obviously. But the original news report on this kerfuffle mentioned the fact that the GLOCK in question was a loaded gun, and we all know that loaded guns are totally different from unloaded guns in terms of dangerousness. Especially when you’re lasering people’s heads with the muzzle. And we all trust the New York State Homeland Security Commissioner’s word on the state of his firearm. Don’t we?
The commissioner said he never aimed the gun at the Swedish officials’ heads. According to the Times-Union report, “three Swedish emergency managers in the delegation were rattled when the gun’s laser tracked across one of their heads before Hauer found the map of New York, at which he wanted to point.”
The report also said that Hauer “carries the loaded 9-millimeter Glock in a holster into state buildings, an apparent violation of state law barring state employees from bringing weapons to the workplace, several witnesses say.”
Politicians, eh? He never “aimed” the gun at their heads. Which is not to say the laser didn’t skate across their heads unintentionally. And while he’s prevaricating, Mr. Hauer would like it to be known that the piece in question was totally not a GLOCK.
“I do own a Glock but it is in Virginia. It is too big to carry in a pocket and it has no laser. I have never carried it because of its size. I carry an H&K P 2000. The gun that was in my pocket was an unloaded S&W 9mm. I have permits to carry and received verbal authorization to carry it on state property when I was hired and again many months ago.”
Would it be indelicate to ask Mr. Hauer to show us his New York State carry permit? And then, if he has one, to check and see if it was issued before the date of this incident? Not that we might use the information to arrest him for carrying an illegal firearm or, say, brandishing. While we’re at it, I wonder if the Police have any information on whether or not the Smith & Wesson 9mm in question has been registered with the state, as required by law.
As for the verbal authorization to carry on state property, who knew such a thing was even possible? I don’t know about you, but that’s exactly the kind of thing I’d get in writing, just in case I needed to liven-up a Powerpoint presentation in the bowels of a State Police building. Just sayin’ . . .
“Verbal authorization”?
Good enough for them, but not for us plebes, apparently…
Just another example of how the connected and in-power want to use gun control to further consolidate their position. Do. Not. Let. Them have a monopoly on force.
Verbal authorization my a$$. Although, my faith may be restored a little bit if a NYPD cop had enough morality/testicular fortitude to use this example as probable cause to “stop-and-frisk” Hauer the next time he enters the building, and arrest him for carrying said firearm where he is NOT authorized to have it…and for breaking the SAFE act ( because you know DAMN well he does).
The ABA, thank heavens, has absolutely no authority over the practice of law. The various state Bar Associations are in charge of that, and they have no real affiliation with the ABA.
The ABA may once have been an advocacy group trying to improve the law, but now they’re no more than a lobbying arm of the Democratic National Committee, pushing an agenda that’s well to the left of anything Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, or even Bernie Sanders ever dreamed of.
The ABA has its offices in Chicago and Washington DC, the two most crime-ridden cities in our fair nation, and among those with the most Draconian gun-control laws.
Most American lawyers are *not* ABA members. I told the ABA to bugger off while I was still in law school because of their obnoxious politics, and I told them again in an email this morning.
We’re governed and surrounded by losers, hypocrites, elitists and crooks. God bless America.
I don’t think much more needs to be said than this.
The E! True Hollywood story of bananas in pajamas… after the cancellation of the beloved children’s show the cast struggled for work one even taking an advertising job for Texas firearms store (gasp) where he was quickly frisked before being cited for a little known town ordinance against soliciting a business on or near a roadway.
I keep thinking of the Reno 911 episode where Dangle and Junior beat up the milkshake. Law Enforcement imitates art.
Do as I say not as I do Nazi mentality of HLS
I wonder if this Glock sucker had more then 10 rounds which is against state law (5 rounds in NYShitty)
A subversive move to change The Republic of Texas into a Banana Republic? I wont argue ceramics.
As someone who drag raced motorcycles for 8yrs I can tell you the best lesson I learned and thankfully early on. Machines don’t care how much you yell at them or throw tools at them they will never fix themselves and you still have 1hr between rounds to get it going again or your on the trailer, so shut up and work!
Nick, do you still have the R51? Any chance of getting a weight of the reciprocating mass (slide and breech block, separately) pretty please?
It was obvious this whole Homeland Security farrago wasn’t going to do anything good when they gave it that Nazi-like moniker (or is it Soviet-style?). Homeland, motherland, Mother Russia, verbal authorization from the politburo, whatever. They might as well have cut to the chase and called it the Ministry of Peace.
Why are you people obsessing about what one bureaucrat may or may not have done accidentally on purpose with a gun? Don’t you know we’ve always been at war with Eastasia?
Said best by Charles Durning in “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”… http://youtu.be/Kl8ajhu_e5Y
Well I am SHOCKED! Shocked I tell you!
As the kids say, NOT.
There are 2 rule/law books, theirs and the public’s.
She’s absolutely right that private property owners have the right to say yay or nay to open carry on their property. She is absolutely wrong in her assertion that municipalities (local government) have that same right. She is also mistaken that the 2nd Amendment is a right and privilege. I’ll break it down for her; right-100% privilege-0%. Driving is a privilege, you twit.
Considering her “autobiography”, if she interpreted the 2nd
Amendment as loosely as the 1st she’d be campaigning for
RPGs and micro-nuke rockets for kindergarteners.
And if ya got micro-nukes who needs RPG’s?
Just got done listening to my governor whine about how despite the fact that three years later CT is still in a deep hole with severe long-term structural problems that he hasn’t addressed, it’s still all the previous Republican governors fault. So yeah, not really feeling particularly sympathetic.
How’s that open borders thing working out for ya’?
The open border that extends from CA to the gulf of Mexico and includes AR, NM, and Texas? News flash, slick, we got plenty of hispanic males in CA that have never seen the border and would be lost in Mexico. They been here since this wasn’t the US.
Go back to your mensa meeting.
Don’t forget that Timothy McVeigh-the constitutional scholar–was exactly the kind of person that hangs out at sites like “Western Rifle Shooters Association” (which may or may not be run by the ATF). Whether this made him right-wing, or not, I cannot say.
Blowing up people doesn’t seem be “right” to me.
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