New York State now requires you to pay $2.50 and fill out a lengthy form and wait for a background check to buy ammunition. Just to make it as much of a taxing, pain in the ass process as possible for gun owners and hunters.
Most people whenever they can will certainly be planning to buy ammunition the next time they travel out of state to Pennsylvania or Vermont where you can buy ammo just by picking it off the shelf and going to the cash register and paying, most likely depriving state businesses and county and state tax revenues. Technically if you plan to use the ammunition in state your supposed to remit the sales tax to the state but few will.
How could it have been done better? For one, the process could have been automated and the fee waved. Most gun owners have drivers licenses or at least non-driver ids. Those could be scanned and an instant background check using a computer without paperwork implemented. There is no need for a fee, the cost of a database lookup is deminis and at any rate, reducing gun violence is a public purpose and there is no reason why a prohibited purchasers database couldn’t be maintained solely out of general funds.
The whole process would be a lot less objectionable had it been fully automated and free for ammunition purchasers. Maybe it could be pared tightly with the DEC DECALS system so that when you bought ammunition they could also sell you hunting and fishing licenses – or if your license was expired or soon to be expired, they could sell you a new license.
1776: During the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Harlem Heights took place in what is now the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. This battle was part of the New York and New Jersey campaign and saw American forces successfully engage the British.
1908: General Motors (GM) was founded in Flint, Michigan, but its co-founder, William C. Durant, was originally from New York. The establishment of GM would have significant implications for the automotive industry and the state’s economy.
1920: A bomb explosion on Wall Street in New York City killed 38 people and injured hundreds more in what became known as the Wall Street bombing. The incident remains one of the deadliest acts of terrorism in U.S. history at the time.
1940: The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, the first peacetime draft in the United States, went into effect. This event had a significant impact on the nation, including New York State, as men were drafted into military service in preparation for World War II.
1960: The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field, their historic home stadium. The team would relocate to Los Angeles the following year, marking the end of an era in New York City sports history.
1992: The trial of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the notorious Mexican drug lord, began in a federal court in Brooklyn, New York. This trial garnered significant media attention and was a landmark case in the fight against drug cartels.
It’s not a real great weekend for camping but as they say, it beats being home. And it’s only a half hour drive home, fifteenth out to the folks house on Sunday. Gives me a chance for some hammock time and riding the dirt trails around. Probably they’re muddy though after such a wet late summer.
Good morning! Happy Saturday. Finally the weekend! Mostly cloudy and 53 degrees at the Rensselaerville State Forest. ☁ There is a northwest breeze at 15 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 44 degrees. The skies will clear around 4 pm.
Cool and rather blustery morning 🌬️ for camping up at State Forest. Got up around 6:30, made a breakfast of eggs 🍳 with spinach, onions, mushrooms and a whole wheat crust. Just flour and water, would have added salt but I didn’t bring that and I’ve been overdoing the salt lately after backing away from it. Trying to find balance. ⚖
Today will become partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 65 degrees at 4pm. Timing all depends on how fast the hurricane pushes off the shore. 🌀 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 7th. Maximum dew point of 47 at 2pm. Northwest wind 15 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 71 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 1939.
Left work around 4 pm taking the express bus 🚍 home, filling the cooler and getting out to Rennselearville State Forest around 5:45. I probably could have left at five but it was nice to be set up well before dark. Leaving at five would have been pushing it with daylight to gather firewood and set up camp. ⛺ Turned out to be a very starry night ✨ but a bit cool so I spent it huddled over the fire. I wanted to get away but not so far out of town as possibly next weekend I’ll head up north.
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 50.2° from the due south horizon (-20.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:30 pm with the sun in the west (268°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (275°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:07 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 54 seconds with dusk around 7:33 pm, which is one minute and 47 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west (261°) at an altitude of 3° from the horizon, 247,447 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:09 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 60 degrees. The dew point will be 46 degrees. Breezy, 16 mph breeze ⛅ from the northwest. Today will have 12 hours and 30 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 45 degrees at 6am. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 4th. Northwest wind 10 to 16 mph. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 51 degrees. The record low of 32 occurred back in 1959.
Looking ahead, there are 7 weeks until Daylight Savings Time Ends 🌥 when the sun will be setting at 5:48 pm with dusk at 6:16 pm. Seems much too soon 😢. On that day in 2022, we had sunny, warm and temperatures between 71 and 46 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 54 degrees. We hit a record high of 76 back in 1994. I’m thinking after the time change I can still ride to work some days and then put my bike 🚲 on the bus 🚍 for the ride home.
