Ball Video On Gun Legislation
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Capitol Confidential has the video of Assemblyman Greg Ball, R-Carmel, Putnam County, standing next to Jake McGuigan, director of government relations for the National Shooting Sports Foundation Inc., as he opposed the microstamping technology Monday being supported by some Democratic lawmakers at a news conference Monday.
Microstamping would require bullets fired from guns to be marked so they can be more easily traced to their origin—a proposal which has drawn criticism from the gun industry.
Ball has not been without controversial remarks, evidenced by his first weeks in the Legislature last year (below) when he ripped his colleagues as the most dysfunctional legislature in the United States of America,” which drew jeers from the parlor.
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There should be nothing controversial about firing pin and breach face micro prints on ammunition. The cost is virtually unseen to the law abiding consumer and the benefits in terms of being able to solve crimes make this technology well worth it. That’s why so many in law enforcement support these measures.
But leave it to someone like Greg Ball to show boat and cause controversy where there should be none. He wasn’t there because he cares about gun owners. He was there because he saw an opportunity to get his name in the paper again, regardless of the issue.
This is pathetic and the Journal News and Albany Times Union should be ashamed for covering this nonsense.
Ball is the biggest phony whose behavior has become more bizarre as time passes by. People who know him say he seems like he is going off the deep end.
Greg Ball, R-Patterson
Greg Ball, R-Pawling?
Not Greg Ball, R-Carmel
DeflateBall08 wrote:
Greg Ball, R-Patterson
Greg Ball, R-Pawling?
Not Greg Ball, R-Carmel
Does anyone know if he is even residing in the district or just using an address to cover that end of his residency????? Didn’t Ball have a one room shack in Putlake? Maybe he is back there in Patterson or perhaps back in Pawling where his parents live? As long as his resides in the 99th is important….. but funny if he only has a paper address.
Of course, Ball probably sits back and reads these posts and laughs as he gets attention from them and he thrives on being the center of attention whether positive or negative.
Lets hope he is not elected this fall. Two more years of his do nothing term is bad for our area.
Bravo, Assemblyman Ball. Microstamping is a false bill of goods. It cannot prevent any crimes, and it is highly dubious it can ever solve crimes. It is incredibly easy to defeat with simple tools, and it is also highly likely to cause innocent people to be accused of crimes, since any dedicated criminal can simply scoop up a bag of microstamped brass from a firing range and toss shells at a crime scene, thus implicating innocents.
The peer reviewed, scientific studies prove the technology is flawed and not likely to be helpful in solving crimes. Only the pants-wetting, “do anything now!” liberal politicians—who know nothing about guns or ammunition—are trying to foist this sham on an unsuspecting public.
Kudos to Assemblyman Ball for showing that the emperor has no clothes.
What a pathetic argument Greg Ball makes in that video. He looks so out of his element debating the well informed experts. Ball has no substance, just rhetoric.
His ‘buzz words’ and idiotic rhetorical questions make him as dumb and doofy as he really is. Another jackass who doesn’t know what he’s doing or what he’s talking about.
When the experts fire back with facts and pointed, deliberate questions they easily dismantle Ball.
Frustrated by his stupidity, he turns his back and walks away…
It’s an interesting concept, but like Sara says, it can be circumvented easily. It seems like this law is mostly intended to force gun manufacturers to either adopt the technology, or lose sales in the states that require it (currently only California, and that won’t take effect until 2010.) Whether that’s a good thing, I’ll leave up to you, although I have no problem with legal guns and the ownership of them myself.
Walt, while California did pass a law requiring this sort of technology, they did so before such technology exists (much like New Jersey passed a “smart gun” law, mandating guns that don’t exist). The study commissioned by the Cal legislature done by UC Davis found that the very technology the NY Assembly bill requires is unreliable and easily defeated. Two independent studies, including one by the National Academy of Sciences, raised similar doubts. These are not NRA or gun industry studies.
Look, has anybody ever heard the NRA or any other gun group come out against serial numbers on guns? Of course not. There’s no harm and no undue cost in stamping serial numbers on guns. Further, the NRA and other gun groups do not oppose laws making it a crime to “deface” guns (which means to obliterate their serial numbers). Nor do they oppose a host of measures that work to stop guns from getting into the hands of criminals and tracing them from crimes to criminals. In fact, NRA even supported a recent bill sponsored by Carolyn McCarthy designed to improve the mental health records database so that disturbed people cannot buy guns.
No, what NRA and informed, concerned gun owners oppose are these hair-brained schemes which will do no good whatsoever, but will inconvenience-
and possibly implicate in crimes-law abiding citizens, and doubtless result in unnecessary, increased costs, just like NYS’ failed COBIS ballistic imaging system. Bills like this are the epitome of feel-good, do nothing legislation.