Tom Chandler and Phil Longden  TRT-NY
Robert Teesdale National Director  TRT-CO
Louis Wein New York State Constitution Party
Scott Jeffrey Representing the NY Libertarian Party
Rick Mase TRT-PA and Father of a Gun control victim
Dave Dilegge Representing ConservaVets and America's Voices
Maria Heil National Spokesperson for the Second Amendment Sisters
Rodi Bestider SAS member with a fresh perspective of America’s freedoms
                        coming from a communist blocstate.

• "Picnic with Pataki" REPORT
• Air rifles get a shot in Pine Bush
• Orange County might get new Judge
• New Orange County SCOPE Chapter
• WALL ends Larry Hughes talk show.

NEW YORK STATE

• A call to arms for all Nassau County gun owners
• NY City Mayor's race, Bloomberg's position
• Assembly Announces Gun Violence Prevention Bills
• "Best Range Management Practices Seminar - Troy, NY" Report
• SCOPE protest KING PATAKI in Dutchess County
• NY Senate and Assembly starts new web cast

• Gun Control Group Renamed to Honor Bradys
• Supreme Court rules on use of thermal imaging device.
• E-Instant Check to be started
•  "FFL eZ Check"
• Democrats to take over control of Senate UPDATE

"Picnic with Pataki"

    Pine Bush – A debate about air rifles wound up revealing the character of a school community Tuesday night.  That was when the Pine Bush school board voted 6-1 to accept a donation of 10 air rifles for its Outdoor Adventure program.  Supporters dominated the crowd, emphasizing the safety benefits of firearm education in a hunting community.  "We've come from being a rural community to suburban," said Curt Schoeberl of Walker Valley.  "Many people came from the New York metropolitan area. If you own a gun there, you're a bad guy.  That's not the way it is here. We shouldn't change our thinking because they have different thoughts."
    Board member Roseanne Sullivan said a shooting program sends mixed messages in an age of perceived school violence.  "That is the essence of what tears this district apart," she said. "We have to overlook who's been hunting in Pine Bush for 40 years. We have a  growing, changing personality. Just because it's been done before doesn't mean it's right."   Sullivan had few supporters Tuesday, though the donation has come under fire at other board meetings and on a community Web site.  "Whole families don't believe guns are right," said parent Joanne Burns of Bullville. "Some don't even allow their children to own squirt guns."
    From 180 to 200 juniors and seniors take the Outdoor Adventure elective each year, said athletic director Harold Fried.  The program's focus is on cooperative games and challenges, like scaling a 10-foot wall. Kids also go fly-fishing, skiing and mountain biking, among other field trips.  Air rifles were introduced this year.
    Pine Bush isn't alone. Both Minisink Valley and Middletown high schools have shooting teams, a direction Fried hopes to take Pine Bush.  A handful of kids refused to shoot this year; they neither lost credit nor peer respect, he said. The shooting unit lasts about two weeks.
   The donation came from the Orange County Federation of Sportsmen and the Orange County Trappers. The state DEC provided rifles this year.  Most board members had no qualms about the rifles' place in a district stretching from rural back roads to dense suburbia.  "We do have a history as a hunting community," said Michael Sellet. "I would rather have the children learning (about guns) in a safe environment, not on cartoons."

 Ralph J. Rubinek

THE FOLLOWING BILLS HAVE PASSED BILL #    DATE    YES    NO    ER    COMMENT
A845    6/11/01    143      1        6        Alcohol/drugs and guns do not mix.
A833    6/11/01    145                5        I had no idea that this was a problem or that it had ever been done.
A5363   6/6/01     110      30      10      Lock up your  unloaded gun and you still could be charged for having
                                                             an unlocked loaded gun.

Ray Carney, High Power Director of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association(NYSRPA);
Tom King, Pres. NYSRPA;
Richard Patterson of the National Shooting Sports Foundation;
George Meyer, Chief, RCRA Compliance Branch, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA);
Ed Guster, USEPA;
Ms. Brenda Gregory and the Staff of NYSRPA
Jack Giordano, National Rifle Association (NRA), Range Technical Team, NE Reg. Supervisor

SCOPE protest KING PATAKI in Dutchess County

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For years, people have described Handgun Control Inc. as "Jim and Sarah Brady's group" and on Thursday the leading U.S. gun control body made the link official by renaming itself after the crusading couple.
    Now called the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, it will honor the Bradys at a gala event on Thursday night at the Ronald Reagan building in Washington D.C., named after the president for whom Jim Brady worked as press secretary until he was shot on March 30, 1981.
    The Bradys crusade began after Jim Brady was critically wounded by a .22 caliber bullet that hit him in the forehead during an assassination attempt on Reagan outside the Washington Hilton.
    In a country where more than 30,000 people die every year from gun-related injuries, Brady and his wife Sarah, who is being treated for lung cancer, have become America's best known advocates for stricter gun laws.
    "The reason for renaming the organization can be summed up in three words. Jim and Sarah," Michael Barnes, president of the newly named group, told a news conference.
    Barnes also heads the group's educational arm, which is being renamed the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Where, as here, the Government uses a device that is not in general public use, to explore details of a private home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion, the surveillance is a Fourth Amendment “search,” and is presumptively unreasonable without a warrant. Pp. 3–13.