Dear Rus
The following Legislative Memo’s have been distributed to every member of the Legislature. Please contact your local Assembly Member and Senator and urge them to take the recommended action on each bill.

CONSERVATIVE PARTY of NEW YORK STATE

2007 Legislative Memo

In Opposition to

A. 829 - Englebright

Proscribes persons, firms or corporations engaged in retail business of selling firearms from selling, delivering or transferring child operated firearms

A. 1497 - O’Donnell Same as S. 4416 - Flannigan

Requires the judge in a criminal proceeding or in a family court proceeding, upon issuance of an order of protection to inquire as to the possession of a firearm by the defendant or respondent

A. 2772 - Eddington Same as S. 2411 - Schneiderman

Bans the sale, use or possession of 50-caliber weapons

A 3447 - Koon Same as S.2002 - Padavan

Includes possession of armor piercing, frangible or devastator ammunition as criminal possession of a weapon.

A. 6525 - Paulin Same as S. 2404 - Schneiderman

Requires the creation and imposition of restrictive commercial practices and stringent recordkeeping and reporting to prevent gun sales to criminals

A. 7331 - Titone Same as S. 1836 - Lavalle

Relates to banning the possession, sale or manufacture of assault weapons; repealer

Party Position: The Conservative Party is a strong proponent of the Second Amendment and firmly believes that every citizen in good standing, being a person of sound mind, should be entitled to own and poses legal guns.

Responsible people do not commit crimes and they make certain that their guns and ammunition are properly stored.

New York State has the most restrictive gun laws in the Nation, yet illegal guns and criminals pay absolutely no attention to any of them.

The above bills will do nothing to stop criminals from committing crimes with illegal or for that fact legal guns. However, to place further restrictions on law abiding citizens, goes against everything our Nation stands for. Will somebody please show us a gun that commits a crime without a human pulling the trigger.

We urge you to vote No on all of the above bills.

LM 2007-08

CONSERVATIVE PARTY of NEW YORK STATE

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2007 Legislative Memo

In Support of

S. 4632 - Volker

Purpose: To address the Court of Appeals decision in People V. LaValle regarding capital punishment.

Party Position: Some crimes are so heinous the only way to be certain that society, as a whole, is protected is to allow the state to impose the death penalty.

In 1995, the Members of the Legislature recognized that the death penalty must be restored and voted to do so. In the Assembly the vote was 94-52, in the Senate 38-19, both houses passed the bill by wide margins. Yet, the Court of Appeals ruled in June of 2004, that the Due Process Clause of the NYS Constitution required that the jury be instructed as to the consequences of a deadlock in their sentencing deliberations, thereby rendering the death penalty invalid.

This legislation includes the language, originally proposed in 1995 by the State Assembly, to remedy the concerns of the Court of Appeals.

Under current law, the Judges were improperly required to instruct jurors in capital cases that if they deadlocked and failed to reach a verdict during the penalty phase, the Judge would impose a sentence that would allow the defendant to be paroled after a minimum 20-25 years served. The Court believed that if jurors were advised of this, they would choose the death penalty rather than let a defendant be a scourge on society again.

This bill seeks to remedy the Court of Appeals concern by mandating a life sentence without possibility of parole if the jurors are deadlocked. When this bill is adopted a juror who, in good conscience, cannot cast a vote for the death penalty will not be coerced into doing so because they will know there is an alternative.

All New Yorkers need to known that people who commit heinous crimes will face the death penalty and not be protected by an overzealous Court that was under the impression that jurors could be coerced into choosing the death penalty.

LM 2007-09

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