New Bill Makes Certain Only Cops Can Be Drunk And Loaded

Gun rights sold separately

Hey all you cops, with your uniforms and your billy clubs and your fancy tasers: you like to go out for a drink after your shift, have a little taste, we get that. Sometimes you bring your gun with you. Well, you're officially on notice: those days of getting plastered and crawling across the bar floor shooting at the mice and the dust are numbered, thanks to a new bill that won't allow you to drink and carry a weapon.

Or not. The new bill, which aired at a City Council meeting on Wednesday, would subject licensed gun owners to a possible year in jail and $10,000 fine if they're over the limit and armed—except for cops. State law prevents the city from including on-duty or off-duty cops in the measure, according to Public Safety Committee Chairman Peter Vallone Jr. Mayor Bloomberg tried to get a similar bill passed earlier this year, but it was blocked by the NRA. Imaginatively, the NRA said this new bill was "a new tactic" to undermine gun rights.

"If automobiles are dangerous with a drunken driver behind the wheel, it should be obvious that the same principle applies when someone carries a gun while intoxicated," Arkady Gerney, a mayoral criminal justice aide, testified. But cops are covered by departmental penalties for carrying their firearms and drinking even when off-duty. And thank God for that, or else we would never again such classic news stories as "Drunk cop fires gun inside boyfriend's patrol car" again!

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By Ben Yakas in News on September 17, 2010 8:58 AM

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John L

Law or no law, it doesn't matter.

The NYPD is above the law anyway.

BDS=(Boycott.Divest.Sanction)

not that I think you nut jobs should be armed, but obviously its "a new tactic" to undermine gun rights.

What crime are they trying to prevent here? Are there cases where legal gun owners in nyc are getting drunk and shooting people? So few people can leaglly carry as it is. Wheres the evidence that this law is needed or does that even matter?

notice how we read about the NYPD shooting, maiming and running down people on this site every other week ..we're outraged but do we get ANY new laws for that. Course not. Laws are only for the peasants.

BDS=(Boycott.Divest.Sanction)

not that I think you nut jobs should be armed, but obviously its "a new tactic" to undermine gun rights.

What crime are they trying to prevent here? Are there cases where legal gun owners in nyc are getting drunk and shooting people? So few people can leaglly carry as it is. Wheres the evidence that this law is needed or does that even matter?

notice how we read about the NYPD shooting, maiming and running down people on this site every other week ..we're outraged but do we get ANY new laws for that. Course not. Laws are only for the peasants.