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| Pistol permit requests rise in NY community after Hanukkah stabbing |
| 2020-01-12 |
| [IsraelTimes] 73 applications have been filed with Rockland County Clerk’s Office since December 28, compared to 51 requests in previous 8 weeks. The number of residents seeking to own handguns has risen sharply in a New York community shaken last month by a machete attack that injured five men during a Hanukkah celebration. The Journal News reports 73 pistol permit applications have been filed with the Rockland County Clerk’s Office since the December 28 attack at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, a hamlet in the town of Ramapo northwest of New York City. That compares to 51 applications the office received during the eight weeks prior to the stabbing, County Clerk Paul Piperato told the newspaper. Sixty-eight of the new applications came from Ramapo residents, including 31 from Monsey. "It’s definitely because of this incident," Piperato told the newspaper, referring to the attack. "In some way, shape or form, they want to defend themselves." Chief William Barbera of the Rockland County Sheriff’s Department says an application is the first step in a months-long process. Applicants are required to be fingerprinted and undergo a background check and firearms training before the paperwork is submitted to a licensing officer. An academy run by veterans of the Israel Defense Forces has been providing weapons training in Ramapo’s synagogues since the machete attack, The Journal News reports. Its trainers have been advising Jewish residents to seek unrestricted pistol permits. "The goal is to be able to carry at synagogue and not to just possess at home and take to the range," said Yonatan Stern, the academy’s director. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 I hope N.Y. becomes a firearms sanctuary state. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-01-12 17:23 |
| #2 SCOTUS long ago ruled it's not the responsibility of the police to keep you safe. When seconds matter, the police are only minutes away. All that said, the police are hellbent on taking a Minority Report approach to your rights. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-12 08:16 |
| #1 It is the first responsibility of government to provide for the protection of one's self, one's family, and one's property. When government fails to provide that security it is no longer legitimate. When government inhibits you from doing so it is despotic. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-01-12 06:49 |