Life in NYC!
With major crime in NYC up more than thirty percent since 2020, and while the mayor and much of the city’s political hierarchy are under federal investigation for corruption (the chief of police just resigned), it was recently announced that the average time for police response to major-crime 911 calls in NYC is now up to fifteen minutes and twenty-three seconds, much longer for “non-critical” felonies
In view of the foregoing, a beleaguered friend who lives there just received this from NYPD, with regard to his application to own a pistol within the city limits, and keep it in his home. This is not a concealed-carry application (Heaven forbid!), just a “permit” to actually own and keep a pistol :
“Your application is in the investigation portion of your renewal
We have a minimum of an eight to twenty week delay, once you reach this point of the renewal process.
When further documentation is needed, it will be requested via email
Be sure to keep track”
In addition, fingerprints must be included with the application, and they must be taken at NYPD’s one facility that does that. But, there is currently a three-month (and growing) wait to schedule such a fingerprint session!
Thus, it will take my friend at least six months for his application to be approved, so that he will be able to legally shoot at commercial ranges within the city, and keep his pistol in his home.
If history is any guide, the process will actually take in excess of a year, assuming everything goes smoothly!
Otherwise, the NYPD comes to my friend’s door and seizes/impounds his pistol(s), which he will probably never see again.
Priorities of the city’s political hierarchy are pretty obvious!
While violent crime is escalating off the chart, and the city’s defunded police are hopelessly overwhelmed, the city’s politicians (all Democrats) can only think of new ways to make legitimate self-defense on the part of good and decent, tax-paying New Yorkers impossible!
New Yorkers are conspicuously expendable.
To Marxists, we’re all expendable!
Never allow someone to be your priority, while allowing yourself to be their option.
Mark Twain
/John
