When he's not stopping the sag or accusing the Times of racism for wanting to "throw the bums out" of Albany, Eric Adams (D-Brooklyn) has guns in his crosshairs. At the end of January he was tossing your kid's bedroom and finding bullets ("Where there's smoke, there's possibly fire," warned Adams in a video, holding a bullet "discovered" behind a picture frame). In his latest attention-grabber, the senator collaborated with the Daily News to get hidden-camera footage of his shopping spree at Capital District gun shops.
At Guns Inc. in Rensselaer (go Engineers!), Adams, a retired NYPD captain, bought two 30-round magazines for an AK-47 assault rifle. That's illegal in New York State, where gun magazines with that many bullets have been banned since 1994. And at another gun store in Colonie, an employee told the senator they were all sold out, but "We expect them any time now. We have a bunch ordered." Phew.
The clips are widely sold throughout New York because of a loophole allowing gun sellers to sell clips made before the 1994 law went into effect. But there is no law requiring manufacturers to put serial numbers on the clips, so there's no way of knowing for sure when they were made. Adams wants a law that would close that loophole, and tells the Daily News, "This bill is going to close the loophole so the clips are banned, period. The more rounds you're able to discharge prior to having to reload, the more dangerous you are."
Of course, that's not going to be good for the gun business; at least one gun pusher thinks Adams should just act like a normal politician in Albany and mind his own business. "What are they going to ban next?" asked a manager of Guns Inc., who refused to give his name. "I think a state senator has more to do and worry about in this environment than how many bullets a guy can put into a gun." Yeah, go back to focusing on more important issues like teenagers' pants, Adams!
