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Offline DANNY-L

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Good news for ny from midway usa
« on: January 23, 2013, 09:54:17 AM »

This is in reference to the new ny law.




Dear Valued Customer,



I'm sure you're well aware that on January 15, 2013, New York passed and the Governor signed into law the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act. Now, I'm no politician, but it looks like all this law does is keep law abiding New Yorkers from purchasing or owning certain products, many of which we sell. While, I've always been against bad people doing bad things, I've also always been against honest folks being deprived of their 2nd Amendment rights. It pains me that New Yorkers are going to suffer for the acts of the wicked who don't obey laws.



When this law went into effect last week, MidwayUSA rushed to comply and keep our Customers and our company from doing anything illegal. Since this 39-page law was written and approved by people who don't know what a gun is or the difference between bullets and ammunition, we had to spend a lot of time sorting through the legalese to fully understand the details. To say the least, the law was confusing, so we erred on the side of caution. It looks like we jumped the gun a little and we are truly sorry for that.



Now that we've had time to read through the law several times and have received some answers from the NY State Police, we can fix our mistakes. Effective immediately, we've lifted our newly imposed New York restrictions on ammunition, reloading components and magazines with a capacity of 8 to 10-rounds. Now, unfortunately, we'll have to reinstate these when each portion of the law goes into effect (April 15, 2013 for magazines and January 15, 2014 for ammo). And, we'll have to reinstate these restrictions about 2-weeks prior to the effective dates to make sure Customers have these products prior to those dates (clarified by an attorney for the NY State Police).



One last thing, if you had a backorder for these products and we cancelled it, we're in the process of contacting you to see if you want this backorder recreated.



Again, we're sorry for any inconvenience we've caused you. Please understand, everything we do is intended to be in the best interest of our Customers.




Thanks for Your Business!







Larry Potterfield,
Founder and CEO of MidwayUSA










5875 West Van Horn Tavern Rd.
Columbia, MO 65203



©2013 MidwayUSA, Inc.
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Re: Good news for ny from midway usa
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2013, 03:24:06 PM »
keep ur stuff midway, shoulda never stopped shipping & stood up for our gun rights. Mike
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Re: Good news for ny from midway usa
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2013, 05:03:04 PM »
Quote from: mspaci on January 23, 2013, 03:24:06 PM
keep ur stuff midway, shoulda never stopped shipping & stood up for our gun rights. Mike

You would have preferred that they violate NY State law and either get you arrested or them shut down?  I think they did (mostly) the right thing - that is, they did jump the gun but they also quickly figured out what they actually needed to do and then corrected themselves, and apologized.  What more would you have them do?

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Re: Good news for ny from midway usa
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2013, 06:37:59 PM »
move out of NY! ear
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Re: Good news for ny from midway usa
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2013, 03:02:30 AM »
If I had a firearms related business I wouldn't go anywhere near New York till the dust settled and I knew what was what. Even if you did something that was legal, the cost of proving it might cause financial ruin. That might even be what the Gov. of New York would like to see. After all, the attorney general for New York and his flunkies are probably paid a salary and Midway's lawyers probably work by the hour. Even dumb old Tobster can do the math on that one.
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Re: Good news for ny from midway usa
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2013, 08:22:29 AM »
Regardless of what I think of the Legislature of the People's Republic of New York and Communist Party Chairman Cuomo I have no issue with what Midway did.

I've done business with them before and will do so in the future.  Check the NY forum for info on the federal class action lawsuit and to join it.

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