This month, more than 100,000 city public school kids walked out to protest gun violence - but last century some students attended class armed with their rifles and practiced shooting on school grounds. "I have gotten hundreds of calls from people from the Adirondacks," King said, "and all I can say is that there are going to be lawsuits.New York City high schoolers used to pack heat as often as they packed lunch.
The plaintiffs who won the pro-gun Supreme Court ruling live just south of the Adirondacks, including Tom King, the president of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, the state affiliate of the National Rifle Association. "I'm not even sure that you could actually stop and use the bathroom if you had to between you and the gun range," said John Bowe, president of the Dunham's Bay Fish and Range Club. Dinowitz said he opposed the amendment, while Hochul's office did not respond to that question.Ĭounty clerks involved in the gun-license system and at least one Adirondacks district attorney say the law is confusing. He proposed amending the law to exclude Adirondack Park public lands. "They rushed this through without anyone getting to vet it," said Dan Stec, a Republican state senator from the park's south. More than half of the park is private land. The week after the law passed, the office of Governor Kathy Hochul, also a Democrat, said state-owned Forest Preserve land in the park, about two-fifths of the park's area, should not be considered sensitive locations, contradicting the bill's sponsors. "A guy from the Bronx doesn't have a clue what the Adirondack Park is," said Havens, who was born and raised in the mountains. The new law would exempt people "lawfully engaged in hunting activity," but deer season, a few weeks in the fall, was months away.Īt Calamity Jane's, a store selling guns, women's shoes and handbags with gun holsters sewn into the lining, co-owner Jane Havens broadcast the July 1 debate in the legislature to browsing customers.ĭinowitz and other bill sponsors were unequivocal: Adirondack Park was included. Loose bullets rolled around in his truck's dashboard tray as he turned onto the rocky 4-mile (6-km) track to his family's lakeside cabin, winding through the state-owned Vanderwhacker Mountain Wild Forest, which will become a sensitive location, according to the bill's sponsors.
He worried that if he gets pulled over in the wrong place one day and is convicted of the new gun possession felony, he will lose his guns.įor miles, the paved road crossed swatches of private property, which lawmakers said will automatically become restricted locations if owners don't post signs saying guns are welcome. His loaded Kimber 9mm pistol was tucked as usual into his waistband as he drove through the mountains across a patchwork quilt of different land types.
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