Liberal Congressional hopeful Jack Schlossberg—grandson to President John F. Kennedy—wants to make political hay by demanding that states with so-called “weak gun laws” should be penalized because guns from those states end up used in crimes in New York, but the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says he has it backwards.
Schlossberg is campaigning to succeed Democrat Jerrold Nadler, longtime representative from New York’s 12th District, who is retiring and will not run in 2026. Schlossberg made headlines in the New York Post by declaring, “There’s an illegal flow of guns into states across the country from a couple states with weaker gun laws. We should at least have a penalty to make sure that we can fund enforcement of this common sense idea.”
However, CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb countered, “How about penalizing New York for all the criminals they release on cashless bail, who then commit crimes in other states?”
The veteran gun rights advocate said New York doesn’t have a “gun problem, it’s got a criminal justice problem.”
Earlier this year, President Trump signed an executive order directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to submit a list of states and local jurisdictions which “substantially eliminated cash bail as a potential condition of pretrial release from custody for crimes that pose a clear threat to public safety and order, including offenses involving violent, sexual, or indecent acts, or burglary, looting, or vandalism.”
“Schlossberg is pandering to far-left Democrats with his gun control idea,” Gottlieb observed, “rather than acknowledge it is liberal Democrat policies which have allowed repeat offenders to roam the streets of America, committing crimes and bringing misery to honest people, many of whom have purchased firearms to protect themselves from recidivist criminals who should be doing time in Empire State jails and prisons.
“New York’s criminal justice system is a train wreck,” he added, “and everybody knows it. While prosecutors and courts go light on repeat offenders, politicians in Albany and New York City go hard on law-abiding citizens for exercising their Second Amendment rights. It’s time to hold the New York political establishment accountable for the trouble it causes, instead of penalizing states which recognize the rights of law-abiding citizens.
“President Kennedy, who was Schlossberg’s grandfather and an NRA member, is probably shaking his head and rolling his eyes in Heaven,” Gottlieb concluded.
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
