Cuomo Proposes Lowering Hunting, Fishing Fees, But Gun Enthusiasts Still Don’t Like Him

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed streamlining the process of acquiring state hunting and fishing licenses and reducing their cost by 25 percent in a budgetary amendment on Wednesday.

He called the current state licensing system “overly complex, burdensome and bizarre” and vowed to lower the price of yearly hunting licenses from $29 to $22 and fishing licenses from $29 to $25; reduce the cost of non-resident licenses; make fishing licenses valid for one year from the date of purchase; and continue discounted licenses for youth, seniors and veterans.

But hunting enthusiasts say that it will take more to earn their trust after the recent passage of legislation regulating gun and ammunition purchases.

Jacob Rieper, a New York State Rifle and Pistol Association vice president, said if it’s an effort to win hunters’ support, “It’s a really lame effort.” “Plus he wants background checks on buying ammo,” Rieper said. “Whatever warm feelings for hunters this generates, that’s going to go away when they buy a box of ammo.”




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  • Rufus_Cornpone

    Cuomo thinks he can buy off the outrage of dismembering gun owners rights with a couple of dollars reduction in a hunting licsense?…And those who will take it will be like Judas…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1383702303 Doug Berryann

    Cuomo gotta go~ REPEAL THE un-S.A.F.E. act NOW!!! The counties are sounding off and we don’t want this ill thought out law that was shoved down our throats by politicians who didn’t even know what was in the bill!

    • JOE

      NO COMPROMISE..REPEAL SAFE ACT TOTALLY ..WHICH BY THE WAY IS REALLY THE “UN-SAFE ACT” UNLESS YOU ARE A CRIMINAL…

  • joe

    he is not going to get on anybodys side by doing this but he might as well lower the lifetime licenses cost as well

  • http://www.facebook.com/mark.m.carey Mark M. Carey

    If it would guarantee the repeal of the NY (un) SAFE Act I would pay DOUBLE for my hunting license.

  • matt

    emperor cuomo shreds the constitution and stomps on our rights then says “here pesants, I will give you a break and save you a couple dollars”..

  • Johnny Humor

    I plan on giving Vermont a $100. I plan on shopping in bordering states, and to give this state little to no tax dollars!

    • Ed

      Good idea!

  • fredrick dollar

    why dont nys hunters just boycott hunting and fishing for the year

    • http://www.facebook.com/corinne.fayo Corinne Luckfield Fayo

      Good idea, someone should get hunters and fishermen to boycott & let dictator cuomo know why. He really shows why it is a continual fight for our freedoms

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Paul-Ciancio/589690830 Paul Ciancio

        Yes! Do not purchase ny hunting or fishing licenses. PA or VT are not too far.

      • http://www.facebook.com/schaniel1 Ronnie Schaniel

        YES YES YES

    • http://www.facebook.com/schaniel1 Ronnie Schaniel

      I Agree 100%

    • JOE

      I AGREE..IM NOT HUNTING THIS YEAR ..

  • kp

    What a tool. Is this supposed to make stealing our rights okay? It’s not about hunting governor “nobody needs 30 rounds to shoot a deer” idiot.

  • StoneBoat

    I wont be hunting in NY any time soon, I refuse to buy a license here, and I refuse to comply with his silly Safe act..

    • venisonking

      dont buy a license and hunt anyway

  • Guest

    More emotionally based legislation/dung for the sheeple. He knows no shame. We hunters pay the fees knowing that it does it least go to support the preservation of our hunting traditions and game populations. Is allowing unconstitutional legislation to pass worth saving five bucks. That’s a pretty cheap to sell out our forefathers for.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ddumas2000 David Dumas

    Whats the matter Cuomo? Your approval ratings dropping too much? Sorry this is not going to change a thing. Your getting voted out of office and never get a chance to be President either!

  • http://www.facebook.com/patricia.finneganwait Patricia Finnegan-Wait

    When is he gonna realize it’s not about a few dollars, is it gonna take the next election results for him and many others to realize this?

  • Mike

    This has nothing to do with hunting its our gun rights were talking about I hunt as well but I’m tired of hearing you only need a gun to hunt or ur not gonna use a ar to hunt its about our right as Americans shall not be infringed is pretty clear

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rob-Baribault/1743377310 Troyboy

    Can’t we impeach that fool?

  • http://twitter.com/pattonshummer carl ross

    just like a politician if they do not like you , you try to buy them off. fix do what is right and fix the safe act

  • Ed

    This is political pandering because of Anti-Gun Andy’s SAFE Act law. I say BOYCOTT because of SAFE Act. State will loose revenue from license fees and Pitman Roberson Act federal money.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Jerome.G.Bailey Jerome Bailey Jr

    I like what you New Yorkers have done so far to shove it in Como”s face, but you need to continue and push harder. You should all march on your capitol, and show force. If hundreds of thousands do it, they will have to listen, and they wont have enough law enforcement to control the crowd. Show them they are wrong, so other states don’t have to come over there and beat his ass for ya. LOL I would file for impeachment or recall against him for violating constitutional right. At least it would stop the law until it went through the supreme court. Everyone donate like five ten bucks, get the best civil liberty lawyer you can find, and sue the hell out of the state government. It took way too long in Ill. don’t let this slide keep fighting. We as a nation stand behind you, and I would even throw in a few bucks to help out.

    • http://www.facebook.com/theralphness Ralph Brooks

      The 28th of this month is a massive rally in Albany arranged by NRA/SCOPE/NYSRPA. Expected 10,000 participants. I expect plenty of ‘We came unarmed — THIS TIME’ signs.

  • Gary Gerthoffer

    The hunting license process is” Burdensome, Overly complex and Bizzar” then what do you call the NY Safe Act an newly proposed insurance bills??

  • http://www.facebook.com/john.croff John Croff

    The NY govt. is overly complex, burdensome and bizarre. I h8 NY.

    • It’s A Me, Cuomo!

      i am very sry you are so upset. we will get ice cream after school. love, ur mom.

  • http://www.facebook.com/robert.ungaro.33 Robert Ungaro

    Governor Cuomo has done more to hurt NY state hunters and hunting than any other governor in our history. Making fractional reductions in fees cannot undo the harm he has done to our traditions and the state’s economy.

  • John

    What a Joke. He is raiding the NY state conservation budget with all the fees paid by NY state sportsman to fund the enforcement of the SAFE act and he pulls this stunt to act as though he’s a friend of NY State hunters and fishermen and women. Taking conservation funds to pay for taking away hunting rifles…Talk about a slap in the face.

  • John

    Coumo is raiding the NYS Conservation fund to pay for the SAFE act’s enforcement, this is a slap in the face to NY sportsmen and women. Nice try on your fee reduction, but we will remeber the real facts at election time.

  • http://www.facebook.com/schaniel1 Ronnie Schaniel

    I say do not buy a sporting license at all for 2 years, then how would they act!

  • Glenn Hopkins

    PISS ON WAITING TILL ELECTION… SIGN THE PETITION TO IMPEACH HIM NOW…I SIGNED ALREADY… WE DON’T NEED HIM SCREWING UP OUR STATE ANYMORE…JOIN… NY gun owners unite…community…NOW

  • http://www.facebook.com/theralphness Ralph Brooks

    Drag these pukes into the street and make examples of them. That’s the only way the system will ever learn to fear their bosses — The electorate — Again.

    In 1773 they did this over a tax on a breakfast beverage. If the time isn’t now, when is?

    So glad I moved out of this corrupt police state and am no longer under the rule of Andrew The Boy Tyrant.

  • http://www.facebook.com/theralphness Ralph Brooks

    If you go to any of the NY shooting sites, everyone is boycotting NY hunting/fishing licenses until this mess is repealed. There’s great hunting in PA, come on down.

    Do NOT give a nickel to this administration via a license.

  • Roger Hyndman

    There are a million plus gun owners across New York State who will vote NO, and throw Gov Cuomo into the unemployment line. The Court should Rule the midnight madness Bill was enacted illegally, violating State Legislation, voiding the SAFE Act Bill.

  • otter

    the conservation fund advisory board is the one pushing King Cuomo to act on the licenses. he has nothing to do with it. they are setting on 54 million dollars of sportsman money that was ear marked to cover fishing and hunting programs. The state refused to spend the money or release it so the board went after them and threatened litigation. thats the only reason he threw that out there. he is no friend to sportsman in this state and hes no friend to law abiding gun owners in this state.. throw him and his cronies out on there ear. a clean sweep in albany except for those that support our cause..

  • http://www.facebook.com/robert.ungaro.33 Robert Ungaro

    These cost reductions are meaningless compared to the costs of doing
    background checks for every ammunition purchase and gun transfer. Furthermore
    the costs to gun enthusiasts for the loss of their legally purchased magazines,
    and firearms pales in comparison to the pennies saved here. Finally, the
    implementation of arms restrictions which also prohibit most of the modern
    handguns and many of currently available long guns has created a hostile
    environment for both in-state and out of state sports men and women who now risk
    committing crimes for the countless technical criminal violations created by the
    SAFE Act. In the wake of this legislation, Cuomo can’t seriously think us
    sportsmen and women think he’s anything but an enemy. Governor Cuomo please
    don’t do us any favors… Your legislation was debated in closed session without
    committee hearings, and you signed it into law within an hour of its passage —
    after waiving the required three-day public comment period. This 80 page
    legislation was passed late into the night… literally and figuratively under
    the cover of darkness. There existed no exigent need as claimed, of the Act’s 60
    sections, only three (3) took effect on its adoption into law.

    This legislation does not have the support of our law enforcement
    community, which you failed to consult or exempt, despite being tasked with its
    enforcement. In fact, the NY State Sheriffs Association has specifically opposed
    the act, leaving NY state residents without legal access to, or unknowingly
    subject to criminal penalty for possession of, items that can be purchased
    over-the-counter in each of NY’s contiguous states. The New York State
    Association of County Clerks and the New York State Association of Counties have
    also passed resolutions opposing the NY SAFE act. More significantly, 43 of New
    York’s 62 counties have either passed, or are in the process of passing,
    resolutions calling for the repeal of the SAFE Act, that list continues to grow.
    That is the voice of the people of the state of New York which you failed to
    either consider or consult.

  • JOE

    CUOMO YOU STILL SUCK…NO COMPROMISE..REPEAL SAFE ACT TOTALLY ..WHICH BY THE WAY IS REALLY THE “UN-SAFE ACT” UNLESS YOU ARE A CRIMINAL…

  • keyman12ga@yahoo.com

    Keep your 5 bucks GOV PANIC, your not buying me against the 2nd ammendment. The court system will cure your useless NY CITY based safe act. We the people and the heart of America made a huge statement yesterday in Albany We vote and our families vote. You should be brought up on treason charges for not protecting the US Constitution that you were sworn in to protect. A Patriot and Veteran