advantage over law abiding citizens. joining us now putnam county sheriff donald smith. thank you for all that you re doing, you were the head of the sheriff s association. i was the immediate past president and i was the president at our annual meeting in albany in january. tucker: and you wrote governor cuomo a letter and he apparently doesn t like guns the at all. you look at what they were planning to do and discussed doing and restricting seven bullets in a gun. pretty frightening for a lot of people watching around the country. well, sean, this so-called new york safe act is really a misnomer. it certainly doesn t make the citizens of new york any safer, in fact, quite the contrary, it makes them less safe. as you know, there s more than 330 million guns in the country right now and the drug dealer, the gang member, the felon, they ll always get a gun. this law penalizes the law
they have a special relationship to the people that they serve. they want to keep them safe. they want to protect their families. they don t have to kowtow or answer to politically elected executives. just the people. just the people. and i think that says a lot, sean, if they re accountable to the people they know what the people want. and they also know what keep the people safe. we had in albany, sean, we had 52 of the 58 sheriffs there, republicans, democrats, conservatives, liberals and moderates and we came to a consensus that the safe act, the new york so-called safe act needed to be modified. let me ask you the danger, if, let s say it s a home invasion, maybe, two or three perpetrators and you re allowed to have legally seven bullets in your gun. look, i ve carried a gun, a pistol more than half my adult life. more than half my full life and i m a good shot.
they have a special relationship to the people that they serve. they want to keep them safe. they want to protect their families. they don t have to kowtow or answer to politically elected executives. just the people. just the people. and i think that says a lot, sean, if they re accountable to the people they know what the people want. and they also know what keep the people safe. we had in albany, sean, we had 52 of the 58 sheriffs there, republicans, democrats, conservatives, liberals and moderates and we came to a consensus that the safe act, the new york so-called safe act needed to be modified. let me ask you the danger, if, let s say it s a home invasion, maybe, two or three perpetrators and you re allowed to have legally seven bullets in your gun. look, i ve carried a gun, a pistol more than half my adult life. more than half my full life and i m a good shot.
would give the criminals an advantage over law abiding citizens. joining us now putnam county sheriff donald smith. thank you for all that you re doing, you were the head of the sheriff s association. i was the immediate past president and i was the president at our annual meeting in albany in january. tucker: and you wrote governor cuomo a letter and he apparently doesn t like guns the at all. you look at what they were planning to do and discussed doing and restricting seven bullets in a gun. pretty frightening for a lot of people watching around the country. well, sean, this so-called new york safe act is really a misnomer. it certainly doesn t make the citizens of new york any safer, in fact, quite the contrary, it makes them less safe. as you know, there s more than 330 million guns in the country right now and the drug dealer, the gang member, the felon, they ll always get a gun. this law penalizes the law
they have a special relationship to the people that they serve. they want to keep them safe. they want to protect their families. they don t have to kowtow or answer to politically elected executives. just the people. just the people. and i think that says a lot, sean, if they re accountable to the people they know what the people want. and they also know what keep the people safe. we had in albany, sean, we had 52 of the 58 sheriffs there, republicans, democrats, conservatives, liberals and moderates and we came to a consensus that the safe act, the new york so-called safe act needed to be modified. let me ask you the danger, if, let s say it s a home invasion, maybe, two or three perpetrators and you re allowed to have legally seven bullets in your gun. look, i ve carried a gun, a pistol more than half my adult life. more than half my full life and i m a good shot.