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New York
Below you are links to
informational sites related to the New York Gun laws and regulations. (
Legal lawyer stuff as follows:
Center-fire- Greenfield Industries are not responsible nor
endorses any information found on listed links. blah, blah,
blah. You get the picture. Take everything you read with a
grain of salt.) We have even included some
comical links such as the
Brady Campaign , because everybody enjoys a little
fictional reading from time to time.
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Less than a week after the
Declaration of Independence was signed, the people of New York
met in convention in Kingston to vote their support and form
their own state government. Although their state was the scene
of nearly a third of the battles fought in the American
Revolution, and their major port and city was occupied, New
Yorkers still managed to supply large quantities of food,
clothing, lead and iron to General Washington, as well as to
serve valiantly in the Continental Army. New Yorkers saw the
christening of the American flag when the Stars and Stripes
was first flown in battle at the defense of Ft. Stanwix in
Rome.
The Colony of New York became a state on July 26, 1788 with
the adoption of its first constitution - 12 years before the
Federal Constitution. After the adoption of the Federal
Constitution, New York City was chosen to be the nation's
first capital and was the site of the inauguration of George
Washington as President on April 30, 1789.
Giovanni da Verrazano, an Italian-born navigator sailing for
France, discovered New York Bay in 1524. Henry Hudson, an
Englishman employed by the Dutch, reached the bay and sailed
up the river now bearing his name in 1609, the same year that
northern New York was explored and claimed for France by
Samuel de Champlain.
In 1624 the first permanent Dutch settlement was established
at Fort Orange (now Albany); one year later Peter Minuit is
said to have purchased Manhattan Island from the Indians for
trinkets worth about $24 and founded the Dutch colony of New
Amsterdam (now New York City), which was surrendered to the
English in.
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