This reads like sour grapes. NRA says New York’s quick passage of gun control thwarted opposition. Fact is that during the runup to its passage, lobbyists from the state’s NRA affiliate was going around the Capitol building trying to build support for blocking the package.

It didn’t work.

Gov. Cuomo outwitted the NRA and their affiliates by hitting upon the fact that the State Senate is a divided bunch and that the state GOP has a functional majority only because of breakaway Democrats. Keeping that caucus together is key to GOP power in the state Senate, so putting together the SAFE act took that into account and some of the provisions were tailored to address that.