Congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout flip-flops on Cuomo’s gun control law — now she opposes it

[brooklynite]

New York Daily News:

Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout spent her first full day as a congressional candidate flipping her position on Gov. Cuomo’s SAFE Act gun control law.

Teachout, during an appearance on upstate public radio, said she supports background checks for firearm sales, but not the SAFE Act overall.

Teachout said the 2013 law, which expanded a ban on assault weapons and has significant opposition upstate, was rammed through by Cuomo in a way that “felt like it was more focused on making a public message than really dealing with the issues of gun safety.”

“I am not a supporter of the SAFE Act,” she said.

I was prepared to support her financially, since this is a competitive seat and a pickup opportunity. But gun control is a dealbreaker issue for me.

[hrmjustin]

1. I voted for her in the primary against Cuomo.

What a disappointment!

[Wilms]

2. I'm a suppoter of gun control and I don't support the SAFE Act.

Are you aware of it's history AND it's current events?

It was ham-handed overreach on the part of Cuomo. The day it was enacted, every State Police officer was in violation of the law for simply having their service revolver. Half of the provisions might well have gone unchallenged.

Now you have nearly EVERY county upstae NY having passed resolutions against it. So has the state sheriff associations, and 22 states have filed amicus briefs in an appeal of a lower court upholding (most) of the law.

The made a mess of it.

[ProudToBeLiberal]

3. This is the type of politician that Barack Obama said he would not campaign for. Zephyr just became

a pariah.