The backlash against New York’s new gun control law, the NY SAFE Act, continues, with the Wilton GOP announcing today it unanimously passed a resolution in opposition to the measure and calling on fellow party committees to do the same.

“No new laws ought to be passed which further restrict the rights of law abiding New Yorkers to possess firearms,” the party said in a statement. “We endorse and uphold the 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution: A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

Wilton GOP Chairman Scott Kingsley called the right to bear arms “a fundamental right that transcends party politics.”

Wilton happens to be located in the district represented by Sen. Kathy Marchione, who was one of just two Republican senators to speak out in opposition to the SAFE Act on the floor of the Senate last week.

She has since led the (likely quixotic) charge to repeal the act, launching an on-line petition to “repeal and replace” it. Several of her colleagues, including Sens. Bill Larkin and George Maziarz, followed suit.

Town of Wilton GOP press release on SAFE Act by liz_benjamin6490

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