Thousands protest NY SAFE Act in Albany Posted: 02.28.2013 at
9:08 AM  (Second and third videos in playlist are raw footage)
Thousands of SAFE Act opponents lobby and rally the Capitol.
 / Photo: Jim Kenyon  ALBANY -- More than 5,000 NY SAFE Act
opponents are lobbied lawmakers and rallied at the Capitol in
Albany against measures they say infringe on their
constitutional right to bear arms.  The New York Rifle and
Pistol Association (NYRPA), the rally organizer, says busloads
of demonstrators from more than a dozen counties around the
state arrived Thursday morning.  They joined thousands of other
SAFE Act opponents on the lawn in front of the Capitol.  The
NYRPA described the "5th Annual NYSRPA Lobby Day and Rally" on
their website as "a day to lobby the state legislature on gun
rights. Call your Assemblyman and State Senator to make an
appointment to meet with them in their offices on the 28th. If
they refuse show up anyway."  Among the demonstrators was Jody
Dates of Red Creek in Cayuga County.  She told