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The Empire (State) Strikes Back

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    The Empire (State) Strikes Back                                               By Steve Dallas Summer is the time for movie sequels.    Heroes return for yet another adventure, from Tom Cruise's "Maverick" to Marvel Comics' "Thor."  Villains resurrect their evil schemes, be they the Joker from "Batman" or the Sith Lords of "Star Wars." There isn't a new "Star Wars" movie this summer.  However, in New York, gun owners are seeing their own unfortunate sequel, as empress wannabe Kathy Hochul's Empire Strikes Back against the Second Amendment. Less than a week after the United States Supreme Court came out with a full-throated support for the right of self-defense, Darth Hochul and her Democrat minions (with no Republican votes) passed some of the most draconian gun control laws in American history, all aimed directly at law-abiding gun owners, not at criminals. In  New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v Bruen,  th