The scenario most feared by card-carrying National Rifle Association members came to pass, when police entered Richard D’Alauro’s home in East Northport, NY and seized 39 rifles, pistols, and shotguns. The cops later returned to confiscate additional weapons and ammunition they’d missed the first time around. Was this one of President Barack Obama’s fabled attempts to take away our guns? Actually, it’s because this high-level field representative for the NRA — whose territory covers New York City and surrounding areas in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey — has a serious domestic violence problem.

Dan Friedman from the New York Daily News reports that on September 1st, 2010, 62-year old D’Alauro was charged with child endangerment and assaulting and harassing his then-wife-who-wisely-became-his-ex-wife, Maribeth D’Alauro. And to make this NRA top gun look like even more of a monster, his wife is disabled with multiple sclerosis and has to walk with a cane. On October 3rd, he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of harassment, and Suffolk County Court Judge Toni Bean continued an order of protection for D’Alauro’s wife and prohibited him from owning or buying any firearms for one year.





Wait … just one year? That means D’Alauro gets his stockpile back on October 3rd of this year!

Maribeth D’Alauro told Friedman that she’s far from pleased by this looming prospect, and revealed that she had endured “years of domestic violence,” but felt “too afraid to ever call the police on him.” She also compared her ex-husband’s bullying, confrontational behavior with the NRA’s approach to politics, and wryly observed, “They are cut from the same cloth.” Her lawyer, Sari Friedman added, “A man who has an order of protection against him … is a poor spokesman for the NRA.”

Richard D’Alauro’s lawyer John Ray denies that the assault and child endangerment ever occurred (as if “harassment” isn’t sufficiently vile), and that the Court had “reconsidered.” Ray also insists that his client’s not a paranoid psycho, he’s a collector who happens to collect firearms. “Many of them are old, ancient things.” Jeez, if D’Alauro had only chosen to collect Beanie Babies, this whole mess would never have happened. D’Alauro’s attorney also points out that the NRA has no problem with all of this, because “the NRA does not require its employees to own guns.” Nor, apparently, does the NRA require its employees to own personalities that are mentally stable and non-douchebaggy. Domestic abusers are prohibited by federal and New York State laws from owning fire arms. The non-Republican @ssholes in Congress are also discussing tougher background checks — which are popular with their constituents. Unfortunately, D’Alauro will get his various Winchesters, Colts, Smith & Wessons, Remingtons, and other miscellaneous weapons back because he pleaded to the lesser crime of harassment. For a complete list of weapons confiscated from D’Alauro, scroll to the bottom of the Daily News article