A National Rifle Association publication targeted a pair of New York state legislators who sponsored recent bills aimed at limiting ammunition by tweeting a threatening photo on Monday of several bullets strewn across polaroid pictures of the two women.

New York state senator Roxanne Persaud and Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon, both Democrats in Brooklyn, sponsored twin bills a few weeks ago to help control the sale of ammunition by limiting bullet purchases over a 90-day period to twice the gun’s capacity, and stopping the sale of ammunition to those unauthorized to own such a weapon.

“If I have a cold, I can’t buy Sudafed without ID, but I can walk into any gun shop and walk out with enough bullets to arm a small army without showing any kind of ID,” Simon said in a joint release. “The sky is the limit. The San Bernardino shooters had 6,000 rounds of ammunition. We need this legislation so that cannot happen here.”

Monday’s menacing tweet to the proposed legislation came just one day before President Obama announced his executive actions to strengthen gun control laws. It also came four days before the fifth anniversary of the Arizona shooting which severely injured Arizona representative Gabrielle Giffords.

America’s 1st Freedom expressed great disapproval for the ammunition legislature Persaud and Simon have pushed for. In Monday’s tweet, the publication linked to a strongly worded article written by editor Mark Chesnut, titled Ban Antics in New York. Chesnut called Persaud and Simon’s proposal “one of the most ridiculous anti-gun schemes I’ve seen in some time”, adding that “more than just a handful of ammo” is required for one day of training at a gun range.



“But Sen Persaud and Assemblywoman Simon simply don’t care about that – they greatly dislike gun owners and want to make life harder for them, to hell with the consequences,” Chesnut added.

The tweet roused immediate condemnation from New York mayor Bill de Blasio and Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams.

Adams added that he was “proud” of the work he, Persaud and Simon had put into the proposal to help address mass shootings. Both men later thanked the NY Daily News for their Wednesday cover, which called the tweet by the NRA an “act of terror”.

Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the NRA on Monday said the group was unfazed by Obama’s executive actions.

“This is it, really?” Jennifer Baker, an official with the NRA’s Washington lobbying arm, told the New York Times. “This is what they’ve been hyping for how long now? This is the proposal they’ve spent seven years putting together? They’re not really doing anything.”