350 Pack SAFE Act Forum - Thursday night, at least 350 people packed an auditorium at Genesee Community College to vent their frustrations about the NY SAFE Act.  The panel mostly agreed with what audience members had to say about the controversial law.  Some audience members worried that law enforcement officers would start going to their homes to search for illegal weapons without warrants.

Pistol license applications on the rise in Oneida County - Pistol license applications are the hottest ticket in Oneida County. The number of pistol licenses issued in the county has grown from 343 in 2011 to 541 in 2012.  In 2011, 19% of the permits were issued to women; in 2012, women accounted for 34% of all new permit holders.  "Americans get a little leery, I think, when they think that their rights might be taken away from them," says Dan Sullivan, who attributes part of the meteoric rise of gun owners in the county to stricter gun control laws. Sullivan heads up Oneida County's pistol licensing office for county licensing officer Judge Michael Dwyer.

Gun control critiqued at SUNY Orange forum - A nine-member panel representing four levels of government swapped views on gun control, college tuition and other topics during a 90-minute political forum Thursday at the main SUNY Orange campus.  Participating in the discussion, organized by the college's global studies department and held at the Gilman Center for International Education, were four Assembly members, two town supervisors, an Orange County legislator, an aide to Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney and former Rep. Nan Hayworth, the Republican Maloney unseated in November.

3D-printed gun may be unveiled soon - A 3D-printed gun capable of firing multiple rounds may be unveiled soon.  Cody Wilson, the 25-year-old founder and director of nonprofit organization Defense Distributed, recently told Mashable that the end product of Wiki Weapon, the initiative to create an operational 3D-printed gun, may soon be ready to unveil to the public.