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Arrest in threat on Maloney

An unhinged gun fanatic was thrown in jail last night for making a series of anonymous death-threat phone calls to Rep. Carolyn Maloney — in apparent protest of her proposed legislation requiring gun owner insurance.

“That stupid c— needs to stay away from my Second Amendment rights,” Ronald Buchanan, 40, of Elmira, NY, said in one of the five calls, all made between 12:15 and 12:40 p.m. on April 2.

“I hope that f—ing c— dies from cancer,” Buchanan allegedly railed into the ear of a Maloney intern. “I want that bitch dead.”

The calls, traced to Buchanan’s cell phone and land line, were made to Maloney’s Queens office and automatically forwarded to her Manhattan office, where they were fielded by two young interns and a staffer, prosecutors said.

One of the interns warned Buchanan that the threats would be reported to the authorities — but that only inflamed his fury, the complaint said.

“I will f—ing kill that bitch if I see her,” Buchanan allegedly threatened. “I don’t care if I have to go to every single speech she makes and heckle her. I shouldn’t have to pay insurance,” he allegedly said.

“As a conservative, I will make sure that she stays out of our second amendment rights.”

“I don’t even want to know what she is doing with Bloomberg and Cuomo behind the scenes,” he allegedly told one intern. “I wouldn’t be surprised if a love child came out of this.”

Buchanan was ordered held in lieu of $20,000 cash bail last night on charges of aggravated harassment and menacing. The charges are misdemeanors, but the case has been assigned to a senior prosecutor, Kenn Kern, a lead prosecutor of the woman accused of stalking and extorting Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman.

Maloney never heard the caller’s voice, but had issued a statement the day after the calls were made, saying that while her life had been threatened she is still proud of her efforts to reduce gun violence and would still work to make liability insurance a requirement for gun owners.

“Given all the acts of gun violence we have seen in the past two years, the shootings in Aurora and Newtown, the attack on my friend and colleague Gabby Gifford, I take the threat of more gun violence very seriously,” Maloney had said in her statement. “But it is not something that I will allow to stop me from doing my work.”

Buchanan signed orders of protection barring him from any contact with Maloney, her staff, and her offices in New York and DC. He is due back in court next Tuesday.