[from occupied ga]

The most widely reported provision of the law is the total ban on the sale of military-style rifles classified as "assault weapons," effective Jan. 15. The provision forever prohibits anyone other than a law enforcement agency from acquiring such weapons, including the popular hunting and target variants of the AR-15 rifle. Current owners of such rifles must register them with the state by 2014, and the registration must be renewed every five years. This gives the state a list of persons from which to confiscate them in the future, and the five-year renewal provision gives the state an excuse to find ways to deny ownership once every five years...

Echos of NYC. GO back to the late '60's. NYC required all owners of AR-15s to register them with the promise that "The registration list will never be used for confiscation." Now jump ahead to the early '90's and David Dinkins. Dinkins and his city council of left wing statists passed a law that all of the registered guns had to be sold, turned in to police, rendered inoperable or confiscated. About 45 people failed to comply. It turned out that most of these were paperwork errors, but about a half a dozen were stormed by police their guns confiscated and they were arrested.

Yet another reason to despise New York.

[panaxanax]

“Yet another reason to despise New York.”

Yet another reason to despise New York [CITY], not NY in general.

[ctdonath2]

“about a half a dozen were stormed by police their guns confiscated and they were arrested”

As I recall, one got a “turn it in or bad things will happen” letter. He replied with a “come get them” letter. They raided the address. He had moved to Montana; the new occupants were not amused.