Gun advocates expect few registrations for April 15 SAFE deadline

http://www.the-leader.com/article/20140405/NEWS/140409693/10082/NEWS?template=printart ^ | April 05. 2014 | MICHAEL VIRTANEN

[neverdem]

Many New York gun owners expect the April 15 deadline to register assault weapons under the state’s strict new law to be largely ignored.

“People are pretty much convinced once they get on this registration, the next time they’ll say they’ve got to turn them in,” said Stephen Aldstadt, president of the Shooters Committee on Political Education, who helped organize a protest at the Capitol this past week against the law.

The state’s SAFE Act, spearheaded by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo and passed in the wake of the 2012 school shooting in neighboring Connecticut, bans New York sales of semi-automatic weapons with detachable magazines and one military-style feature...

[from occupied ga]

the next time they’ll say they’ve got to turn them in

Could it be that New Yorkers are learning from history? Registration followed by confiscation is EXACTLY what happened in NYC.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

[Tenacious 1]

First to cite an “unfortunate boating accident that suggests I don’t have any weapons” on this thread.

Did I win?

[NFHale]

Molon Labe, NY.

Stand tall.

[Scrambler Bob]

Yes, but was your boat registered?

The IRS is checking.

[wrench]

The gun industry sure attracts the same kind of seedy types that drugs and prostitution does.

Don’t like the laws passed by those we elect? Not a problem, just ignore them.

If they are felons anyway, they might as well manufacture machine guns and other NFA items, in for a penny in for a pound, right?

[Terry L Smith]

As it has been stated in a YouTube video from Texas:

“When they come for your guns, give them the bullets, first!”

I stand with those in New York, who see that the American idea of saying “no”, is poisonous to any elected person, at any level, and are standing on their convictions, and ready to defend their freedoms.

[grobdriver]

People are pretty much convinced once they get on this registration, the next time they’ll say they’ve got to turn them in

What else could be the point of registration?
1. It's not like having a weapon "registered" is going to prevent someone using them in a crime.
2. For that matter - no one who will register their weapons is going to use them in a crime...
3. Goto 1.

[Tenacious 1]

“When they come for your guns, give them the bullets, first!”

...at high velocity and in rapid succession.

[Psalm 73]

Our NY brothers will follow after what CT gun owners did:
WE WILL NOT COMPLY

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Many New York gun owners expect the April 15 deadline***

If they do not comply will the government send troops against them on April 19 as the government did in 1775?

[Red in Blue PA]

Unconstitutional Laws should NEVER be followed.

[Pollster1]

“An unjust law is no law at all”
- St. Augustine

“An unjust law is no law at all”
- St. Thomas Aquinas

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
- Henry David Thoreau

[Georgia Girl 2]

Frankly I’m still amazed anybody in the Northern Socialist Democratic Territories has the stones to stand tall. Its somewhat comforting.

[NFHale]

“...has the stones to stand tall. ...”

We have more allies in more places than we realize, my friend.

We ARE everywhere, despite the best efforts of the leftards to eliminate us.

[Psalm 144]

That civil disobedience thing is starting to catch. New Mexico, Connecticut, New York.

[Psalm 144]

The thing is that the Washington government is so busy watching and hating -us- that they can’t deal with the coal fire burning under their own feet. I fully expect CWII to kick off in a blue state, and very possibly a major city.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“I fully expect CWII to kick off in a blue state, and very possibly a major city.”

Funny you should mention it. Mr. GG2 and I were just discussing that it may well be Connecticut that is the new Lexington and Concord. The firing on Ft Sumpter etc. The spark that ignites the fire.

[redgolum]

Get out of the cities, and it is all red.

I do expect this to get ugly soon. Unfortunatly. No one wins when that happens.