NY Minute: As Safe Act deadline nears, gun owners refuse to register 'assault weapons'

Syracuse.com ^ | 4/14/2014 | Teri Weaver

[JimRed]

(sorry in advance for the profanity);

Profanity is appropriate at times. This is one of the times.

[from occupied ga]

Some of us have family commitments and/or business interests that are not easily moved to a free state.

Understood, but I lived there for several years, and finally had enough. I had no family there, but both my wife and I were employeed. We packed up and headed to GA and have been happy with the decision (note Lindsey was mayor when this happened.)

[from occupied ga]

Contacts inside who will say "no" are an invaluable asset

I suspect that most of those who'll say "no" are already gone.

[rochester_veteran]

LOL! Here's another from a friend of mine:

[rochester_veteran]

Lonsberry sold out:

YOU WON, ANDY, I REGISTERED MY AR-15

By Bob Lonsberry
lonsberry.com

Well, Andy, with a handful of minutes to spare, I have complied with your law.

Your hateful, unconstitutional affront to my rights.

After a year of thinking it over, of going back and forth, of deciding where duty and honor called me to be, this is where I am.

I am ashamed to say that fear was one of the factors in my decision. I am a public person, it is well known that I own an AR-15. I wrote a newspaper column about it when I bought it 20 years ago. I have talked about it on the radio, on television and in web broadcasts ever since.

Further, I’ve got a Democrat district attorney – whose election I opposed – and half the cops in town hate me. So if I don’t register today, there’s a good chance I get arrested tomorrow.

And with five kids still at home, I can’t afford to be the test case.

I’d be a felon, I’d lose my job, I’d lose my house, I’d lose my right to vote and own guns.

And you’d win.

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