NY SAFE Act - massive noncompliance:
The SAFE Act also required that the estimated 1 million assault weapons in private ownership in 2013 be registered with the State Police. After the Cuomo administration stonewalled a Freedom of Information request for more than a year, an Albany judge ordered the State Police to release data on the number of weapons registered as required. They revealed that only 44,000 firearms had been registered.
Subtract from that number the firearms owned by police officers and licensed dealers (who have little way to avoid registration), and it’s clear the compliance rate for registration among average citizens is less than 4 percent. It’s hard to call a law that commands a 96 percent noncompliance rate a success
Due to its time-wasting bureaucracy, three-quarters of the state’s county sheriffs (including those elected in virtually all of the rural counties) have made clear they are not aggressively enforcing the SAFE Act, except as an “add-on” charge for other crimes, and 52 of the state’s 62 county legislatures have approved resolutions opposing the SAFE Act.
Please define what an "assault weapon" is.
4 percent,,,
Spread the Word!
Reminds me of a post I read once, here on FR.
A tactic for dealing with this sort of bureaucratic diktat is to give them some, but not all of the information they require. A typo, an obscured answer, missing a number in the zip code, etc.
Document that you sent the info in a timely manner, of course– use the post office and get a return receipt requiring a signature.
If everyone did this two or three times you’d grind the system to a halt.