Yes. Emphatically.
How so?
We've already read about the first casualty of New York's ban on high capacity magazines, a vet who was arrested for simply having such magazines in the trunk of his car.
Where was the call to arms? Anybody go running to his rescue?
So who's going to be the first source of insurrection, you? What are you going to do if you receive a letter from your local PD to turn in your AR-15 or whatever banned firearm you may have in your posession that they are aware of?
You gonna make a stand? You gonna go out in a blaze of glory? I doubt it!
You've got a job, a mortgage on your house, payments to make on your F-150 truck, your bass boat and maybe even your kid's college tuition to worry about. And your other kid probably has baseball or soccer tryouts next weekend.......
And if you're stupid enough to throw all that away and make a stand, don't expect any help from anyone else because they've likely got the same responsibilities to worry about and you're the least of their worries.
You're on your own dude, good luck!
As a side note, where were YOU when Randy Weaver made HIS stand? Or more importantly, where was everybody else that you assume are going to participate in this "Widespread Civil Disobedience"?
There’s been no human casualty, no loss of life — yet. That’s the tipping point. When tyrannical forces starting burning homes, killing people in defense of their God given inherent natural rights. Let’s retain the high moral ground. Let the tyrants make the first move as gun bans, mag bans, private party bans, yada yada bans are ignored flagrantly and not complied with. Just war concept requires it.
Well, there's this.
Looks like they're trying to make a stab at peaceful resolution -- IMO, it's not enough; the politicians need to be punished for overstepping their bounds. There are ways to do this, for example these two laws are applicable, and federal felonies, to every person who (a) voted for the law, (b) signed it into law, and (c) tries to implement it. [legislature, governor, and law-enforcement; respectively.]
But the above would be trying to use the law as a weapon to counterattack; something I think the average citizen shies away from... especially how the faculty of reason has been disparaged (especially in law).
That arrest and detention is based on a law passed years ago, relating to "Large capacity ammunition feeding device."
NYS Penal Law section 265.00 - Definitions
NYS Penal Law section 265.02 - 3rd Degree Criminal possession
A person is guilty of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree when: ... (8) Such person possesses a large capacity ammunition feeding device. Criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree is a class D felony.
That is being revised by Cuomo's new law, which redifines large capacity ammunition feeding device, and also reduces the criminal penalty from a felony to a misdemeanor.
New York Criminal Attorney Blog <- These stories will piss you off