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Proposed NJ Law: Seize Homes w/Illegal Guns
World Net Daily ^
| May 10, 2005
| Ron Strom
Posted on 05/15/2005 4:57:55 AM PDT by publiusF27
A New Jersey state assemblyman has introduced a bill that would allow the government to seize the home or car of anyone whose property contains an illegal firearm.
The legislation, sponsored by Assemblyman Louis Manzo, D-Jersey City, authorizes the forfeiture of "motor vehicle, building or premise" if a firearm is found in it that is not possessed legally per state law – "even if the firearm was not possessed by the owner of the motor vehicle, building or premise," states a summary of the bill, A3998. The legislation was introduced Thursday.
Manzo pointed out his bill extends government power now reserved for targeting those in possession of illegal drugs.
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: abuse; assetforfeiture; bang; banglist; communistdemocrats; donutwatch; drugs; fascist; forfeiture; govwatch; guns; libertarians; naziism; nazisob; newjersey; sopranostan; stalinistproposal; wodlist
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Set a precedent in one place, it gets applied in another.
Who would have thought it?
Civil asset forfeiture abuse has led to
policing for profit in the drug war, and now that precedent is reaching out to cover guns.
Maybe Tom Paine was on to something...
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine
To: publiusF27
Yet another reason for not living in NJ.
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posted on
05/15/2005 4:59:33 AM PDT
by
tahotdog
To: publiusF27
Hate your neighbor? Toss a gun on his property and call the police.
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posted on
05/15/2005 5:01:02 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(A government-funded artist is an incompetent whore)
To: publiusF27
Assemblyman Louis Manzo has the right to remain silent.
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posted on
05/15/2005 5:01:15 AM PDT
by
PGalt
To: publiusF27
At first I thought this said homes with illegal immigrants!
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posted on
05/15/2005 5:01:17 AM PDT
by
cvq3842
To: publiusF27
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posted on
05/15/2005 5:03:47 AM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(The noisiest people in the libraries these days are the librarians. (battlegearboat))
To: tahotdog
NYPD has a sign on the BQE touting the thousands of cars taken from drunk drivers--BEFORE they were convicted! I laugh when I hear someone say we live in "a nation of law". No we don't and gov't knows it and likes it that way.
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posted on
05/15/2005 5:04:46 AM PDT
by
TalBlack
To: Joe Brower; Travis McGee; Squantos; SLB; Vigilantcitizen; Lion Den Dan; Eaker
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posted on
05/15/2005 5:06:38 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Official Ruling Class Oligarch Oppressor)
To: cvq3842
At first I thought this said homes with illegal immigrants! In New Jersey, NAH! If Sopranostan ever decided to seize the initiative on that issue, North Newark, Belleville, Paterson, Passaic, Dover, Freehold, Vineland, Bridgeton, and parts of Jersey City would become ghost towns.
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posted on
05/15/2005 5:06:49 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Senator, my offer to you is this: NOTHING!)
To: publiusF27
Asset seizure without due process.
Another benefit of the War on (some) Drugs.
A narc is just a gun grabber and child grabber on a differnt beat.
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posted on
05/15/2005 5:11:11 AM PDT
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite - it's almost worth defending.)
To: publiusF27
That's...
LOUIS M. MANZO (D)
107 West Side Ave.
Jersey City, NJ 07305
PHONE NUMBER: (201) 309-0770
To: publiusF27
That RAT watches the TV show: THE SHIELD 'cause this was a plot line a few weeks ago!
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posted on
05/15/2005 5:16:46 AM PDT
by
ExSoldier
(Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
To: All
I love watching the keywords that get added to threads here. BANG! LOL!
To: martin_fierro
Thanks, Martin! I never heard of the guy. Not surprising, though, that a D would follow the trail blazed by so many drug warriors wearing an R...
To: thoughtomator
Toss a gun on his property and call the police. Toss it onto Assemblyman Louis Manzo's property..............LOL
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posted on
05/15/2005 5:27:05 AM PDT
by
varon
(Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
To: thoughtomator
That was my first thought.
My second was this:
An armed thug breaks into your home. You own a registered firearm, get the drop on him and capture him. His firearm was illegal.
The city you are in is going through a budget crisis. When the city cops report that a burglar was arrested in your home with an illegal firearm, they seize your house and sell it.
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posted on
05/15/2005 5:33:52 AM PDT
by
No Truce With Kings
(The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
To: publiusF27
Don't like your landlord ...
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posted on
05/15/2005 5:36:23 AM PDT
by
MrBambaLaMamba
(Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
To: publiusF27
Boycott NJ and anything that is produced there. They are a bunch of left-wing fascist.
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posted on
05/15/2005 5:40:15 AM PDT
by
YOUGOTIT
To: publiusF27
"even if the firearm was not possessed by the owner of the motor vehicle, building or premise,"
Say what? It’s bad enough that local governments are searching for more ways to confiscate property – but this is too much!
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posted on
05/15/2005 5:48:34 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: thoughtomator
The city wants a nice property? Send in an informant with an illegally possessed firearm.
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posted on
05/15/2005 5:49:41 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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