City Unveils Assault Weapon Registration Plan, Forms

Peoples Rights Organization (Ohio) ^ | 8/3/05 | n/a

[10mm]

I just won't comply but instead will wrap those evil looking guns in plastic and find a nice, safe place nearby to bury them.

Why bother? If the time ever comes when you have to bury them, then that's the time to use them.

[11B40]

Right you are. I've never understood the reasoning of those who propose caching firearms. When it is time to use them, use them. Hope that day never comes but I suspect that it will.

[11B40]

Right you are. I've never understood the reasoning of those who propose caching firearms. When it is time to use them, use them. Hope that day never comes but I suspect that it will.

[in the Arena]

This is great...they prohibit bringing an "assult weapon" into the city after the cutoff date...make no mistake...this is a prelude to confiscation...The second question I threw in just because it's so damn funny...

Question:	What if I move to Columbus after the November 9, 2005 deadline, can I bring my assault weapon(s) with me?
Answer:	No, you will be in violation of City Code 2323.11, "Unlawful possession of an Assault Weapon."  You may however register your weapon(s) during the one time only registration period if you anticipate moving to Columbus after November 9, 2005.
Question:	What if I'm not sure my weapon is an assault weapon?
Answer:	Check with a certified gun dealer, or be on the safe side and register your weapon--there is no fee.

 

[in the Arena]

pinger...

[Travis McGee]

"Except for lawful police and military purposes, the possession of weapons by individuals is not constitutionally protected." ~ACLU policy statement #47, 1986

[Travis McGee]

[Mr Cobol]

I buried a couple back in 99 and when I moved I dug 'em up. I used a 6" pvc sewer pipe and filled it with nitrogen and sealed both ends. I actually buried them cause I was in a high crime area and these were extras. Anyway they were in perfect condition when I dug "em up.

[MarkL]

Of course, easy process or not, criminals still won't be registering their guns. Even the assistant city attorney who worked on the language for City Council, Josh Cox, admitted to the Columbus Dispatch in a story a few weeks ago that the ordinance will have no effect on criminals.

IIRC, it's settled law that a criminal does NOT have to register firearms with the authorites, because it would violate his or her Constitutional right against self incrimination. So if a criminal were caught with an unregistered weapon, they could not be charged with that specific crime. However, someone without a criminal record could be charged and convicted.

Mark

[billnaz]

The beginning of gun registration, the end of freedom. Today it's so-called "assault weapons." Tomorrow it will be handguns, to be followed by hunting rifles. Then it will be the turn of .22 rifles, the kind every boy of my generation got around his 12th birthday. Once all the rifles and pistols are registered, the gun-grabbers will turn their attention to shotguns.

But they won't be satisfied with that. After they have all the modern weapons registered, they will go after historic firearms on the basis of caliber. So if you think your .75-caliber Brown Bess musket is safe, think again. The same goes for your .69-caliber Charleville or your .58-caliber M1861 Springfield.

Bottom line: The gun-grabbers will not be satisfied until we are completely disarmed, down to the last BB gun. As long as they hold any positions of power, either elected or appointed, our gun rights will not be safe.

[Travis McGee]

They did something like that in Canada to great effect.

[Squantos]

Had we only known that it was tis easy to stop the killing ......the city council of columbus is brillant. Criminals are "sure" to follow "this" law..........

Doom on this bunch of jagoff socialist idiots in authority

[Travis McGee]

Yeah, pass a law, problem solved.

[Noumenon]

As long as they hold any positions of power, either elected or appointed, our gun rights will not be safe.

As long as they are alive, our gun rights will not be safe. You can take that to the bank.

[epow]

This is great...they prohibit bringing an "assult weapon" into the city after the cutoff date...make no mistake...this is a prelude to confiscation...The second question I threw in just because it's so damn funny...

Any law which requires you to register a firearm is nothing more or less than a prelude to confiscation of the registered guns. The only reason that any politician wants to know who has guns and where they are is that he or she intends to have them either turned in or picked up at some later time when the political climate is right for it.

[King Prout]

geesh - they can't even spell "muzzle brake" properly.

I'm curious... since a muzzle BRAKE is not a "muzzle break", are rifles which have muzzle brakes exempt from the ban?

[Travis McGee]

Socialist never quit, communism is their religion.

[dljordan]

I new a guy (ex-ranger Vietnam) that lived in the mountains of East Tennessee and had caches all over the mountains. Strange dude but likable enough.

The tractor dealers carry a product developed by John Deere for use when they shipped equipment overseas. You spray it on and it forms a very nice coating that's impervious to practically everything.

[Oatka]

A few years back, the liberals invented something called a 'Saturday night special'. It was a vaguely described firearm that eventually was expanded to include anything with a barrel length under 6" and even all single actions."

I always get a kick out of that one and use it in my arguments with reoporters who write about the 50 cal. "sniper" rifle. I point out to them that the antis can't make up their minds. First it was those cheap, easily-concealed, short-barrelled "Saturday Night Specials" that would end Western Civilization. Of a sudden, it is now expensive, cumbersome, stick-out-like-a-thumb five-foot-long 50 calibers that are the boogeyman.

Then again (I point out), they HAVE made up their minds. ALL guns are eeevil and they dart around like schools of minnows looking for some small segment to ban. The Communists called this the "artichoke principle" - peel away one leaf at a time until nothing remains. Birds of a feather.

[coloradan]

So with the stroke of a pen private property can be confiscated.

But, you knew that.