Posted on 08/04/2005 10:01:25 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
City Unveils AW Registration Plan, Forms
8/3/2005
Columbus city officials today will unveil their registration scheme through which citizens are to "register" their firearms if they meet the definition of a so-called "assault weapon" under the wide-ranging gun ban passed by City Council on July 11. The ban goes into effect on August 11, and city residents have 90 days from that date to register or dispose of their firearms that meet the city's definition of an assault weapon.
The city has devised a form, which can be accessed via the city's website, to be mailed in. The mail-in method is hoped to to encourage people to comply with the controversial new ordinance. 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. One lawsuit already has been filed on this issue, and others are expected.
Look for media coverage on the registration forms on August 3. The city website, where residents can learn more about the ban, print a registration form, and try to determine whether their gun meets the ordinance description, is http://www.columbuscitycouncil.org/assaultweaponban/awbfaq.htm.
The city's website includes links to illustrations of various types of guns, even though the vaguely worded ordinance appears to cover many more guns than members of City Council mentioned when they worked for nearly nine months to terrify Columbus residents into supporting this law. There also is a link where you can download the form that is to be sent in to the city to register a firearm that is suspected of being an "assault weapon.
A REMINDER: Peoples Rights Organization is recommending that residents move any firearms they suspect might be covered by the ordinance outside the city limits until this matter is settled by the courts. This is important because the new law includes a draconian provision that prohibits gun owners who register their guns from ever selling their firearms, or leaving their guns to their heirs or loved ones upon their death.
Why bother? If the time ever comes when you have to bury them, then that's the time to use them.
| 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. |
pinger...
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.
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
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.
They did something like that in Canada to great effect.
Yeah, pass a law, problem solved.
As long as they are alive, our gun rights will not be safe. You can take that to the bank.
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.
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?
Socialist never quit, communism is their religion.
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.
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.
But, you knew that.
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