Police Wonder If They’ll Need To Confiscate Assault Weapons In Event Of Ban

CBS New York ^ | December 22, 2012 | Marla Diamond

[barmag25]

Amid talk of reinstating the assault weapons ban that expired eight years ago, police departments nationwide are thinking of ways to confiscate such weapons.

As WCBS 880’s Marla Diamond reported, among the departments considering taking action is the NYPD. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said if Congress were to reinstate the ban, police are wondering whether it will be their responsibility to confiscate them.

[TigersEye]

I like internet hyperbole as much as anyone but it’s meant to be a warning not a plan. There are so many things that can be done to achieve successes and minimize losses. For instance, once your house has been ‘cleared’ you can let 10 or 20 others temporarily store their goodies there until their homes are ‘cleared.’ Nothing has to be made easy for them.

[Windflier]

'Cooperate' is such an ugly word. I prefer 'deceive.'

Our forefathers didn't 'deceive' the British. They shot them.

[Quickgun]

What good will martial law do obama? 90% of the military hates him, and by far the biggest majority of them are the sons/daughters of conservatives.

[Secret Agent Man]

80 million law-abiding Americans who own guns....

[jimbobfoster]

“They can’t live in those vehicles”

That’s exactly what I was thinking. It would be stupid to try and directly confront armored forces. Eventually they have to come out.

Find out where they park them, where they sleep, where they eat, how they get their fuel. Confront them there on your terms.

[Windflier]

He was not talking about cooperating with the Feds. He was saying he would pretend to be cooperative while in fact keeping his good guns.

And what exactly would he be keeping his good guns for? What's he gonna do the next time the jackbooted thugs come calling? Will he give them another throwaway gun, or one of his 'good' guns?

At what point does such a person exercise his God-given right to defend life and property? When all he's got left is a dull kitchen knife? Perhaps at that point, he'll realize what he should have done the first time they came calling.

[TigersEye]

I don't know if you're just trying to engage in a circular firing squad here to make points on the forum or you're just very impressed by hyperbole. I'll take a chance that it's the latter and offer you one of my better formula posts...

If I see a man wearin' a blue helmet I shoot the man wearin' it!

[Secret Agent Man]

thermite is good.

[Newbomb Turk]

Congress and the current administration will hang from the street lights of Washington long before this takes place.

Its our birthright !

[Secret Agent Man]

can’t be finished with the communist manifesto goals unless the citizens are disarmed.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Our forefathers didn't 'deceive' the British. They shot them."

Actually, they did both.

Sun Tzu stated that all warfare is based on deception, but then again, he probably didn't know as much as you.

[Carriage Hill]

Confiscation Ping...

[combat_boots]

“How long do you think it will take for the Repubs to throw the NRA and us overboard?”

The GOP/GOPe haven’t identified their targets well, then, have they. Personally, I am fond of the briar patch, can SCUBA dive, and have alternate plans.

You get these people out of the city, and they go to pieces.

[Secret Agent Man]

no kidding, the revolution from britain was over less.

[Drew68]

Feinswine said there will be no grandfathering this time. She said it before the Newtown incident.

Much like 1994, what she wants and what she'll actually get are likely to be entirely different things. It won't be Feinstein's career on the line trying to get an AWB passed. It'll be Democrats from pro-gun states. There's going to be some compromise involved. Feinstein doesn't rule by fiat.

[TheBigJ]

As of this moment, it’s unlikely that local cops will go house to house confiscating illegal firearms. After all, they’re our neighbors with ties to the communities they live in.

Which is why during Katrina out of state police were used by design. If there's a confiscation action, perhaps an "example" for the community or neighborhood, it would be feds do the raid, state police provide security, local police put out further on the perimeter. They do an example full on SWAT raid to spread fear, then say turn in guns. Rewards provided to those who snitch on folks with guns.

If the confiscation goes bad, and there is a shoot out, homeowner(s) dead, than it opens up a guerrilla war on a national level. While the illegal actions of those above entities conducting that raid in that area should be included in the range cards, it shouldn't be every police dept across the nation, many will hold to their oaths. It's better served to do a targeted flush of the planners, enablers behind all this, PERHAPS minimizing a full blown bloody civil war which might give the tyrants pause... also while police depts including all support staff should be warned in variety of ways, harassment, phone calls to home, etc. Fed level security forces are more apt to be loyal to regime, their leadership also needs to be "tweaked" throughout the country.

[Windflier]

I don't know if you're just trying to engage in a circular firing squad here to make points on the forum or you're just very impressed by hyperbole.

Make points on the forum? I don't think so. You know what this conversation's about. It's not about posting tough guy graphics to burnish your image, but about giving the correct response to tyranny on your doorstep.

Personally, I don't think the federal goons have the cojones or the manpower to attempt widespread gun confiscation, but if they ever try it, I hope that every patriot who's confronted with the choice, makes the right one.

[Secret Agent Man]

you’d think a libtard like biden who lost his wife in a car accident, would never ride in one again, would not have bailed out gm, would try to ban cars, not guns.

[LoneStarGI]

Agreed. Plus I love how that line makes it sound like every cop in America is enthusiastic about the idea of going to people’s houses and demanding they surrender their guns. 2.5 million cops and federal agents trying to confiscate the guns of 150 million law-abiding citizens. I’ve talked with numerous friends who are law enforcement (retired and active), who have themselves talked with their LEO friends. They all are of the same opinion, not a single one of them would support what is tantamount to suicide.