Posted on 01/25/2013 8:50:10 PM PST by blam
The Resistance Begins: New York Gun Owners Refuse to Register; “Largest Act of Civil Disobedience in State History”
Mac Slavo
January 25th, 2013
With emotions running high in the aftermath of the Newtown Sandy Hook shooting, politicians on the State and Federal level have begun introducing legislative actions to curtail access to firearms protected by the Second Amendment. In Missouri, parents may soon be forced to register firearms with their child’s school under threat of criminal penalties. In Massachusetts, another proposal would require storage of semi-automatic rifles at government approved storage depots. And, in the State of New York, congressional representatives have already passed legislation that requires registration of every semi-automatic rifle and reduces maximum magazine capacity to 7 rounds of ammunition, and Governor Cuomo has floated the idea of gun confiscation.
Now, in what is sure to be a growing trend across the entire country, New York gun owners are organizing a resistance against what many believe to be the most, “brazen infringement on the right to keep and bear arms anywhere in the nation,” according to The New American:
Preparations are already being made for mass resistance.
“I’ve heard from hundreds of people that they’re prepared to defy the law, and that number will be magnified by the thousands, by the tens of thousands, when the registration deadline comes,’’ said President Brian Olesen with American Shooters Supply, among the biggest gun dealers in the state, in an interview with the New York Post.
Even government officials admit that forcing New Yorkers to register their guns will be a tough sell, and they are apparently aware that massive non-compliance will be the order of the day. “Many of these assault-rifle owners aren’t going to register; we realize that,’’ a source in the Cuomo administration told the Post, adding that officials expect “widespread violations” of the new statute.
Threats of imprisoning gun owners for up to a year and confiscating their weapons are already being issued by governor’s office, headed by a rabid anti-Second Amendment extremist who suggested before the bill passed that “confiscation” of all semi-automatic rifles was being considered. If tens or even hundreds of thousands of otherwise law-abiding citizens refuse to comply, however, analysts say New York would either have to start raising taxes and building a lot more prisons, or give up on the scheme that experts say will do nothing to reduce violence and that lawmakers say is aimed at eventual confiscation.
Activists involved in the state-wide boycott against the unconstitutional statute who spoke to the Post almost taunted authorities, saying gun owners would essentially dare authorities to “come and take it away.”
According to the paper, leaders of some of the state’s hundreds of gun clubs, dealers, and non-profit organizations, citing the New York Constitution’s guarantee that gun rights “cannot be infringed,” are currently involved in organizing the resistance. Among the primary concerns is that, with registration, authorities would know where to go for confiscation, an idea already proposed openly by Governor Cuomo himself.
“They’re saying, ‘F— the governor! F— Cuomo! We’re not going to register our guns,’ and I think they’re serious. People are not going to do it. People are going to resist,” explained State Rifle and Pistol Association President Tom King, who also serves on the National Rifle Association board of directors. “They’re taking one of our guaranteed civil rights, and they’re taking it away.”
Opponents of the right to bear arms, take heed. The American people know what you’re up to and they will not stand for it.
The resistance has begun.
Funny you say that. When I was proofing I read it as Hillary, and did a double-take as well.
I read it the same dang way, also! “Hillary ensues”! (Hillary on the mind much?). ?)
Datz cuz yooz an Okie...
I’m from Hulbert, OK....
LOL
DEMOCRATS ARE
GOD DENIERS AND CONGENITAL LIARS
FIRST YOUR MONEY THEN YOUR GUNS
Signs bearing this slogan will make a lot of noise particularly in key districts where a conservative is running for state and national legislative districts
DEMOCRATS ARE
GOD DENIERS AND CONGENITAL LIARS
FIRST YOUR MONEY THEN YOUR GUNS
Signs bearing this slogan will make a lot of noise particularly in key districts where a conservative is running for state and national legislative districts
FIGHT BACK HERE’S AN IDEA
DEMOCRATS/RINOS THOSE
GOD DENIERS AND CONGENITAL LIARS
FIRST YOUR MONEY THEN YOUR GUNS
LEFT YOU DEFENCELESS WHEN CROOKS COME
Signs or palmcards bearing this slogan will make a lot of noise particularly in key New York areas where a Conservative is running in a state or national legislative district.
a bit earlier..
Fort Caroline was the first French colony in the present-day United States. Established in what is now Jacksonville, Florida, on June 22, 1564, under the leadership of René Goulaine de Laudonnière, it was intended as a refuge for the Huguenots. It lasted one year before being obliterated in 1565 by Spanish settlers,[2] who built their own fort at the site, later abandoned in 1569. The site is now operated as Fort Caroline National Memorial, a unit of the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve.
NOPE, the date is April 15th, 2014 to complete registration.
www.governor.ny.gov/2013/gun-reforms-faq
Assault weapons must be sold off by 15 January 2014 to avoid registration.
15 April 2014 is a long ways away.
Check back then.
New Yawker.
Not sure how old one has to be in order to be an old cranky fart, but I've been plenty cranky for awhile now so praise the Lord and pass the ammo.
(BTW: My solution was to teach the kids how to handle firearms and shoot. They're old enough. Yep, I still have a small mortgage left and I work for a living but what the hell, I can afford to semi-retire at this point and the kids can pay for their own college. I did.)
Yes, I'm working on the bumper sticker now too!
Particularly after they'd been tossed out the window!
People need to fight back. Time to stop Obama and his flying monkeys in their tracks.
He is illegitimate, so what he says doesn’t mean squat.
The libs, the progressives, Obamas agenda, all together will unite to create a situation of a manufactured terrorist event, or of something that they can use the MSM to manipulate to create a literal fear of god in as such as owning illegal guns.
The latest gun detection equipment propaganda may soon be a reality at every toll crossing.
Mobile vans with stronger imaging equipment will perform rolling checks, if you get pulled over you and your vehicle will be scanned.
They may just stay the course and do a “boil the frog” approach and we will soon hear of many cases of mentally ill people being cared for and having their weapons removed for the sake of the population.
Its prohibition time for firearms, its also time to read up on the requirements of adhering to the 2A. They don’t want the lower masses telling them they are wrong, they are robbing America, they are the traitors.
“The law requires registration so suggesting resistance to confiscation is premature at best.”
In Australia the government said, “Okay, you can own gun, but you have to register it.” When the legally owned guns were registered, they went door to door and took them away. I’ve seen pictures of dump trucks filled with guns; some of them probably worth thousands of dollars. They crushed them all.
An Israeli friend told me that, yes, you can own a gun in Israel, but it’s a pain in the *ss. (You can only own in certain areas, BTW.) You have to register it and maintain strict requirements, like yearly continuing education. He owned a gun, but fell behind on the requirements and the authorities showed up at the door and confiscated it.
The qoute from Atlas Shrugged is chilling...thanks for entering it in. I just finished the book a couple of weeks ago and I’m considering picking it up again.
Love it! It’s very sad when naturalized citizens are more patriotic, and love the Constitution, more than those born here. Of course, those from communist/socialist countries know the score, and appreciate what America offers — or used to offer.
Heck, I would keep the momentum even if they backtracked on the law and would make a move to secede from NY state itself.
Of course it won’t prevent the NY state KGB whores in need of economic fortunes to whore themselves out to the new free state, but, we can always try.
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