Posted on 04/15/2014 12:24:45 PM PDT by neverdem
This year April 15 is more than the tax deadline for an estimated one million New York State residents. It’s also the deadline to register “assault weapons” and “high-capacity” magazines. If they don’t, they’ll begin living outside the law. A lot of them have decided to do just that. They’ve decided to practice civil disobedience even though failure to register an “assault weapon” by the deadline is punishable as a “class A misdemeanor,” which means a maximum sentence of one year in prison.
I put “assault weapon” and “high-capacity” in quotes because their definitions vary by state—they’re political terms. In New York State, the SAFE Act passed by the legislature and signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo in January 2013, uses an expansive and elaborate definition of “assault weapon” that includes a lot more than AR-15s. Now even a semiautomatic Remington Model 1100 shotgun—a popular shotgun first made in 1963 that is used by millions of hunters and skeet shooters—is an “assault weapon” in New York State if the shotgun has a pistol grip. Many other commonly owned pistols, shotguns and rifles are also now labeled “assault weapons” in New York State.
When I asked the New York State Police how many New York gun owners had registered the guns they own that now fit somewhere into the state’s expansive “assault weapons” category the state responded: “New York State Police cannot release information related to the registration of assault weapons including the number of assault weapons registered. Those records you seek are derived from information collected for the State Police database and are, therefore, exempt from disclosure.”
This is the same dilemma Connecticut gun owners found themselves in at the end of 2013. As of December 31, 2013, according to Lt. J. Paul Vance of the Connecticut State Police...
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Wrong. I corrected it.
Most of the upstate was always a bastion of Patriot sentiment, although (like every other Colony) they did have their share of Tories. Upstate New York is still Patriot Country (outside of the cities). That is where the resistance is coming from against Cuomo and the Commie registration scheme.
By and large, upstaters detest the City and it's Liberal control freaks. They are just badly outnumbered because the City (the Tories) votes 3 to 1 Democrat and governs like Shitcago (another Commie bastion).
Tell the stasi that you are a dreamer and undocumented.
This is us today.
http://www.wgrz.com/videos/news/local/new-york/2014/04/15/7753801/
http://www.redstate.com/2014/04/15/shredding-safe-act-registration-forms-new-york/
Look above, we had a great turn out and all media covered the whole thing.
We must have shredded 400 Gun Registration forms!
I don’t own any assault weapons. I do however possess a few personal safety devices....
http://troopers.ny.gov/Firearms/PPB-12.pdf?OWASP_CSRFTOKEN=YJXI-QWII-HL1J-48KM-GQCB-UQ2D-WBKG-MR68
Not so simple to claim you made a private sale to a VT camping buddy...
Thanks for the ping!
The deadline to register was Today.
“I was in Vermont back in October, you know leaf peeping and hot apple cider donuts and such. I think the guy’s name was Bob and he wears a flannel hat.”
“Opse, yah, I forgot to register something I don’t have before the deadline...which is after I no longer have it.”
“Oh wait, now that I think about it I think I sold it in back in 2012. Yes, I remember the Obama campaign signs, wacky social liberals they over there, but they make one heck of a cider donut.”
CASE DISMISSED!
Seriously, how can they compel you to prove you don’t have something? It’s a big State, I could have put it anywhere. We’re talking on here, maybe I gave it to you to store? Will a judge permit them to search your house? Where does it stop? It doesn’t...that’s why it’s all stupid.
CASE DISMISSED!
Thanks for being there, R.
Thanks for the links!
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