May it be a rousing success!
Awesome!
How do you teach a minor how to shoot when they’re too young to purchase a gun?
If half of the gunowners in the state do the civil disobedience bit and hold on through a series 3 or 4 high profile arrests and trials, this too, will pass.
Incidentally, the surprise gubernatorial result in MD is probably mainly due to a large number of former Dem/gun-owners who were pi$$ed off at the tough O'Malley gun laws passed a couple of years ago.
Some saw the answer when this movie played several decades ago -
Cordon off the crowd, arrest as many as possible, levy felony-sized civil fines and then attach bank accounts or seize property for non-payment.
Of course, the outcome may spread beyond the immediate locale and be a bit different this time.
It’s now the law. The camel has got his nose under the tent. Thank you left coast dumb@sses.
100% with them. Time to take the communists apart round by round. Always keep mine locked and loaded.
...”the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed...”
(we seem to recall that was recognized and proclaimed somewhere or other, maybe on another planet?)
King and Pierce counties are blue, which is about all it takes unfortunately. More power to these folks, though.
If only we could do the same thing to shut down the IRS.
It’s inevitable.
Good for them. Take some ammo along too, just for effect.
Road trip!
I wish them success!
That is how students at UC Santa Cruz (I was one) in either the fall of 1968 or spring of 1969 dealt with a threatened morals crackdown on everyone ignoring the nominal ban on having opposite sex students in our dorm rooms. At the time the on-campus dormitories were segregated by gender.
We just set up room-mate swaps with opposite gender dorms, to convert a given two-person dorm room from two of the same sex into one of each sex. We even matched people by cleanliness and personal compatibility.
Then we invited the local newspaper and radio stations up to watch us trade rooms, interview the participants and receive copies of the written lists with names, etc. The UCSC administration caved in within 30 minutes of receiving our press release and associated documents, aborted the threatened crackdown and abolished the existing policy excepting overnight stays. All without any of us having to actually change rooms.
So mass public disobedience to this new law, inviting prosecution and giving wide publicity to thousands of people openly defying the law, is the way to go. It works.
The Washington voters who backed I-594 have placed a significant part of that state’s population at the mercy of the good will of those in power.
We’ve all seen abuses by petty officials shutting down kids’ lemonade stands because they didn’t have a license, or PTA-type bake sales because of some imagined health violation.
We are going to see similar examples of bureaucratic overreach, but this time on steroids. I give it six months to a year (if that) before some otherwise law-abiding citizen is facing ruinous legal costs fighting a misdemeanor or even a felony charge due to the same mindset. All we need is an overzealous petty official or a politically ambitious DA to get the ball rolling.
Welcome to the Brave New World, courtesy of Bloomberg and the rest of the monied liberals - and the gun rights organizations who didn’t offer a competing BC law without the 4473 linkage.