I’d bet most of these people realize that this confiscation is based upon political loyalty.
The left wants the guns.
This is an axiom.
Buying them back never works.
The left loves government force.
Logic dictates what must happen next.
Get out the popcorn.
And the ammo.
Police Minister Stuart Nash blamed the government’s inability to enforce its buyback scheme on a lack of gun registration. “The problem is we just don’t know exactly how many guns are out in the community, this is why we need a register, to enable Police to better track firearms,”
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Which is why you should NEVER register your guns.
-—another view—
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/12/21/50000-legal-firearms-confiscated-new-zealand-buyback/
Bolt a piece of pipe on to a 2x4 and call it a rifle. Turn it in for $$. Profit.
Police Minister Stuart Nash blamed the government’s inability to enforce its buyback scheme on a lack of gun registration. “The problem is we just don’t know exactly how many guns are out in the community, this is why we need a register, to enable Police to better track firearms,” he said, according to 1 News.
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BS.
They need a register for confiscation.
Out of the mouths of clueless police state goons.
But a handy quote to use for Bloomberg and the rest.
“we need a register, to enable Police to better track firearms”
Translation: we need a register, to enable police to confiscate the firearms”
Good job citizens!
“The problem is we just don’t know exactly how many guns are out in the community, this is why we need a register, to enable Police to better track firearms,” he said, according to 1 News.
Pretty much says it all. The people are on to you scumbags.
I would expect the compliance rate for your registration plan to be pretty darned low.
Seems to me like an estimated 1/3 success rate is pretty successful. Waaay more than I thought they would ever get with them not knowing who actually has them.
Freegards
Muzzle first. Give them the bullets first.
I will never understand why these people don’t realize bad guys are going to get guns no matter what. Same in the USA.
Step #2: A friendly knock on the door from your local constabulary.
Basically they just disarmed those loyal to the government.
So now they have only to worry that they have the manpower to keep their political power from those who are are already armed and disobeying the laws.
"A frightful Japanese broadcast has steeled us for the worst. It came through two nights before I left. A Japanese professor was describing New Zealand and how it would be developed by the Japanese.”“Maoris, as true members of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, will be allowed special priveleges. White men will be used on the farms. He said that the lush fields, the wealth, the cities were in their grasp at last. The day of reckoning with insolent New Zealanders was at hand. Immortal Japanese troops would know what to do."
"The old men--well, your wife's father and mine, for example. They are stationed at the beaches. They know they dare not retreat. They have taken their positions now."
"The home guard is next. They have been digging in furiously. They occupy prepared positions near the cities and the best beaches. The regular army will be thrown in as the fighting develops. Everyone has decided to fight until the end. The cities and villages will be destroyed."
"Many families have gone to the hills. Cars are waiting to take the others at the first sign of the Jap fleet. My wife and the kiddies have gone. Your wife...said to tell you that she will stay until the last."
"It was my humble duty to assist in preparing the defenses of Auckland. I issued several thousand picks, crowbars, and axes. There were no other weapons."
~James Michener~
Tales of the South Pacific
New York: Fawcett, 1946, pp. 17-18.
“the small nation likely contains between 56,000 and 170,000 now banned weapons”
That’s a heckuva margin of error. The government will never have high-confidence that they got them all — which shows the folly of the entire enterprise.
Typical left-wing la-la land terminology...”assault weapon”, “buyback”...
The next step is MAKING EXAMPLES of the remaining gun owners, as they are turned in by others, or use them in self-defense.
Don’t worry, compliance will happen - just in steps.
(which is why we don’t have the luxury of letting Democrats take power, regardless of whether so-and-so is perceived as a RINO).
No surprise, buyback is always a failure. Bad guys don’t participate.
It’s easy to see why it failed. The owners rightly reasoned that they didn’t possess any weapons previously purchased from their govt. Therefore there was nothing for them to sell back.