Posted on 10/25/2024 8:29:12 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
A common—and persuasive—argument against gun registration is that those who comply just put themselves on a list to have their firearms stolen by government officials in the future. As if to emphasize the point, the New Zealand government recently confiscated firearms licenses and the guns they covered from 62 people because of their political ideology. The situation is an important reminder that warnings against registering firearms are correct. But it also raises a red flag about governments' willingness to punish people for the ideas they believe.
"Sixty-two firearms licence holders with views aligned to the Sovereign Citizens movement had their licences revoked after a police intelligence operation," Catherine Hubbard reported for the Waikato Times on October 13. "Nationally, police identified 1,400 people as acting under the influence of Sovereign Citizen ideologies, and of that number, 158 were firearms licence holders."
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I don't agree with the Sovereign Citizen movement, but unless they do something illegal, what they believe is none of the government's business!
Sovereign Citizen ideologies. The Horror!
communist stank!
Australia was created as a prison colony & the people never shook off that mindseT also the political class has embraced that mindset wholeheartedly
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And what does that have to do with what is happening in New Zealand, a completely different country?
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