New York Gun Owners Flip the Bird to "Assault Weapons" Registration Law

Reason.com ^ | Jan. 25, 2013 | J.D. Tuccille

[Daffynition]

New York Governor Cuomo the Junior may have rushed through his new gun control law with such speed that police will avoid its restrictions only through the blessed miracle of selective enforcement, but he may have a little trouble getting the state's firearms owners to attend his party. The new law requires owners of those scary-looking rifles known as "assault weapons" to register their property (amidst assurances that, oh no, the registration lists will never be used for confiscation), but gun rights activists are actively urging gun owners to defy the new mandate.

[Daffynition]

**Couldn't they have made the law more workable by just re**

Mr Cuomo II, back away

[Daffynition]

**Couldn’t they have made the law more workable by just requiring that criminals register their guns?**

[Average Al]

Good, start going door to door in the hoods to see how far they get with forced registration! ;-)

[JerseyHighlander]

The resistance talk is all huffing and puffing, the Assault weapons ban in NJ had almost 100% compliance, the newer CT restrictions has near 100% compliance by the law abiding taxpaying c**k sucking citizenry.

Holder is going to give the law enforcement organizations in NY State, local , county, regional, state, full access to the entire NICS registration system going back to the beginning of the system.

Every registered owner of a “assault weapon” is going to be tracked down.

The Canadians only failed in their long gun registry program due to the lack of a NICS type system, their neighbors in NY lost this war through millions of papercuts.

[jeffc]

Yeah, do NOT buy the government's "stamps"!!!!!

Remind anyone of anything?......

[steve86]

How could one determine the level of compliance unless you had the list to begin with? That makes no sense. Seems that your 100% figure is being pulled out of your butt. Canada, Australia and others think compliance is/was under 70%, but no way to know for sure.

[JerseyHighlander]

Make no mistake this sharing of NICS data is a coordinated situation between NY State anti-gun pols/special interest groups and the national Democrat Executive bureaucracy/anti-gun interest groups in the Executive branch.

[NoGrayZone]

Jersey isn’t New York.

[Dutch Boy]

Here is a snippet from an letter the Sheriff of my county submitted to Gov Andy. "Reduction of ammunition magazine capacity. The new law enacts reductions in the maximum capacity of gun magazines. We believe based on our years of law enforcement experience that this will not reduce gun violence. The new law will unfairly limit the ability of law‐abiding citizens to purchase firearms in New York. It bears repeating that it is our belief that the reduction of magazine capacity will not make New Yorkers or our communities safer." and "Assault weapon ban and definition of assault weapons. We believe that the new definition of assault weapons is too broad, and prevents the possession of many weapons that are legitimately used for hunting, target shooting and self defense. Classifying firearms as assault weapons because of one arbitrary feature effectively deprives people the right to possess firearms which have never before been designated as assault weapons. We are convinced that only law abiding gun owners will be affected by these new provisions, while criminals will still have and use whatever weapons they want."

[JerseyHighlander]

Chuck Schumer sponsored the Bill that created NICS in 1993, he has spent his entire career preparing for this moment.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d103:HR01025:@@@S

Bill Summary & Status
103rd Congress (1993 - 1994)
H.R.1025
All Congressional Actions with Amendments

H.R.1025
Latest Title: Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act
Sponsor: Rep Schumer, Charles E. [NY-9] (introduced 2/22/1993) Cosponsors (155)
Related Bills: H.RES.302, H.RES.322, H.R.277, H.R.3268, S.414
Latest Major Action: 11/30/1993 Became Public Law No: 103-159.

[cripplecreek]

One little thing the gun grabbers have overlooked is the vast majority of guns in this country have never required registration.

[NoGrayZone]

Difference is you people, stuck in some weirdo world, gave in. We will not.

[Travis McGee]

[cripplecreek]

Q. Can anything less than a military force carry the Stamp Act into execution?

A. I do not see how a military force can be applied to that purpose.

Q. Why may it not?

A. Suppose a military force sent into America; they will find nobody in arms; what are they then to do? They cannot force a man to take stamps who chooses to do without them. They will not find a rebellion; they may indeed make one.

Benjamin Franklin, Testimony Against the Stamp Act (1766)

[JerseyHighlander]

Every NICS check created a de facto registration as of this week, AG Holder is making the entirety of the NICS archive immediately available to NY State Law Enforcement.

Every person who submitted a long arm NICS check since NICS went live in 1998, is going to see a form letter sent backed up by the threat of execution by the local SWAT team.

The Coumo family has proven time and time again over the last 6 decades they don’t give a shit about the plebs in the state. Coumo is going to force his own Waco just so he and Schumer have something to talk about over drinks in their retirement years in Florida.

[MasterGunner01]

What the cops should be saying is we aren't giving up OUR guns either and we're on the side of the citizens. If you corrupt political hacks have got the stones to come and take them, go for it. If you send your agents to take our guns by force, you will receive the same response British General Gage's troops received at Lexington and Concord, MA on 19 April 1775. “Molon Labe”, Gov. Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg.

[VermiciousKnid]

The cops I know ARE saying that. (And I know a LOT of cops.)

Regards,

[Mechanicos]

A simple way to get around such trick is to sell the NY purchased gun to an out of stater and buy one for cash. Ends the paper trail and the NCIS registration fails. For that matter sell it and buy it back for cash.

What you are also forgetting is the sheer number of those who are refusing to register them. There are not enough police nor prisons to handle that many people.

[cripplecreek]

And still the vast majority of weapons in this country have never required registration or a background check.

[NoGrayZone]

Why don’t you just surrender to them already. Oh wait, Jersey, you already did.

DO NOT dictate to others as to what you have already done.