Underhanded gun registration.
(Mandatory that you bring ALL your weapons to next month’s meeting, so we can confiscate them).
Won’t you step into my parlor?, said the spider to the fly.
Too bad the Brits did not think of registration of arms in 1775. The could have avoided Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. Of course, as it were, they were out to confiscate the militia’s depot of arms anyway.... instead they could have simply rounded up the individuals patriots piecemeal.
***(Mandatory that you bring ALL your weapons to next month’s meeting, so we can confiscate them).***
Didn’t some ancient Greek tyrant do this? He called for a meeting of all armed men, had them store their weapons in a temple while the meeting was in another place. After the meeting was over, the people found the tyrant had sent armed guards to seize the temple and weapons.