$500 reward for reporting “illegal guns” in new york

I believe you should at a bare minimum be required to give your information, which is verified before any action is taken to the police in the case of something like this. Otherwise besides a defacto Stasi state you also have a new method of SWATing people.
 
Here is the root cause of the problem. Assigning blame to an inanimate object. One of the commenters to the story said this:
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This statement is spot on correct.

And not one of the weapons in that photo are illegal, not one of them, not even the SAW.

Some of them appear to be Class III weapons, regardless of what their actual classification, they are not illegal weapons. They are on the other hand weapons which can only be owned under certain circumstances. If an individual, or in some cases, a business, can meet the requirements for ownership then there is no problem possessing them. There are a few States where Individuals may not own Class II weapons yet businesses may under specific conditions, but again, the emphasis is not on the weapon, it's on who is doing to owning.

To help point out the validity of my claim, I bring the following exhibits.

M249 Minimi SAW.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=416481805

MP5 Dealer Sample gun;
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=412678615

Go way back for this M-16;
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=414689880

Not to mention that under the safe act, non-Class II versions of most of these weapons are considered Assault Weapons, take the handguns for instance, and are no longer legal for most folks to own.

That being said, they are not illegal under Federal Law, it's New York State's laws that are the issue. Furthermore, most States hold that other political subdivisions, Counties, Parishes, Cities, etc, can not make their own gun laws and have to live with the State's laws for better or worse.

Still, as we can see, it is not the guns that are illegal, it is whether it is legal for whatever individual to own them. This is an important distinction.
 
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