New Yorker fights attempts by city to license his Revolutionary War-style flintlock
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Submitted by cbaus on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 00:05.
* Gun Grabbers
The New York Daily News is reporting that, like America's first soldiers at the Battle of Brooklyn, NYC resident Michael Littlejohn is fighting for his right to bear arms.
And his fight proves beyond any doubt that, despite their claims, gun banners want ALL guns.
From the story:
The Revolutionary War buff charges the Bloomberg administration with tyranny for trying to seize his handmade flintlock rifle - a dead ringer for the weapon once used against the redcoats.
"This is the last legal gun that you can have without registration in New York," Littlejohn said. "And yet Mayor Bloomberg is driven crazy by my flintlock gun - the one that won the American Revolution."
Littlejohn fired the first shot when he hired a Tennessee blacksmith to recreate the vintage rifle. It arrived at his Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, apartment in June - followed quickly by city cops.
Police claim it's illegal for Littlejohn to keep the flintlock without a gun license.
The story goe sn to say that Littlejohn, 50, cites the earliest American patriots as his inspiration while refusing to surrender his firearm or apply for a license.
The social worker is also clinging to a little-known exemption in the city's strict gun laws.
The loophole allows license-free ownership of "antique firearms" - defined as rifles that require the bullet and gunpowder to be loaded separately.
Littlejohn's rifle appears to fit the bill.
Loading the weapon, he explains, is a multistep process that takes several pokes with a ramrod and up to a minute to complete.
To fire, the rifle relies on a sharpened piece of flint that produces a spark when the trigger is pulled. That point is moot, Littlejohn says: He doesn't own gunpowder or bullets.
That's not enough to make the NYPD retreat.
The cops visited Littlejohn's apartment and sat down this month with the Tennessee blacksmith who forged the rifle.
The lead detective on the case told Littlejohn's lawyer that he had orders "from higher-ups" to pursue the case, according to an e-mail the lawyer sent to Littlejohn.
A police source told the newspaper the war could end peacefully if Littlejohn applied for a permit with the NYPD handgun license division.
But Littlejohn says he would rather fight. The Brooklynite says he's willing to sue for his rifle rights.
When it comes to gun control, too often there are gun owners willing to look the other way, or even support it, out of the belief that their own brand of firearm is safe from the gun grabbers. But finally the truth is exposed:
If it fires a shot they want it!
Mayor Bloomberg is going after a reenactors' flintlock (200 + year old technology) with the same venom he goes after any other gun.
Combine that with NYC going after toy guns, another city banning cap guns and air guns, and Ireland following the disastrous lead of Great Britain and banning handguns, and it should be obvious to any and every gun owner:
If it looks like a gun of any type the gun banners and anti-gun politicians want it.
They do not care what kind of gun. They do not care that the United States of America would not exist as we know it today without this gun in its history. They hate the gun - they hate us for liking the gun - and they want the guns gone.
The truth is, they are only settling for the guns being gone. What they really want is anyone who thinks like us gone also. They just haven't quite admitted that yet.
