NY Sending Out Confiscation Notices

[leadcounsel]

1. Immediately surrender your rifle and/or shotgun to the police... 2. Remove (and prove)...

Brother, not sure what world you live in, but in my world that's confiscation. The owner is left with two (or three) equally bad options. ALL of which presumably the expenses are incurred by the owner.

How much would it cost the typical gun owner to ship and store his guns out of the city/state? Let's just presume he has relatives in Tennessee where he can ship his guns. $30 per longgun, plus FFL fees of $30 each. Saw a 10 gun collection. That's $600 just to continue to own (albeit out of state) HIS PROPERTY. That's confiscation of money. Perhaps he decides to move out of city/state. Moves aren't cheap; probably cost weeks of labor and thousands of dollars for a simple move. That's confiscation of time/money.

Assume for the moment instead it was just a 'tax' on ownership. That too would be a confiscation of money to exercise a right.

ANY WAY you slice it, it's confiscation. Guns, Time, Money, Freedom. Irrelevant.

Are you even reading MY posts...?

I disagree that the argument is a lie. It's not. Perhaps it's not completely accurate, or even confusing. Maybe the person that wrote it himself doesn't understand the law because it's confusing or the net effect is the same.

While I agree that these things ought to be accurate, to the casual reader or the person that it impacts, it is all the same government encroachment.

 

[Mike Irwin]

Enough.

The entire premise of the initial notice is based on the same kind of flawed logic about which we scream bloody murder when the antis do it, so we don't need to engage in it ourselves.

And the carping about Nazism is so ludicrous that it is beneath contempt. I knew a number of people who survived the very worst that Germany had to offer at that time in history. I have no doubt that they would look at such jabberings with disgust, if not outrage.

If this is the very best we can do then we shouldn't really bother.

Closed.