So They Introduce a Ban Tomorrow In YOUR State - What Do You Do ?

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I guess the header says it all really.

I've tried posing this question before and I get lots of replies like, "join the NRA and it won't happen, or "hell we'll never let let it happen" etc etc

Well HELLO Massachusetts, the devil really has come to dinner with California and Maryland close behind. So there you are driving to work in the morning and the newsreader booms out that as of 5.00 pm that day, all sales of handguns, handgun ammunition and reloading gear for handgun calibers will be illegal, all existing CHL permits are hereby revoked and handguns must be kept unloaded in the home and locked in secure gun lockers. Failure to comply with any of the above regulations will result in a jail term of not less than 2 years.

Spare me the NRA recruiting slogans and the Sands of Iwo Jima song, what would you do, no, I mean for real. Oh, and in order to keep the mods. happy, no black helicopters or assaults on the White House please.

I'm sure this message contains enough trigger words to set the FBI's alarm bells ringing all the way to Quantico, there's paranoia for you.

Mike H
 
I'd help my wife and kids get ready for me to go to jail on a victimless crime charge, in support of what I know is right and true.

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John/az

"The middle of the road between the extremes of good and evil, is evil. When freedom is at stake, your silence is not golden, it's yellow..." RKBA!
 
I almost have a Masters degree in Computer Science and already possess B.S’s in Comp. Science and Physics. So what? Well the point being, I WOULD MOVE! With my degrees, I would not have any problems finding a job in a gun friendly state. If that state became anti-gun, I would move again. Sorry, but I love shooting and my right to bear arms too much to be a prisoner in my own state.

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Well, it's like this...

In the people's Republik of Wiskonsin (and Minnesota), it's illegal to carry. So I carry anyway. If arrested, I'll fight on 2nd grounds, and work toward jury nullification.

If I am convicted, I'll appeal as far as it's allowed, also based on the 2nd. We should ALL do this. If even 200,000 did, the courts would become paralyzed, and we'd "win". And what a media event it would be.

We all know that the ultimate goal of gov't is to make EVERYONE a criminal. As a quote (whose source I can't remember at the moment) says so eloquently, "Gov't only has authority over criminals. In order to provide gov't, criminals MUST be created." (or something to that effect).

If we create MILLIONS of criminals, "prohibition" will come to a screaming halt forever. BUT, we have to be willing EN MASSE to go through the legal system. Not just a few thousand.
 
Dennis,

You're thinking of Ayn Rand, I believe. I don't know about overwhelming the justice system, the War On Drugs has processed (and I use that term in the meat-packing sense) millions of folks, and so far the only response has been to build more and more prisons at taxpayer expense, along with "mandatory minimum sentencing" laws. I think the U.S. prison population is hovering around 2 million today, the highest incarceration rate of any country, save Russia, and we may have even passed them. A record I'm not particularly proud of. (Yay! We beat the Russians!) I forget who said it here, but if you like the War On Drugs, you're gonna love the War On Guns. At this rate, pretty soon everybody will either be in prison or on some sort of entitlement as they realize that producing is a sucker's game, since any excess you produce is siphoned off as fast as you make it, so why bother? I think that once the producer/leech ratio gets skewed too far, the country collapses. We're heading in that direction, it seems. That's my theory and I'm stickin' to it!

Sorry for the tangent. Let's see. Break a law passed in violation of the Constitution by those with round-the-clock armed protection who think the wee peons have no right to self-defense or meekly submit to becoming a vicitm to the first thug willing to co-opt my person by force? You do the math.
 
Costa Rica.

Nice climate, no military to speak of.

Sounds about right for a coup de etat.

That's Generalissimo LawDog for you peons.

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LawDog
 
Gun? What gun? Jeeze, officers, I sold those guns at a gun show about two years ago! Receipt? Nope, didn't keep one. Sure, search the house, if you have a warrent, and probable cause. I wouldn't dream of breaking the law! No, nosir, don't know anybody in the neighborhood that has a gun. I hear handguns are illegal now, why would I or any one of my friends want to break the law? Anyway, good luck on finding all those gun owners.

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When guns are outlawed, I will be an outlaw.
 
Move to another state and keep my powder dry, because 'they' will be coming there, too.
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But like Sword says, I sold all mine at gun shows, except that Daisy over there in the corner with the bent barrel and rust on the trigger.
 
I, too, would suffer from 'selective amnesia' just like Sport has.
Bet it would become a very contagious disease.
And I hear that there's no known cure...
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...defend the 2nd., it protects us all.
No fate but what we make...
 
I'm with Sword on this---say nothing(to anyone)and arrange to vote with your feet.
If it doesn't happen,at least you have a
contingency plan.
 
I was talking to my Dad last night about this very thing and we agreed that we would fight for our rights, but as someone stated in a thread I started last week, We can't have one or two man rebellions just to give the media another excuse to show the "mad gunman and his arsenal". You will know when it is time to grab your gun because everybody else will be doing it too. The government WILL cross the line eventually and we WILL need to stand up as a people and take our rights back. Thats what our Country's founders laid out in the Constitution for us to do. They already knew what a government could do if it had too much power from experience. Just be ready.

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Until the antis put a sign in their front yard that says they don't own guns, they are riding on the shirt-tail of the safety that we provide by owning them.
 
Lawdog,
Can I be your puppet dictator?
Eric

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Formerly Puddle Pirate.
Teach a kid to shoot.
It annoys the antis.
 
I asked one of my friends and he said that if legal hazards of owning guns outweight the benefits he'd turn his in. I know full well that he was lying to me and expecting me to know that much. Now, why would you or I state anything other than that for the benefit of various fed forum lurkers?

Don't know what I'd do. Just have an uncomfortable feeling that the Russians had no trouble "processing" a lot more than 200 thousand prisoners right into fertilizer. I would make an assumption that, once disarmed, I would have the same rights and opportunities as to freedom of movemennt and life in general as I had back in the USSR. Don't think I'd like that outcome but what can one do other than keep on planting rice by day...
 
Lawdog and Eric, you got room for one more?

People, why bother lying about or hiding your guns? Isn't that contrary to the concept of an ARMED citizenry? If you're gonna cache them, then you may as well hand them over with a smile for the thug who comes to take them. Comes to the same either way.
 
LawDog, you need a dedicated flunky?

I am loyal, smart enough to find innovative ways to "resolve" issues, and dumb enough to want to follow orders...resume of quality flunky traits available on request.
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I live near the state line, so if NC passed some stupid gun-banning law, in theory I could move across the line into SC and still keep my same job. In fact, if things get so bad in NC that guns are banned, I don't expect SC will be any better.

And moving to another state isn't a good long-term solution, because at some point you will run out of states, and because Those Who Would Be Our Masters are putting their greatest efforts into federalizing everything, meaning that the most restrictive gun laws will eventually be federal. You folks in Massachusetts are just a little farther along the road to a police state than the rest of us are. At least for today.

The bottom line is that there are only three possibilities: Relocation, political resistance, or armed resistance. I hear and read good things about Costa Rica, but I'm an American who would hate to have to flee his country simply because it was overrun by national socialists. I believe that political resistance still has a chance to turn things around in our country. But it's getting late in the game, and we need to motivate a lot of fence-sitters and free-riders if we're going to win. Keeping our own spirits up here on TFL is great, but we also need to be winning over the undecided, writing letters to the editor, publicly standing up for what we believe, and not being afraid to speak up about what's happening to the tattered shreds of the Constitution. Anyone who is serious about preserving RKBA and our other freedoms needs to get busy now.

Hint: Voting for Bush isn't going to do it.
 
First of all, the line was crossed a long time ago. The process has accellerated to its present state because Americans have allowed it to continue. Generations of freedom loving Americans are either dead or dying, leaving the indoctrinated off-spring to stop the hemorrhage. The same off-spring that now endorse candidates for leadership that are a part of the bleeding, instead of a surgeon to sew up the wounds, and get America out of bed.

We continue to look for more comfortable shackles, rather than a way to unlock them. Running from tyranny never did freedom any good. We must face tyranny head on and stop it in its slimey tracks. Or soon, all the running that one could possibly muster will not be enough to hide from it.

We must convince ourselves that justice has turned against the free thinking (because it has). And to submit to an arrest, imprisonment, and possibly a lengthy, bankrupting, one-sided trial, serves not the efforts of patriots. Protesting falls upon deaf ears. Protesting provides opportunity for the furthering of police state thug tactics against disarmed protesters. These are not the methods of free men in an already corrupted system. Free men must put bite into their bark (read: 2nd Amendment and The Declaration of Independece, 2nd paragraph).

The time is near for action, not cowardice.
 
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