New York Post: Pro Gun Rights Civil Disobedance.....

[tkdguy]

The New York Post ran a January 21, 2013 article authored by Fredrick Dicker "Hit Us with Your Best Shot" describes a systematic rebellion in NY over the recent ordered registration of semi-automatic firearms. Apparently the Citizens are becoming organized and are planning on opposing the new law. Try this link:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hit_us_with your_best_shot-andy_5rxZg0gYBJJhkLBtiTPMfJ
Or Google the author, date of the article and the title of the article. Should work.

Apparently assault-rifle owners are organizing a mass boycott of Gov. Como's new law. The story read that the State's 300 gun clubs, gun dealers, and Second Amendment organizations are organizing a boycott. This is a good read.

 

[owenwd54]

Unable to see the above article. Would love to see it . Don't give up and do not forget what your Governor has done . Good luck

 

[raisedin99]

Inside Albany: Gun owners plan boycott of Cuomo laws - NYPOST.com

terry

 

[riderrick65]

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Inside Albany: Gun owners plan boycott of Cuomo laws - NYPOST.com

terry

Good read, hope this spreads like wild fire!
"You Can Have My Guns When You Pry Them From My Cold Dead Hands"

 

[Travis15R]

That is awesome, not that it was not expected but its great to see so many stand up against a shredding of the 2A and stand together in opposition.

 

[Sftail04]

They say that the gun owner that does not register their "assault rifle" can be put in prison for up to 1 year. With the estimate 1 million owners in the Stalag New York, could they really afford to put 1 million people in prison? Are they serious?

 

[VMaxSplat]

The boycott is a good thing for us all. Hopefully there will be massive, blatant non-compliance with this abomination of a law. I believe obama looks at radical states (NY, Kali, etc) as test cases for his planned destruction of the 2nd Amendment. If things don't go so well in NY, he may be forced to back off his plans. The fence sitters in congress should be closely paying attention. Their political survival rests on it in 2014.

As a side note, I've already made buying decisions (professional and personal) that preclude money going to NY based on Cuomo's stupid gun law. I hope many others are doing the same.

 

[VMaxSplat]

They say that the gun owner that does not register their "assault rifle" can be put in prison for up to 1 year. With the estimate 1 million owners in the Stalag New York, could they really afford to put 1 million people in prison? Are they serious?

It is possible that an elitist commie like Cuomo may get indignant at a mass boycott and be dumb enough to start kicking doors (in cases where they know the location of a semi). That is when the real storm may rage. For many NY gun owners who have been branded as criminals by the stroke of a pen, that might just be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Let's hope these people come to their senses or the courts overrule this abuse of power.

 

[ONeill]

As a side note, I've already made buying decisions (professional and personal) that preclude money going to NY based on Cuomo's stupid gun law. I hope many others are doing the same.

Not for nothing, but any businesses or people you'd be supporting are not Cuomo or owned by Cuomo. There's just as good a chance (especially if the business is located north of NYC) that you'd be taking the business away from an NRA supporting, law abiding, gun owning citizen.

 

[revho]

Funny how the ban effect date for new york in april 2014 coincides with reelection for Cuomo per the article...

 

[LoboGunLeather]

When the Canadian Parliament passed legislation requiring gun owner licensing and gun registration a group called the LUFA was formed, held rallies across Canada with the rallying cry "Come and go to jail with us", dared the government to come and arrest them all.

A couple of Canadian provinces passed legislation prohibiting the national government from enforcing the new law within those provinces.

On the final date allowed for registering guns LUFA members descended on government offices, taking every parking place for miles around before opening time, and lined up. There was no way to process them so they were turned away. Members all gave each other notarized statements attesting to the fact that each had attempted to comply with the law, but the government declined to accept their registrations.

The government next decided to allow registrations by mail. LUFA members were advised to fill out the 3-part registration form and keep their personal copies, purchase a postal money order for the registration fee and keep their copies, then throw the originals in the trash. No one would ever be able to prove that they had not registered their firearms.

LUFA continued to force the government to release information on costs and compliance, using the equivalent of Freedom of Information Act court proceedings. Government officials stonewalled, knowing that the costs were many times what had been promised and compliance with the new law was pathetically small.

It took about 15 years of continual active civil disobedience, but the entire law was finally overturned and repealed.

There was never more than about 15% compliance, and even those weapons that had been registered were never completely entered into the database.

They estimate a million semi-autos in New York now. I doubt that more than 50,000 will be registered 5 years from now. New York certainly doesn't have the budget for prosecuting 900,000-plus citizens, nowhere near the courtrooms/judges/prosecutors/etc to handle the caseload, and no empty jail cells waiting for the newly convicted gun owners.

If New Yorkers get organized and are willing to stand together in opposition to this new law there is no possibility that the legislation can ever be more than words on paper.

In addition to active and peaceful civil disobedience I suggest that New Yorkers get together in organized groups, each with a lawyer on retainer, plead 'not guilty' to any and every charge brought, demand jury trials, and flood trial courts with every conceivable legal motion in every case. Within a short time the judges and prosecutors will be begging the State Assembly to repeal this stupid law.

 

[ladder13]

Funny how the ban effect date for new york in april 2014 coincides with reelection for Cuomo per the article...

Normally elections in NY follow the usual Nov national pattern, not sure where the April date comes up unless one must declare their intentions by then.

 

[gregintenn]

To the members here from New York,

What can the rest of us here do to support this movement?

 

[ONeill]

To the members here from New York,

What can the rest of us here do to support this movement?

Make sure it doesn't come close to happening in your state, so we have a place to move to if this isn't overruled

 

[owenwd54]

Just remember come vote time that Democrat most likely = gun grabbers . I hope that the ones who are gun grabbers lose and the Republicans who go along with them lose . We should give Washington and our state houses a good cleaning come voting time. . We should make them all wish they they had not went along with the proposed gun bans.

 

[jtpur]

If you folks in NY register your guns, you deserve to have them taken away. Do not register, there will be plenty of court fights, perhaps going to SCOTUS. Let the legal system play out, rally, protest and lobby to get this ridiculous law reversed. Lobby your reps to NOT lift the ban on police until the entire law is reversed. Do not support any part of the government until the people are heard. If you don't do this in NY the States will succumb one by one until the government bans guns outright or attempts to repeal the 2nd. Each and everyone of you should file suit to challenge this law.
Good luck