Many NYers will not comply - "Come and take it away."

[Lucille]

They should be worried.

Assault-rifle owners statewide are organizing a mass boycott of Gov. Cuomo’s new law mandating they register their weapons, daring officials to “come and take it away,” The Post has learned.

Gun-range owners and gun-rights advocates are encouraging hundreds of thousands of owners to defy the law, saying it’d be the largest act of civil disobedience in state history.

“I’ve heard from hundreds of people that they’re prepared to defy the law, and that number will be magnified by the thousands, by the tens of thousands, when the registration deadline comes,’’ said Brian Olesen, president of the American Shooters Supply, one of the largest gun dealers in the state.

Officials estimate at least 1 million semiautomatic rifles are owned in the state, sources said.

And come April 15, 2014 — when Cuomo is expected to be running for re-election — they all have to be registered with the State Police.

But because the rifles have been legal but unregistered until now, authorities don’t know who has them or where they are located.

State officials will be nervously watching the registration figures to see how many gun owners comply, sources said.

“I believe you will have people stepping forward, saying, ‘Here I am. See? I have what you call an assault rifle. Now come and take it away,’ ’’ said a gun-rights activist and boycott organizer.

That’s exactly what state officials are worried about.
[...]
The organizers point to a little-known guarantee of gun ownership contained in New York’s own “Civil Rights Law,” which was ratified the same year as the Constitution .

The state statute says the right to keep and bear arms “cannot be infringed” — stronger than the Second Amendment, which says it “shall not be infringed.’’

“They’re saying, ‘F--- the governor! F--- Cuomo! We’re not going to register our guns,’ and I think they’re serious. People are not going to do it. People are going to resist,’’ said State Rifle and Pistol Association President Tom King, a member of the NRA board of directors. “They’re taking one of our guaranteed civil rights, and they’re taking it away.’’

Olesen said he’ll soon launch a nonprofit, to be called Save the Second Amendment Foundation,’ to fight the new law.

h/t hxxp://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=216397

I'd be nervous too.

After all, what comes next if the citizens refuse to comply? There are only two options, really -- either the State backs down and repeals the law or attempts to enforce it.

 

[TheTexan]

Upstate New York should secede from New York State ASAP

 

[TomtheTinker]

^^^ an idea worth dieing for.

 

[Cowlesy]

And come April 15, 2014 — when Cuomo is expected to be running for re-election — they all have to be registered with the State Police.

But because the rifles have been legal but unregistered until now, authorities don’t know who has them or where they are located.

That's actually not quite true. Whenever you purchase a firearm, a record goes to the State Police. Now, if you think they really put it in a database, and then purge that database out of existence, then I have a bridge to sell you.

Ask a State Trooper who knows a bit about the system.

They know you have one.

 

[jkr]

WACO
from
newYORK

 

[klamath]

That is not how it works. There will be no mass push to arrest non compliers. It will be bit by bit, one count of misdemeanor traffic violation and one count of feloney possession of unregistered assualt weapon, 10 counts of feloney posession of high capacity magazines.... master criminal....

 

[VBRonPaulFan]

That's actually not quite true. Whenever you purchase a firearm, a record goes to the State Police. Now, if you think they really put it in a database, and then purge that database out of existence, then I have a bridge to sell you.

Ask a State Trooper who knows a bit about the system.

They know you have one.

For the state of record, for original point of sales. With a state as large as New York that has people constantly moving in and out, and trading and selling weapons - that list is not very complete if the sales date is longer than 6 months out.

 

[VBRonPaulFan]

double post

 

[Pericles]

That is not how it works. There will be no mass push to arrest non compliers. It will be bit by bit, one count of misdemeanor traffic violation and one count of feloney possession of unregistered assualt weapon, 10 counts of feloney posession of high capacity magazines.... master criminal....

They think that time is on their side, so feel no need to rush. One gun owner at a time, until .....

 

[klamath]

They think that time is on their side, so feel no need to rush. One gun owner at a time, until .....

Yes you have to give them that. They KNOW the power of gradualism and use it VERY sucessfully.