I’m told there’s a rule about commanding people, that goes back centuries. You could call it one of the classic blunders.
“Never give an order you know won’t be obeyed.”
It gets people to wondering about other areas in which they could get away with disobeying you. And that’s not a place you want their thoughts to go.
By the end of 2013, [Connecticut] state police had received 47,916 applications for assault weapons certificates, Lt. Paul Vance said. An additional 2,100 that were incomplete could still come in.
That 50,000 figure could be as little as 15 percent of the rifles classified as assault weapons owned by Connecticut residents…
Oh, dear. There’s a lot of disobeyin’ goin’ on out there. I wonder what the Staties plan to do about it?
“A lot of it is just a question to ask, and I think the firearms unit would be looking at it,” said Mike Lawlor, the state’s top official in criminal justice. “They could send them a letter.”
That’ll scare’em into compliance, I’m sure.
Don’t have time to look it up right now, but something similar happened several years ago in California, when the legislature demanded the registration of certain sorts of SKS carbines, then changed its alleged mind and outlawed them. There was talk of door-to-door visits to those few thousand owners who had foolishly registered the guns. For some reason the California Staties never quite found the time…
There’s another old saying, about things you shouldn’t do with a tiger…
Luckily I live in Oklahoma and any kind of registration much less confiscation is nowhere on the horizon. Hell, our democrats around here make half of the Republicans in Congress look like communists.
It’s not that the Masters want everyone to register their scary rifles – the Masters actually probably LIKE the fact that the subjects aren’t doing it. Because then, later, when a Master investigates a subject for something and finds an unregistered rifle, suddenly they have a felony. It’s like the Feds using taxes to get Capone. Any tool will do for subjugation.
I hate ’em all.
I have always snickered at the idea that police would go door to door confiscating weapons.
Oh, it’s not that I don’t think they would do it on moral/legal/ethical/constitutional grounds. I think that they wouldn’t do it because they know that it will end up being a blood bath, with a huge amount of the blood being their own.
Any time a grabber talks about door-to-door confiscating, I always suggest that they be the ones who knock first…