Over at Reason.com, J.D. Tuccille notes that New York gun owners are a bit hesitant, to say the least, about obeying their Governor’s latest edict on semi-auto rifles…
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Also noted is what a rousing success AW registration has been here in California. Estimates vary, but it’s generally believed that 300,000 firearms met the State’s “Assault weapon” definition and should have been registered. According to the NY Times, only about 7,000 were actually registered.
The reason for such reticence isn’t hard to fathom. When gun owners charge that politicians can’t be trusted to resist using registration lists for future confiscation, they’re not being paranoid — New York City and California have both done just that.
Charges of paranoia also fall flat when one remembers American history. We fear a tyrannical, gun-grabbing government because our forefathers actually were victims of just such a thing. Remember that our former monarch really did try to disarm us. It can happen here because it did happen here.