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Resistance to gun laws spreads to New York’s SAFE act as protesters burn registration forms
| WTF News |
The resistance in the northeastern United States is spreading in response to new policies on registration of rifles and tyrannical restrictions on hardware. New York gun owners have been voicing opposition to the specifics of the unSAFE act for months now. Sunday, activists provided an organized show of resistance by burning an estimated 1000 registration forms in open defiance of the policies.
poststar.com
Nearly a thousand gun registration forms were turned into ashes Sunday.The forms are used for people to register with New York State Police firearms that meet the state’s definition of military-style assault weapons. The deadline is April 15. Gun rights advocates gathered at the Saratoga-Wilton Elks Lodge 161 to burn the papers in a symbolic protest.
E.J. Stokes, leader of the Warren County chapter of New York Revolution, said he was participating because he believes in the U.S. Constitution.
“Once the Second (Amendment) falls, the rest will go with it. It’s an unconstitutional law, done in the middle of the night with no input from the public,” he said.
The event was organized by the NY2A Grassroots Coalition. NY2A co-founder Jake Palmateer said the goal is for people not to register their assault weapon as an act of civil disobedience.
“We are opposed to registration because the evidence is clear that registration leads to confiscation,” he said.
He and others hope that so few people will fill out the forms, that the registry portion of the SAFE Act “collapses under its own weight.”
Recall the sceanrio in Connecticut where people have declined to register their rifles under the new state law following the Newtown “shootings”. Hysterical calls for arrests for noncompliance have gone out in newspapers as one estimated that over 100,000 residents of CT are in violation. The adversarial mood can be summed up by reading about the Connecticut cop who was placed on leave following comments that he would “kick down doors” to confiscate guns.
A backlash in Connecticut is a little less tenuous, where the total number of rifles in question may be less than 500,000. The estimate of the number of similar guns in violation for New York state could be over 1 million as the article states.
