For those of you who do not know the history of NYC, this is the future, exactly as it will happen.
www.thegunzone.com/rkba/rkba-34.htmlAnyone inclined to trust these assertions would be wise to study the history of firearms registration, not in Nazi-occupied Europe, or Soviet Russia or Communist China, but in 1967 New York City when Mayor John V. Lindsay signed into law a long gun registration ordinance passed by the New York City Council.
Under that law, every citizen who possessed or would later possess any rifle or shotgun within the five boroughs of New York City was required to register it by make, model and serial number, and obtain an "inexpensive permit" to possess it.
The fee was set at a modest $3.00, which figure City Councilman Theodore Weiss, sponsor of the bill, with great sincerity pledged would never be raised, and that the municipality would always bear the brunt of the actual costs of administering the law.
In an effort to allay firearms owners' fear of registration, The New York Times, never a friend to firearms-owners, editorially assured everyone that the bill:
“…would protect the constitutional rights of owners and buyers. The purpose of registration would not be to prohibit but to control dangerous weapons.”
Interestingly, just after the bill became law, a 16 December 1967 Times editorial entitled Encouraging Rifle Registration opposed the Mayor's proposed amendments to increase the fee to $10.00, or to $25.00 as he had originally proposed, expressing concern that…
“…too-high license fees right off the bat would undermine effective operation of the law. The idea is to get maximum registration for the public safety.”
The onimous hint of what was to come, of course, is in the phrase "right off the bat," and should have raised alarms that this was indeed, in an expression made infamous 30 years later by anti-gun politico Charles Schumer, the "camel's nose under the tent," for the fee had as if by dark wizardry escallated to $55.00!1
Most significantly, just before the registration bill became law, one-time (1962) U.S. District Attorney for the Southern District of New York and former New York City Police Commissioner Vincent L. Broderick, who was later given a federal judgeship (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1976), testified at a City Council committee hearing on the legislation that the philosophy underlying the bill was "all wrong," since in Broderick's view, it assumed that all law-abiding citizens somehow had a "right to own shotguns or rifles," adding:
“There should be no right to possess a firearm of any sort in 20th Century New York City, and unless good and sufficient reason is shown by an applicant, permission to possess a gun should not be granted.2”
Fast forward to 1991 when the New York City Council, at the urging of Mayor David N. Dinkins, passed, and the Mayor signed into law, New York City Administrative Code, Sec. 10-303.1, an out-and-out prohibition on the private possession of certain semi-automatic rifles and shotguns… namely, various imitation or look-alike "assault" firearms. The ban was flat in the sense that it applied regardless of reason or need for the firearm… and it was passed despite then-Police Commissioner Lee P. Brown's testimony that no "assault weapon" registered with the Firearms Control Bureau had been used in a violent crime in New York City. Mayor Dinkins' response to that bit of information was that he wanted "to send a message."
New York City firearms owners' message back to Dinkins was the chant "We complied, you lied!" Then they made sure he was a one-term mayor.
The year following the enactment of the prohibition, a man's home in Staten Island was raided by the police after he had announced that he would not comply with the city's ban. He was arrested, "an arsenal of firearms" were seized, and a New York City Police Department spokesman rationalized its actions against the citizen by citing his defiance as proof that he was unfit to possess firearms, telling The New York Daily News:
“…obviously, someone like that shouldn't be allowed to have guns!”
NYPD had notified some (but, inexplicably, not all!) of the 2,340 New Yorkers who had been licensed earlier to possess semi-automatic rifles and shotguns that any of those licensed firearms that were covered by the ban had to be surrendered, rendered inoperable or physically removed from the city. The recipients of the notification were directed to send back a sworn statement indicating what had been done with those firearms.
The department subsequently announced that the majority… 2,615 out of 3,360… of these previously-registered faux "assault firearms" had been taken out of the city. In addition, Jeremy Travis, NYPD's Deputy Commissioner of Legal Matters, told The Daily News:
“…for now, the department is taking owners at their word, but spot checks are planned.3”
This once unthinkable situation in New York City demonstrates that those who had opposed the concept of registration back in 1967, and were dismissed as "paranoid," were not only not paranoid but were remarkably prescient. (Still not concerned? Watch what's happening right now in California!) For New York City's sad scenario vividly exemplifies the nationwide plan4 of the gun-grabbers to destroy the civil right and liberty, guaranteed by the Second Amendment, to keep and bear arms… not to mention other provisions of the Constitution.
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