Start putting these people in jail in large numbers. Make it clear to the rest that they need to surrender their illegal firearms.
“I lost my guns in a tragic boating accident.”
Now what?
The judge sees through the lie and issues a search warrant anyway?
So what are you gonna do? Send the cops to kill them? Because that’s how it plays out.
And then there’s the apocryphal boating accident. Prove I still have the guns.
If you jump straight to shooting when cops show up to take your toys, it’s a pretty good bet you never should have had them in the first place.
If you “lost” it they should tear your fucking house apart with a warrant to make sure it’s really gone.
We cool with police and government just barging into our homes and taking our property that we purchased legally with our own money now?EDIT: FWIW, I misunderstood the title. I thought it was banned guns, not people banned from having guns (due to felonies, etc.). This is a bit different.
If you “lost” it they should tear your fucking house apart with a warrant to make sure it’s really gone.
It blows my mind that some people think this course of action would be ok, and that it wouldn’t be abused by the authorities.
God forbid we get guns off the streets or out of the hands of criminals.
I’d be much happier if they were doing it for guns instead of marijuana like they have for the last several decades.
What makes you think it would be abused any more than warrants are right now?
What makes you think it would be abused any more than warrants are right now?
Because time after time we’ve seen that when given new powers, new tools, or new technologies, the police abuse them.
They would absolutely use this power to terrorize their opponents by ransacking their homes, whether they owned a gun or not. I’m not sure that it matters because more than half of this country seems to be ok with living in a fascist dictatorship as long as the dictator happens to be on their ‘side’ for the moment.
It seems that they never intended to enforce this to current gun owners because they knew they wouldn’t comply. It is more of a measure that they will enforce going forward on future generations of gun owners.
Protip: don’t ever get diagnosed with a mental illness.
