When NY ordered all assault weapons to be registered, only about 15,000 out of the estimated 1,000,000+ complied (most of whom were state employees or a few sadly confused citizens). The rest just laid low, or jumped through some hoops to render their AR's etc., 'compliant'.
I did the latter. Since my Stag Super Varminter was already compliant without any muzzle device, I had the LGS replace the A2 Stock and Grip with the Thordsden compliant monstrosity
http://www.thordsencustoms.com/frs-15-rifle-stock/frs-15-stock-kits/.
Thereafter, I purchased/assembled only uppers (how many guns can an individual fire at once anyway?), and they all have/had target crowns.
Actually, once you got past the appearance, it functioned well. Restoring the original parts will be high on the list of this Fall's agenda. I'm earmarking Election Day (after I vote) for that project.
The weaknesses of these various supposedly draconian restrictions were that:
Local NY Counties law enforcement (outside the 5 boroughs of NYC) went on record refusing to enforce them. The Imperial State's Governor threatened to remove the opposing Sheriffs from office, but later did nothing. Of course not, Il Duce Andrew Cuomo had never intended to enforce the law, he just wanted it on his record for a supposed Presidential run. Bumper stickers appeared with ABC (Anybody But Cuomo) and FUAC (I won't translate
that one).
Only the State Police Top Management went on record as being in favor of the measures, while lower echelon LE confided that they would only do so when it would be an obvious infraction to ignore, or there was already evidence to support confiscation for a concurrent offense.
There will always be some who drank the Kool-Aide, but not that many exist among the rank and file.
A blatant escalation of the anti-gun restrictions on a wide scale would become a problem within the ranks well before it became all that effective out on the street. (
Note the previous line is an opinion).
The point with these gun-hostile politicians is that they never envisioned a 'problem' they didn't believe could be resolved with legislation; and they seriously believed that people would obey, just because they were told to. Maybe that's changing. I say it will, if not one way, then another.
As for New York, folks gathered in small groups, worked out their approach, and ignored the NYSAFE Act in droves. It was unenforceable without a colossal enlargement of State Law Enforcement forces, and that state is already among the most highly taxed. This is the usual response of average folks to paranoid schizophrenia at the top of the food chain. (Top? Aren't the voters supposed to be at the top of that particular chain?)
New Yorkers aren't the problem, it's their government which has broken its promises and gone rogue. The politician have managed to twist their own thinking to place themselves in charge of the people, for their own good. They recognize no responsibility to obey the Constitution, or answer to anyone but themselves. Megalomania will do that to folks.
So will Judicial branches who serve masters instead of the law (Remember the episode of the Cox Sacker?
http://tohell-andback.blogspot.com/2011/11/impeach-cox-sacker.html). A lot of equivocation and prevarication going on there, IMHO. Nobody thinks in such terms anymore these days, do they?
...And finally...; "Telling people to just move isn't productive". I can see the truth in this, but it
did work for me. And while it has been considerably expensive, and getting up to speed is taking a long time, I'd do it again in a New York minute...
Greg
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