A plan by police in Buffalo, N.Y., to begin confiscating the firearms of legal gun owners within days of their deaths is drawing fire from Second Amendment advocates.
The plan is legal under a longstanding, but rarely enforced state law, but gun rights advocates say, with apologies to onetime NRA spokesman Charlton Heston, it is tantamount to prying firearms - some of which may have substantial monetary or sentimental value - from the cold, dead hands of law-abiding citizens.
"They're quick to say they're going to take the guns," said Tom King, president of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association. "But they don't tell you the law doesn't apply to long guns, or that these families can sell [their loved one's] pistol or apply to keep it."
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This exemplifies the fallacy of the registration requirement! It's only for the government - not for the people!
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ReplyDeleteMaryland has the same policy but I don't know how the law is actually written here. But I do know that it's illegal to inherit a handgun in Maryland without going through the background investigation and all the other crap.
ReplyDeleteWhat guns? I have no idea what you are talking about. boating accidents are common on the Eastern Shore.
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