Yeah, I figure that could be a factor but it’s also kind of ridiculous at the same time. Do you have a NY drivers license? Then the government knows your address and has a photo of you. Have you ever applied for a pistol permit or job where they required you to have your fingerprints taken? Guess what, they have your prints already too. Do you have a NY pistol permit? Then they have a list of all your valid pistols on it. Just by making a comment regarding the new ATF’s stance on pistol braces doesn’t automatically mean they assume you have a basement full of unregistered illegal firearms. Making a comment isn’t an admission of guilt on anything. It’s just making sure you show your disdain on the ATF’s new brace point system, which all gun owners should be making a point to do so.
You move to a state that actually fights back and passes legislation and resolutions that counter the federal madness. Yes, they do exist. I for one, am tired of all the people who poo poo those states that pass nullification laws as symbolic and ineffectual. Guess what, a state government that actually passes sanctuary laws and resolutions is the best you will ever get short of secession from the union and it might just come to that. The more states that pass sanctuary laws and have an official policy that nullifies federal overreach, the better chance there is for the feds to back down.
I don’t think purposely choosing to wait it out until the entire country turns to shit before you would even take a few minutes out of your time to make a comment on the matter seems like the right approach, but at least you’re making a conscious decision on your own I guess. Should the judge have not overturned the assault weapons ban in California because there are still freedom loving states that aren’t as restrictive? So if a judge was to completely reverse the safe act tomorrow, you would absolutely be opposed to that because you would first want the rest of the United States to become as restricted as NY is before anything gets better? I think your logic is flawed, but that’s just my thoughts on it.
Some people don't care but it's a being so sick of the shit that they no longer give a flying fuck and are gonna do whatever the fuck they please type of not caring.
Where has the National help been fighting NYS’s unconstitutional pistol permitting scheme? Where has the National help been fighting NYS’s unconstitutional safe act? The attitude of other Americans in other states has been nothing more than “you should just move” or “there’s no point in trying to fight it in NY”. We have been without help fighting unconstitutional Infringements here for over 100 years. So now that other Americans in other states are facing unconstitutional infringements I simply say this “you should move”
“You should move” wouldn’t do anything regarding this matter since this is being issued by the ATF. It’s not on the state level. It would be across the entire United States. So your argument of moving somewhere else in the U.S. makes absolutely no sense since no matter where you went the new rules would apply. You’re looking at this as why should anyone in NY help any of the other states when really the way it should be viewed is the states standing together against the federal government to help each and every state, including themselves.
Because one state suing another over it's laws will go nowhere. Texas has no standing trying to sue NY over NY gun laws. The best way for other states to help NY is to stand up to the federal government's overreach and try to nullify it. That would help the whole country. Unfortunately that is a concept that gets laughed at a lot on this forum.
Although I am forced to agree with this sentiment, it implies that the fascist totalitarians have already won. We are now afraid to exercise our First Amendment rights in support of the Second Amendment. Ergo, with the DOJ exercising a grand Heckler's Veto, the constitution is negated.
Ehh you are already on the radar just by being on the web and on a gun forum.
People aren't scared. They're lazy.I don’t get why people are so scared to make a comment. If the government wants your information it has plenty of resources to utilize to be able to do so. Making a comment regarding an unconstitutional rule or law and speaking out is not any sort of admission of guilt. Under the Federal Register where you would submit your comment, it doesn’t even ask for your full address and in fact there is only an asterisk next to your first and last name. Like I said before do you have a drivers license? A pistol permit? Completed a Form 4473? Own nfa items? A member of some sort of firearm association like the NRA/FPC/GOA, have you bought firearm related items with your bank cards? If it’s estimated that there are 393 million firearms owned in America, there should absolutely be more than the pathetic 10,922 comments as of the time I’m making this comment. That’s approximately a measly .002% for every firearm. I would bet there are more people who fly a Come And Take It and/or Gadsden flag outside their own house advertising to all the people that see it know that they have firearms in their house than there are submitted comments currently...but those same people are worried about leaving a comment.
People aren't scared. They're lazy.
These are the same people who shit on NRA for not doing anything, but won't pick up a phone or a pen to contact their elected representatives. Who won't got to a town board or school board meeting. Who won't reach into their pockets or knock on doors to support a good guy running for office. Who won't write a letter to a local news paper, and won't get involved in local pro-2A groups. These lazy bastards won't even get off their asses to vote on election day. Sure as shit though, they're really good at bitching and moaning after the fact though. Its kind of embarrassing sometimes to be associated with these a-holes, if only through a common hobby.
By the way... I'm working on mine now.
True.
I thought you were already!
This is where I say, “better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.“
Sounds a lot like some groups of people in Nazi Germany. How did that work out for them.
You’re right, they absolutely could try and do that. But the people that use that excuse to not to take the three minutes to type a comment is exactly what @kev74 said...pure and simple lazy! It’s insane. People want to be a unified group of second amendment exercising Americans but don’t actually want to try and contribute to future of it. They’d rather watch the second amendment erode while more restrictions be put on all Americans before typing a few words. Those same people who say they’ll stand up for what’s right but then are too worried and lazy to actually stand up and say something. Also like @kev74 said before, it’s truly embarrassing to see this lack of interaction that the proposal has received across all of the firearms community.
