Who said I was finished? These are real-life people who live in New York. If you doubt me, I’ll forward the e-mail and let you talk to them. One of them (that I e-mailed) is the NYPD, yet to recieve an answer.
Another response from Mr. Brophy readily admitted that his info was incomplete, as at the time it was happening (92-93) he wasn’t interested in/involved with the NYSRPA. I think he underestimated the depth of info I was requesting, and has further directed me to a Mr. Larry Goodman, of New York City, who owns/operates License Services, specializing in the bureaucracy of the firearms licensing process for NY City.
Understand, Zwaldd, that this happened almost a decade ago. Newspaper archives (on-line versions) usually don’t go back that far, and as I don’t live in New York, obtaining access to archive issues is a bit problematical.
You’re asking for a level of proof that isn’t just sitting about on my hard drive, sad to say. People (real people, with real jobs, whom I must ask nicely of their time to respond to my questions) must be contacted; sources identified, scrutinized and verified. I also have a real job in the real world, one that, since a recent change of management, has been placing greater demands upon my time.
I can’t instantly gratify you with a definitive answer right this very second.
If it’s worth knowing, it’s worth waiting for.
But your continued insistence that “it never happened, therefore it can’t happen” seems to me a little silly and deliberately obtuse; there are way too many things in American history alone that “never happened before” until someone (or group of someones) did it.
With so many influential people and groups vocal about more and more “reasonable” gun control (not too many actually use the word “ban” anymore; it’s still political suicide, fortunately) is it not reasonable (as BrianBunnyhurt might say) that, to identify such owners, that a licensing/registration scheme be first enacted? Door-to-door “John Doe” warrants and searches are a bit cumbersome, ya know.
Why not first identify your targets with a clear paper trail with the NYPD and various county and state agencies?
Then, at a later date (a year, five, ten, a hundred; whenever), if the “ban 'em all!” faction of the gun control crowd (a debatable “if”, but largely depending on where you live) gets their legislation through, they know exactly whose doors they should be knocking on, saying “hand it over”, after the mandatory turn-in deadline passes and these firearms are unaccounted for.
The progression is elegantly simple; why you don’t get it baffles me. You don’t even have to believe it will ever happen; just understand that licensing and registration are excellent tools for confiscation (whatever form it takes) if or when a firearm ban, partial or total, is ever enacted
And that some have made it abundantly clear that they are inimical to firearms, firearm owners and firearm sports, and will use whatever power and influence they can marshall to impinge upon us.
