Los Angeles passed a measure banning all "high capacity" (i.e., normal capacity) detachable magazines and required citizens to turn them in to police. The sixty day "grace period" during which you would "graciously" be allowed to surrender your private property to the government without compensation has now closed, and the total number of magazines received by police is:
Zero.
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ReplyDeleteI'm way out of touch on such matters but.... Isn't confiscation without reimbursement a lawsuit waiting to happen?
ReplyDeleteWilliam sends
I gather you were permitted to sell the thing to someone else if you could, but otherwise were supposed to turn them in. That must be their loophole, although it still sounds really dodgy to me: I don't see how that's plausibly "fair market value" when you have (in theory, were people to comply with the law) flooded the market by forcing all these people to sell at the same time. Nor are you providing FMV, in any case, in return for forcing people to give up their private property.
ReplyDeleteGovernment auctions is not fair market value. It's only fair from the gov pov.
ReplyDeleteI'm doubting anyone is planning to go into the bad neighborhoods door-to-door to demand them. If liberals think drug laws show up unbalanced racial and ethnic impact, wait'll they see what guns 'n ammo laws do.
ReplyDeleteNew Orleans PD did go door to door, confiscating arms, whether people liked it or not. That's why the civil chaos and crimes went up during Katrina.
ReplyDeleteThe world is not made out of slippery slopes. It's a straight fall into hell from higher gravity.