🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 17 May 2002 15:09:45 -0700, "Mike Haas" <mike@skyweyr.com> was
kind enough to write:

>"Pope Fozgajeeb Plaaj" <fozgajeeb@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:d84065d6.0205171313.1e177a25@posting.google.com...
>> "Mike Haas" <mike@skyweyr.com> wrote in message
>news:<AbcF8.70693$To6.23220669@e420r-atl1.usenetserver.com>...
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> > You see, without a change in the law and because the LA Times was
>putting
>> > the heat on him for not enforcing gun control strenuously enough, he
>simply
>> > CHANGED THE OPINION OF THE CALIFORNIA DOJ AND STARTED CONFISCATING SKS
>> > RIFLES!!!!!
>> > http://nrawinningteam.com/states/Lindex.html
>> > This was the first time in America that mass gun confiscation was
>> > implemented....
>>
>> Where are the "mass gun confiscations", Mike?
>
>The confiscations due to Lungren's 1997 change of mind occured in 1999.
>Anyone that purchased an SKS Sporter between January 1, 1992, and December
>19, 1997, had to do one of the following by January 1, 2000:
>
>1. Destroy the rifle
>2. Surrender the rifle to a law enforcement agency
>3. Sell the rifle to a licensed California "assault weapon" dealer
>4. Dispose of the rifle out of state

This brings up a Zen question for your Friday evening:

If the government orders people to turn in their guns and nobody
cooperates, has there been a "gun confiscation"?

I always visualize a gun confiscation as brown-shirted, jack-booted
thugs going from door to door forcing people to hand over their
weapons.

>http://www.nramemberscouncils.com/contracosta/FaxAlerts/sksalert.shtml

<snip>

-- 
"If I order a book on bomb making, I would not be upset if someone
from the Federal government came to question me about it..."
  - Randy Douglas in talk.politics.guns, May 2000