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Posted: 1/19/2013 3:28:20 PM EST
Can someone wiser on the subject fill me in to what went down with NYC and confiscation of registered rifles years back?

I really don't know the facts of it but hear all the time that NYC had their weapons confiscated after they were registered.
Google searches bring up pretty much nothing but Cuomo's proposals.  
Link Posted: 1/19/2013 3:44:07 PM EST
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I have heard that folks were given x number of days to get rius of them within city limits...sell, storage, destroy, etc.  Did not hear of anyone having nypd knock on door, though.  Everyone either moved them our said they did.
Link Posted: 1/19/2013 4:13:37 PM EST
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I was there, after we lost the fight.
We were sent a letter telling us we had X (I think it was 1 year but can't remember, it was over 20 years ago) amount of time to remove, Make compliant or surrender for destruction our guns. I made my M1A's, SKSs & some other stuff compliant, I had to have a gunsmith sign a statement that my M1a & other stuff was compliant. But NO AK's, AR15's, H&Ks, ect.. , they had to go; I moved them to a relatives house out of the city.
I remember reading on here that NYPD fucked with one dealer who had a bunch of non compliant stuff in his shop.
Although some Schumk who ran a Gunstore/Range in Queens told me the NYPD was going around spot checking compliance, I Never heard of anyone actually getting checked & I don't think anyone ever surrendered anything for destruction.
I lived in the NYC Police state for 10 years under the ban, then moved out.
Link Posted: 1/19/2013 4:14:54 PM EST
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There was a story posted many years ago (not sure if it was here or on another forum) about a guy who had moved out of New York City and State with his toys.  A letter was forwarded to him from NYPD telling him his firearms were no longer legal in NYC and that they had to be removed from the city.  Since he was no longer living in the city or state, he wrote back telling them to f__k off and if they wanted them they could come and get them (not telling them he had moved).  Fast forward several months and he hears from a former neighbor telling him about all the excitement at his former residence.  Lots of police at his old place all decked out for action.
Link Posted: 1/19/2013 5:26:01 PM EST
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so from i'm hearing there's was NO CONFISCATION.  you just weren't allowed to grandfather them.  and they gave ample time to move them out.
Link Posted: 1/20/2013 2:26:48 AM EST
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so from i'm hearing there's was NO CONFISCATION.  you just weren't allowed to grandfather them.  and they gave ample time to move them out.


Everyone who removed them to a location outside the City or transferred them and submitted the paperwork, had no issue. We can't be sure what may have happened to those people who did not comply.However, I was recently told by a retired Lieutenant that Officers were sent to visit some of those who did not comply. What occurred at that point is anyone's guess.
Link Posted: 1/20/2013 3:02:36 PM EST
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so from i'm hearing there's was NO CONFISCATION.  you just weren't allowed to grandfather them.  and they gave ample time to move them out.


Everyone who removed them to a location outside the City or transferred them and submitted the paperwork, had no issue. We can't be sure what may have happened to those people who did not comply.However, I was recently told by a retired Lieutenant that Officers were sent to visit some of those who did not comply. What occurred at that point is anyone's guess.


The whole Rifle/shotgun permit thing was a pain in the ass.
2 precinct cops always showed up @ my home the day after my permit expiration date to pick up my guns, even though my permit was always renewed!
I never let them in or went to the door, Just looked @ them through the door camera & spoke to them through the intercom; They always tried to get invited in but I never obliged.
Link Posted: 1/20/2013 3:20:58 PM EST
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so from i'm hearing there's was NO CONFISCATION.  you just weren't allowed to grandfather them.  and they gave ample time to move them out.




Everyone who removed them to a location outside the City or transferred them and submitted the paperwork, had no issue. We can't be sure what may have happened to those people who did not comply.However, I was recently told by a retired Lieutenant that Officers were sent to visit some of those who did not comply. What occurred at that point is anyone's guess.




The whole Rifle/shotgun permit thing was a pain in the ass.

2 precinct cops always showed up @ my home the day after my permit expiration date to pick up my guns, even though my permit was always renewed!

I never let them in or went to the door, Just looked @ them through the door camera & spoke to them through the intercom; They always tried to get invited in but I never obliged.



Nassau county PD can already do this with my pistol permit.  Which i have to renew that end of this year.  I understand that they are down to 5 people left in the licensing department.  I think these will be the same folks who will be administering the rifle licensing.   i don't see them going door to door.  if you really fuck up, i guess you can expect them to pay a call but for most of us.

 



you know during hurricane irene and sandy they we going to have mandatory evacuation.   more hot air than anything.  now i'm not trying to tell anybody what to do or not.  just assessing the probabilities....
Link Posted: 1/21/2013 3:04:40 AM EST
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I think these will be the same folks who will be administering the rifle licensing.   i don't see them going door to door.  if you really fuck up, i guess you can expect them to pay a call but for most of us.  




Rifle registration will be done through NYSP, not Nassau County.  That is not to say they do not at some future date modify the law to grant all counties, or select counties, the power to administer registration themselves.  That worries me more than NYSP registration.  Since the counties make up their own asinine rules, I could see Nassau charging $500 to register and requiring you to should up in person every three years for the privilege.



 
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