The Nassau County local law banning the possession of handguns mislabeled “deceptively colored” has been put on hold indefinitely pending the outcome of a legal challenge by gun-rights activists.Maybe they don't like "Furious Mike"?
And here's the good part:
It does not grandfather currently owned guns and mandates that gun owners surrender all banned guns for destruction without any compensation, and with no opportunity to sell them outside the county.Here's what the edict says about that:
This title shall not prohibit possession of any deceptively colored handgun by any person who possesses it on the effective date of the local law enacting this title, or by any person who acquires it by inheritance or operation of law after the effective date of this title, provided that, within thirty (30) days, such person either (i) surrenders such deceptively colored handgun to the Commissioner of Police for disposal in accordance with the provisions of section 400.05 of the penal law; or (ii) modifies such handgun to be in conformance with this title. This title shall not prohibit the possession of any deceptive coloring product by any person who possesses it on the effective date of the local law enacting this title, or by any person who acquires it through inheritance or by operation of law after the effective date of the local law enacting this title, provided that within thirty (30) days such person surrenders such deceptive coloring product to the Commissioner of Police for disposal.See? You can keep it--for 30 days, or you could, or, hell I don't know. And then you're required to perform either the surrender or the obedience ritual. Kneel before Zod! And if you don't, they can use all the force at their disposal, including killing you if they claim you resisted--and even if you don't, their fear of that is generally enough to make home invasion executions fall within acceptable department use of force policies.
Because, you know, they don't want anybody getting hurt over colored guns.
But then, Nassau County is the same jurisdiction that authorized this bit of juris dicktion.
Squeeze, baby. Keep bringing us that good police state love.
[Via Jeffersonian]