Why Residents Of This State Are Balking At Handgun Database

By Tom Knighton

New York Governor Chris Cuomo’s SAFE Act has been an absolute fiasco, which isn’t surprising. Any attempt to try and create such a sweeping anti-gun bill is doomed to failures of compliance from the start. Gun owners just don’t appreciate a busybody government deciding one day that suddenly all this stuff that was legal isn’t any longer.

The current problem is people balking over the attempt to create a handgun database. It doesn’t help that Cuomo’s stated reason for it is stupid.

This week marked the official deadline for more than 370,000 handgun owners in the state of New York to register those guns with state police. New York is trying to use that information to build a comprehensive record of gun owners — something only one other state has done. The database that California started in 2007 has gotten mixed reviews.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, has said he wants to make sure that people who can’t legally own guns – those with criminal convictions, serious mental health issues, or active restraining orders — aren’t somehow falling through the cracks and holding onto their firearms.

Seriously, anyone stupid enough to think this will work is too stupid …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms