California gun owners are continuously placed in the precarious position to comply with the law or be sent to jail or prison if caught exercising their rights. Some will shout “MOLON LABE” or “I WILL NOT COMPLY” to these unconstitutional infringements of their rights, which is an understandable position to take, however make no mistake – the state has the power to imprison you, and you will stand alone when they take you away. Think Eric Parker, the man on the bridge.
Nobody will ride to your rescue or stand side by side with you in armed resistance if or when you’re arrested for your crimes against state dictates. Chances are it’ll be during a traffic stop or a domestic dispute, or a nosy neighbor or somebody ratting you out, or a house fire in which your contraband is discovered by authorities. It won’t be house by house doorkicking; it’ll be non-compliers getting picked off one at a time, and that fear will keep people in compliance.
There are those who admonish others for complying with the law, and again it’s understandable.
But there’s two kinds of compliance: complying with the government’s intent of the law, and complying by finding liberty in the law. Choosing the “finding liberty” option shouldn’t invite admonishment.
Take for example the latest California “assault weapons” ban that redefined what a “fixed magazine” meant in order to ban the sale, manufacture, importation, and transfer of fixed magazine rifles equipped with a “bullet button” that required a tool in order to release the 10 round magazine, and required firearms equipped with bullet buttons currently owned to be registered as “assault weapons”.
Complying with the government’s intent of the law would be to register your firearm as an assault weapon and comply with all the restrictions and regulations that go along with that including never being able to transfer it to anyone in the state, including your own children upon your death, meaning it would force your next of kin to relinquish it to the state or a licensed gun dealer with a Dangerous Weapons Permit, or sell it out of state. To this, the sentiment “DO NOT COMPLY” is 100% applicable.
by therealwritewinger.wordpress.com
