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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1355610" data-attributes="member: 14668">Look at what is happening in New York and California with their magazine capacity and microstamping laws. In NY, several million otherwise law-abiding gun owners woke up one morning to find that their state legislators had, in a secret late night vote, made the 10 round magazines that they had owned for years illegal. The &quot;new&quot; limit is now 7 rounds....but once the gun manufacturers retool and set up production and distribution in order to meet the new limit, who is to say that it wont be reduced again? This isnt silly and it isnt just a &quot;nuisance&quot;...the practical effect of this law will ultimately be to make the sale of any semi automatic gun in New York cost prohibitive. Same deal in California with its microstamping law; rather than waste millions of dollars trying to implement the useless and gimmicky technology, the manufacturers will simply stop selling there altogether (as some have already done) and once the anti-gunners have succeeded in that goal then what will stop them from using the same tactic to go after &quot;assault&quot; revolvers that hold 6 rounds and demanding that their capacity be reduced down to 4 or 3?Its called creeping incrementalism, the frog that slowly boils to death in a pot of water while the temperature gets increased by one &quot;reasonable. common sense&quot; degree at a time. Our so-called &quot;rights&quot; might still be intact...on paper at least...but once our nanny-state government has made it impossible for us to actually exercise those rights then they are no longer worth the paper they are written on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1355610, member: 14668"] Look at what is happening in New York and California with their magazine capacity and microstamping laws. In NY, several million otherwise law-abiding gun owners woke up one morning to find that their state legislators had, in a secret late night vote, made the 10 round magazines that they had owned for years [I]illegal. [/I]The "new" limit is now 7 rounds....but once the gun manufacturers retool and set up production and distribution in order to meet the new limit, who is to say that it wont be reduced [I]again[/I]? This isnt silly and it isnt just a "nuisance"...the practical effect of this law will ultimately be to make the sale of[I] any[/I] semi automatic gun in New York cost prohibitive. Same deal in California with its microstamping law; rather than waste millions of dollars trying to implement the useless and gimmicky technology, the manufacturers will simply stop selling there altogether (as some have already done) and once the anti-gunners have succeeded in [I]that[/I] goal then what will stop them from using the same tactic to go after "assault" revolvers that hold 6 rounds and demanding that their capacity be reduced down to 4 or 3? Its called creeping incrementalism, the frog that slowly boils to death in a pot of water while the temperature gets increased by one "reasonable. common sense" degree at a time. Our so-called "rights" might still be intact...on paper at least...but once our nanny-state government has made it impossible for us to actually [I]exercise[/I] those rights then they are no longer worth the paper they are written on. [/QUOTE]

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