Reddit: "Police Officers: If ordered, would you confiscate firearms from law abiding citizens?"

[10mm-man]

Ok, so I'm just mistaken that I didn't see already 12 CLEOs saying they will refuse to enforce any unconstitutional laws? If 90% of all cops refuse to enforce ONE law (jay walking is against the law, I've never seen anyone in the last 10 years get popped for it) they won't be fired. Especially if their Chief/Sheriff refuses to do so... Like you said, we'll see what happens, but I don't see a confiscation getting through congress.

I am a little fuzzy on this logic... Tell me; is not the registration of NFA items unconstitutional? How many LEO enforce that BS law? Set me straight as I am confused....

Think i am gonna go saw off a few shot guns, convert some Ar's into full auto and just keep em off the books! No need to worry about any LEO enforcing that because it's unconstitutional..... Yea!

[Ronin13]

I am a little fuzzy on this logic... Tell me; is not the registration of NFA items unconstitutional? How many LEO enforce that BS law? Set me straight as I am confused....

Think i am gonna go saw off a few shot guns, convert some Ar's into full auto and just keep em off the books! No need to worry about any LEO enforcing that because it's unconstitutional..... Yea!

Red herring... Yes, NFA is unconstitutional, yes it's illegally enforced. But watered down masses don't understand this, so you go ahead and test that out with our current legal system and see if it gets all the way up to the SCOTUS. I see what you're trying to do here, but in a broad sense, if an all out gun ban (not something disguised as "common sense" "regulation") did happen, that's where the common person would most likely draw the line.

[10mm-man]

Red herring... Yes, NFA is unconstitutional, yes it's illegally enforced. But watered down masses don't understand this, so you go ahead and test that out with our current legal system and see if it gets all the way up to the SCOTUS. I see what you're trying to do here, but in a broad sense, if an all out gun ban (not something disguised as "common sense" "regulation") did happen, that's where the common person would most likely draw the line.

So the argument is that "Common Sense" would kick in??? Please do explain how that is gonna work..........

Edit: confused about the common person most likely drawing the line. What do you mean?

[Ronin13]

So the argument is that "Common Sense" would kick in??? Please do explain how that is gonna work..........

Edit: confused about the common person most likely drawing the line. What do you mean?

Kind of hard to explain, but your average LEO, Judge, etc wouldn't see the NFA as being unconstitutional (even though it is, and I can't think of anyone who would try to press that issue and bring up to the SCOTUS)... but sure, there are a lot of laws that infringe upon the constitution (NDAA, Patriot Act, etc), but where is the line drawn? With most "sport/hunting" gun owners (IE: the ones who are dumb enough to think that's the intent of 2A) they'll only take so much- they're fine with NFA, they're okay with '86 ban, etc... but when you talk about an all out ban, your average Joe, John Law, and Sheriff Bob will say "Okay, that's too far!" It's already floating around that a lot of Dems in Congress oppose Fecalstein's proposals, of course that's not saying that the average, ignorant gun owning public won't go along with some grandfather clause AWB or Capacity restrictions, but an all out ban and confiscation won't fly.