From: [o--n] at [cbnewsb.cb.att.com] (Mr. X)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: This just in from the Police State...
Date: 4 Aug 93 15:01:17 GMT

Just to add another anecdote to the great body of those that illustrate that
the Guv cannot under any circumstances be trusted, I offer the following.

Here in the beautiful Police State (NJ) there is a defacto system of 
registration for all handguns purchased within state boundaries.  It
is a registration scheme in purchase permit's clothing.  When this system
was instituted many years ago, it was sworn and promised left and right that
the information would never be used to track gunb ownership, that the 
information was gathered only as a means of determining any possible 
ineligibility for gun ownership due to criminal status or as a mental
defective.

Yesterday at lunch, I'm sittign down with a coworker named Tom.  Tom has a SIG
P226 (one of those Evil(tm)HighCapacitySemiautomaticMachinePistols).  Well, the 
other week he got a cute phone call from his local police department stating
that they knew he had a gun with a magazine capacity > 15 rounds and that they
are requiring him to insert some form of device into each such magazine that 
would reduce the capacity to the legal limit.  So much for their honesty.
Tom's response was to say that when they send him a device for each of his
EvilHighCapacityAssaultMagazines, he would install them as requested.  He also
notified them that he had not only 16 round mags, but 21, 30 and a 50 rounder
as well and that they would have to send devices for all these.  The person
on the other end of the line was apparently quite put off by this news and
told him that they'd have to get back to him on this.  Hasn't heard a peep
out of the fools since then.

Anyone who trusts in government is, I'm sorry to say, an IDIOT.  All you folks
out there that actually believe that the Guv is here to kiss your booboos when
you fall down are fooling yourselves.  It is quite the other way around, and
worse.

	-Andy V.