Quote of the day—Michel & Associates, P.C.

In the 16 years APPS has been an active state program, 12,000 firearms have been confiscated – about 750 each year. Yet the APPS database shows 40,000 known firearms in the hands of 20,000 prohibited owners, most likely non-violent first offenders. Stated differently, in sixteen years APPS has removed 23% of the known firearms and 0% of the unregistered guns in gang member pockets.

Michel & Associates, P.C.
Memorandum of Law
May 23, 2013
[APPS stands for “Armed Prohibited Persons System”. APPS is California’s technology for matching gun registration records against people who have had their gun ownership rights restricted.

Some of the stories of the abuses of the system will make your blood boil. All the more so because the system doesn’t (and can’t) remove the guns from people that don’t register them to begin with. And if you are familiar with Haynes v. United States you know that violent convicted criminals cannot be charged with the crime of failure to register their guns. But the average person who has never even seen the inside of a courtroom can and will be prosecuted for failure to register their firearms.

It doesn’t have to make sense. It’s just the law you must obey.—Joe]

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2 thoughts on “Quote of the day—Michel & Associates, P.C.

  1. Registration leads to confiscation – always and invariably; not necessarily today, but eventually.

    Here in California, we have the deadline of 1/1/2014 to get more long guns before an unconstitutional registration system kicks in for them, too. I will skirt it by buying early and will not comply. Fascism, pure and simple. Hitler would approve of these tactics.

  2. The original post reminded me of the plot device in the original Jurassic park movie. The caretakers there were essentially looking for and counting only the “registered dinosaurs”, not the total number in the park, so the unregistered dinosaurs that were being born in unauthorized and unknown nests went uncounted and were for a long while, invisible. Just like guns in the hands of criminals.

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