San Jose’s city council passed a measure last month requiring gun owners to pay a $25 “harm reduction” fee and liability insurance or relinquish their firearms to the government, making the city the first in the nation to impose an annual fee on law-abiding, firearm owning citizens.
The city’s Democrat mayor, Sam Liccardo insists the new ordinance, allowing law enforcement officials to seize firearms from those who refuse to pay the fees, will ultimately reduce crime and establish “a new kind of framework for gun safety, Slate reports.
Allowing law enforcement to seize firearms from those who refuse to pay the fee makes will ultimately reduce crime, the Liccardo told the publication.
“For example, there’s a bar brawl and they’re patting down everybody and someone’s got a gun. ‘Have you paid your fee? You have insurance?’ ‘No.’ OK, well, there’s an opportunity for us to remove the gun. And then when the gun owner comes back and demonstrates that they comply with the law and they’re a lawful gun owner, they get their gun back. But in the meantime, you’ve taken a gun out of a bar brawl. And that’s not a bad thing,” he argued.
The fees paid by firearm owners will be allocated to “experts” who “understand domestic violence prevention programs, suicide prevention” to create a non-profit that will assist lawmakers with developing firearm “safety,” Liccardo explained.
“We’re forming a 501(c)(3) foundation, which is going to receive the dollars, and the board, which will be comprised of a host of folks, including, for example, Stanford professors, an epidemiologist who has been focused on gun harm, and nonprofit experts who understand domestic violence prevention programs, suicide prevention,” he said. “We’ve invited and at least one member of a gun group has actually joined this effort to create this nonprofit, because we want organizations representing gun owners to be at the table, helping us to understand, how do we best communicate, how do we best invest? “
Bahahaha this will be fun to watch.
Against the Law in America but go ahead Make my Day !!!!
They better check with the NRA first !!!! LOL LOL
Good luck enforcing that pally!
and for the brain dead how does this take the guns from the gangsters and thugs and the just criminal beings? HELLO
This is the “shall not be impinged” that we were warned about!
Not Legal > see the CONSTITUTION !!!!
Idiots. Let the lawsuits begin!
Even th 9th Circus (not a typo) won’t buy this craven attempt.
The perps aren’t lawful owners, and the cops take their piece after the arrest already.
Taking the guns from a LEGAL gun owner will not fix the problem.
lmao! good luck with that!
Will NEVER get American’s Guns !!!! Go ahead & try & see how that goes !!!!
Yeah an meanwhile the cops have your gun, they destroy it to the point it won’t work again! And say here you go, it is now your problem! They do it every time!
Take Criminal’s guns NOT the Good people’s !!!
The Good people in America have Every Right to Defend themselves !!!! Like it or LEAVE !!!!