What happens when an anti-gun rights mayor passes a new gun control law and no one complies?
That question has now been answered in the City of Cleveland.
According to WEWS, Cleveland’s ABC affiliate, Tuesday December 2 2015 marked a month since Cleveland’s controversial gun registry program went active and, in 30 days, not one person has registered.
The law, which Mayor Frank Jackson claimed would help curb gun violence in his city, requires requires people convicted of a gun crime to go to the city’s Justice Center and fill out a form that requires the following:
- Name, date of birth, sex
- Current home address
- Copy of driver’s license
- Current photo of said offender
- Description of gun offense
- Name, address, phone number of offender’s workplace
- Name, address, phone number of educational institution offender attends
- Any other information Safety Director finds reasonably necessary
While Cleveland’s assistant director of public safety Tim Hennessy says he thinks criminals will come running to sign up once they find out about the requirement, at least one councilman says he isn’t surprised the law is a failure:
