I've been thinking .....

Sebastian has a post up about the bullshit Lost & Stolen law phenomenon that seems to be sweeping through Pennsylvania. The post quotes a CNN story that details how the law is ineffective and probably unenforceable.

So it got me thinking (always a dangerous proposition!): why can't we, as firearms rights advocates, start engineering court cases to advance our agenda (the way the left does)?

Take, for example, the L&S ordinance. ChamberedRound comments on Sebastian's post that since the ordinance is unenforceable, it can't be challenged, since no one has standing ..... all leading to more and more laws. So why couldn't someone in PA do this:

Go to the police station to report a firearm theft, and do it comfortably outside the statutory time limit (like maybe a week) and demand to be charged with violating the L&S statute. Now the authoritah's have a dilemma - either enforce the law and have it challenged, or don't and be called on your motives for the law in the first place.

In my mind, it's win-win.

And maybe this could be writ larger, maybe with FFA's?! Done intelligently, with coordination with the heavyweight's in the 2A legal sphere (I'm talking to you, Alan Gura!)?

In the big scheme if things, yes, we're winning ..... why not ratchet the pressure up significantly?

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