The LIFF Post

Here is the original post from the Long Island Firearms Forum, describing NYPD inspections of firearms in private homes. It has been moved to this link. The Forum discussion of it has been moved on its own out of general public view, available to invited members only.

This is all we get. I do appreciate it: without this much, nobody would know about it at all.

At the link, there is this statement from a group administrator:

"Due to overwhelming emails/PMs, I will repost this thread posted by our member. The original thread and its replies have been moved to a private forum. Access to that forum is based on members inviting members. This thread will be locked, so you can only read it. LIF feels people should know what is going on out there however if you are not a local resident, please just read this and go on your way. We are an open community of Long Island Gun owners, you can understand our position."

Understand that the original post was moved out of sight of non-forum members when the traffic spiked. The administrator was very courteous with me in e-mail. (I must point out that several people, proceeding from the first link here, also worked in e-mail to help get this thing back out in the open. They know who they are and I greatly appreciate them.)

At this point, and with all appreciation noted above in full effect, I must say that the Forum is missing an opportunity at leadership. This issue goes far beyond the "open community of Long Island Gun owners". I saw that discussion before it was moved, and it's an important adjunct to the initial report.

The Forum doesn't owe anyone anything. It would, however, be an important service to let everyone read the discussion.

It's a pity: I don't understand hiding something this important.

This post goes in my Politics category because of the NYPD's arrogance. Anyone with a brain in their head can see where this is going.

Later -- One of my dearest old net.friends writes:

"It doesn’t work now, that’s certain, but I read it and the comments made to the post the other day so it was there and is now MIA.

For whatever reason.

Personally, the guy seemed to be trolling – his comments too laid back and unquestioning of the intrusion. Pointed inquiries were put off with a kind of 'Oh, I hadn’t really thought…'

So my opinion is that they got hacked by someone trying to either judge reactions to such a thing or a lame moron just yanking chains."

I have a considerably different view of the thing. (I think we're dealing with someone who simply doesn't realize what he's facing.) However, the fact is that there are some ambiguities to this thing that you won't see in the original post. I don't think they're show-stoppers, but they should be available to view. At the very least, I think they would illustrate some of the political consciousness surrounding issues like this, which is generally never sharp enough.