Re: relinquish rights?
Here's a related issue/concern.
Few years back, while I still owned several sub guns, there were two separate instances where police were called to our home (kid at my son's elementary school threatened him,, had a gun in his backpack, then we had a false alarm with our ADT system) and BOTH times there were TWO cars that arrived, one pulled up in front of the house one just around the corner, visible from the house.
Issues resolved, paperwork done, I watched the cars drive off.
I mentioned this to a state trooper I knew and he said "you own machine guns, it shows up on our computer. We always send a backup."
That's ALL? I later had this confirmed by another - county - cop who said it's SOP to do this, just in case.
Fucking insane.
Here's the thing. Since selling the guns (more than doubling investment), we have had one false alarm and another visit from the police, and only one car showed up.
I still own suppressors, apparently those don't count.
Hearsay, BS? Just weird coincidence? You judge. Typically paranoid police activity, IMHO.
[another totally weird, not totally unexpected thing, I stopped by MSA for fingerprints once AFTER I'd sold the guns to make sure it was noted in the registry that they were sold so the state would stop sending me the annual reporting forms - and not come busting into my home at 3 AM - and the trooper looking in his computer said there were no machine guns listed, but they were showing 59 other guns and he started reading off a list that pretty much matched the guns I'd bought locally - not on my C&R FFL. I told him I thought there was federal law that prevented police agencies from keeping this data and he said yes, federally, but every time a form 77R goes in to the MD State Police for review they enter the information in their database.]