Well, in his defense, making them illegal was being talked about everywhere at the time and especially in our state. He was an excellent Trooper and one of the finest men I've ever had the privilege to know, a truly good man. Given the circumstances his mistaken belief is understandable. OTOH, the cocky little twit that I intercepted trying to ticket a farmer for not having his ATV registered or wearing a helmet while building fence required quite a little bit of persuasion before believing that in that capacity an ATV becomes an "implement of husbandry" and therefore is no longer an ATV falling under the V+T law. Had to do a lot of educating with that nimrod!
CW- I won't go into some of the malarkey pulled up here in NY after passage of the NY SAFE Act as pointing out the absurdity and stupidity of it would clearly get into politics...