Is Gun Confiscation on the Way in Connecticut? See the Letter the State Is Sending to Owners

After tens of thousands of defiant gun owners in Connecticut chose not to register their semi-automatic rifles to comply with a hastily-passed gun control law, the state is now taking some action. Officials are reportedly notifying gun owners who submitted late applications that they have one last chance to get rid of their “illegal” weapons.

State officials did accept some gun registration applications that were submitted after the Jan. 4 deadline, however, not all late applications were accepted, the Journal Inquirer reports.

“But rather than turn that information over to prosecutors, state officials are giving the gun owners a chance to get rid of the weapons and magazines,” the report adds.

So gun owners who actually tried to register their guns and magazines, intentionally late or not, are now on the state’s radar for owning guns that became illegal overnight. Owning an unregistered semi-automatic rifle or high-capacity magazine that was legal prior to Jan. 3 is now a class D felony under the new law.

The Capitalism Institute claims to have obtained a copy of the notarized letters Connecticut officials are sending out to late registration applicants:

Source: The Capitalism Institute

While we can’t confirm the authenticity of the letter above, the Journal Inquirer, which is a local paper covering North-Central Connecticut, reports the state does hold notarized letters for violators.

As TheBlaze reported earlier this month, as little 15 percent of the now-illegal semi-automatic rifles have actually been registered with the state of Connecticut.

“No one has anything close to definitive figures, but the most conservative estimates place the number of unregistered assault weapons well above 50,000, and perhaps as high as 350,000,” the Courant reported.

“Isn’t this what is known as an “ex-post-facto” law and illegal to enact?”

Somewhere in the Constitution it says,
“Congress shall pass no ex-post-facto laws or bills of attainder.”

It seems to fit the definition of un-constitutional, but these gun-grabbers really don’t care about a constitution of “negtive liberties”, as described by the President.

We live in scary times.

IMHO

HAHAHAHA!!!!!!

So people who tried to register their guns late are now worse off than those who didnt register them at all?

LOL!

Clear demonstration that when governments obtain knowlege of gun ownership, they quickly move to use that knowlege to take them away.

It’s going to get VERY interesting if/when CT tries to enforce confiscation. I mean, do the cops refuse to comply before, or after, they get met with the regrettable (and i mean that - this is all totally unnecessary) but inevitable incidents of armed resistance that will occur?

I’d put money on the cops refusing to comply.

Wiki says ex post facto enforcement of new laws is unconstitutional .

That doesn’t necessarily make it illegal in Connecticut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law

That said, I think this is a prank— it just teeters over the edge of credibility.

I gotta say, I absolutely admire the way the left follows the law to the letter...when it serves their purposes. The law said to register NLT January 1, 2014, and that’s exactly what the liberal left is sticking to.

Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, start dates or terms? Eh, not so much. The law is very fluid whenever a leftist disagrees with it, even in cases where they take an OATH to uphold the law. If necessary, the left simply ignores anything it doesn’t like, much like criminals.

And leftists wonder why we conservatives despise them so. I can honestly agree to disagree with liberals and follow mutually agreed upon rules so long as we BOTH play by them, but they do NOT play fair (even though they adore that word). It’s like playing Monopoly with someone who changes the rents and seizes your properties whenever they want.

I think this is one reason why Republicans always seem to lose against the left. Republicans, even RINOs, apparently try to play by the rules, but winning is the only thing that matters to our political enemies. They never give up until they get their way. At some point we gotta say enough of that crap and start using their same tactics against them.

“Anything ( not just constitutionally- protected things like arms) they know you have ......they can try to take away from you.”

And this is exactly why gun owners resist gun registration so much. If it’s registered, they will come to take it. It’s not a matter for debate, because the left doesn’t hide the fact that total gun confiscation is the end game. That’s what they really want. Registration is just a means to an end.

So now, no bluster, no BS...what are the gun owners of CT going to do? What are they going to do when their local LEO's come breaking down their neighbor's door at 2am to confiscate this now illegal weapon? What are they going to do when these gun owners start getting pulled over while in their car on their way home from work,while their families are not around?

This will continue right up to the point that the powers that be realize that we will not go quietly into the night.

Additionally what are the LEO's of CT going to do when they get that order to go break down that door at 2AM and pull over the guy whose only crime is owning a formerly legal firearm.

Ultimately it is up to all of us to stand together or else we'll surely hang separately....I think I've heard something like that before...

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