Posted on 07/01/2017 10:01:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Richard Avino clearly comes across as someone suffering from what sounds like someone in a bit of a mental health crisis, so we’re glad he was taken into custody by the North Haven (CT) Police Department and that his firearms were removed from his possession for safekeeping. But look at what the laughably named “Constitution State” considers to be “assault weapons.”
A North Haven man was arrested after he approached a woman’s car early Sunday morning with a “banned assault weapon” because he thought someone was watching him, according to police.
The unidentified woman told police that she was parked at a North Haven Medical Center around 12:45 a.m. That’s when she told police that a man, who was later identified as Richard Avino, approached her vehicle with a rifle in hand. The woman told police that Avino “pointed” a rifle that was “equipped with a red laser sight” at her.
Police located Avino at his home on Nettleton Avenue later that morning and arrested him.
During a search of Avino’s home, officers determined that he did not possess the proper permits to own the rifle in question. Officers located a second assault weapon in the home and seized six firearms total from the residence.
“Assault weapons?”
Really, Connecticut?
I don’t see an “assault weapon.” I see a Yugoslavian copy of an obsolete Russian Simonov carbine that has been defaced with a soulless Tapco stock, (above). It uses a fixed magazine, is not selective-fire, and serves as a popular close-range budget deer rifle in much of the United States. I still have the SKS my father purchased for me when I was in my teens, and I have many fond memories of carrying that rifle in the woods to turn Bambi into jerky and stew meat.
The other “assault weapon” charge Avino picked up was for a Hi-Point pistol-caliber carbine, arguably one of the ugliest and ungainly firearms known to man. It has never been fielded by any military force, anywhere, and yet still runs afoul of Connecticut’s craven politicians, who seem to think nearly every firearm is a “weapon of war.”
I really feel sorry that the North Haven Police are forced to call these two ordinary carbines “assault weapons” under Connecticut’s lame laws.
The article reminds me of a picture in one of my WW II history books. It shows a ranger springing from cover, and in his right hand is an M-1 Garand. He is holding it back of the trigger guard, and parallel in front of him. Well, the Garand must be an assault rifle if a ranger is using it to attack the enemy. By the way, how many people, even for a moment, would be able to grasp a Garand by the pistol grip of the stock and raise it off the ground?
North eastern states, nothing further needs to be said. It mortifies me that my state of birth, Calif is stampeding after the Yankee bastions, trying to outdo them with stupidity and unconstitutional laws.
Liberals, including liberals who wear a badge, love to use “emotional” words which is all the term “assault rifle” is. It is meant to conjure up emotion and fear in the reader.
JoMa
Not me, even in my prime.
but does the shoulder thing go up? because if it does, life in prison only seems reasonable.
The advertisement about cheap and accurate, reminds me of the 1891 Mauser I bought decades ago for $55. A friend bought one at the same time and worked up a load for it. I still have somewhere the five shot group I fired at 100 yards using iron sights. The five holes can be covered with a quarter.
Was he carrying a pointed stick?
Worse, assault banana!
When I was 14 my dad bought me my first “deer rifle”, an Enfield “Jungle carbine”, never fired, had to push the cosmoline out of the barrel, $25 dollars. The same Surplus store had barrels of seriously used Mausers for $5 each and barrels of “better” Mauser for $10. They didn’t sell like hot cakes.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I personally think my Hi-Point carbines are beautiful.
(stock photo)
I agree.
A friend who was a Marine on Guadalcanal once said, ‘We assaulted the HELL out of them Japs!’ So I guess an ‘03 Springfield is an ‘assault weapon’, too.
I carry my Hi-Point daily around the farm. It is a handy, budget friendly 9mm that gets beat around pretty harshly, some days. It has never failed to answer properly when the bang switch is activated by the booger hook.
But, as we know...haters gonna hate.
Just sayin’
And if it ever does fail to go bang, Hi-Point will fix it free of charge, no questions asked. Best damn warranty in the gun business.
Connecticut should modify their state motto slightly: The Constitution State, We Ignore It!
It worked at Columbine.
I remember those days! Cash and carry. No paperwork. Pre-1968 GCA. You could pick one up at the gun store, hardware store, gas station, clothing store, grocery store, saddle shop, kitchen table....
Need ammo for deer hunting? the store would break open a box and sell you three or four rounds...
Then bobby Kennedy got shot and the MSM went berzerk against gun ownership.
I remember barrels of German saw back bayonets. M1 bayonets for a couple bucks. With unissued sheaths.
I remember those days. Barrels of Civil War bayonets most did not want as they were spike and not sword. I did pick up a nice sword bayonet, and two Mauser bayonets.
I still have the sword bayonet. The others disappeared when I was in the military and the folks moved.
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