Posted on 12/27/2013 8:56:16 AM PST by papertyger
Connecticut residents waited in long lines on Thursday to register their firearms and high-capacity magazines before the state’s new gun laws go into effect on Jan. 1, 2014.
WFSB-TV reports that a “long-line of people” stood outside the Public Safety Building in Middletown, Conn., all day to register semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines. Several residents were upset with the “unconstitutional” requirement, while at least one person didn’t appear to mind.
“I understand why they’re doing it, but I don’t think it’s constitutional,” resident Scott Boccio told WFSB-TV as he was registering his guns.
Charles Gillette, who was registering magazines, told the news station that he would have a problem with it if the state was trying to ban the magazines or firearms, but said “if they want to just know where they are, that’s fine with me.”
However, not one gun owner who was registering firearms or magazines said they think the new laws will reduce gun violence.
“If people are going to do things illegally, they’re not going to be here registering their gun,” Jared Krajewski, another resident registering firearms, said.
For now, in Connecticut, the law is the law. The new gun control measures were put into place following the tragic school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
State police Lt. Paul Vance said that gun owners must fill our forms completely and some may require a notary.
They need to pass a law that all criminals need to register their guns, that’ll cut down on crime...oh wait..never mind.
These people are fools.
Never surrender your arms to the government.
Wrong. NO DIFFERENCE/SAME DIFFERENCE. History teaches that lesson very, very clearly.
Unless you're one who thinks tyranny and genocide cannot happen here.
The question is not will I submit to registering
, or even will I submit to confiscation
, but rather it is this:Will I kill them to prevent registration?
If your answer isn't 'yes', then you are submitting to registration, and likely will submit to confiscation. Nobody wants a civil-war, they're terrible, but are you willing to risk it if the government insists on implementing tyranny? — We've already seen what they'll do when confronted with Fast & Furious, Benghazi, NSA spying, IRS targeting, DEA working with drug-cartels, and all other manner of injustice: nothing. What makes you think they will care about justice when it is your cause/life/liberty that is at stake?
Will you kill them...
well yes, if guns are not just a tool but an object of worship. I’d say plain jane defiance of the registration call (to leave one’s family naked to evil) sounds more godly, but hey I am only a Crazy Christian. That was how Canada’s registration law went down the tubes, IIRC. It was just yawned at.
What makes you think millions of gun owners are watching this happen and just waiting for the Fed's to try the same thing?
What makes you think that millions or tens of millions of gun owners won't be organized enough to say "today's the day we march on Washington" and tell these worthless politicians (both R's and D's) that "their time is up!"
I contend there are millions or tens of millions who believe they know "where the line in the sand is" and won't hesitate to act together when that line is crossed and the call to act is given.
I’m thinking that if the registration system is as good as Obamacare, obeying the law might even be the best way to bring it down, ironically. Cloward-Piven them, so to speak. And keep on demanding accountability as the clowns continue to crash and fall over their own proud folly. The point will be made.
Right on, and it'll take millions (or tens of millions) of right-thinking gun owners here in the US to YAWN at the Fed's when they try the same thing.
Look, the stupid bastards can't implement Obamacare for crying out loud, why in the world would anyone think they could implement gun registration/confiscation?
Why the folks in Connecticut didn't just YAWN and say "get lost" is beyond me.
Bottom line: they can't arrest us all, and frankly if they tried, that'd be the call to action for the rest of us.
I'm going to be brutally honest here: the point will be LOST on most. An intellectual victory doesn't mean spit in today's world. THEY are too effing DUMB to "get it." As long as they have their government check, EBT card, Obamaphone, free TV and a car THEY don't give a damn. THEY are already slaves to the system and are too STUPID to know it.
You and I on the other hand are different. IMO COMPLIANCE with an Un-Constitutional law is SLAVERY to the Feds.
It's bad enough I'm already a tax-slave supporting these government cheese eating moochers. They're NOT getting my guns.
Sorry! I will be even MORE brutally honest!
The slavery is only there when they get my GOD. I.e. when they achieve my worship.
Which I have the choice whether or not to grant.
You sir, are a fine and righteous man.
Well, it’s from God. I accepted it because God shoved me into a corner and made the choice plain. My life was plenty ugly. And then God wrapped it up in salvation and made it beautiful again.
Anyhow, I think we will progress better on the gun issue when we can frame it in sound theology.
Sometimes that's because we've messed up so bad that we have no other place to turn. Other times it's because we're simply desperate and lost and we cry out.
I may never meet you on this earth, but I have a feeling we'll see each other in a better place. ;-)
The fight is still in the courts. We have made great leaps in the legal battle and have FINALLY gotten the Supreme Court to recognize the 2A as an individual right.
With all the horrible boating accidents resulting in lost firearms, perhaps the ultimate SHTF investment would be in scuba gear! :-)
Didn't think so .....
The ironic thing about people being all concerned about a "income-tax boycott"/non-compliance is that it is now actually illegal to pay your income taxes – the US Code makes it illegal to provide finances to countries engaging in State Sponsored Terrorism, of which Fast & Furious certainly was.
(Fast & Furious was a government operation; moreover, no significant consequences were incurred, by any of: those implementing the operations, those directing the operations, those ordering the operations, and those authorizing the operations.)
Perhaps; but given their history I don't trust them further than I could throw `em.
Remember the Prop 8 punt recently, where they asserted that CA's own Supreme Court could not recognize standing?
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