People wait in line to register guns before new laws go into effect.
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.
Us`n Adirondack hillbillies will be proud to fire the first 20 round magazine that will be heard round the world!
No Registration!
WE have had arms up here since 1644 and neither HELL nor HIGH WATER will take away our right to keep and bear arms!
From our dead Hands try to take our guns!!
YOU SOB bastards Cuomunistas!
- Come n get what you deserve, you bastards!
Them`s fightin` words!!
The Cuomonistas want to start a shootin` war and that`s just what they`re goona get as my GGGGgranfather did to the British in 1775.
We got 40,000 weapons here in a town of 5,000 plus tens of millions of rounds. of ammo.
We don`t take no sht from no kissass dictators neither.
We drove the revenooers outta here in the 1920`s-30`s and they never canme back neither.
We have guns here for 350 years. You think we ain`t gonna fight back? HAHAHAHA
Watch the HEADLINES boys!
These Cuomunistas guys want to play with rattlesnakes, they gonna get bit real good!
Do you honestly believe there is a god who would kill people or unleash destruction over gun registration?
I’m not for gun registration. I’m just not quite sure how God got involved in this.
I've got to believe that in places like Texas, once a LEO enforces a law like this he can never go home.
All the criminals will have registered guns. Just not in their names.
Mine are in the lake.
One would hope that would be the case.
But I look at where our country as a whole is, and people thirty years ago, even many who were Democrats, would have been appalled to see where it is today, and that thought doesn’t make me feel cheery about twenty years from now.
Darn it.
Wow, after watching the video of this I was surprised those “men” weren’t in their onesies.
You nailed it.
I think we just need to keep hammering on the fact there’s only one reason to strip people of the means to defend themselves.
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Matthew Charles Gillette is a(n) Department of Correction Employee with a salary of $34,224, which is 39.3% lower than the average for all Connecticut State Employees. Matthew Charles Gillette is employed as a Correction Officer in the Northern Correctionl Inst division of the DOC agency.
Time to pack up and leave the stupid liberal state. Head South stupid yankee. On second thought, just stay right where you are, we don’t need any more liberal morons down here.
Right. Just like the laws that were passed to secure our borders after the 1986 AMNESTY, right?
No good citizen American should line up to satisfy an unconstitutional mandate of a local,state or the federal government.
You see how poor compliance with Obama care is pissing all over their parade. It works.
Just as the Jews of the 1930’s Germany waited in line to register. Later, the Nuremburg Laws stripped them of their rights as German Citizens. And history records the results of these events.
I guess that explains his willingness to roll over for his government, er, employer.
“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.” “
And, THAT is how freedom dies; one little step at a time.
There has not been a registration scheme in history that did not lead to confiscation.
Charles, you are kidding yourself if you truly think it stops here.
I think a more important question is what does "unregistered" Connecticut plan to do with the finders....
People wait in line to register guns before new laws go into effect.
Damn, even the Canadians had bigger gonads than that.
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