I don’t own any guns but I live in Connecticut and the absolute stupidity of most Connecticut residents is astounding. The state drives away new business with onerous taxes and regulations, taxes it’s citizens up the wazoo and coddles ‘public service’ employees. Connecticut has a 140 million dollar budget deficit this year, a 7.6% unemployment rate (not counting those who have given up seeking work) and some of the highest taxes in the nation. Yet Connecticut residents continually elect left-wing Democrats and RINO governors. Today, we have a leftist Democrat governor (Dannel Malloy) who is killing us with taxes. He’ll likely be re-elected next year. With that kind of lemming-like behavior on the part of the electorate it is no surprise that Connecticut residents meekly line up to register their guns like good little sheep. The state is hopeless.
It seems to me that a good way to protest this would just be to stand in line and *not* register, just to make the line longer and the crowd angrier.
May his door be the first kicked down in the confiscation raids sure to follow the registration.
“Your papers please, Comrade”
Registering for the Gulag
Pop quiz:
How many illegal guns will be registered before the deadline? /s
Lie. Defy. Do Not Comply.
There shall be no ex post facto laws.
They cannot criminalize something after the fact. This is no different than making abortion illegal and then prosecuting people who provided abortions while it was legal. This is a sign of a banana republic.
We know all about who owns guns in this country, but nothing about who’s coming over our border.
That’s funny....
I swear there are no men left in CT ... just a bunch of metro-sexual, henpecked eunchs that can’t control their women, children or government.
Only reason this happens is because we let them violate our Constitutional rights. Those rights are only good, obviously, if we do not allow infringement.
But we do so....here we go, the end is in sight.
But then, there was a time when Massachusetts residents would also have done the same thing. Now they are lining up to meekly get ObamaCare, like the rest of us.
Oh, for the days when the Courts could be depended upon to uphold our constitutional rights. It was a good and decent nation, for a while.
The Real Second Amendment:
The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, except as follows:
If you are convicted of certain crimes, you cannot have a gun.
If you are not of sound mind, you cannot have a gun.
If you are chemically dependent or an alcoholic, you cannot have a gun.
If you defend yourself against a minority attacker, you are guilty until proven innocent.
If you live in certain cities, you can only have long guns, and not hand guns.
If you go into certain buildings, you cannot have a gun, many of the buildings being public buildings.
If you have a certain kinds of guns, you need a license that is granted by the whim of a sheriff in some states and counties.
If you want guns with a certain capacity of magazine, you cannot have them in many places.
If you want a pistol, you need to be 21 (being an adult of military service age is not good enough).
If you don’t convince law enforcement that you have a special need to carry a weapon, then in some places they may willy-nilly deny you the right to use or carry one.
If you do not pay a tax when you purchase the weapon, you cannot have one.
If you do not use ammunition made of non-lead components, you may not have it in some places like California.
If you want a weapon that fires more than once with each trigger pull, you need a special license.
If you want to carry a pistol in many places, you much produce your fingerprints and submit your name to law enforcement.
If you want a pistol, a record must be kept by the commercial seller for a certain length of time for review by law enforcement purposes.
If you use your weapon to defend yourself, you will need to bear the burden of proving, in a practical sense, that you were justified, and no one will reimburse you for your time or costs.
If you own a pistol in some states, you must pay a fee for the privilege.
If you own a pistol in some states, you must pay for training and a certificate of that training.
If you want a weapon you may not bring it on school grounds, government buildings, or other locations, even if there is no screening for weapons.
If you buy and sell weapons and ammo, you need a license.
In many places you must give the registration of the gun to the local law enforcement.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
I understand why they're putting us on the box cars, but I don't think it's constitutional.
No way would I comply. And now we see why people still won't take to the streets. It can, and it is, happening here, right before our eyes.
I will not go quietly. I don't care how many laws they pass.
It’s not just Newtown and gun laws.
CT has gone alarmingly stupid and ‘progressive’ since they seem to have stuffed the ballots (in Bridgeport, per usual) to vote the corrupt Democrat Dan Malloy as governor in 2010.
Since then he and the Dems have jacked up dozens of taxes, driven CT into the economic ditch as the only state with declining economic activity in 2012, and become crony capitalist central with all kinds of grants and ‘investments’ to keep companies in CT despite the horrid environment they have created.
>>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.”
Quisling, rope, tree. Some assembly required.
Hope they’ve got a plan for the day whatever America’s version of the Gestapo are called come knocking.
The state government of Connecticut is merely assembling its list of future confiscations.
It will be interesting to find out how many Connecticut residents are outed by the Federal background check where they don’t keep records.
“For now, in Connecticut, the law is the law.”
Unconstitutional decrees are null and void. This is illegal.
Real American's would've REFUSED.