CT Sends Out Letters to Gun Owners: “Surrender, Destroy or Sell” Your ‘Assault Weapons’

The Gateway Pundit ^ | 2-27-2014 | Jim Hoft

[servo1969]

Only 15% of Connecticut gun owners registered their military-style rifles with the state this year. 85% of ‘assault weapon’ owners flouted the law.

Now, the Connecticut is sending letters to gun owners telling them to “surrender, destroy or sell” your “assault weapons.” Guns Saves Lives reported:

It looks like some gun owners in Connecticut who tried to register their “assault weapons” (that’s the state of CT’s actual term for these firearms), but missed the deadline are now getting letters instructing them to destroy or surrender their firearms.

According the letter, posted on several message boards and online media sources, residents who failed to register their firearms must now take the following action:

1. Render the assault weapon permanently inoperable. 2. Sell the assault weapon to a licensed gun dealer. 3. Remove the assault weapon from the state; or 4. You may make arrangements to relinquish the assault weapon to a police department or to the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection.

Those all sound like super fun options. So far, it looks like only owners who tried to register their firearms, but missed the deadline are getting the letters.

Here’s a copy of the letter:

[servo1969]

Before law: Nobody's gonna take your guns. Stop being so paranoid.

After law: Turn 'em in, M-F-s! It's the law now!

[TigersEye]

If they didn’t register their guns how does the gov know who has them? Hmmm?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

And it won’t end in CT...

[dennisw]

Or give them to your cousin in Georgia who likes to go fishing a lot

[Billthedrill]

If they didn’t register their guns how does the gov know who has them?

According to another story I read, these are the people who actually attempted to register them, but acted past the deadline. Nice reward for trying to obey the law, isn't it?

[Dalberg-Acton]

Fed collusion?

[Westbrook]

Time for massive civil disobedience.

CT gun owners must hang together, or they shall surely hang separately.

[Renegade]

If they come for your weapons give them to them BULLETS FIRST!

[Blood of Tyrants]

From the article I think that the letter went out to people who tried to register them but for some reason failed.

[Ghost of SVR4]

"assault weapon". That is laughable. In the rights hands a spoon can be used as a weapon to assault.

I know it's easier to say than do, but I would remove my weapon from the state. Along with myself, my family, my belongings and my $$$. That state is going to turn into a hellhole very soon and I wouldn't want to be disarmed when its happening.

[plainshame]

Politicians in CT.are nuts!

[longtermmemmory]

IOW taking without compensation (via regulation)

The USSC already ruled you can’t take wihout compensation by using regulation.

Famous case where a city tried to control developement after the fact by regulation via prohibiting use of land they could not afford to buy.

[ZULU]

They should move and take their guns with them, their money with them and their skills and expertise with them and never buy another product from a COnnecticut based company.

I will never buy a product or use a service centered in Connecticut.

[castlebrew]

What’s the over/under on the answers being along the line of “NUTS!” ?

Just askin’....

[DJ MacWoW]

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[ZULU]

What I can’t understand is how the state can “take” a legally acquired piece of property from somebody without due compensation - aside from the Constitutional Issues involved.

[RinaseaofDs]

Indeed.

I’d give them an address of a ten acre field somewhere with a fortress in the middle, and lots of open ground.

After it was over, you can tweet, “We changed our mind at the last minute and decided to destroy those weapons. Sorry your guys made the trip out. Did any make the trip back?”

[grobdriver]

I will never buy a product or use a service centered in Connecticut.

No more Colts for you, eh?

[eyrish69]

I would send as a reply the following:
1. A copy of the Constitution
2. A photo of my middle finger.
3. A note that says MOLON LABE MOTHERF&^*ER

[King_Corey]

Good Luck

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