"Pinch" them for what? First they would need evidence that the person was still in possession of a unregistered weapon within the State of Conn. They can't go arresting people just because at some time he once owned a weapon that now requires registration.
“The rational consensus seems to be that if the gun-grab order were given, cops would pinch a registration scofflaw at the grocery store, at work, on the road”
No, they will come at you in force at home. The purpose is not to grab you, as they could if you were in a store, but to TERRORIZE YOU and to put the fear of such a thing happening to all others who have not registered.
By TERRORIZING YOU, they TERRORIZE everyone. The MSM will also be there to show the world what happens to scoffaws and it is a warning to others that “THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU!” if you don’t turn in your guns.
They can't, until they do.
Laws don't hem them in. They are only for the little people to obey.
My first thought exactly. For what would the pinch them? For having purchased a firearm at some point in the past? That’s propable cause that they’re currently in possession of a prohibited firearm? Oh, please.