Posted on 03/04/2014 7:30:01 AM PST by Kaslin
Connecticut gun owners are calling the state’s anti-gun bluff. The state recently passed a slew of anti-gun legislation, including a gun registration program for so called “assault rifles” that has been received with less enthusiasm than Obamacare. In fact, many gun owners in Connecticut have elected to ignore the patently unconstitutional law in the same way that Millennials have ignored the IRS requirement for health insurance. And now, as the state issues threatening letters and increased confiscation rhetoric, citizens are telling the state: “Come and take them.”
Lawmakers in Connecticut have already threatened current gun owners with confiscation in accordance with the new regulation requirements. And despite a fraction of state gun owners deciding to comply with intrusive registration requirements, the Governor has accelerated his anti-gun rhetoric. (Colorado voters decided to hold recall elections… Connecticut gun owners have decided to take the Barack Obama approach: Ignore inconvenient laws.) Letters have been sent to “known gun owners” demanding registration, or the surrender of their “assault weapons”. The birth place of the Constitution, it turns out, is still home to armed students of human liberty.
Despite the strong rhetoric, and threatened legal action, citizens have remained stunningly unphased by the authoritarian nature of Connecticut’s gun registration scheme. In fact, Connecticut Carry (a decidedly pro-Second Amendment group) has even gone so far as to challenge the state to go door-to-door:
Connecticut Carry calls on every State official, every Senator, and every Representative, to make the singular decision: Either enforce the laws as they are written and let us fight it out in court, or repeal the 2013 Gun Ban in its entirety.
Connecticut Carry has essentially called their state’s bluff: “Repeal the law, or start confiscating”. After all, going door to door, in an effort to confiscate the guns of well-armed citizens, seems like a mildly insane idea… Even in wildly liberal havens such as Hartford.
Connecticut’s assault on self-defense is not, unfortunately, an isolated incident. The NYPD has started a similar gun confiscation program in New York, and New Jersey (judging by their rhetoric) is not far behind. New Jersey, as it turns out, is next in line to butcher the Second Amendment into an unrecognizable web of regulation and restriction as they consider banning .22 Rugers and Henry Rifles… Because, well, such guns could be used in a crime. Recently proposed gun legislation in the Garden State would outlaw the ownership of any rifle that has a capacity of more than 10 rounds… Because, as studies have shown, it is usually the 11th round that is used in a violent crime. (Um… I’m still waiting for someone to create that sarcasm font for me.)
Apparently, Connecticut, Colorado, New York, California, New Jersey, and a growing number of other states, believe it is acceptable to restrict their citizen’s rights on the supposition that those rights might be misused to inflict damage on the greater populace. George Washington is often attributed a quotation that articulates such injustice as a violation of human rights: It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
In the end, it is neither the legislators, the governors, nor the courts that are the final arbitrator of justice. It is the people. The un-elected masses. Connecticut gun owners are essentially calling on the state to either begin confiscation (and prosecution) of Connecticut’s gun owners… Or shut up and repeal the latest batch of unenforceable gun restrictions; because they understand that laws have little bearing when they infringe upon the common understanding of liberty. And that’s not the interpretation of some right-wing gun nut… Unless, of course, that’s how you describe Thomas Jefferson. Connecticut will soon find itself involved in a protracted legal debate over the meaning of the Second Amendment… Or they will be in the precarious position of confiscating weapons from otherwise law-abiding (well-armed) citizens.
Write whatever laws you want… If you can’t enforce them, they’re as useless as President Obama’s foreign policy.
Why? Because you cannot function without those things. You cannot work you cannot feed your family.
“The 2nd amendment fight is the only one we should be concerned about. The commies are covering us up with other issues to splinter our efforts ...”
+1
There are plenty of people throughout history that had a voice without being behind a gun or holding a weapon. I'm not arguing that the 2nd amendment isn't a right and should be infringed. I'm just arguing don't denegrate or give up your other unalienable rights by ignoring those battles.
I think it is amazing and a bit heartening that even in dark blue Connecticut that 85% of so-called “assault” weapon owners had the courage to thumb their noses at this unconstitutional law. If it had been 10%, the liberals could have just written it off as some law breaking kooks and brought the hammer down. But 85% or close to half a million gun owners is hard to write off as a handful of crazy kooks. The ball is the libs court....
Someone named Holder ordered a SQL query on NCIS for CT background checks? That would be possible but not foolproof, and certainly miss any illegal purchases.
Your observation becomes easy to understand with a quick look at the axis between Islam & the Left. These are more co-belligerents than soulmates, but share a common enemy: Judeo-Christian based Western civilization.
Since both Islam & liberalism preach first & foremost the destruction of their enemies (to rally their forces) with a side order of control freakiness, they have methodology in common as much as they do their `sacred’ beliefs.
A marriage made in h***, in other words.
Compliance with Tyranny is Treason.
As an Oath Keeper, I will stand and fight (again) for our Constitution.
Rather than lay your tools for Liberty in your front lawn. feel free to send them to me. One can never have too many, you know.
MOLON LABE
They will. Just give them time.
>”In this case, I think the notices are going out to people who stupidly registered, but after the deadline”<
I had a “registered” AK-47 Assault Weapon way back when. I sold to an out of State Retired LEO when I decided I didn’t want to be on “THE LIST”.
I put Registering that Rifle and Voting for Perot in 1992 as two of my biggest blunders. Lessons learned and never forgotten.
After I sold the AK, I bought a ‘CA Compliant” Stag AR-15.
It isn’t Registered, and it never will be.
I’m not buying into the Commie “Overnight Felon” crap. Last time I checked this was America, not 1936 Berlin or the Jewish Ghetto.
Compliance with Tyranny is Treason.
Better yet, go to their door and invite them to take them.
Molon Lave...!!!!
Mao - fat genocidal communist maggot that he was - had one thing absolutely right: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun
While we may have to agree to disagree, I respectfully submit that without the 2nd, all the others are at the whim of the tyrant du jour.
Perhaps we're coming at this from two vastly different perspectives.
In my view of this world, all that's accomplished by 'turning the other cheek' is to end up with both sides bloody.
F that, imho.
When you buy a firearm and the gun dealer calls in for a check - it only goes down as either a "long gun", "hand gun",or "other".
Only the gun dealer has a record of model and serial number.
They would have to physically check the records of all gun dealers to find out who's bought rifles in the now-banned categories.
BUT,
Up until this year, you could sell, trade, or give away any type of long gun without filing ANY type of paperwork.
SO,
They still have no idea who has what, even after they (illegally) check the gun store records.
Almost certainly every person who allegedly didn't register is because they no longer own a scarey-looking rifle........
I can see a lot of “Let’s get Mikey” looks on LEOs’ faces at the prospect of going door to door to search for and confiscate firearms. “I’M not gonna try it!”
However, if this crap does go nationwide, I still suggest the strategy of “retreat and escape, organize with others, and engage those who sent the confiscators, but on YOUR terms”.
Someone is going to get hurt.
Yep. Some folks, who’ve put a bit of thought into things, will be in the wind once the fires are lit.
After that, hunting season is in full effect.
Damn them for getting us to this point.
You are right about other battles that need to be fought but if we lose on the 2nd we will lose on all others. Period.
I would hate to be the cops they send out to start collecting. Talk about a crappy assignment. And dangerous.
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