Posted on 04/19/2014 6:26:53 PM PDT by Daffynition
A Milford man appears to be the first person charged after failing to comply with Connecticut’s law requiring the registration of certain firearms and standard capacity magazines:
A 65-year-old man faces an array of charges after he allegedly shot a squirrel in his yard Monday morning.
James Toigo, 258 Housatonic Dr., was charged with unlawful discharge of a firearm, cruelty to an animal, first-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree breach of peace, failure to register an assault rifle and three counts of possessing large-capacity magazines, according to a police press release.
Police were directing traffic in the area of Housatonic Drive when they heard a gunshot nearby, according to the release.
Upon investigation, police said Toigo was taken into custody after finding he had shot the squirrel. Police said they also found an unregistered assault rifle, as well as three large-capacity magazines, in Toigo’s home. Both the firearms and the magazines were taken, the release said.
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This appears to be a similar situation when I was zeroing in my new pellet rifle in my large backyard. In my case a neighbor claimed I was shooting at birds but he could only hear the sound. Some people don’t like private arms of any kind even if use is well within surrounding protection. It is the old ‘I don’t like it and you have to cater to my personal dislikes.
The article does not say what gun was used to shoot the squirrel. It doesn't even specify that it was a rifle. Nor does it mention an AR. It just says an "assault rifle," by which we can only assume that it means a weapon so defined by the new Connecticut law.
Nowhere does the article specify that the magazines were thirty rounders.
There is a great deal of information missing from this article.
Actually no. Police in this country shoot about 5500 dogs every year. That's an average of 15 a day.
So, you just gonna stick with that? Is there a prize for missing the point?
Who said it was an AR? You judge prematurely. It may have been rat shot in a ruger 10-22 for all you know. And how do you know what his line of fire was? I swear, some people just like to argue for the sake of argument.
As an expert on this arrest, I understand that the facts are slightly different from what you have concluded. I am here to assure you that he should not be prosecuted. I have all the same facts that you do. OK, if you don’t see the sarcasm here... look, dumba**, when you yell for prosecution, knowing as little as you do, you just joined the Obama administration by proxy. Turn in your Freeper card on the way out.
Only a fool believes his air rifle will stay in some magical immune zone, forever protected from left-wing gun grabbers. Oh, and keep working. You’re still in the running for the Missing-the-Point prize.
So many posters are intimately familiar with the circumstances of the single shot fired in CT. It’s just amazing how many people have made comments that only someone who was perfectly informed would be qualified to make. You criticize this 65 year old man who has no criminal record and who didn’t hurt anyone in any way, not even damaging property, and call him names and praise the prosecution’s decision to punish him. You are pusillanimous and weak minded scolds.
Wonder what the average was 40 years ago.
Not nearly enough charges.
Discharging in Violation of the Noise Ordinance
Disturbing the Peace.
Disturbing the Piece within 500 yards of the Community Service Center.
Interfering with an Officer investigating alleged violations at the service center.
Interrupting the lawful investigation of the service center when, at the sound of the shot, the innocent employee to her”friend” “I thought if I did this we wouldn’t get raided anymore”.
Shooting at a poodle that attacked him disguised as a pitbull when he was worried about getting home safely. Which is OK.
After shooting the dog owner of the property was cited of for not picking up the fecal matter released from the dog in its death throws and putting it in an approved recycling container.
And,
AND,
Mopery with intent to creep.
True, that. In North Dakota, there are street addresses for spots way out in the boonies, courtesy of the 911 emergency system.
They’ll be the next endangered species.
Cops shoot dogs all the time in city limits with 9mm. Cant shoot a tree rat with a 22??
He used to own an old 22 for plinking at his place in the Poconos. He seemed to get more into guns the more the government cracked down on them or at least threatened to.
Last summer he was disappointed I sold a Mini 14 to a friend instead of him. I didn't know he would want it. He asked me to ask him first before I sold anything else.
He used to own an old 22 for plinking at his place in the Poconos. He seemed to get more into guns the more the government cracked down on them or at least threatened to.
Last summer he was disappointed I sold a Mini 14 to a friend instead of him. I didn't know he would want it. He asked me to ask him first before I sold anything else.
There is no way SCOTUS would declare the CT law unconstitutional. The Courts are as anti RKBA as the legislatures, maybe moreso than the legislatures.
Let’s shoot a gun in a suburbs. Yes...the guy must have the IQ of an Obama supporter. If it was in Goshen or Ellington maybe he could get away with it.
I have no idea about what happened here.
I think both the CT law and the NY SAFE Act are unconstitutional. I live in rural NH, but in a small development where I have 5 dwelling houses inside the NH 300 foot no discharge zone.
What’s your opinion about the constitutionality of no-discharge “safe zones”? (Self-defense is exempted). I grew up in suburban Nassau County, NY and shot .22 in the backyard all the time, but it seems to me that pure proximity limits are probably constitutional.
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