Posted on 12/18/2015 8:38:13 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
In 2013, the New York City Police Department began sending notices to certain gun owners using a “…centralized firearms registry which lists the city’s gun owners and what firearms they have in their possession.†The notice referred to firearms prohibited under New York’s “Safe Act,†the law passed (in part) in vengeful retaliation against law abiding owners of so-called “Assault Weapons†for the murders at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The gun owners were given a simple choice—surrender the now illegally held guns to the police, remove them from the city, destroy them or become a wanted felon. How did the City know where to send the letters? Simple. The recipients had revealed their identity by registering their firearms.
In Connecticut the same legislation was passed in response to the same tragedy, the only difference being lawmakers there were responsible for the murders, having declaring Sandy Hook a “Gun Free Zone.â€
By the end of the mandatory registration period in the Constitution State some 50,000 owners had registered their black rifles while an estimated 300 to 400 thousand had refused. What’s to be done about intimidating those miscreants into ceding their liberty to Governor Malloy, no one in Hartford seems to know.
But there was some good news for Connecticut liberals this year when the state Supreme Court upheld the 1993 ban on “Assault Weapons.†In the unanimous decision, Chief Justice Ellen Peters wrote the following summary of the court’s viewpoint:
“As long as our citizens have available to them some types of weapons that are adequate reasonably to vindicate the right to bear arms in self-defense, the state may proscribe the possession of other weapons.â€
The court has taken upon itself the dictatorial authority to...
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The fools that registered their black rifles will get a knock at the door soon.
“Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”
- Captain John Parker, April 19, 1775
Have these robed morons read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?
Chief Justice Ellen Peters simply paraphrased the same holding composed by Scalia and issued by SCOTUS. Prety much anything short of an outright ban on possession of all types of firearm is constitutional, says the Courts. And even that type of ban is constitutional provided it is selectively applied.
“It is a very dangerous doctrine to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions. It is one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.” ~ Thomas Jefferson, Ltr to W.C. Jarvis, 1820
“…centralized firearms registry which lists the city’s gun owners and what firearms they have in their possession.â€
That statement right there just makes my blood boil.
Some would argue Chief Justice Ellen Peters doesn't have the upper body strength or experience to distinguish between weapons that are reasonable in the face of peril and those that are not.
They would no doubt also argue that, just like grade school teachers, she is leading us down the road to wussification.
Where is Old Put when you need him? Will Israel Putnam please pick up the celestial courtesy phone?
This is my position. I’m not afraid to die. Btw, even IRS accountants in the field have gun range training and wear body armor.
Here we go...
The goosestepping begins! Let’s all give into our corrupt government. They will take care of us? Hell no!!! What is wrong with these idiots of Konnektikut? Get what you deserve!
The goosestepping begins! Let’s all give into our corrupt government. They will take care of us? Hell no!!! What is wrong with these idiots of Konnektikut? Get what you deserve!
The goosestepping begins! Let’s all give into our corrupt government. They will take care of us? Hell no!!! What is wrong with these idiots of Konnektikut? Get what you deserve!
So conn. repealed the U.S. Constitution?
Or were the members of the conn. supreme court the first to be educated under common core?
My Connecticut forebears, who, using their own personal “assault weapons” served in the militia in the earliest days of Connecticut, and carved a civilization out of that wilderness, who suffered at Valley Forge and fought a long bloody revolution from Bunker Hill to Yorktown to secure the rights of these bozos, would forcefully object, I have no doubt.
yes they have read it and don’t care
Thank God, I don’t reside in a state run by anti-American tyrants.
Nope, just a country.
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