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Connecticut...The State of Felons

[Westbrook]

We can only hope that when push comes to shove, the tough talkers will be tough doers.

[MeganC]

I suspect that too many militarized police agencies will send in their death squads (aka ‘SWAT’ teams) to kill a number of the disobedient as an object lesson to everyone else to submit to their masters.

[DNME]

The first shot in this coming conflagration will — again — be heard ‘round the world.

[OneWingedShark]

The true nature and purpose of the NSA's domestic espionage is this.
(I cannot wait for the USSC to rule that they're coming is a terrorist message, therefore not covered by the 1st amendment and essentially testifying against oneself.)

[Gen.Blather]

“Unless the state of CT holds in abeyance any enforcement of this intolerable act — at least until the Supreme Court can rule — you can count that some day, in the wee hours of the morning, someone’s phone will ring and the voice on the other end will say, “They’re coming.””

We live in a time when there is no such thing as an anonymous phone call or email. The fact that every phone call has an instantly traceable fingerprint will cut down on this early warning scenario probably to the point of eliminating it. NSA will record even a call from a throwaway phone and the voice print may give the caller away. There will be only a limited number of people to crosscheck.

Also, I fully expect most will allow themselves to be arrested without incident and fight it out in court. The problem comes in when the SWAT fires first because they’ve been filled with liberal nightmares. WACO, Ruby Ridge and the Elian Gonzales incidents were utterly ridiculous examples of everything wrong with “law” enforcement.

[MrB]

cops would pinch a registration scofflaw at the grocery store, at work, on the road…anyplace other than his or her home where a Ruby Ridge-style tragedy might ensue

History proves they prefer the latter.

[afsnco]

Hypothetically speaking, thermite ignited on the engines of any of their new toys would turn them into multi-ton paperweights.

[Biggirl]

There will be a pro-gun rally come this Saturday from what I have read online at the CT State Capitol grounds.

[usurper]

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…

Lets think about that for a moment.

How would the government know who has an unregistered weapon? The are forbidden by law from checking the sales information.

So if the government did break the law and get the sales info and know everyone who has one of these weapons, what is the point of having a gun registration in the first place?

[Billthedrill]

For 4th Generation Warfare understands that the way to defeat an enemy is to directly engage the war makers and decision takers.

A thing that needs pointing out with fair frequency. There is a persistent fantasy among the gun grabbers that they can start a civil war and remain outside the fray. That isn't how civil wars work.

The moment that federal forces get involved in such firearm raids in CT is the moment that the civil war starts in all 50 states.

I doubt open combat will be quite that quick but it will be highly uncomfortable to be a BATF agent bullying an FFL holder in an environment where his counterparts are shooting citizens elsewhere in the country. And highly dangerous. In order to enjoy a federal pension you have to live to receive it.

As my friend Bob Wright once told an FBI SAC in Albuquerque NM when he asked Bob if he would take his men out of state to the site of another potential Waco: "Why would I want to do that? There's plenty of you federal sonsabitches around here."

I don't actually think this is a case of chest-pounding or making bombastic threats. It's a message that needs to be calmly, rationally communicated to decision makers contemplating violence against citizens. Placing people in a position where they've nothing to lose is a recipe for disaster.

[Mat_Helm]

One analogy would be when the Federal Government decided to let forest fires burn naturally for the health of the forest. But for too many years they prevented logging with too much overgrowth and fuel present from years of putting fires out for decades. Than after a fire started and they let it burn under controlled conditions a big wind would show up and all hell would break lose out of control and Yellow Stone nearly burned down and later Yosemite and the El Portal fire charred hundreds of thousands of acres. When the educated idiots in the Government think they have things under their total control they make dumb decisions. They are again making a huge miscalculation.

There are millions of armed citizens who have drawn a line in the sand when it comes to any form of regulation and confiscation that goes too far, and especially semi-auto weapons involvement. They come from all walks of life and social status and in and out of the very government itself including law enforcement and the military. When those in power begin any move toward confiscation at any level they will start a fire thinking they can control that outcome no matter how small that fire starts. When the fire grows and spreads and any type of federal move or martial law is imposed to apply more control there will be others in power that will get involved to put a stop to it, if the courts do not step in within time to put a halt on it. If the courts fails as they are already, and if others in power do not put a stop to the tyranny unleashed by unconstitutional actions, than an American revolutionary wind will become a conflagration. Some are calling this another civil war, and other grievances against those in power will occur as law and order breaks down, but eventually the fire will burn itself out and some form of order will be restored. Northern Ireland, Iraq, Afghanistan, include examples of the morning after. The country and the people are still there and there are only the dead and the living. No administration can survive and take away the second amendment in America. This does not mean they will not attempt something stupid and believe they could succeed.

In San Francisco you will not hear much on New Year’s Eve at midnight. In most California Central Valley towns at the same time you might think a war has just been unleashed as guns of every type and description send multiple thousands of rounds into the night in celebration. Imagine the same sound being fired in anger. If you think these gun owners will all sit on the fence and do nothing you would be wrong. Now all that gun fire on New Year’s Eve is illegal discharges in city limits, but still goes on decade after decade and now there are more guns than ever. Making semi-auto rifles of any type illegal is unconstitutional and attempting to follow up on any scale by confiscating weapons at any level will not occur in a vacuum and will start a fire where one should never be lit around too much combustible material.

[Labyrinthos]

In a perfect world, all 100,000 of the newly-created felons should turn themselves in at the same time and demand a trial by jury. The judicial system would collapse and many of the cases would be dismissed under the speedy trial rules in CT, which require the case to go to trial within 12 months of the date of arrest (8 months is the defendant is incarcerated).

[Oatka]

cops would pinch a registration scofflaw at the grocery store, at work, on the road . . .

That's my feeling. All they have to do is quietly issue warrants on all the "law-breakers". Then have the cops run tags on every highway and pull 'em over. How many are going to fight, especially if their family is with them?

It might take 'em a while, but the'd be in no hurry to anger people, and eventually they'll get all those who drive. What's left can then be sopped up in routine "raids against felons".

[Vermont Lt]

Lots of big wind in CT.

They will come for the guns. And they will get them.

Kneel before Zod....