Posted on 04/17/2006 1:16:10 PM PDT by Graybeard58
Let's say you go on a two-week vacation and leave one of your family's two cars parked in your garage. Two days after your departure, someone breaks into the garage, steals the car and uses it to flee after robbing a gasoline station.
Imagine how fair and just it would seem if, two days after that, you were arrested on felony charges of being an accessory to the robbery because a new state law requires owners of stolen cars to report their thefts within three days or take responsibility for anything done with their car.
You didn't know the car was stolen? Well, the new law assumes you should have known. That it was stolen despite being locked in the garage merely indicates you did not store it safely enough. Next time, dig a pit in the backyard and bury it.
Sound preposterous? Substitute "firearm" for "car" and you have House Bill 5818, currently on the calendar in the legislature.
House Bill 5818 makes it a crime to fail to report the loss or theft of a firearm within 72 hours from the time when the owner knew "or should have known" that the weapon was stolen.
Further, if police recover the firearm before it's reported missing, the bill takes that not merely as automatic evidence of a violation of the law, but also as proof of an illegal firearm transfer.
Obviously, the bill is not an attack on crime but on firearm ownership. Obviously, the intent is not to prevent the theft of firearms but to make owning one an intolerable burden.
Obviously, House Bill 5818 needs to be defeated.
Read the proposal here:
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2006/TOB/H/2006HB-05818-R00-HB.htm
Keep on fighting!
ping
That's when you hire a liberal trial lawyer (but I repeat myself) and sue the pants off them. The sky is falling! Where's Henny Penny when we need her?
Ping
Were you aware of this? It's a Connecticut proposed law.
this is fascinating reading, y'all:
http://www.jpfo.org/ragingagainstselfdefense.htm
ew.. CT is taking cues from MI gun laws?
Agreed. . .outstanding collection of essays. . .
This is absolute crap.
Thanks for the ping King!
So "who" do we write to this time. Who is behind this one?
The representatives in Connecticut if you live there and your local reps. to let them know that it won't happen in your locale.
gah! *yet another* book to buy.
What omnipotent mind-readers our government officials are getting to be...
Time to go protest like the wetbacks do. If all of you good folk went to protest they would pea in their pants. Tell them to shove all gun laws for law abiding ctizens. Hell it may not work but it will definitely get their attention. Americans thru our history have protested(not just the fruitcakes) maybe it is time to let these people know we are not sheep.
Yep, protest, write letters, phone, VOTE, contribute to NRA and the similar organizations, that legally challenge these laws (more friendly SCOTUS), and serve on juries. All will help.
The irony here is that many gun manufacturers are based in Connecticut.
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