Connecticut ping!
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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.
Sounds like we'll be recruiting them to New Hampshire if this business keeps up.
We already have this outrage in New Jersey. It's disgusting and shameful.
New Hampshire already has it's share, but the state is definitely more friendly than CT!
No, I wasn't aware of this. Thanks for the ping... I'll ping my CT list.
Connecticut ping!
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MI has a similar law?
BTW, give the Lions a break. At least they weren't in the running for the Reggie Bush champoinship. I like Millen, but I didn't think he was a great choice. I think this should be a pivotal year for him. I thought McMahon was better than Harrington, but not much. I was not happy when they signed King, I would have liked them to have signed Brees. I am not sure about Kitna or McCown, they have possibilities. I just hope they don't use their first draft for another WR.
yeah, guns have to be in safes (locked containers). if not, and they are used in a crime you're responsible.
about the lions crack.. i can't help it. i've always been a lions fan (and tigers, and red wings) but you gotta admit.. they're pretty darn bad.
I could care less about the Tigers (or any baseball team as a matter of fact, same for basketball). I had hopes for the Lions with Mariucci(?) but that went down the tubes, not sure about the new coach (don't know much about him). I was hoping that Turner could have turned the Raiders (my other football team) around also, not sure Shell can do much with them after such a long time away.
Love the wings, went through withdrawls last year without hockey. It will be odd not having Yzerman when he retires. I always hoped that Belfour would have come over from Chicago while Probert was still with the wings. That would have been interesting given their feelings for each other.
hopes with mariucci went down the tubes due to lousy QB, not bad coaching.
I know, I meant that it went down the tubes when they fired him. He wanted to get rid of Harrington and wanted Garcia to be the starter. Millen had a hard on for Harrington.
I bet the reason they are trying to pass this law is because people are really using this as an excuse to get out of the crime. For example, a bad guy gives someone a gun. The gun totting criminal does a crime and the bad guy cannot be charged because he says, "Well, it must have been stolen." The police says, "What you didn't know it was stolen "two weeks ago"? The bad guy said, "No." The police find out later that the guy actually gave the guy the gun, but could not charge him. I doubt highly this is a bill that is meant to screw law abiding folks, just the criminals. Why does it always have to be the supposed "Oh they are screwing the law abiding gun owners." I don't see that at all with this law. They want to get rid of the drug mod folks.
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