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Unique law lets police seize guns before a crime is committed
Waterbury Republican-American ^ | August 3, 2008 | Paul hughes

Posted on 08/03/2008 8:43:28 AM PDT by Graybeard58

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To: Smokin' Joe

Thank you. I am sure that is coming ... sooner than most think.


21 posted on 08/03/2008 10:05:42 AM PDT by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publici scholae)
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To: april15Bendovr

The government shall not infringe on the rights of citizens to bear arms, and you are innocent until proven guilty. That seems to have fallen by the way side. But after the right was passed for government to sell your family farm to a developer that promises to pay more taxes passed, the right to private property is gone too.

It seems that while I have been overseas America became Amerika.

The only path I see in the future is laden with blood, either the blood of a rightous revolution, or the blood of the people in death camps at the hands of the present government of the US.

We have crossed that slippery slope a while back I am afraid, there is no turning back now.


22 posted on 08/03/2008 10:08:43 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Graybeard58

Seems like an outright violation of the 2nd amendment to me.

By their own logic, these legislators should be arrested before they have the chance to write unconstitutional laws.


23 posted on 08/03/2008 10:12:14 AM PDT by navyguy (Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.)
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To: American in Israel

One of my favorite threads at Free Republic

Makes me want to be an American in Israel

Israel Army Girls!
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Posted on Fri Jul 21 11:57:18 2006 by dennisw

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1669904/posts


24 posted on 08/03/2008 10:16:43 AM PDT by april15Bendovr (Free Republic & Ron Paul Cult = oxymoron)
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To: Graybeard58

Pinciaro......another village idiot.


25 posted on 08/03/2008 10:36:54 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Graybeard58

Quick, let’s seize all the cars in case someone might have a accident!


26 posted on 08/03/2008 10:39:07 AM PDT by Islander7 ("Show me an honest politician and I will show you a case of mistaken identity.")
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To: grey_whiskers
"It certainly has not been abused. It may be underutilized,"

Nothing like due process eh ???

The things 9 yrs old and I dont recall this nanny tattletale BS before, but hopefully there will now be a challenge following Heller...

LFOD...

27 posted on 08/03/2008 10:40:32 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Trust in the Lord...vote yer conscience...=...LiveFReeOr Die...)
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To: april15Bendovr; dennisw

One of my favorites, too.


28 posted on 08/03/2008 10:41:17 AM PDT by wastedyears (Show me your precious darlings, and I will crush them all)
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To: Graybeard58
turned over to someone else,

Like a policeman that took the gun in the first place or some politician who Fancy's a newer model. From my cold dead fingers,

29 posted on 08/03/2008 10:42:00 AM PDT by bikerman (_ _ . /_ _ _ /_ . . / / . . . . / . / . _ . . / . _ _ . / / . . _ / . . . //)
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To: april15Bendovr
You can always 'pretend' you are. Israel Military Forum
30 posted on 08/03/2008 10:45:29 AM PDT by Islander7 ("Show me an honest politician and I will show you a case of mistaken identity.")
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To: Graybeard58
The state's gun seizure law is considered the first and only law in the country that allows the confiscation of a gun before the owner commits an act of violence. Police and state prosecutors can obtain seizure warrants based on concerns about someone's intentions.

There are nearly 900,000 privately owned firearms in Connecticut today.

Then hypothetically ....
if the Legislature was about to pass a law, say an onerous Tax Increase, that they believed would 'outrage' the citizens, they could then first seize all 900,000 guns in the state under the guise that there'd be "concerns about gun owners intentions" if said law was passed.
Yep, definitely constitutional.

/s

31 posted on 08/03/2008 10:56:16 AM PDT by Condor51 (I have guns in my nightstand because a Cop won't fit)
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To: TruthConquers
I got out of San Diego in 2000. Just before the state imposed a sales tax if you didn't put the proceeds of your sale back into California real estate. It remains one of my best decisions in life. I visited San Diego this past week for a class at Kyocera Wireless. During the visit, I took a drive by my old house. The neighborhood has gone downhill. Getting out was the right thing to do.
32 posted on 08/03/2008 10:59:48 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Smokin' Joe
TITLE 42 > CHAPTER 21 > SUBCHAPTER I > 1983.

Civil action for deprivation of rights

Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.

33 posted on 08/03/2008 11:06:03 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.)
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To: Islander7; wastedyears; dennisw

With women like that in the Army it gives a whole new meaning to the word Shalom.


34 posted on 08/03/2008 11:06:58 AM PDT by april15Bendovr (Free Republic & Ron Paul Cult = oxymoron)
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To: Gilbo_3
Nothing like due process eh ???

What would you propose?

Maybe an investigation, a warrant, and judicial review?

Just asking.

So just suppose someone became a risk to themselves or others and someone suspected? Then what? What should be done?

35 posted on 08/03/2008 11:09:56 AM PDT by Eagle Eye (I'm a RINO cuz I'm too conservative to be a Republican. McCain is the Conservatives true litmus test)
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To: Graybeard58

So if your dog pees on your neighbor’s flowers, and your neighbor calls the police on you and says he is afraid, the police will violate the Constitutional protection against privacy and seizure of private property, and unlawfully take what is yours.
This law is invalid, and therefore illegal.


36 posted on 08/03/2008 11:21:16 AM PDT by BooksForTheRight.com (Fight liberal lies with knowledge. Read conservative books and articles.)
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To: Eagle Eye

Didn’t you read the article? Particularly the individual who was “suspected” by Police because he filed several vandalism complaints without satisfaction. He then resorted to installing a security system to protect himself, with motion detectors, video cameras etc,,,. All police found when they raided the home was his guns locked up in a safe. They confiscated them anyway.

It appears that any citizen who installs home security or locks their guns up is behaving “delusional” or “Paranoid”, which warrants them to storm the premises and confiscate all firearms.

Here again, based on their interpretation to all the facts. And you have trouble seeing what is wrong about all of this in the first place?


37 posted on 08/03/2008 11:21:47 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Juan McCain....The lesser of Three Liberals.")
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To: april15Bendovr

I don’t get that.


38 posted on 08/03/2008 11:23:58 AM PDT by wastedyears (Show me your precious darlings, and I will crush them all)
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To: Graybeard58

Fascism when practiced by government is still fascism. Only it’s called “law”.


39 posted on 08/03/2008 11:28:02 AM PDT by BooksForTheRight.com (Fight liberal lies with knowledge. Read conservative books and articles.)
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To: Myrddin

“...the state imposed a sales tax if you didn’t put the proceeds of your sale back into California real estate.”

Really? We sold our condo and bought our current home in 2001. At least we are within a 10 minute drive to hubby’s work and in a stable area that is not getting hit with foreclosures, yet. But I didn’t know we had the same thing that NJ has, an exit tax to leave the state. At least we aren’t upside down with a 30 year fixed, no funny loan stuff for us. We had been upside down in our condo for years, glad we got out of that. This market would be terrible for condo’s.


40 posted on 08/03/2008 11:30:30 AM PDT by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publici scholae)
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