Does not prohibit possession only sale or transfer.
Because that does not fit their agenda.
Anyone who brings it up will be suppressed.
New Jersey also is very strict on guns, we are talking two blue liberal states.
Has it been revealed how the son gained access to the guns? He had obvious mental problems, I’m guessing he took the mother’s guns.
I certainly am in favor of keeping guns away from the dangerously mentally ill.
All of this is a red herring anyway since only 2 pistols were used at the school shooting, why the hell are we even discussing assault rifles?
They will blame states where the laws are not nearly as regressive, and use it as a crux to contend that California styled fascism needs to be implemented nationwide. Good luck(not really) confiscating the thousands upon thousands of units and the BILLIONS of rounds of ammo that exist out here in the fruited plain.
Sale or transfer prohibited only it looks like...
... because the left sees this as a wonderful opportunity to get the people to forget about Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the appointment of John Kerry, the forthcoming tax increases, and to enact a nationwide ban on as many types of guns as they can get.
Those are the fully automatic variants with a select fire feature; not the semi-auto models that were used by the shooter.
Actually, I suspect that the gun the shooter used had a “post-ban” configuration. In other words, it had its evil features (bayonet lug, collapsible stock and flash hider) removed. If so, it wasn’t really an “assault rifle” as defined by state law. Oh, and by the way, it would have been perfectly legal under the old U.S. assault weapons ban as well. This case proves what gun people have known all along. The AWB did nothing. All it did was affect some of the cosmetics of these firearms.
Let me say this again: Reinstate the federal assault weapons bill and the shooter’s gun would still be perfectly legal and NOT an “assault weapon” under the definition of the law.
All of the guns used were “banned” guns. The 20 year old owned nothing. He killed the owner of the guns and then took them on a shooting rampage. I’m pretty sure they were all technicaly illegal as hell at that point!
Didn’t see a date on the law. She could have already had that gun when the law was passed and was grandfathered by that law.
My understanding (and I could certainly be wrong), is that even after the sunset of the Federal Assault Weapons Bill, Connecticut kept the restrictions in place. Apparently, the shooter’s mom’s rifle was those that had been grandfathered and was duly registered with the state in compliance with its laws.
(1) Any selective-fire firearm capable of fully automatic, semiautomatic or burst fire at the option of the user or any of the following specified semiautomatic firearms: Algimec Agmi; Armalite AR-180; Australian Automatic Arms SAP Pistol; Auto-Ordnance Thompson type; Avtomat Kalashnikov AK-47 type; Barrett Light-Fifty model 82A1; Beretta AR-70; Bushmaster Auto Rifle and Auto Pistol; Calico models M-900, M-950 and 100-P; Chartered Industries of Singapore SR-88; Colt AR-15 and Sporter; Daewoo K-1, K-2, Max-1 and Max-2; Encom MK-IV, MP-9 and MP-45; Fabrique Nationale FN/FAL, FN/LAR, or FN/FNC; FAMAS MAS 223; Feather AT-9 and Mini-AT; Federal XC-900 and XC-450; Franchi SPAS-12 and LAW-12; Galil AR and ARM; Goncz High-Tech Carbine and High-Tech Long Pistol; Heckler & Koch HK-91, HK-93, HK-94 and SP-89; Holmes MP-83; MAC-10, MAC-11 and MAC-11 Carbine type; Intratec TEC-9 and Scorpion; Iver Johnson Enforcer model 3000; Ruger Mini-14/5F folding stock model only; Scarab Skorpion; SIG 57 AMT and 500 series; Spectre Auto Carbine and Auto Pistol; Springfield Armory BM59, SAR-48 and G-3; Sterling MK-6 and MK-7; Steyr AUG; Street Sweeper and Striker 12 revolving cylinder shotguns; USAS-12; UZI Carbine, Mini-Carbine and Pistol; Weaver Arms Nighthawk; Wilkinson "Linda" Pistol;
What a bizarre list! I wonder how many of those (highly specific) make/model are still in production.
Oh, wait! There's always the EEEVUL FEETCHER LIST:
(3) Any semiautomatic firearm not listed in subdivision (1) of this subsection that meets the following criteria:
(A) A semiautomatic rifle that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has at least two of the following:
(i) A folding or telescoping stock;
(ii) A pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon;
(iii) A bayonet mount;
(iv) A flash suppressor or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash suppressor; and
(v) A grenade launcher; or Looks like they ban ANY standard sport-utility rifle.
Idiots.
That does not describe any of the firearms in question. They were all, including the long gun, semi automatic. "Fully automatic" was not user selectable, as is the true definition of an "assault weapon."
Can't you see where they're going to go with this? They'll argue this is all the more reason we need a federal AWB.
If it comes to light that she bought this rifle in a "gun friendly" state (under the table at a gun show perhaps) and transported it back home in violation of Connecticut law, gun-grabbers are going to have a field day with this information!
Not a good thing.
The Bushmaster used in the massacre is probably not an assault weapon as defined under the 1994 ban -- but it looks like one to the uninformed. The problem with THAT is it's impossible to write a statute that outlaws black ugly guns as black ugly guns and so who knows what features they'll include. Letting politicians loose on a subject they're clueless about never has a good outcome. We may be back to shooting flintlock muskets before this is over.
The information behind the following might be interesting, if you haven’t already seen it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2969326/posts?page=95#95