one line leads to another
Politicians and police have long waited for a final solution to the gun owner problem
Posted on 02/12/2014 5:19:38 PM PST by Altura Ct.
Everyone knew there would be some gun owners flouting the law that legislators hurriedly passed last April, requiring residents to register all military-style rifles with state police by Dec. 31.
But few thought the figures would be this bad.
By the end of 2013, state police had received 47,916 applications for assault weapons certificates, Lt. Paul Vance said. An additional 2,100 that were incomplete could still come in.
That 50,000 figure could be as little as 15 percent of the rifles classified as assault weapons owned by Connecticut residents, according to estimates by people in the industry, including the Newtown-based National Shooting Sports Foundation. No one has anything close to definitive figures, but the most conservative estimates place the number of unregistered assault weapons well above 50,000, and perhaps as high as 350,000.
And that means as of Jan. 1, Connecticut has very likely created tens of thousands of newly minted criminals — perhaps 100,000 people, almost certainly at least 20,000 — who have broken no other laws. By owning unregistered guns defined as assault weapons, all of them are committing Class D felonies.
"I honestly thought from my own standpoint that the vast majority would register," said Sen. Tony Guglielmo, R-Stafford, the ranking GOP senator on the legislature's public safety committee. "If you pass laws that people have no respect for and they don't follow them, then you have a real problem."
Bump on that.
one line leads to another
Politicians and police have long waited for a final solution to the gun owner problem
What needs to happen now is that some individuals who may or may not own such weapons, and who live in a conservative part of the state, should bravely step forward and admit they are violating the law, and they intend to continue to do so. Daring the state to arrest them.
And refuse to give the state their weapon when the state demands they do so. After making lots of videos showing them handling and even using their weapons in identifiable parts of the state.
The intent being a trial ending in jury nullification.
And they and their supporters need to take every opportunity to preach jury nullification of unjust and unconstitutional laws. To rub the state legislatures face in it.
That is real protest.
Amen. Exactly what I was thinking. Glad to see it’s been said ;-)
15%
Right in line with the California SKS ban numbers.
.
That's what's going on with these 47,000 in CT...unsuspecting.
So this “republican” legislator in Connecticut is for the abolishment of the second amendment? How did he get elected?
What is different about the USA that separates it from all of the murderous tyrannies of the past? Only the constitution, and 0 and his accomplices are eroding that as fast as they can. Human nature isn't any different here than in the USSR, Nazi Germany or Pol Pot's cambodia. Just look at the endless stories about police shooting people, dogs, violating peoples' right, etc and getting away with it. It starts gradually, and it's already started here.
I have to wonder about the thought processes of this so called (R), that he is surprised that people aren’t registering their guns.
What is the upside of complying with registration?
What is different about the USA that separates it from all of the murderous tyrannies of the past? Only the constitution, and 0 and his accomplices are eroding that as fast as they can.
___________________
Funny you mention our Constitution. I’d just re-read - from a link on another thread - the “How Far We’ve Fallen: Commie Goals (from 1963)”. Here are a couple of *goals* that stood out...
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
Uh not exactly. The registry was introduced by the liberal party in 1993 and passed in 1995 with a deadline to register in 2003. The Conservative party campaigned against it for many years and it wasn't until they got a majority government that the registry was finally scrapped in 2012. To get this accomplished took a lot of effort and the battle is not over by a long shot. Some provinces still want the data and you can pretty much assume when the libs return to power they will try to implement it again. The gun control people are relentless and never give up. Never rest and assume a victory large or small makes things safe for our side. Anyone who back in the Bush years felt comfortable got a rude awakening with 0.
Apparently there are 12 ga. ARs.
50,000 - 350,000. Which means a 50%-88% non-compliance rate. Let them try taking it farther and see if we get to that magic 3% number.
New Amsterdam forever!
The current "TEA Party" is but a dim shadow, to date.
Here in the states the ATF was forbidden from keeping databases of background checks on the NICS system, even though they had been. Not only do I not doubt those records which were supposed to be destroyed still exist, but now the NSA has the details as well.
Any firearm purchased since the NICS started is registered for all practical purposes as a result. If/when someone in government decides to compile the data firearm owners will be on the list, along with CCW permit holders, even if their last purchase preceded the 1968 GCA.
Never issue an order that you know will not be followed.
Mags are easier to (pre)load than tubes.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.