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Officials in Connecticut Stunned by What Could Be a Massive, State-Wide Act of ‘Civil Disobedience’
The Blaze ^ | 2-13-2014 | Jason Howerton

Posted on 02/13/2014 7:51:11 AM PST by sheikdetailfeather

On Jan. 1, 2014, tens of thousands of defiant gun owners seemingly made the choice not to register their semi-automatic rifles with the state of Connecticut as required by a hastily-passed gun control law. By possessing unregistered so-called “assault rifles,” they all technically became guilty of committing Class D felonies overnight.

Police had received 47,916 applications for “assault weapons certificates” and 21,000 incomplete applications as of Dec. 31, Lt. Paul Vance told The Courant.

At roughly 50,000 applications, officials estimate that as little as 15 percent of the covered semi-automatic rifles have actually been registered with the state. “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,” the report states.

Needless to say, officials and some lawmakers are stunned.

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: banglist; confiscation; gun; officials; owners; registered; registration; stunned
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To: fella
start the 3:AM no-knock raids

I can only guess at the State Police pucker factor when they begin...plenty o homes armed, and no knock raids sound an awful lot like home invasions

61 posted on 02/13/2014 8:53:29 AM PST by Revelation 911
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Stick it to The Man.

When the Nazis ask you to register your guns, don’t do anything.


62 posted on 02/13/2014 8:55:49 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a pedophile and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

So, thousands of gun owners became class D felons overnight? Wonder if Holder will withdraw his attempt to approve voter rights for convicted felons?


63 posted on 02/13/2014 8:55:52 AM PST by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: Red Badger

To be all “correcty” here - Paul Revere (and 2 others) rode through with the call of “The Regulars are out”.

Then Everyone in the Colonies were British, but divided in their Loyalties.
Should they obey General Gage’s commands and surrender to the Chains of Slavery or should they remain on their Feet...?

Hard choices then and now -

(Disclaimer: Information from “Paul Revere’s Ride” : David Hackett Fischer - any spelling/grammatical errors - all mine...)


64 posted on 02/13/2014 8:56:58 AM PST by NoNAIS (Yet another Government program not needed.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

“...Massive, State-Wide Act of ‘Civil Disobedience’”

Otherwise known as a justifiable “executive order” of the people.


65 posted on 02/13/2014 8:57:17 AM PST by Repent and Believe (Promote good. Tolerate the harmless. Let evil be crushed.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

All well and good. But until these hand-wringing, nanny-state types are voted out of office not much changes. Just more infringement on liberty.


66 posted on 02/13/2014 8:57:25 AM PST by opus86
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To: Principled

It was a Solzhenitzyn quote.


67 posted on 02/13/2014 8:58:01 AM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: PLMerite

Its coming..because evil in leftists is not compromising by nature. They are control freaks.


68 posted on 02/13/2014 8:59:34 AM PST by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
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To: Bogey78O
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?

Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?

After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you'd be cracking the skull of a cutthroat.

Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur -- what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!"

69 posted on 02/13/2014 9:06:30 AM PST by Principled
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To: Revelation 911

Recently, a grand jury in Texas refused to indict a guy for killing a sheriff during a no knock raid.


70 posted on 02/13/2014 9:10:16 AM PST by goldi
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To: sheikdetailfeather

So, at the stroke of a pen and the turn of the calendar, the state of Connecticut now has 333,000 armed felons. I think that constitutes Unintended Consequences. That would make a heckuva title for a book...


71 posted on 02/13/2014 9:10:42 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: sheikdetailfeather

When guns are outlawed, only idiots will be without them.


72 posted on 02/13/2014 9:11:15 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

This is why….. (Graphic Content)
February 13, 2014

Yesterday in Venezuela, there was a country-wide series of peaceful demonstrations against the Government. Lots of cities joined and some didn’t but what has happened since Neo Communism was democratically voted into office came to happen once again: Violence against the demonstrators.

Now according to the law down there, anti-riot police is strictly forbidden in the usage of lethal ammunition against unarmed “rioters”. The problem is that Less-Than-Lethal can be quite damaging if the “officers” do not adhere to the recommended practices by the manufacturers which tends to be shooting at a distance not closer than 35 feet. So the Venezuelan “officers” love to get close and personal.

Graphic photos

http://gunfreezone.net/wordpress/


73 posted on 02/13/2014 9:14:30 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Revelation 911
start the 3:AM no-knock raids

I can only guess at the State Police pucker factor when they begin...plenty o homes armed, and no knock raids sound an awful lot like home invasions

My Great Dane, and Husky will alert me very early to reach over, pick up my shotgun and flip off the safety. This is a good day to die. Some will come with me.

74 posted on 02/13/2014 9:25:09 AM PST by USCG SimTech (Honored to serve since '71)
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To: Responsibility2nd

People follow the laws for the same reason they pay protection money to the mafia. The government’s legitimacy flows from its willingness to use brute force, and is completely disconnected from “consent of the governed.”


75 posted on 02/13/2014 9:28:31 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Responsibility2nd

“If you pass laws that people have no respect for and they don’t follow them, then you have a real problem.”


And yet they can’t substitute the name Obama for “people” and “they” and see that that is the real problem.


76 posted on 02/13/2014 9:30:30 AM PST by MWestMom (We are not designed to sacrifice for the state, we were designed to sacrifice for each other.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

GO, NUTMEGGERS, GO!!!


77 posted on 02/13/2014 9:33:07 AM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: KeyLargo

I was up late last night looking at these pics and reports about how a “few detractors” started the uprising. I am sure Obama is taking lessons from watching how it is done. Juan Pablo from the show “The Bachelor” put out a tweet which showed these pics and he said he is shocked no media are covering this.


78 posted on 02/13/2014 9:37:44 AM PST by sheikdetailfeather (Yuri Bezmenov (KGB Defector) - "Kick The Communists Out of Your Govt. & Don't Accept Their Goodies.")
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To: sheikdetailfeather
"....as little as 15 percent of the covered semi-automatic rifles have actually been registered with the state."

Um, maybe we traded them for non-scary things before the deadline.
We were not legally required to file paperwork for trading a rifle, for, say, a bag of manure....

79 posted on 02/13/2014 9:40:43 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

“The more you tighten your grip, (Governor) Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.”
- Star Wars


80 posted on 02/13/2014 9:43:09 AM PST by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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