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Connecticut gun owners revolt: Widely flouted registration law puts legislators in a bind
Washington Times ^ | February 19, 2014 | Masthead Editorial

Posted on 02/22/2014 11:21:49 PM PST by neverdem

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To: neverdem

I suspect the next step the state will do is announce a week-long “amnesty” for those flouting the law to come forth and comply with the registration requirement. That will have essentially the same level of failure as the law’s initial deadline. Even in states like CT, some folks know unconstitutionality when they see it.

Further, that 300,000 estimate doesn’t include the supportive family members of those refusing to register.


21 posted on 02/23/2014 2:14:17 AM PST by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: SpaceBar

Somebody in Hartford needs to read up on what is happening in Ukraine


22 posted on 02/23/2014 2:45:21 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Billthedrill

There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Repetition is a good teacher.

I think at this point a mention of the 1986 gun control act might be appropriate. In essence it cracks down on machine guns, by limiting those available for purchase and in so doing virtually BANS those particular weapons. The supply is now so limited and the price so high that it is indeed a BAN and the sooner the law abiding among us fight the unconstitutionality of such the sooner we will all be able to afford what government sought to overregulate and ban with the original NFA of 1934.

“Shall not be infringed” has been going on since at least as long as the NRA has been in existance, and for that the NRA should be taken to task as well.


23 posted on 02/23/2014 3:21:07 AM PST by wita
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To: FreedomPoster

Indeed it does, and I copied but didn’t paste, although I’m tempted, because repetition is a good teacher.

You have a trove of interesting “stuff”.


24 posted on 02/23/2014 3:27:04 AM PST by wita
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To: MasterGunner01

They CANNOT be managed nor can they be contained. The end result is never certain, but the Rule of Law will be the first KIA in this fight.

Amen to that MG01.


25 posted on 02/23/2014 3:30:29 AM PST by wita
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To: neverdem

“If it’s really serious, the state will have to find space to imprison 300,000 residents for the next five years.”

FEMA Camp?


26 posted on 02/23/2014 3:45:33 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: neverdem

And HOW many illegal aliens are there?

And HOW many lawMAKERs want to give the lawBREAKERs amnesty?

Can’t we give our own CITIZENs ‘amnesty’ for actually FOLLOWING the law??


27 posted on 02/23/2014 3:52:21 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: neverdem

Here in the Indy area, we’ve just wasted 8 folks in 12 hours recently!

https://www.google.com/search?q=indianapolis+shootings&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&ie=&oe=&rlz=1I7ADRA_enUS475

Surely we’ve made the news out in your neck of the woods.

(Any guesses as to the LEGAL sales of guns that this factoid will generate?)


28 posted on 02/23/2014 3:55:01 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Rob the Ugly Dude


Go right ahead and TRY to take my money!

29 posted on 02/23/2014 3:58:36 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Eagles6

We might get to see how important a cop’s paycheck is to him.

In a year we might be saying thank God for Conn. Who would have thought it possible?


30 posted on 02/23/2014 4:24:15 AM PST by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: neverdem

Just for my info, how can you make sure you can’t be shot? This is very important to me and I am sure armies all around the world would pay big bucks for this. You could be a future billionaire.


31 posted on 02/23/2014 4:27:12 AM PST by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: neverdem

When gun owners start flouting the law like they are illegal aliens or pot smokers it’s time for the government to start worrying, or sending out SWAT teams to enforce their totalitarian requirements.


32 posted on 02/23/2014 4:40:42 AM PST by Bernard (The Road To Hell is not paved with good results.)
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To: neverdem
I always found it an amazing leap of logic that the Supreme Court decision that “discovered” a glittering right to “privacy” that was based on “emanations from the penumbra” of the US Constitution immediately legalized abortion in all 50 states and in all US territories; yet Supreme Court decisions that have determined gun ownership is an individual right mean nothing, and states are allowed to run rogue over individual rights by passing and enforcing whatever unconstitutional provisions they so choose.
33 posted on 02/23/2014 4:46:39 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: faithhopecharity
And how is it “we” keep electing such Aholes...

Low-info, name-recognition voters.

34 posted on 02/23/2014 4:57:15 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: jocon307
even from those whom this law was intended to help

The road to you-know-where notwithstanding, I do not believe 0care was intended by its architects and builders to actually help anyone other than the marxist/socialist Democrat political class.

Cordially,

35 posted on 02/23/2014 5:00:30 AM PST by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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To: neverdem

Bravo, flouters !

These patriots' refusals are no different than a jury's absolute right, nay DUTY, to refuse to sanction an unjust and/or unConstitutional persecution.

 

36 posted on 02/23/2014 5:04:48 AM PST by tomkat
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To: Eagles6

“This is VERY SERIOUS stuff. In an unltra lib blue state yet.....People have said enough is enough.”

Th proof is in the results at the polls. (Provided that a Progressive isn’t counting the votes.)

Progressives in blue states really can’t bring themselves to vote outside of the comfy Alice-In-Wonderland world they’ve made to fit their maladjusted world view.

They will vote for Progressives no matter what they might
“feel” at the moment of tyranny by their own revolutionary brothers.

IMHO


37 posted on 02/23/2014 5:24:41 AM PST by ripley
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To: ripley

What you say about progressives is also true of life long democrats or multi generational democrats. These people are who the progressive organizers count on to reflexively stay “democrat” no matter what.

We all work with some of them or go to church with some.

These are people that would never nominate Obama, vote for socialized medicine, can’t stand the 300% increase in food stamp dependents, feel that the open border crap is suicide, feel that scofflaws abound due to racial games in courts and many other thing that should make them leave the democrat party — but they can’t. They can’t identify themselves as “conservative” or republican.

They have a mindset that to make that change would make them a “bad” person or a person who didn’t “care.”

The progressives love these guys who will ride their pony to the gates of hell.


38 posted on 02/23/2014 5:35:46 AM PST by KC Burke (Officially since Memorial Day they are the Gimmie-crat Party.ha)
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To: KC Burke

“What you say about progressives is also true of life-long democrats....”

Democrat or Progressive?

Really no difference these days.

Democrats/Progressives love the obnoxious, psychotic,
adolescent, aggressive, denigrating, demeaning stance of Progressive politicians.

Maybe they they were abused as children and think that Progressive politicians are “protecting” them from a boogeyman. Whatever the case might be, the problem is not the politicians, but those who vote for them, again, and again, and again.

IMHO


39 posted on 02/23/2014 5:44:48 AM PST by ripley
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To: ScottinVA

They already gave “amnesty” for a month or so. I think the amnesty period is over. And as you suggested, I’m pretty sure that failed also. The way I see it, their only remaining options are concede defeat before burying thousands of gun owners and SWAT team members, or bury thousands and then concede defeat. The former would probably be less expensive.


40 posted on 02/23/2014 5:50:05 AM PST by lcms rev
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