Posted on 02/27/2014 4:52:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
If you have ever had a conversation with a die-hard liberal about the Second Amendment, chances are you have probably been called “paranoid” a time or two (…or fifty).
“What are you talking about? The government is not going to take your guns; I don’t know what you’re so worried about,” I can recall from a particular conversation. “Seriously, you’re just paranoid!”
If having the foresight to recognize that gun registration is not only wildly unconstitutional, but also a convenient means by which the government could use to eventually confiscate firearms makes me “paranoid,” then so be it. However, contrary to the liberal narrative, juvenile insults don’t actually alter reality.
As you know, there is a massive display of civil disobedience happening in Connecticut right now. Over 90% of the gun owners in the Constitution State have refused to comply with new anti-gun regulations; these laws require that all “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines (over ten rounds) be registered as of January 1 of this year.
The state estimated that there are about 372,000 “assault weapons” and over two million “high-capacity” magazines within the state. But when the numbers came in, only about 50,000 “assault weapons” had been registered as well as 38,000 “high-capacity” magazines.
In other words, only about 3.7% of the “scary weaponry” within Connecticut has been registered with the government… meaning that 96.3% of innocent gun owners were considered felons overnight. (Of course, this did not phase them as they are continuing to ignore the so-called law.)
The bureaucrats bent on control didn’t like this so much, you can imagine. They are responding by sending another wave of letters to gun owners giving them “one more chance” to register their weapons with the government.
According to a local newspaper, the Journal Inquirer:
The state now holds signed and notarized letters saying those late applicants own rifles and magazines illegally.
But rather than turn that information over to prosecutors, state officials are giving the gun owners a chance to get rid of the weapons and magazines.
Stated differently, rather than immediately taking hundreds of thousands of gun owners to court over their shiny, new “felony,” the oh-so-benevolent overlords of Connecticut are “graciously” giving them another chance to comply — or else.
Here’s a copy of the letter gun owners allegedly received after having “missed” the January 1 deadline, courtesy of Guns Save Lives:
So, let’s get this straight… Residents in Connecticut have the choice of: 1.Complying with blatantly unconstitutional law by threat of government force; 2.Selling their weapon to a government-approved dealer; 3.Destroying their own guns or magazines; 4.Letting someone in a more pro-gun state hold them; or 5.Giving it directly to the police.
Talk about “land of the free”!
Time will tell what happens when gun owners continue to ignore this unconstitutional law and you can guarantee we will keep you posted. In the meantime, help spread the word by sharing this article on Facebook and Twitter.
Have you guys heard this phone call? This woman called the CT State Police to inquire about the letter her husband received. I’m sure you will all find it VERY informative:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUxjuz2o9Gk
http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-guns-malloy-compromise-0215-20140214,0,6064926.story
if you were just a day late or had a late postmark, they are apparently letting you register. That’s only a few people though.
The instant back ground check info isn’t kept by the FBI or any federal database...
Wanna buy a bridge?
Obama will cut the deficit in half.
If you like your plan you can keep it.
The letter posted doesn’t say that you can still comply. It says it is too late to comply, and you must either destroy your weapon, sell it, or remove it from the state.
Maybe there was another letter that gave them a second chance to comply, but it isn’t the letter posted.
I almost wish I had an “illegal” gun or magazine to be part of the resistance. I only have semi-auto, lever-action and pump guns not on “the list”. Damn.
It did cost me $116 in four separate checks, a day of work to drive to Middletown, CT. and a ten week wait to get my long gun/ammo certificate. Now CT is like MA has been for the last 20 years in that regard. How was that not infringing?
For being a blue/purple state, Pennsylvania is gun-friendly too. But giving any state to the anti-gunners hurts us all.
Felons can’t vote can they?
Another unenforceable law that will lead to crime and mayhem. The USA founded by geniuses and now run by idiots.
Concord all over again.
Amazing what is that from?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “The Gulag Archipelago”
This is how despotic regimes are ultimately defeated; by a collective “F*** You” from the populace.
Ping!
Did they move Pennsylvania, Vermont, and New Hampshire? I thought they were relatively close to Connecticut.
It sounds a little like when they brought Hank Rearden to trial in Atlas Shrugged and he refused to be their pawn. Looks like the people have chosen the same path. They do not acknowledge that the government has the authority to force people to register their firearms. It looks like NY is following this path also. These little tyrants get all huffy when their edicts are not followed by the people.
I think it’s disgusting to watch gun owners in 49 other states hoping the battle takes place in CT and not in their state. You know who you are.
“”state officials are giving the gun owners a chance to get rid of the weapons and magazines.”
Nazis.
Actually, I'm hoping there is no battle and that the Government of CT returns to complying with the 2nd Amendment peacefully and throws out the law.
Keep in mind, though, the battle against such legislation has been fought, repeatedly, in statehouses across this country, and the legislation beaten back in many jurisdictions before things reached this point. Not every state has seen the ideal results, and the battle is ongoing.
No one here is hoping for bloodshed, but perhaps if more folks from CT had fought harder when the battle was one of words, things would not have reached this point.
So pardon us for cheering for the mass fortitude of those who continue to oppose this "settled law" in spite of the possibility of violent confrontations, because an illegal law is an illegal law: it must be opposed in order for freedom to prevail.
I pray the Government of the State of CT acquires the wisdom to back down, and cheer the patriots willing to hold the line, but this isn't happening in other states because we didn't let it get this far.
The civil disobedience in CT is a warning to the other legislatures that even in the northeast, generally regarded as Liberal country, people will not comply.
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