[joshua c]

“The Hartford Courant notes that the government has records of gun owners who went through background checks in order to purchase AR-15s.”

This caught my attention. I thought the information from background checks had to be destroyed. Anyone know different?

In the last failed Federal gun control bill, the 2nd Amendment Foundation added an amendment which added a penalty for not destroying the background check data.

The current law states that the background check data must be destroyed but there is no penalty for not destroying it. Anyone else familiar with this?

[kiryandil]

this ill-conceived legislation, pushed through by gun-control activists, is going to pit many law-abiding law enforcement officers against thousands of patriotic, American freedom-loving gun owners.

It will actually be "many Just Following Orders farce enlawment orifices against thousands of patriotic, American freedom-loving gun owners".

Everything done in Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany was completely legal.

[jumpingcholla34]

The level of defiance makes me proud of my fellow gun owners. The politicians really screwed the pooch on this one.

[Kickass Conservative]

Compliance with Tyranny is Treason...

[WayneS]

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

One man's "No Sh##, Sherlock" moment.

[qaz123]

Simple question(s)…

When you fill out the ATF form for backgrounds, that’s all it’s used for. The ATF doesn’t get a copy and the FFL is only required to hold it for a certain amount of time. Many keep them longer just in case a gun trace is done and they can tell investigators who it went to.

Where does Conn come up with the numbers on how many people haven’t complied?
How do they know who has what?

[Smokin' Joe]

It sounds to me that the ball is really in the LEO's court.

They can choose not to enforce the law. Just Refuse, every one.

In the interest of public safety, though, I suppose that CT could then fire all their police?

Do they have some Sheriffs with a pair and love for the Constitution?

[Spartan302]

And I bet all of these same individuals also refused to sign up for obamacare.

And this will spread all across the nation, a fist in the air, defiance against the government that denies liberty.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[RKBA Democrat]

This is not good.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Art.] Trying to prosecute 50,000 to 350,000 gun owners would be insanity.

Really? Not even if :

• Obama is a Communist,
• Obama wants a fight in which he can claim the moral high ground (like Lincoln) and then take the fight to whatever pitch of violence he needs,
• Obama is using the 2A fight as a stalking horse for installing a "people's republic",
• Obama wants to use the law to "purge" all the Norman Rockwell Americans, dominate them, cow them, and claim thereafter to be the Great Black Liberator who brought Whitey to his knees and "liberated" America from its European-born oppressors?

Not even if that's what is on Obama's plate?