Conn. officials tell gun owners to relinquish or destroy banned assault weapons

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/15/conn-officials-tell-gun-owners-to-relinquish-or-destroy-banned-assault-weapons/ ^

[Blue Turtle]

HARTFORD, Conn. – Connecticut officials are urging owners of now-illegal assault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines to relinquish them to the police or make them permanently inoperable. The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection announced Friday it had sent a letter to owners who had failed to register the items by a Jan. 1 deadline, part of last year's gun control law. Officials offered advice on what to do now with the weapons and magazines.

[I want the USA back]

Malloy wouldn’t try to confiscate anything without having gotten assurance from the marxist in Washington that he will provide armed and legal support. (DHS and the ‘justice’ department)

[Pecos]

Well, he did have the “bravery” to declare the freedom of slaves in all states then in rebellion against the U.S. government. Note that this did not include the slaves in Maryland or other border states.

[rolling_stone]

sooner or later those that pass unconstitutional laws should be required to pay a significant penalty...and those that try and enforce them cannot hide behind “ I was just following orders”

[CodeJockey]

Did Congress and Lincoln outlaw possession of firearm for citizens in the Southern (Confederate) States?

Not to my knowledge. I've never head of such. My grandfather, father and I always have owned guns. And always will.

[bgill]

I think that these were the people that TRIED to register the guns... but *surprise* the applications were rejected.It would be interesting if several of those who were rejected got together claiming their homes had been broken into and stole those weapons. Of course, cya. Put the stink onto the state government that someone inside the registration process was doing the stealing.

[from occupied ga]

And they were willing to use these instruments [arms, police, and military] against their people who resisted their illegal acts.

And if we are to judge what might happen by history, then the police and military will carry out their orders to confiscate, arrest, and in the case of resistance kill anyone who opposes them. When France fell to the Nazis, the French police were had no problems rounding up jews for the nazis.

The Heydrick solution will doubtless be applied to some of the people who voted for this, but the majority of CT citizens will probably approve of their evil gun owning neighbors being arrested or killed (or arrested and then killed)

[libstripper]

We FReepers, especially the former gun owners, are the most inept group of boaters in the maritime history of the world.

[sport]

And when stories of the CT gun owners being murdered by the police are posted on Free Republic, the cops can do no wrong club on Free Republic chanting and shouting with glee and joy, “They got what they deserved. No loss here. How brave the police are.”

[jsanders2001]

Well I can’t think of a better time to die for a cause in this Rat infested nation. Its not the USA I grew up in. If they shoot and kill me it will just be a promotion.

[from occupied ga]

They got what they deserved. No loss here. How brave the police are.”

Sadly quite true. Some people just love the taste of jackboot polish - even in the FR community.

[sport]

I feel the same as you. As I told my Preacher last night, " will not submit". His reply was I feel the same, if worse come to worse, so be it.

I am not foolish enough to believe that I will make a difference in how things turn out. I will only be another corpse riddled by police bullets. But I will not submit.

[from occupied ga]

Oh and BTW this is what all of the Army’s MRAPs that have been coming back from Afganistan and distributed to local polcie are going to be used for. How long before we see IEDs on the streets of the USA?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Interesting because Lincoln and Congress understood the citizens Southern States to still be members of the US and in open rebellion.

While destroying (”suspending”) other parts of the Constitution (most notable the independence of the several States under the 10th Amendment), he let many of the original Bill of Rights stand.

[drypowder]

Because a bunch of corrupted politicians and corrupted judges say anti-firearms laws are constitutional, per the constitution itself, any law that is contrary to the Constitution is automatically void. The Constitution’s original intent clearly opens the door for the people to remove from public office those corrupted individuals. It would do for the people to be proactive to that end v waiting for the corrupted authoritarian tyrants to physically enforce their unlawful laws. The badge bearing grunts need to realize they and their families are also the victims of their corrupt bosses.

[sport]

The comment No loss was posted on the latest police murder last night. Just read their posts. There is a large, large membership to the club here.

[KeyLargo]

Defense & National Security
Stockman, Miller bill restores veteran gun rights

By: Danielle Thompson
3/23/2014 09:24 PM

Second Amendment rights of law-abiding military veterans continue to be stripped away without due process.

A 1998 agreement between the Department of Veterans Affairs and the FBI was one of the first jabs at veterans’ Second Amendment rights. The agreement was made to send the names of veterans into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, triggering a virtual lifetime ban from owning firearms of those who are labeled as “mentally incompetent,” meaning they need or desire the assistance of a fiduciary to help them manage, often complicated, financial affairs.

This agreement forced law-abiding veterans into the NICS database without due process.

There are legislators attempting to end the practice of forwarding names of military veterans to be stripped of their Second Amendment rights.

This congressional session, congressmen Stephen E. Stockman (R.-Texas) and Jefferson B. “Jeff” Miller R.-Florida) introduced H.R. 602, the Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act, to combat the assault to our law-abiding soldiers. Miller is the chairman of the House Committee on Veteran Affairs.

http://www.humanevents.com/2014/03/23/stockman-miller-bill-restores-veteran-gun-rights/

[Paine in the Neck]

Connecticut Gun Confiscation, LawMakers List

[Paine in the Neck]

The first conflict of the American Revolution might be said to be the result of the Stamp Act of 1765. In August of 1765, Andrew Oliver, the stamp agent in Boston was hung in effigy from the Liberty Tree and forced to resign his commission.

"What a greater Joy did ever New England see Than a Stampman hanging on a Tree".

Lt. Gov Hutchinson and the sheriff attempted to break up the crowd around midnight only to be driven off by a hail of stones and harsh commentary.

A couple of weeks later a crowd gathered and lit a bonfire on King St in Boston. They then moved on to the house of William Story, a Crown agent in the admiralty court. The crowd swarmed the house, destroying Story's papers and his furnishings as well as Court records held there.

The crowd then moved on to the home of Boston's Controller of Customs, Benjamin Hallowell. They tore down his fence, broke out his windows, stormed the house and stripped it of contents.

The next target of the night was Hutchinson's home. The Lt. Gov. had gotten warning and sent his family to safety. But his eldest daughter had returned and declared she would stay unless Hutchinson also departed. Hutchinson retreated with her to a neighbor's house. The crowd did its work again and left only a shell and a partial roof to greet the dawn.

Thus our ancestors met overreaching government. It was not the last battle but merely a beginning. There followed the Declaratory Act and the Townsend Acts and the Tea Act. Martial law and direct resistance pushed back and forth until "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" and then it was game on.

[Paine in the Neck]

The Chastisement of John Malcolm

In 1774, John Malcolm was a Crown customs collector, based in Boston. At that time Boston had had five years of civic tension culminating in the Boston Massacre. Malcolm, like most Crown representatives didn't much like the Bostonians and harboured smouldering resentment against the uppity locals who had been resisting Crown authority since the Stamp Act in 1768. They made his job difficult. Malcolm had more reason than most to hold a grudge against the colonists. He had only recently had a run-in with the good people of Portland, Maine on a customs matter over which they had disagreed. The Portland folks saw fit to tar and feather Malcolm but were kind enough to allow him to remain clothed for the treatment. A prideful man who was impressed by his own authority this didn't sit well.

In the snow covered streets of Boston in January Malcolm was run over by a boy sledding in the street. Malcolm, his temper getting the best of him, raised his cane to strike the boy. George Hewes, a local shoemaker, intervened and Malcolm turned on Hewes. At first, Malcolm tried to overawe Hewes with his social rank - being a gentleman and, in Malcolm's mind, a hero of the French and Indian War. Hewes took the vituperation of Malcolm with a grain of salt and retorted "Be that as it may, I was never tarred and feathered." That was the match to Malcolm's tinder and he flew at Hewes and struck him a near fatal blow to the head with his cane.

The town of Boston was electric with tension between the locals and Crown representatives and word of this attack spread almost instantly. A crowd gathered at Malcolm's house while he shouted out a window, relishing baiting the crowd into an uproar, and flourishing with his sword, eventually stabbing one man in the chest.

The crowd swarmed the house, forcing Malcolm to retreat to the second floor. Malcolm was eventually disarmed and the crowd seized him, tied him, put him on a sled and dragged him through the town as brickbats rained upon him.
After pulling him by the wharfs to pick up a barrel of tar, the mob took him to King St, by the Town House, where political rallies were customarily held and where the Massacre had occurred.

In the chill of the coldest night of a Boston January Malcolm was stripped, dislocating his arm, and hot tar daubed on his bare skin, burning his flesh.

Feathers then were applied to give what was then called the "modern jacket". Malcolm was then paraded, both burned and freezing, from one end of the town to the other and back. At the Liberty Tree they threw a noose around his neck and threatened to hang him if he didn't denounce the Governor and the Customs Commissioners. He refused but they didn't hang him. Instead they paraded him back to the far end of town again, eventually rolling him out of the cart at his home "like a log."

Malcolm wasn't the first or last to suffer from the people's anger. In the time before Concord and Lexington many Crown representatives as well as colonists in government positions suffered their houses to be ransacked, demolished or fired and their persons to be insulted most cruelly. Soon, the British Regulars - the Redcoats - the Crown's SWAT teams of the time - which had been withdrawn after the Boston Massacre in an attempt to calm matters were returned in force and Boston was placed under martial law.

[DarkSavant]

To their defense, most seem to have finally shut up now.