Happy Easter kiddo!
Posted on 04/19/2014 6:26:53 PM PDT by Daffynition
A Milford man appears to be the first person charged after failing to comply with Connecticut’s law requiring the registration of certain firearms and standard capacity magazines:
A 65-year-old man faces an array of charges after he allegedly shot a squirrel in his yard Monday morning.
James Toigo, 258 Housatonic Dr., was charged with unlawful discharge of a firearm, cruelty to an animal, first-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree breach of peace, failure to register an assault rifle and three counts of possessing large-capacity magazines, according to a police press release.
Police were directing traffic in the area of Housatonic Drive when they heard a gunshot nearby, according to the release.
Upon investigation, police said Toigo was taken into custody after finding he had shot the squirrel. Police said they also found an unregistered assault rifle, as well as three large-capacity magazines, in Toigo’s home. Both the firearms and the magazines were taken, the release said.
(Excerpt) Read more at bearingarms.com ...
TF...I mentioned upthread, at the age this gentleman is reported to be.....he should have , by now, assembled some wisdom about guns/laws/anti-gun climate/CT.
TF...I mentioned upthread, at the age this gentleman is reported to be.....he should have , by now, assembled some wisdom about guns/laws/anti-gun climate/CT.
Happy Easter kiddo!
Yes, but there’s a twist. Prosecutors have even gone so far as to ask potential jurors if they have ever heard of jury nullification, and dismissing them if they have. But this can backfire, as it might remind just one person on the jury about nullification.
Joe, do you know if Connecticut will allow this weapon of choice?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLQ70JJpa0M
Some Libs say, it Sucks!
I sincerely doubt that that photo has anything to do with the story, other than being a scary-looking rifle.
The photo isn't captioned saying it's the rifle in question, is it?
Why would you post such a suggestive photo. The subject was squirrels not beavers?
IB4L = in Before Lazmataz
I take it you aren't familiar with District of Columbia v. Heller
If you know everything, why don't you know about that?
I thought it was a shoulder thing.
After reading another article on this, they had found the ARs and mags when they searched his house - which is what they do in Blue-states when you violate a common-type of law like discharging a firearm in a populated area.
I don't agree with Konnecticut's firearms laws, (I will not comply), but I do understand my environment.
You won't find me discharging a firearm unlawfully until the SHTF....
Then you have agreed with the only point that I made. :-)
The new test is that if Congress passes an unconstitutional infringement (e.g., pre-1968 machine guns), and it stands for a "long time" (supposedly like the prohibition on ex-felons in possession has been "long standing"), then it transmogrifies into a constitutional infringement.
Not to mention the "rewriting" of the Miller decision. Miller says what it says, and along comes Scalia, claiming it says something else. Guess which interpretation rules the courts? The one less friendly to RKBA, Scalia's rewrite in Heller.
Not to say that as a matter of realpolitik (the feds make the laws on account of superior firepower, not because they are honest or just), Heller isn't the best that could be had. SCOTUS has ducked it's duty in protecting the RKBA, as Congress has. See scores of cases misconstruing Presser, SCOTUS denies cert. See application of Raich against the 9th Circuit's decision to firearms.
I know one thing about you: you have zero sense of irony.
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