[Daffynition]

Full title: FIRST ARREST? Connecticut Man Faces Charges For Unregistered “Assault Rifle,” Standard Capacity Magazines

Incident raises lots of curious questions. Gun was sighted in well. One shot. One squirrel.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I bet it was a .22 LR "assault rifle."

[KoRn]

W...T...F... Has this world come to? How insane!

Had I read this 10 years ago, I would have thought it to be satire, or an article from The Onion.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[musicman]

"Connecticut Man Faces Charges
For Unregistered “Assault Rifle,” "



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[ClearCase_guy]

Americans may sit around seething until about 98% of the guns have been taken away by the feds.

Then we'll decide to do something.

[Iron Munro]

Not to mention that he will probably be facing a civil suit by the squirrels law firm: Dewey, Skroom & Howe.

[Trueblackman]

The State of Conn would rather jail a 68 Man for shooting a tree rodent than going after some illegal alien who is here illegally, typical Progressive mindset.

[Second Amendment First]

An air rifle would have been more appropriate.

[smokingfrog]

Since when is shooting a tree rat considered animal cruelty?

[Fungi]

The state has to start somewhere, but hopefully it will backfire.

[Psalm 73]

Milford is a suburb - there is really nowhere in that town where you would not be near someone's house.
You cannot just shoot something in your yard in a town like that - it's not the boondocks.
You're just calling undue attention to yourself - killing a squirrel with an AR w/ 30-rd mag? With neighbors watching from a few feet away?

[Iron Munro]

Police were directing traffic in the area of Housatonic Drive when they heard a gunshot nearby

That's why they sell these:

[TigersEye]

He shot a squirrel and they searched his house? Get out of that NAZI state!

[JoeProBono]

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Gun advocates should immediately blanket the state with information about jury nullification.

Importantly, Connecticut has a weird grand jury law, in which they use an “investigatory grand jury”, which is a judge, judge referee, or three-judge panel. So he is almost guaranteed to be indicted.

http://www.cga.ct.gov/2002/rpt/2002-R-0088.htm

This means that there cannot be a “nullifying grand jury”, and he can only be exonerated by a nullifying trial court jury.

So again, Connecticut needs to be blanketed with references to jury nullification, so that this travesty of the law is smothered in its crib.

[Domandred]

Google mapped his address.

If he was shooting squirrels in his back yard with any rifle he deserves at least the unlawful discharge of a firearm and first-degree reckless endangerment charges. Second-degree breach of peace as well if it wasn’t silenced.

No business shooting in a residential area with houses on all sides of his.

I’ll still give him a pass on the registrations because I will not comply there either.

[House Atreides]

I shot the squirrel.....but I didn’t shoot no deputy, ooh, ooh, oo-ooh.

[1010RD]

Find out when the case is going to court and have liberty minded folks volunteer for jury duty or treat this like the OJ trail. Identify the jurors and make it impossible to convict. It’s an opportunity for jury nullification.

[Mariner]

GEEZ The first guy they get has a 10-22!?!?!?!?

They're going to destroy what's left of his life over it.

[Logical me]

The new gestapo at work with laws that are unconstitutional. America is finished.