RE: Wonder what the guns law are like in Conn.
After the Sandy Hook Massacre, December 14, 2012 ( which happened in a blissful town in Connecticut ), Connecticut passed gun laws in April 2013 that made it amongst the most restrictive in the country; some of which are being challenged by lawsuits in both the state and federal courts.
Prior to that, CT had quote reasonable gun laws. I know because I was a consultant for a data center in Trumbull, Ct and a lot of my colleagues owned guns and hunt for sport.
Article I,Section 15 of the Constitution of Connecticut states, “Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself [or herself] and the state.”
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Nice...its in Article 1 of the state constitution, not an amendment to same.
“Wonder what the gun laws are like in Conn.”
“After the Sandy Hook massacre...December 14, 2012...Connecticut passed gun laws in April 2013 that made it among the most restrictive in the country...”
Yep, laws were changed 4 months after the massacre, 7 months before the official report was released.
The Report of the State’s Attorney for the Judicial District of Danbury on the Shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School was released on November 25, 2013.This was a summary, based on multitudinous in-depth reports of various aspects.
I’m no expert, but a couple of troubling details jumped out at me from this summary.
Remember the two guys in camo caught in the woods, then released?
Turns out, according to the report, they were employees of DEEP.
That’s the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
Sounds like a state offshoot of EPA, right? So maybe they were merely conducting environmental studies? Collecting soil samples, something benign like that. And they heard gunshots and ran, for their own safety?
Huh.
Turns out DEEP, in addition to oversight of parks, wildlife, hunting and fishing licenses, etc., also regulates GUNS!!
DEEP is the state bureaucracy, agency or whatever, that instigates the creation or change of gun laws, then formulates those laws into specific, nitpicky regulations over EVERY ASPECT of gun sales and ownership in the state of Connecticut, in addition to oversight of energy and the environment.
Am I the only one that finds that weird?
By reading this report, and then some follow up googling of news articles, I learned DEEP subsequently PARTICIPATED in the SANDY HOOK INVESTIGATION, AND THEN REWROTE STATE GUN REGULATIONS!!!
So, two DEEP agents are apprehended by local cops behind the school within minutes after Adam Lanza’s corpse hit the floor.
Then they’re quickly released after it’s determined they’re DEEP employees, so they couldn’t possibly have been involved in the shooting.
The State Attorney’s report notes, with thanks and no pfurther comment, that DEEP was involved ass-deep in the investigation of the shooting which produced the State Attorney’s report.
Let’s recollect the name of this agency once again: Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
Environmentalists who just happened to be in the woods, not suspects because they’re environmentalists. But they work for an environmental agency with an interest in the outcome of mass murder.
An environmental / energy agency that rewrote the gun laws; an agency that enforces gun laws.
This begs an obvious question: WHO were the two DEEP agents who were apprehended, and were THESE INDIVIDUALS directly involved in the investigation, and if so, why? And in what way?
Also noted in the report, the Bushmaster Lanza allegedly used in shooting all the victims had a seriously corroded barrel. Thus, the gun “could not be ruled out” as the murder weapon, but neither was it conclusively determined to BE the murder weapon.