Posted on 06/05/2023 6:17:42 AM PDT by Puppage
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A slate of gun control measures was headed Saturday to Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont’s desk, after an all-night state Senate debate and early morning vote to approve the state’s most wide-ranging gun legislation since the laws that followed the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.
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I left that state in 2006. Won’t go back.
Conn. = lost cause. All Patriots ….. evacuate, evacuate. … and take your money!
All New England states are running towards woke as fast as they can - just awful.
The court challenges are already in process.
....“They want to live in a community that has common-sense measures that encourage gun safety and prevent harm from impacting our neighborhoods and homes,” [Lamont] said.”
this is nonsense, nothing less....how in hell will restricting law-abiding gun owners’ constitutional rights “prevent harm” ..??...banning high-capacity magazines...? yeah, that’ll do a lot of good.....
and adding some domestic violence crimes to the list of disqualifications for having a gun...
They love to include more and more "offenses" to limit purchase of guns, pretty soon saying something they disagree with will apply.
In 2016 SCOTUS reviewed a ruling by the Massachusetts state Supreme Court (the "Supreme Judicial Court") in which the "SJC" upheld Caetano's conviction on a weapons charge.She appealed that ruling on 2nd Amendment grounds claiming that the law was a violation of her 2nd Amendment rights.
The "SJC" ruled that the law prohibiting the possession of that particular type of weapon wasn't a violation of the 2nd Amendment a) because the type of weapon involved didn't exist at the time of the Amendment's adoption and b) because the weapon wasn't suitable for use by the military. And IIRC there was a third reason why they denied her appeal.
However,SCOTUS ruled...9-0...that the law did violate 2nd Amendment rights. In the narrative released along with the ruling SCOTUS,at one point,ruled the SJC's ruling to be "frivolous".
I'm no Constitutional scholar but "Caetano" seems to me to destroy any state laws outlawing AR-15s and other big scary guns.
Reading the law I do not see anything that would have prevented Sandy Hook shootings.
Among other things, the changes would ban openly carrying firearms and prohibit selling more than three handguns within 30 days to any one person, with some exceptions for instructors and others.
Other provisions include expanding Connecticut’s current assault weapon ban to include some other similar weapons; stiffening penalties for possession of large-capacity magazines; expanding safe-storage rules to more settings; and adding some domestic violence crimes to the list of disqualifications for having a gun.
Same here. Left it in 2020. CT is turning into California of the east.
Every new gun law is an admission that what was supposed to cure the violence isn’t working. The government is never accountable for laws that have failed and the next one is always touted as the ultimate solution. Ask a liberal what the 1968 Safe Streets Act accomplished. You will just get a blank stare.
Yep. I wonder what those additional domestic violence crimes would be? Perhaps speaking in protest at a school board meeting? The tyranny that the 2nd amendment is supposedly designed to prevent is already here. Unfortunately, it is a paper tiger amendment unless millions of people simultaneously rebel.
There are over 40,000 gun laws, and over 100,000 gun statutes and regulations on the books
Enough is enough (actually it is way too much)- if none of the gun laws already on the books are “sensible gun laws” like the left keep screaming for, th3n let’s be rid of the laws altogether, because as you pointed out, they ain’t working.
Everyone knows that gun laws just cripple law abiding citizens while empowering criminals. There should be lawsuits aimed at folks who keep pass8ng gun laws which make law abiding citizens more susceptible to criminal attacks.
“ Reading the law I do not see anything that would have prevented Sandy Hook shootings.”
They left out the “send anybody who thinks or acts like Adam Lanza to the loony bin” clause?
Marxist Dems are turning CT. into a Marxist State. They want control over everyone and everything.
I left that state in 2006. Won’t go back.
1989.
Lol But correctly worded such a law might help.
And maybe have penalties for anyone who gives or enables someone to get a weapon then uses it to shoot anyone.
Born in Boston, left N.E. for the last time in 1993. Got a lot of family pressure to return when I retired in '09, but chose not to. Never made a better choice. No regrets. My idiot brother, who received half of our father's heirloom guns, handed them over for destruction a few years ago. *sigh*
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