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CaliFFL
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Connecticut has a gun problem.
CaliFFL
Posts: 5,486 Senior Member
CT has recently created thousands of felons. Felons with evil black rifles. This could get ugly.
Also, I found it ironic that the press would suggest that the police use background checks to find people that, uhm, passed background checks.
Didn't they tells us that BGCs would not be used as registration/confiscation devices?
http://articles.courant.com/2014-02-14/news/hc-ed-gun-registration-20140214_1_new-law-gun-registration-military-style-assault-weapons
Also, I found it ironic that the press would suggest that the police use background checks to find people that, uhm, passed background checks.
Didn't they tells us that BGCs would not be used as registration/confiscation devices?
Connecticut has a gun problem.
It's estimated that perhaps scores of thousands of Connecticut residents failed to register their military-style assault weapons with state police by Dec. 31.
That's the deadline imposed by a tough bipartisan gun-safety law passed by the legislature last year in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
Widespread noncompliance with this major element of a law that was seen as a speedy and hopefully effective response by Connecticut to mass shootings such as the one at Sandy Hook creates a headache for the state.
The dimensions of the unregistered guns problem were outlined in a Tuesday column by The Courant's Dan Haar.
Guns defined in state law as assault weapons can no longer be bought or sold in Connecticut. Such guns already held can be legally possessed if registered. But owning an unregistered assault weapon is a Class D felony. Felonies cannot go unenforced.
First, however, the registration period should be reopened. It should be accompanied by a public information campaign.
Although willful noncompliance with the law is doubtless a major issue, it's possible that many gun owners are unaware of their obligation to register military-style assault weapons and would do so if given another chance.
But the bottom line is that the state must try to enforce the law. Authorities should use the background check database as a way to find assault weapon purchasers who might not have registered those guns in compliance with the new law.
A Class D felony calls for a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Even much lesser penalties or probation would mar a heretofore clean record and could adversely affect, say, the ability to have a pistol permit.
If you want to disobey the law, you should be prepared to face the consequences.
http://articles.courant.com/2014-02-14/news/hc-ed-gun-registration-20140214_1_new-law-gun-registration-military-style-assault-weapons
When our governing officials dismiss due process as mere semantics, when they exercise powers they don’t have and ignore duties they actually bear, and when we let them get away with it, we have ceased to be our own rulers.
Adam J. McCleod
Adam J. McCleod
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It's going to suck to be the first CT gun owner to get the no-knock warrant, you know they will be coming loaded for bear, cameras rolling.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
The first people targeted will be outspoken defenders of the Second Amendment. The CT state police will call them domestic terrorists after they kill a few, or are killed by one.
Adam J. McCleod
I seriously doubt it. In the end watch for a few home raids to instill fear and intimidation. There will be a bit of the standard outcry protests, NRA speeches and other useless actions. After that, gun owners will follow the law in the end. People today are too damn spineless and have refused to unite and organize as one despite years and years of warning. People today stay cooped up in their home, no longer vote and would rather stay divided over petty politics ie: legalizing pot or discuss the latest Duck Dynasty episode. Besides most people today are too damn fat to be of any use anyway.
I really hope I'm wrong but again ...people just don't care anymore.
"You believe there is one God, that is good, even the demons believe and shudder in fear" James 2:19
I hope you're right, I'm convinced the Feds are watching the situation both there and in NY.
― Douglas Adams
Adam J. McCleod
Please don't cloud the enforcement of a law with facts or logic.
George Carlin
Now you talkin the truth Flashover! We could register the politicians and if they got caught with their finger in the cookie jar we could lock em up and throw away the key. We'd know who they were because we'd have em fingerprinted and their SN recorded in BLOOD!
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Sure, you go first.
It won't get ugly because absolutely nothing will happen with this.
They can make all the laws they want....they just will not be enforced
On some dark and infamous day, if Arizona goes from Red to Blue, I may have to "go first." I'll cross that bridge, or not, if and when I come to it. For now, for better or worse, the ball is in Connecticut's court. I am reminded of the scene in the movie "Zulu" where a scared private asks his sergeant "why is it us? why us?" The sergeant answers, "because we're here, lad, nobody else, just us."