50,000 "Assault Rifles" Registered in Connecticut

And a little over 38,000 magazines capable of holding ten round or more. That seems pretty impressive, until you realize there should be almost 400,000 rifles, and millions of magazines registered.

Governor Malloy and the state legislature are putting the blame on - wait for it - the post office. They're considering an "amnesty," and an extended deadline for registration.

Yeah, that'll work.

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Anyone who registers their arms with the government is a retarded moron who deserves whatever he gets.

"Mine fell overboard on a fishing/target shooting outing yeas ago..."😉

Want to have some fun? Go and attempt to register an airsoft AR and see if the bureaucrats can even tell that its not real.

"Yes ma'am, I'd like to register my 6mm AR15. Oh, and I have two 300-round magazines that go with it."

Conn is making it a Class D Felony if you do not registrar your AR. Next tragedy Conn will take those guns. To hell with that!

The yankee government needs to be made to understand that it is irrelevant, immaterial and will no longer be obeyed.

The Hartford Courant wants to throw the book at those scofflaws . Seriously.

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All of those poor un-documented gun owners living in the shadows... Wanting only to live the American dream (constitution).

Where is the sympathy from the bleeding heart left?

'Assault weapons,' registration, and the lessons of Connecticut


Kurt HofmannSt. Louis Gun Rights Examiner



February 21, 2014

Much has been written of late about what appears to be massive non-compliance with Connecticut's "assault weapon" registration requirement (the guns are banned, but "grandfathered," if the owner registers them). Well, much has been written, that is, in gun rights advocacy circles--the mass media would apparently have us believe that it's not worth covering the fact that scores of thousands--maybe hundreds of thousands--of people are committing a felony "crime" punishable by five years in prison.

That was interesting enough before the Hartford Courant editorial board decided to enter the fray, urging the state to use background check data to identify likely "assault weapon" owners, compare that list to the list of "assault weapon" registrants, and investigate the people on the first list, but not the second, in order 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.

As National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea notes, this puts the state in a very unenviable position. They could acquiesce to the Courant's demands, and take on the utterly impossible--not to mention lethally dangerous, both to private citizens and Connecticut law enforcement--task of confiscating the now "illegal" guns, and arresting and imprisoning the scores of thousands of newly-minted felons. Mr. Codrea points out a few of the reasons this is impossible:

Simply as a matter of resources and logistics, the state will be hard-pressed to allocate the manpower, budget, jail facilities and court case load capabilities to do more than scratch the surface to try to frighten everyone by making examples of a few. If The Courant is going to demand they apply those resources to all, perhaps the editors would flesh out what compliance with their call to action consists of, starting with realistic costs to arrest, prosecute and incarcerate every noncompliant gun owner, the number of total hours and dedicated personnel needed to execute that plan, how many decades it will take to accomplish, how many businesses will be disrupted by losing valuable employees, how much tax revenue the state will lose by taking productive taxpayers out of circulation and turning them into dependents . . . .

Codrea notes also that the Courant has also done gun owners the favor of confirming all gun owners' concerns that background checks are backdoor registration, and registration is tantamount to confiscation--concerns contemptuously dismissed as "paranoid" by the forcible citizen disarmament zealots. That, indeed, is the first lesson: background check data can be used as a de facto registry, and the registry can serve to find guns and owners. It's a lesson that should have been learned long ago, but better late than never.

The state's other option is to not attempt this bordering-on-apocalyptic task--which the state's top "justice" system official, Mike Lawlor, has already indicated is the plan, according to another Courant article:

"A lot of it is just a question to ask, and I think the firearms unit would be looking at it," said Mike Lawlor, the state's top official in criminal justice. "They could send them a letter."

An aggressive hunt isn't going to happen, Lawlor said, but even the idea of letters is a scary thought considering thousands of people are now in an uncomfortable position.

The Courant might be grossly overestimating just how "scary" these letters would be, especially given the fact that it's already clear that any kind of investigation and roundup is not in the cards. And that is the other, and most important, lesson. Scores of thousands of "assault weapon"-owning Connecticut residents have called the government's bluff. Now, what is the state going to do about it? What can it do?

In fact, as J.D. Tuccile points out in Reason, the only people likely to be forced to surrender their "assault weapons" are the ones who did try to register, but were too late:

Some people actually tried to comply with the registration law, but missed the deadline. The state's official position is that it will accept applications notarized on or before January 1, 2014 and postmarked by January 4. But, says Dora Schriro, Commissioner of the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, in a letter to lawmakers, anybody sufficiently law-abiding but foolish enough to miss that slightly extended grace period will have to surrender or otherwise get rid of their guns.

It is only through defiance of evil, unjust, illegitimate laws that one can avoid becoming a victim of them. This is a lesson for the entire country. If tens of thousands of citizens of one state can face the government down over a state gun ban and registration scheme, tens of millions of Americans can do the same in a face-off with the federal government, over an analogous law at that level. It is we the people who hold the only legitimate power in this country, and if enough of us stand together to exercise it, we can do so without firing a shot.

Connecticut Veteran: “I Will Not Comply. What Are You Going to Do About Those of Us Who Will Not Comply?”

Kimberly Paxton
www.TheDailySheeple.com
March 3rd, 2014


Add the name of US Navy veteran and firefighter John S. Cinque to the ever-growing list of patriots who are irate with the government of Connecticut and aren’t afraid to let them know about it. After tens of thousands of gun owners refused to register their firearms as the law demanded, the state sent out warning letter, ordering them to surrender the weapons. In response, one activist published a ”tyrants list” of legislators that voted for the gun control measures, complete with their home addresses, and another group informed them, “We are armed…and we are familiar with the finer points of marksmanship.”

Cinque adamantly informed legislators that he will not comply with Connecticut’s unconstitutional new gun laws. And he wants to know: “What are you going to do about those of us who will not comply with this law?”

Despite the rowdy applause from the audience, the politicians spoke to Cinque condescendingly

…Listen well, and know your enemies.

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Sorry didn't see this thread before I posted in the situation alert section. It does appear to be on it's way to becoming a very hot issue. And if the state does star going door to door and the citizens ask for assistance, what then? It will be a very hard choice to make.

If you live in Conn move! What good is it to own an an unregistered AR or AK in a Conn if you can't train with it? Just do like Magpul did and leave the anti gun state and move to a pro gun state. I agree don't register it but don't hide it in the closet either!

"If you live in Conn move! What good is it to own an an unregistered AR or AK in a Conn if you can't train with it?"
Train for what? What good is it to live in a country where the Bill of Rights, your God given rights, no longer apply? What use would there be to train if one laid down their arms before the fight?

There's something circulating about how apparently a large percentage of Conn. LEO own banned weapons who have not complied.

Is this just s rumor? Total BS?

This story is apparently satire, but it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of cops are doing just that.

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Yeah, that's the one. I had never seen the site, or even heard of it before, and I didn't look around on it.
It sounded both cheesy and yet plausible, so I wasn't sure.

Oh good, I'm glad I wasn't the only one!

Hmmm, seems like quite an interesting predicament for the "god-level" people who are trying to put the boot down on us "low-life scumbag level" people.

If you pass BS laws, be prepared to face the consequences.

Can anyone confirm if they are confiscating guns in CT or not ? I seen this story but am not familiar with the site and a friend of mine works for a news service out of Chicago and he says that there is some activity on this. If any of you know for sure please post...

http://www.politicalears.com/blog/i...connecticut-right-now-confiscating-guns/

I've seen a lot of scary headlines like this one , but I've not heard of anyone actually confiscating any guns yet. And it would be pretty hard to keep something like that quiet.

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I am in Rhode Island which as I hope everyone knows is next door to Connecticut and there is absolutely nothing in the News or from the local Oath-Keepers about any Gun Confiscation happening in CT.

I believe that if Confiscation starts and Gun Owners and Cops start getting shot, it will be on not only the local but on the National and International News.

thank you!
This is one of our biggest problems in this nation. The internet is a valuable tool, but with 30,000 hackers working in the Cyber Corps of the beast a lot of wht you get is called "FEAR PORN".
Till we construct a viable, trustworthy background system to test these announcements it will continue to be a great source of High Blood Pressure.
If a story like this could get just 7 people to rise up and start shootong it would be well worth the loss of life to the beast to start a new round of FEAR PORN to pull out a few more patriots.

I'am Sure if any confrontation happened, they would not be Able to put a Lid on It, as everyone is watching these Bastards...let the Fear Porn go, I think we all will Know the Real Deal, if and when it goes Hot, I never dreamed I"d Spend my retirement, getting my gear Ready AGAIN!!

Thanks Democrats, this has been anything but Boring!!!


Semper Fi

There was a gun rights rally in Hartford yesterday. More than 3000 people showed up.



You would think more news organizations would be reporting this, wouldn't you?

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Now THAT is a beautiful sight! Very newsworthy, but nothing in the 'lame stream" media but the sound of crickets chirping.

Any chance the state Gestapo were there recording the whole thing to be fed into facial recognition software? I'd be curios how many of these patriots will have their taxes audited, their business inspected, every power of the corrupt powerful government turned to attack the present threat to their abuse of authority.

THIS is the abusive government the founders warned us of.

I think many of us are past the point of giving a crap and their scare tactics can pound sand.

I love the point that the crowd was chanting "we will not comply"

It looks like Connecticut has just ... failure to register an "assault rifle."

I hope he has a good lawyer.

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