Summary of Gun Violence Prevention Provisions
[via wtnh.com]
1. The bill establishes a first in the nation statewide dangerous weapon offender registry
The bill creates a first in the nation statewide dangerous weapon offender registry (a handful of cities across the country have their own gun offender registries). This has been the top priority of urban mayors and the Police Chiefs Association for the last several years. Under the bill, individuals must register with DESPP if they have been convicted of any of more than 40 enumerated weapons offenses (mostly gun offenses) or another felony that the court makes a finding involved the use or threatened use of a deadly weapon . . .
Individuals must register with DESPP for a total of five years after their release into the community. During that time they must keep their registration address current at all times, and they must check in once per year, on the anniversary of their release, with local law enforcement in the town where they currently reside. Unlike Megan’s List, this registry will not be public. Instead, it will be available to law enforcement only.
2. The bill requires “universal background checks” for the sale of all firearms immediately, upon passage.
Under current law, private sales of rifles and shotguns are completely unregulated (while the sale of any pistol or revolver or the sale of a rifle or shotgun by a licensed dealer requires a criminal background check). Under the bill, this glaring loophole is immediately closed, and all private long gun sales must be preceded by the buyer passing a national criminal background check.
Immediately upon passage, no pistol, revolver, rifle or shotgun can be sold to any Connecticut resident until the buyer undergoes and passes a national criminal background check — whether such sale is private, at a gun show, or through a dealer.
3. The bill significantly expands the Connecticut Assault Weapons Ban.
Currently, Connecticut is one of only a handful of states with a state-level assault weapons ban. Under current law, an “assault weapon” is defined as one of 66 different specified firearms, or any other semiautomatic weapon that contains “two or more” of a list of physical characteristics.
Under the current bill, a) an additional list of more than 100 new specified weapons will be designated as banned assault weapons, in addition to all of the other weapons captured by the “physical characteristics” test. Also, that characteristics test is being amended to add some new banned military-style features, and also to require an assault weapon to have only one of the listed features in order to fall under the ban.
Thus, many more weapons – well over a hundred additional models — will now fall under the Connecticut Assault Weapons Ban. Therefore, under the bill, effective on passage, they will no longer be allowed to be bought or sold in Connecticut nor imported into the state (with some law enforcement exemptions). Those currently legally possessed will have to be registered with DESPP, and their legal use and transport will be tightly limited.
4. The bill immediately bans the sale or purchase of large capacity magazines, and imposes extremely stringent restrictions on the use of those currently possessed.
Only 7 states and the District of Columbia have any limits on the legal size or use of ammunition magazines. The definition of those regulated large capacity magazines (“LCMs”), with regard to the threshold capacity, varies. New York recently went down to 7 rounds, but apparently is going to go back up to 10. Maryland is at 20 rounds, and may go down to 10 via a Senate bill currently pending in the House. New Jersey and Colorado are at 15 rounds. California and Hawaii are at 10, but the Hawaii law only applies to handguns.
Under the bill, Connecticut will now join these states. An LCM will be defined as one that can hold more than 10 rounds.
Immediate ban on sale, purchase or importation of LCMs: effective on passage, it will be a class D felony to sell, buy, transfer or import an LCM into the state (other than to turn it in or trade it in to law enforcement or a licensed gun dealer). Going forward, possession of any LCM not possessed as of the effective date will be a class D felony.
LCMs that are currently possessed must be registered with DESPP by January 1, 2014 to remain legal, and even when registered will be subject to extremely strict usage limitations:
· Possession of such magazines must be declared to DESPP by January 1, 2014. After January 1, 2014, any LCM that has not been the subject of such a declaration cannot be legally possessed under any circumstances (even if it had been possessed before the effective date).
· Even with regard to such legally declared LCMs, upon passage the bill will immediately impose the following stringent limitations on their use:
o Except for in an individual’s home or on the premises of a shooting range, an LCM can never be loaded with more than 10 bullets.
o Even if an individual has a permit to carry a pistol or revolver, they can never carry, other than at a shooting range, a pistol that has an LCM loaded with more than 10 bullets.
o If an individual with a carry permit has a pistol that they purchased prior to the effective date that accepts an LCM, they can carry the LCM in that pistol, but only loaded with 10 bullets. Moreover, under no circumstances can the LCM in such pistol extend below the pistol grip.
o If an individual has a pistol purchased after the effective date, an LCM can never be carried with that pistol other than at a shooting range. Instead, the individual must use only a magazine that takes 10 or fewer bullets in any pistol purchased from the effective date forward .
5. The bill requires new state issued eligibility certificates for the purchase of any rifle, shotgun or ammunition.
Long guns: The bill establishes a new revocable state-issued “long gun eligibility certificate”, which will require the applicant to undergo a firearms safety training course, be fingerprinted, and undergo a national criminal background and involuntary commitment /voluntary admission check. Under the bill, as of April 1, 2014, such long gun eligibility certificate will be required to be presented for the purchase of any rifle or shotgun (in addition to the aforementioned now-“universal” criminal background check).
Ammunition: The bill establishes a new revocable state issued “ammunition eligibility certificate”, which will require the applicant to pass a national criminal background check. The bill requires, as of October 1, 2013, that any sale of ammunition or an ammunition magazine to a Connecticut resident be accompanied by the presentation of either a permit to carry a pistol or revolver, an eligibility certificate for a pistol or revolver, a long gun eligibility certificate, a firearms dealer permit, or a combination of an ammunition eligibility certificate and a state issued photo ID. Therefore , as of October 1, 2013 there will be no legal sales of ammunition or magazines to any Connecticut resident who has not passed a national criminal background check, and is in good standing with regard to such check (i.e. their state issued certificate has not been revoked).
6. The bill expands the scope of Connecticut’s firearms safe storage law.
Under current law, the legal duty to securely store a firearm applies only when a person under 16 years of age is likely to gain access to the firearm, The bill significantly expands the scope of that duty, to situations where the firearm owner knows or should know that: 1) any resident of the premises where the firearm is stored is ineligible to possess a firearm under state or federal law, or 2) that a resident of the premises poses a risk of imminent personal injury to himself or herself or to other individuals.
7. The bill significantly increases penalties for many firearms trafficking and illegal possession offenses.
8. The bill expands the membership of the Board of Firearms Permit Examiners, and expands due process for local authorities in front of the board.
In addition to the current 7 members, the bill adds a mental health professional appointed by the governor but nominated by DMHAS, and a retired Superior Court judge chosen by the Chief Court Administrator. Moreover, the bill allows an issuing authority to receive one continuance for good cause shown.
9. The bill changes the status, with regard to the legal possession of firearms and permits therefor, of individuals who have been either involuntarily confined in or voluntarily admitted to a hospital for persons with psychiatric disabilities, as defined in section 17a-495 of the general statutes.
Involuntary committals: under current law, an individual who has been involuntarily committed by order of the Probate Court to such a hospital within the previous 12 months can neither possess a firearm nor receive a permit or eligibility certificate. The bill expands that look back period to 60 months, for those receiving permits or eligibility certificates after the effective date.
Voluntary admissions: current law does not address voluntary admissions. Under the bill, an individual who has been so admitted will not be able to receive a permit or eligibility certificate for 6 months thereafter, nor will they be eligible to possess any firearm for those 6 months following their release from the hospital.
10. The bill strengthens Connecticut law with regard to firearms in several additional respects.
· The bill establishes the offense of illegal possession of ammunition, so that an individual who is ineligible to possess a firearm will also now be ineligible to possess any ammunition.
· The bill requires applicants for a temporary permit to carry a pistol or revolver to apply only in their town of residence (as opposed to also where they work), and further limits such applications to only one per twelve months.
· The bill establishes a new age limit for the purchase of centerfire semi-automatic rifles (other than banned assault weapons). Under the bill an individual will have to be at least 21 to purchase such a rifle, as opposed to the current federal age limit of 18.
· The bill bans the sale of armor piercing ammunition, and makes it a class D felony to carry a firearm loaded with any such ammunition.
· The bill amends the Earned Risk Reduction Program to ensure that violent felons, including those who committed crimes with firearms, serve at least eighty-five percent of their original sentences.
Summary of School Security Provisions
K-12 Language
· Establishes the School Safety Infrastructure Council which develops safety standards for school building projects.
o The Council must have the initial standards developed by January 1, 2014 and then update them annually as necessary.
o Requires projects reviewed by the Department of Construction Services after July 1, 2014 to comply with the school safety infrastructure standards developed by the School Safety Infrastructure Council.
o Requires the already existing School Building Projects Advisory Council to include the school infrastructure safety standards developed in the model blueprints they have available to schools.
· Reauthorizes the school security infrastructure competitive grant program to reimburse towns for upgrades to school security infrastructure.
o The reimbursement rate is the same as the districts reimbursement rate under school construction (between 20% and 80% depending on the municipality).
o Authorizes the issuance $15 million of bonds for the program.
· Requires the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection in consultation with the Department of Education to develop school security and safety plan standards by January 1, 2014.
o Annually the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection submits a copy of the school security and safety standards along with any recommendations for legislation to the Public Safety and Education Committees.
· Requires that school security and safety plans be developed at each school.
o These plans must be submitted to the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection.
· Requires safe school climate committees established by the bullying law to investigate instances of disturbing and threating behavior reported to it.
· Requires the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection to maintain a registry of school security consultants operating in the state.
Higher Education Language
· Requires all state and independent colleges and universities in Connecticut to submit their security plan to the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection.
· Requires a security and vulnerability assessment every two years.
· Requires the creation of threat assessment teams.
· Requires the Board of Regents for Higher Education to study the creation of a police department for the community colleges.
· Requires security audits of the state universities and community colleges to be performed by the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection.
Summary of Mental Health Provisions
With regard to mental health, the proposal focuses on helping individuals and their families overcome obstacles to accessing treatment and support.
· Requires DMHAS, in consultation with SDE, to administer a mental health first aid training program that teaches people to recognize the signs of mental disorders in children and young adults and connect them with services. Also allows boards of education to require teachers and other school employees to participate in mental health first aid training.
· Allows boards of education to offer mental health first aid as an in-service training.
· Requires the Commissioner of Education to consider whether mental health first aid training should be included in the teacher preparation program leading to certification.
· Creates a task force to conduct a comprehensive study of Connecticut’s mental health system, with a special focus on the vulnerable 16-25 year old population. Research topics will include: early intervention, gaps in insurance coverage, the mental health workforce, outpatient commitment, mental health professionals’ reporting responsibilities, services provided in the schools and stigma. Task force will report by 2/1/14.
· Expands DMHAS’s Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program to three additional locations. ACT teams are currently operating in three cities and provide recovery-oriented treatment and support services through a mobile, multi-disciplinary team.
· Adds additional slots for case management and coordination to assist people with mental illness who are involved with the probate system. (The Melissa’s Project currently provides these services in some probate courts.)
· Establishes the ACCESS-MH program, modeled after the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project and similar programs in 26 other states. This program will provide training, support, and professional consultations for pediatricians to help them intervene with children who have mental health conditions.
In addition, the bill contains several changes to commercial insurance based on the recommendations of the Program Review and Investigations Committee and bills from the PRI and Insurance Committees:
o Requires Insurance Department to evaluate and report on its method for determining compliance with the state and federal mental health parity laws.
o Requires that certain mental health and substance abuse services be considered “urgent care” requests and shortens the review time for these requests from 72 to 24 hours.
Institutes a more robust definition of “clinical peer” with regard to the review of mental health and substance abuse services, to ensure that the health professional reviewing the claim has similar qualifications to the mental health professional who prescribed the treatment.
o Designates disorder treatment criteria for mental health and substance use, so that coverage decisions are more consistent from carrier to carrier and consumers are given a clear reason for a denial.
o Requires insurers to inform consumers that they have the right to appeal a denial, they can request additional information, and they can contact the Office of the Healthcare Advocate for assistance.
[h/t Pascal who writes “Not much to say except we are officially ******”]
OH NO!!! OH NO!! Them Obama commies is comin’ fer us! Oh, wait, those MRAPs were actually contracted for by the Navy, under contract number M67854-07-D-5032 for delivery to the Marines, for use by the Marines? Imagine, the exact same number, 2717, ordered not by DHS but the Navy, for the Marines. How could this be? What a shame, what a waste of all those great conspiracy theory brain cells.
The 2700 or any other large number is unimportant, that’s an internet lie to distract from the actual number and the meaning behind a Para-military force with no Constitutional restraints, virtualy unlimited powers operating with no Congressional oversight, with no public oversight paid for by tax payers who these weapons are meant to opress.
Lets not forget the DHS targets of children and women, some holding babies that were to be used to “Train” Civilian Law Enforcement and DHS thugs
I think they’ve even managed to out-stupid NY. Better written & more thought out than NYSAFE, but still astonishingly stupid.
Naa, we still have the “you can own a 10 round mag, but can only put seven into it.” That’s a pretty high bar for dumb.
Haha, that’s hilarious. How does that help anything?
FML
Yup.
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I will hereby register all ten thousand standard capacity magazines in my possession. Of course, they’re not serialized…but whatever.
I think they made nearly every CT gun owner into a felon with the stroke of a pen. “Shall not be infringed” is mighty confusing language.
Its still being written into actual language by the legal scrubs, so it hasn’t passed yet.
The whiskey rebellion was responded to under order of Pres. Washington, with a force of 15,964 Militia members from other states, federalized by the President, led by Gen. Harry Lee.
Is the acquisition of surplus equipment a build up for war, or the unabashed enjoyment of federal surplus property by local jurisdictions (a time honored use of discarded federal stuff)
I don’t know.
I’d like to see Mr. Kraft post a rebuttal of these proposals. I’m a fan
Comm-Necticutt!
Oh… damn.
They really need to propose a bill to change our license plate motto, “Constitution State” no longer really applies here. Suggestions?
Yes-many new provisions against gun owners but check this out-if you go to jail for a crime with a gun, no one is saying you should actually serve the full term, just 85% which would be an increase over time served now………..so once again the onus is on people least likely to be an issue with the firearm.
POLICE STATE!
Now if only the rest of the citizens of the US would get it as well.
There is no need for DHS to own military firearms unless they plan on
attacking citizens. If war comes to US soil again let the NG or military deal with it.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” – Samuel Adams
I am here to say things are only getting worse in Maryland. My paperwork was submitted on February 10th to the MSP, and still I wait. After 50 days I can only wonder if Owe Malley is dreaming up a new tax to hit me with, or just thumbing his nose at me!
This is going nationwide. As long as boobus americanus (a species of human that knows everything about football and has support the troops stickers on his F-150) can have his shotgun or revolver to shoot at a home intruder, they won’t lift a finger.
This country knows how to deal with traitors, lets hope it doesn’t come to that, Randy
Sic Semper Tyrannis
BUAHAHAHAHAHA!
Your looking at the clowns head that a person shouts their order into at the drive through, all you are ever going to get is, “gun bad”, Randy
“Requires the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection to maintain a registry of school security consultants operating in the state.”
A registry of government consultant assholes could be useful in choosing a neighborhood to (not)live in, I suppose.
That is so they could be given immunity from persecution should their recommendations not prevent a future spree killer. Nice huh!
Yes, I know, April Fools and all that…. but I would like to have a couple of the boxes to put on the shelf for entertainment value.
Too bad she’s an idiot. Pretty cute.
“Dating” girls that I could barely have a conversation with due to their insane viewpoints used to be something of a hobby.
No she’s not. She’s got a big nose and is hiding behind a helmet of hair. Vanity Fair. The clue should be in the first word of the magazine’s name.
That “mental health first aid” stuff reads positively Orwellian.
A voluntary admission to a mental health facility means you are not allowed to purchase the means to protect yourself. That won’t discourage anyone from seeking psychological help. That will really help prevent crazies from going ballistic.
The art of the conspiracy theory has been alive and well throughout the generations, since before my time. I am on my twelfth President and through every administration, Democrat and Republican, Liberal and Conservative, the conspiracy theorists have spun their tales of impending woe. Be it food riots, race war, commies (and homosexuals), and now the evil Obama secretly planning to enslave us all, the stories and the story tellers change, but the conspiracy theories live on. The big difference now, of course, is the speed with which misinformation can be spread to fan the flames. Instead of lending credence to idiotic conspiracy theories, lets all try to concentrate on real issues, like the very real threats to our legitimate rights by idiotic legislators on both sides of the aisle who need to prove that they’re “doing something.” Because when some of us continue to push these ridiculous notions, all of us look like nuts.
But…doesn’t your admitted claim that our legislature is continuously filled with lackwits who somehow, thanks to dishonest media that chooses which material to highlight or hush-hush, manage to get re-elected and new beacons of hope fall to the “old ways” once inside the Beltway, confirm that there is in fact some malevolent conspiracy behind it all? Maybe not on the level of the NWO or the reptilians, but there must be some explanation as to why reason and logic consistently fail to win the day? Not all conspiracy theories come from outer space.
Maybe the powers at be don’t want us disarmed in order to slaughter us, but they must have some motivation in order to so earnestly push this fight against liberty, and a fight against liberty is indeed good cause for conspiracy theories.
The main pull is simple tribalism, those that are not like you will cause the damnation of your village by simply existing among you. Anti-gunners are motivated by their own ideologies and personal freedom doesn’t fit in with them. If we have the personal freedom given to us by the Constitution what’s next? Will we be expected to actually support ourselves and take responsibility for ourselves in other aspects of life? That simply isn’t a possibility for the left, it isn’t even imaginable for them and the existence of such an idea threatens everything they center their existence around. It isn’t merely job security, it’s life security to them, too bad none of their misguided dreams are tethered in the least bit in reality. To them the government will take care of everything and they will be taken care of completely so nothing the government can do is wrong.
In a period of time where the deficit is increasing a few factors more than GDP the necessity of such DHS spending should come into question and be stopped, unless they have some insider information on some mole people that will surface in our borders, or perhaps it will be terminators, or maybe aliens, but that just gets back to the crazy conspiracy theories. The most probable theory is far more malevolent.
These would be nice to have just for the Shits and Giggles factor!!!
I quit buying guns due to lack of and over priced ammo. I wanted a .22 pistol for training purposes, but passed on the pistol. I want a .308 semi auto rifle, but I am not actively pursuing as there is no ammo available.
You might want to think of something chambered in 30-06. Plenty of that ammo around. That was the primary reason I bought a Remington 750. It isn’t exactly a battle rifle but you won’t run into its limits in self defense scenario.
It is just a hunting rifle which the gun grabbers promised not to take away from us. /sarc
In an effort to prevent my ammo stash from shrinking I have been shooting my muzzleloaders often during the past couple of months. I have about 300 pounds of pure lead ingots in my basement; that will make a dookie-load of .490 round balls. No problem finding Pyrodex so far…
After getting burned on the “1-week NFA turnaround” bit, I pretty much glanced over section after section of the bill, assuming this to be TTAG’s last leg-pulling of the day.
The look on my face when I reached the bottom and saw no punchline….
O______O
” The bill amends the Earned Risk Reduction Program to ensure that violent felons, including those who committed crimes with firearms, serve at least eighty-five percent of their original sentences.”
The only part in the whole bill that actually makes sense, yet still doesn’t do enough (How about they do 100% of the time? Afterall, they ARE a convicted FELON)
The important part is “at least” believe it not, it is about half today. Just like many other sentences, they get time off for good behavior or helping to rat someone out.
Betting dollars to donuts that this is Mayor Wall Street astroturfing… The goal is clearly to weaken and split the 2A supporters.
I especially like the barn jacket, that’s a nice touch. I wonder why he didn’t hug Rachel Maddow? She’s in their other vids.
We need a ‘Democrats for the Bill of Rights’ type group because turnabout is fair play. The wedge issue is that the BOR is designed to protect minority rights and that an attack on one part weakens the whole. Just as progressives might support a woman’s right to an abortion even though they are personally against it, they should also support a law abiding citizen’s RKBA even though they may not personally own a gun. Weakening the RKBA is part and parcel of a general trend in which other rights including the 1st and 4th amendment rights are being weakened.
And yes Dems who support the 2A exist apart from libertarians.
How does punishing the citizens of Connecticut with this legislation prevent future crimes? There are pitfalls in the legislation that can snag anybody and make it difficult to comply.
It allows the parents of Sandy Hook to have a moral victory and to take out revenge on people they have never met, and that makes them warm and fuzzy inside. There is a fantasy in many of their minds that some words we call law on some piece of paper will stop another killer in the future. In the mean time, I do not see any of the white parents running to the black neighborhoods in Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport and New London and trying to stop the “violence” in those neighborhoods.
It was never about crime or saving lives. This is and will continue to be irrational, emotional non-sense which will do absolutely nothing.
Democrats can continue to make believe that have done “something” while all the while, the inner city youth go on to kill themselves.
Some of this will go to court, including the registration. Then the same politicians will blame the courts.
Civilian Disarmament is never about the “violence” or “crime” or “saving lives” it is all about control over a group that somebody decided they do not like.
The lesson to be learned, be careful whom you vote into office and call your legislature person on a regular basis regardless of the law, there is always something stupid they are doing that you can complain about or something they do right once in a blue moon you can complement them on, but they need to know you are always there watching.
What a bunch of garbage.
I happen to have a Non Resident CWP for Conn. since they don’t recognize my Florida permit nor NY.
I have to follow all this crap now in 2 states??
I think Ill stay home………….
Pretty uncool, really. A little too close to “joking” about assassination. I won’t consider PSA for future purchases.
Dang! I was saving the shekels for more AR mags… This throws a wrench in the works but I’ve been hankering to get new sights for the ole RIA anyway. It may be hard to support our allies in the fight when you live on an hourly wage, but what little I can spare, I give to the cause.
Political cowards in the Maryland legislature scheduled a gun hearing on Good Friday to avoid media attention after a massive public outcry against this overreaching legislative firearm grab. Then…they broke their own parliamentary procedures in order to punish legal firearm owners and protect criminals.
Republican delegate Mike Smigiel introduced a common-sense amendment to Gov. O’Malley’s S.B. 281–an amendment that would have punished criminals who steal guns from the homes of their owners. The original bill only punished the firearm owner for having his or her home broken into, but contained no punishment for the actual criminal. Smigiel’s amendment passed on a proper committee vote. But the committee Chair then took the unprecedented step of ordering a new vote. The Chair was then able to use bullying tactics to force two Democrats to change their votes which, in turn, killed the amendment.
I know there are liberal gun owners out there who get upset when we trash liberals. But here’s the fact. It’s like squares and rectangles. All squares are rectangles, but all rectangles are not squares. Well all liberals are not in favor of draconian gun control, but everyone in favor of draconian gun control is a liberal.
The lesson here is that if you value your gun rights you must vote against every single Democratic candidate in every single election. Period. Republicans, lame as they are, sometimes go along with this crap (New York, anyone?) but they never seem to instigate it.
The deep blue states are lost. Only a SCOTUS decision can save us. That or an electoral miracle in 2014.
Priceless. Glad to see some much needed comedy from fellow firearms folks!
It may be time for violence. When politicians don’t follow the Constitution and back-door law abiding citizens then we might have to play our hand. If we don’t make the threat real than they have nothing to be afraid of and will continue their tyrannical push towards complete disarmament.
What we need is a list of the gun manufactuers that sell to them and all gun owners should boycott them,I am sure public gun sales out number sales to New York City law enforcment I would!!!!
I have both of late. PT-101 (40 cal), and a PT-99 plus a newer Beretta 92 FS. I also had an original Taurus with the heel release just like the original Beretta. The heel release was sold to a guy in Phx that just had to have that gun and its 6 factory mags. The old heel release mags were much better manufactured. This is my 3rd PT-99 ’cause people kept buying mine from me. I carried a PT99 for the better part of 20 years and shot thousands of rounds have yet to wear one out. Older factory mags were high quality the newer ones are pretty lame. I use the Mec-Gar mags (have 8-10) they fit both Taurus pistols! This makes the 9mm mags a good sub for the .40 cal mags. I picked up the Beretta from a friend who needed some money. The pistol is well made and well finished but the plastic parts are a bit of a turn-off. That plastic trigger just pisses me off, all that money Beretta demands and you get plastic parts. I’m and engineer by trade and understand the reason for Polymer parts but still… give me a steel trigger in a steel gun.
I prefer the Taurus, fit and finish is a bit better and the trigger is much better. Replaced the wood grips with Pac’s and carry in nylon holster easy to conceal and carry on the motorcycle.
I understand Taurus has had some issues with quality and customer service as a former dealer I cannot say how bad this sounds. I sold hundreds of Taurus (and Rossi which they bought) pistols and only sent two back… Both were the result of the customer issues (one backed over his pistol case! the second fell down a hill and the pistol hit every boulder on the way down) . Both guns were repaired with no questions asked and the only cost was shipping to their repair center. The only manufacturer with better or equal is Ruger I hope Taurus gets their act back together.
I moved back to 1911 for carry normally in the past couple of years but still have several Taurus revolvers and semi-autos which I still shoot on a regular basis. Quality and price I’m sure introduced lots of folks to shooting because of Taurus so I hope they recover.
Quote from the video:
“If our troops need a background check, so should criminals.”
Glenn Kunkel, go eat a dick. I’m not a criminal. neither is anyone here fighting for our rights.
You’re no better than me, so don’t you dare look down on me and treat me like a criminal.
If some UN Gestapo member sets foot my my property they will die!
NOBODY INVADES MY PROPERTY!
Another day, another slew of traitors. The founding fathers would be shooting by now.
CT subjects, I hope you take the appropriate actions to take back your state from the domestic enemies that occupy your governmental seats. There are proper methods of how to do that in American history, the Declaration of Independence, etc.
As ever, gun control is not about guns, it’s about control and oppression over a particular subset of Americans. To put it bluntly, we are the new blacks. The tolerant left is doing everything it can to reduce us to second class citizens. Right now, the question is: are you going to live as an oppressed class as other groups have in history until (maybe) the tides turn? Or will you pick up your guns while you have them and, unlike most oppressed people throughout history, make the tides turn?
OK, forget all the NWO denial. The NWO is the UN And Obama thinks he is the king, or so he has been led to believe he will be by the world power brokers,
Kissinger, Brzezinski, Soros and the like.
Get it now naysayers?
Politictians can pass whatever feel good laws they want. Most if they go to the supreme court would be thrown out! Also looks like a whole lot of new laws that will cost a bundle of tax payer’s money and will go nowhere.
One minor quibble: The DHS wasn’t started by Obama, so it isn’t “his DHS”. The DHS was started by that idiot-who-would-be-king George W Bush.
The rest of it: yeah, the DHS does not need to be gearing up for war. The stated purpose of the DHS when it was created was to facilitate communication and coordination between the several agencies which now comprise it, as a reaction to the September 11, 2001 attacks on USA soil.
It’s been Obama’s DHS since January 2009. He is the President, and all of the executive branch reports to him.
” Except for in an individual’s home or on the premises of a shooting range, an LCM can never be loaded with more than 10 bullets.”
Because if you load the 11th round, you turn into a raving lunatic, h3ll bent on shooting down planes and blowing up trains.
This is so stupid
I’d like having some of their Personal Defense Weapons, aka select fire M4’s along with a few thousand of those 1.6 billion rounds.
Me too! Although living in Texas Hill Country, threat is less but not nonexistent.
http://wr2a.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/ct-leaders-i-hold-responsible-for-the-new-fascist-gun-ban/
CT “leaders” I hold responsible for this fascist gun grab. Molon Labe, indeed. They are on the wrong side of history, and have let politics rule the State. Enough.
If anything, Carl waited too long to take the shot. The guy was acting sketchy, and was probably thinking he could overpower a kid and a one legged man.
Out in public, with a non firearm I may give someone the chance to drop a knife/bat/whatever. If they have a gun and they are threatening/have threatened me I am going to draw and stop the threat. Why should I risk being the one who doesn’t go home when someone has shown clear agression by threatening me with a weapon?
In my home on the other hand, I have no such duty. If I feel it is needed(believe it or not Illinois has some damn good laws about defending your home) to stop a forcible felony in my home I have the power to stop the threat with force that is likly to cause serious bodily injury or death. Someone has already taken the time and effort to break into my home, with a weapon, I don’t know what their intentions are and I dont care. I would rather shoot someone who “might” have been willing to surrender than to be disarmed and killed by an attacker in my own home because of hesitation.
Identify the targer, engage the target if hostile, period.
PS: The Walking Dead season Finale was anti-climactic and was probably the weakest season Finale of the whole series.
Where’s my TTAG windbreaker?
They should require a state issued permit and fitness test for murder. Then when you have applicants you can immediately charge them with premeditation and get them off the streets.
I’m a fan of your site, but I hate how a lot of the news has been focused on the antigun efforts against us, but its stuff we need to know.
This is my browser home page for a reason. Good Content.
Vuurwapen & TFB on my favorites list but this is always my first stop (followed by gunbot in my usually fruitless search for ammo)
Everyone who voted “yes too far” should read up on the Tueller Drill and then vote again. People are ignorant.
How is the CIA supposed to arm Al-Queda sympathizers and overthrow foreign regimes if they can’t traffic weapons? Oh wait, they probably get an exemption. Now I can rest easy.
i wont say i read everything you guys put up, but i’ve been visiting daily since you could still buy xm855 by the ammo can and not the paycheck. you’ve got your fingers pretty well on the pulse and good gear reviews.. please keep it up and congrats on the metrics.
Don’t know how you get so much dumbass in one room in the same time without it exploding from pure ignorance. 90 percent of Americans want automatic weapons off the street? 40 percent of gun sales without a background check? Lie much?
Who the hell invited a retired Football player to discuss political relevance and strategy? What a joke these stations have become, promoting “has beens” and bleach blondes with low cut dresses. I don’t care what any of these turds think, especially some mouth breather that says “30 magazine bullet chambers”.
In the words of Gaylord Focker: “the Jerusalem pa tooly choolie, Oh…you don’t know s**t about flowers?”
Crazy old lady already is dead.