New York legislators had twenty-minutes to read the SAFE Act before they voted on it. What’s the bet they didn’t? Flash forward to today, when Connecticut legislators are due to vote on their very own gun ban bill. The Bipartisan Task Force on Gun Violence Prevention and Children’s Safety released a summary of the bill yesterday. The 92-page bill dropped this morning. Click here to read the Bill 1160. A few details . . .
All transfers of all guns must go through an FFL ($25) and be registered with the state ($35 eligibility fee every five years).
CT residents need an “ammunition certificate” to buy same ($35 every five years).
Lever action guns are exempt from the 10-round mag limit.
Confiscated firearms will be sold at public auction.
Prohibited “assault rifles” on pages 39 and 40
Armor piercing ammo defined on page 54.
Cops are exempt from everything, obviously.
Anyway, this is bound to be another dark day in the annals of civilian disarmament. Shame on Connecticut legislators for violating their oath of office. Now, who wants Colt, Mossberg, et al.?
agreed. spot on.
This is the best quote I’ve read in a while. It makes perfect sense and it will be completely ignored by the anti-gun crowd.
The fact that people are still getting on TV and confusing automatic and semi-automatic weapons shows that facts just don’t matter at all, in this case.
Again, wouldn’t it be easier just to make killing people illegal? My data shows homicide is involved in 100% of all murders. You would think there would be laws in place for this sort of thing.
In a partial-slave state on it’s way to becoming full slave(NJ). We have an asssault weapons ban and capacity limit of 15 currently, so it’s possible to have two 15 round mags coupled side by side on a state-legal AR15 with evil features disabled (comp instead of hider, fixed stock, no bayo lug), which was my current home defenese set up.
However, there are something like 73 anti-gun bills already proposed at the state level, several of which are likely to kill that option for me [at which point I’ll give any newly banned items to a family friend in NH, so that I’m still in good legal standing when participating in the inevitable fight to get the laws overturned in course/protests & rallys/etc]. If & when it comes to that, from a practical standpoint, I’ll have to go with my mossberg 500 20″ 12G loaded w/7+1 rounds of #4 buck.
Given NJ’s defacto ban on CCW, I currently have to just make due with a sturdy & bright flashlight (Fenix TK11 or Surefire Fury usually), with the strategy being a combination of blinding and/or improvised melee option. I’ve considered carrying a knife, but I never seem to get the same answer twice when I try to research our knife laws, and I don’t actually have formal training on proper defensive use of one, so I’m not comfortable risking it at present.
This also happens to be one of today’s LewRockwell.com articles:
http://lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell129.html
(Same text, less obnoxious ads)
This is one of the reasons why I’ve been calling them “prohibitionists” instead of “gun grabbers” in any of my discussions. We need to start controlling the language here because, so far, they’re steering things.
Racist.
Oh, wait…
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2013/TOB/S/2013SB-01160-R00-SB.htm
I just now visited every one of the CT gunmakers’ websites to see their corresponding comments on the situation in their home state. With the exception of Colt, not one of the others have any public statements. The Colt Co. has a long and winding Op-Ed posted March 18th. I read through it, and I enclose the closing-draw your own conclusions:
Like every other precision manufacturer in Connecticut, Colt is constantly approached by other states to relocate, but our roots here are deep. Colt is and always has been an integral part of a state characterized by hard work, perseverance and ingenuity.
I know, however, that someday soon, I will again be asked why we fight to keep well-paying manufacturing jobs in Connecticut. I will be asked why we should continue to manufacture in a state where the governor would make ownership of our product a felony.
I will be asked these questions and, unlike in the past, there will be few good answers.
Dennis Veilleux is president and CEO of Colt’s Manufacturing Co. based in West Hartford.
Link to letter follows:
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/hc-op-veilleux-dont-ban-guns-increase-safety-measu-20130318,0,6575067.story
if only facts or constituents opinions mattered. delegates are going to find out soon enough why they have not touched gun control in 17 years.
A couple of other gems in the bill:
-If you own spare parts for an “assault weapon” you may be committing a felony.
-You have to register any magazine with greater than 10 round capacity. Those magazines may be owned, but if you carry legally, you can only put ten rounds in the magazine.
-One of the banned features is a forward pistol grip. Defined: (6) “Forward pistol grip” means any feature capable of functioning as a grip that can be held by the nontrigger hand; (Couldn’t this be construsted to mean the tradition forward gripping area of an AR-15 style rifle?)
-Another definition (4) “Detachable magazine” means an ammunition feeding device that can be removed without disassembling the firearm action; (Does this eliminate bullet buttons?)
-Banned feature defined. (II) Any grip of the weapon, including a pistol grip, a thumbhole stock, or any other stock, the use of which would allow an individual to grip the weapon, resulting in any finger on the trigger hand in addition to the trigger finger being directly below any portion of the action of the weapon when firing; (I can think of no semiautomatic, bolt action, lever action, or other rifle that would be legal under this definition. There is always at least one finger below the action other than the trigger finger.)
I watched this until blah blah blah “…don’t need thirty magazine bullet chambers.”
If you’re going to get on TV and bash something don’t Frankenstein words together.
Also, all of these “statistics” they are spouting out aren’t being sourced.
What used to be on television:
Milton Friedman & Thomas Sowell vs. Frances Piven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQkdSj6arn0
Cops might be exempt from everything, but if manufacturers continue to refuse sale to them in droves so long as this legislation stands, cops too will feel the pinch. A ban for some becomes a de facto ban for all.
Let’s see how you like your gun control when your police forces can no longer match the criminal threats they face, and your personal security details are ill-equipped to defend your sorry asses.
NRA again proves itself proactive toward saving lives. I just purchased my 27yr old daughter a subscription/membership to the NRA. Everyone should buy an NRA gift membership for someone they love.
Given the wonders of modern technology, even my dad’s 600LB Mosler safe with a tamper-resistant mechanism isn’t secure to someone with physical access for a few hours a day for weeks on end. Sure, it’s a pain to brute-force it by hand, but LEGO parts and a microcontroller can make a cheap version of the FBI’s nifty safe-dialer gimmick. Even a few hours a day as it crunches through the possible combinations will eventually yield a match. Heck, someone built a pin-number tool for a Garmin GPS that poked the touch screen with an eraser & looked for a particular spot on the screen to change color. Week later, he’s in.
Locks keep honest people out.
…and there it is.
Here’s what I think we should do. Once this is passed and the politicians have officially committed treason, and the subjects of CT have proven themselves unworthy of being called Americans for allowing it to happen, we do this…
Propose bans on everything. Use the same language, “logic,” and methodology seen in gun ban bills to propose legislation banning as many things as possible. Soda size (or sodas altogether), fatty foods, certain cars, certain homes, gas rationing, free speech, search and seizure, everything possible. This country’s taking its sweet time tiptoeing toward a third-world tyranny, let’s give it that final push.
The purpose? Make the leftists and willfully ignorant fools who supported gun bans feel what it’s like to have things THEY care about banned by the oppressive state. They want to support tyrants so badly? Give them exactly what they want. Turn this crap country into the slave state they so desired. Then we’ll see how they like it and who they’re willing to vote for next. When God wants to punish us, he gives us exactly what we want.
Let’s face it, once the 2A is gone, as it is now in a number of states, what reason is left to protect the other “freedoms?” They’re an illusion because there’s no way of defending them. They truly are “privileges.” Once we’re disarmed, we’re no longer a free nation, and thus the nation is not worth preserving or protecting.
I will use many of her points in my next few arguments.
take that f***ktards picture down!
So did the 9th grader come away with something good for his paper? If it’s anything as reasonable as your analysis, I wonder how well it will be received.
Try living in New York or Chicago, were they think you should only be armed with a whistle…
You reap what you sow you tyrant clowns. Send them packing to the unemployment line Colorado!
“And somebody please tell me – what middle-aged woman buys a Saiga shotgun or Glock 20 for herself?”
1-Any woman who can afford it.
2-Any woman who can handle it.
3-Any woman who wants it.
I think they should all be put down the second they pulled, that way nobody would ever even hear of it outside local news stations and gun rights forums. Side bonus there wouldn’t be any more mass shootings in the US.
BUT THAT’S JUST CRAZY RIGHT
The Colt review that is needed is a review of their new manufacturing facilities in a non gungrabber state. Otherwise nyet Colt.
Having a public presidential appearance at a police facility is going to make the entire department look like supporters of Obama’s gun policies, regardless of individual officers’ opinions. There will be enough officers there who agree with the Prez, or just want to get on TV, or agree with the Prez AND want to be on TV, that it will appear that the department backs Obama 100%. Of course if not explicitly ordered to appear, those officers who disagree should not attend. But to attend, if ordered to do so, and turn one’s back to the Prez/cameras? That seems to be a childish way to go about showing one’s disagreement, and not the way I wish gun rights advocates to be portrayed. If anything, that would depict the behavior exhibited more often than not by our gun-grabbing opposition. Leave the whiny, immature behavior to them please. The longer we present mature, logical opposition to the infringement of our rights, the more desperate the other side becomes, as evidenced by their recent frantically emotional appeals to ‘just DO something!’ after yet more ludicrous legislation has been dismissed. If the President himself is more agitated about the lack of progress on the side of gun control, clearly we are doing something right. Now is not the time to be immature in the advocation of our position. Let the other side huff and puff all they want, we’re winning because we’re smarter and classier (most of the time!) than they are.
As you state, Carrey’s fame originated with him talking out of his @ss. Everyone should remember this, his hypocrisy as well should not be forgotten. As your pix above demonstrate, his characters have often been portrayed using firearms. So he can make a trailer load of cash using guns, but if the moviegoer is into guns he has a Puny Pecker Problem. Here he is talking out of his @ss again, except this time around fame will not come knocking………….
I didn’t think hitlers skin was that dark. He will probably want to lay in a supply of bleach because he sure thinks he knows whats best for everybody, just like goosestep boy. Sometimes I wonder if he isn’t 3 fries short of a happy meal, Randy
don’t forget the creepy texts/tweets to Emma Stone back in 2011, Carrey is obviously deranged.
I’ve been a fan of Farago ever since finding his original The Truth About Cars. Was saddened when he left but perked up when he fired up TTAG. As a retired cop after 40+ years ranging from a Federal investigatior in D.C. to a sheriff’s deputy in Arizona and finally retiring as a lieutenant in a small mining town PD I just want the readers to know that not all cops fear guns in the hands of good citizens. Now I realize that my personal data bank is small and consists of only the cops/deputies/highway patrol officers I’ve personal met and/or worked with here in the southeastern section of Arizona but I can’t recall any of them taking the position that I hear from big city chiefs and some officers from the larger eastern and California cities that only they should have weapons. The guys I’ve worked with out here don’t fear guns in the hands of good citizens and think CCW permits are one of the greatest things to come down the pike since sliced white bread. I do agree that many chiefs and even some sheriffs will follow the position of the local politcos and sway in what ever direction the perceived wind is blowing but I really feel that the average street cop doesn’t want to disarm citizens. If anybody knows we don’t stop violent crimes but arrive afterwards to pick up the pieces and, hopefully, sometime later be able to present to the court somebody we feel may have committed the crime, it’s us. We fully understand that when the flag goes up the only thing between you and serious injury or death is whatever defense you can bring to the furball. I am depressed when ever I read comments to various articles in both TTAC and TTAG attacking cops in general and the low opinion and even hatred shown by many of the readers. I hope I never run into the kind of LEOs they must have to have developed such enmity towards a profession I’ve been proud to have been a member off for more than half my life.
Carrey picks fight with dead man, loses.
The “CONSTITUTION STATE” is now a bonafide Slave State…………
In bear country, I always carry my .357 mag Ruger. I also always carry bear spray on my chest in an easy-t0-grab holster. Seen Griz, never been charged or threatened. If I ever am, the plan is to hose him down with spray and pull the gun as a last resort. Unless I’m with someone I don’t like. Then I’ll just shoot him in the knee and run.
Bumped into many, many black bears and for the most part you can scare them off by yelling at them. Sow with cubs is a different kettle of fish. Try to avoid them.
The critter that’s most likely to stomp your ass is a moose, not a bear. Think about that for a bit. Try not to get too close to one. They move deceptively fast through fallen timber and crap that you can’t hardly climb through. Watch yourself if you go tromping through the gunch streamside. More than once, I’ve been beating through willows along a creek and bumped into black bears AND moose all in the same place I wanted to fish. Best to just quietly back out and go find another place.
This is why La Bamba won’t ask the opinion of duty cops on the issue of the day. His M.O. is to find police chiefs – paper-pushing PUBLIC RELATIONS officers – who share his ideas. Funny thing – they’re not too hard to find.