“Everyone knew there would be some gun owners flouting the law that legislators hurriedly passed last April, requiring residents to register all military-style rifles with [Connecticut] state police by Dec. 31,” touch.courant.com muses, avoiding the official term for the firearms in question (i.e. “assault rifles”). “But few thought the figures would be this bad.” How bad? The news org reports that . . .
“By the end of 2013, state police had received 47,916 applications for assault weapons certificates, Lt. Paul Vance said. An additional 2,100 that were incomplete could still come in. That 50,000 figure could be as little as 15 percent of the rifles classified as assault weapons owned by Connecticut residents.”
As of Jan. 1, Connecticut has very likely created tens of thousands of newly minted criminals — perhaps 100,000 people, almost certainly at least 20,000 — who have broken no other laws. By owning unregistered guns defined as assault weapons, all of them are committing Class D felonies.
Translation: the vast majority of Connecticut’s semi-automatic rifle and standard capacity ammunition magazine owners are practicing “Irish democracy”: ignoring a law with which they do not agree. [Click here for a pdf of FAQs on the Act in question.] As we wondered even before the Constitution State reacted to the Newton massacre by disarming its citizens, what happens next?
Apparently this question didn’t occur to the ranking GOP senator on the legislature’s public safety committee. “I honestly thought from my own standpoint that the vast majority would register,” said Sen. Tony Guglielmo, R-Stafford. “If you pass laws that people have no respect for and they don’t follow them, then you have a real problem.”
When a politician says the word “honestly” you know he’s FOS. But Tony’s not wrong to be concerned about the next phase of the Constitution State’s crackdown on otherwise law-abiding gun owners.
The problem could explode if Connecticut officials decide to compare the list of people who underwent background checks to buy military-style rifles in the past, to the list of those who registered in 2013. Do they still own those guns? The state might want to know.
“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.
To be clear, Mr. Lawlor is the Undersecretary for Criminal Justice Policy and Planning at the Office of Policy and Management for the State of Connecticut. The Agency concerns itself with prisons, mostly. I’m not sure that Reuben F. Bradford, the head of Connecticut’s Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection (which includes the State Police and the aforementioned firearms unit) would agree that Mr. Lawlor gets the final say in this matter.
Even if Lawlor is the man staying the hand of the State Police when it comes to enforcing the Act and confiscating now-illegal “assault weapons” and “high capacity magazines,” who’s to say he won’t get steamrollered by the Governor or the legislature or God knows who when the political climate changes? Say, after the next spree killing. Or a protest over a confiscation gone wrong.
Or nothing at all. Maybe the Governor wakes up one day and thinks…right, that’s it. These gun owners are law breakers. We know who they are. Let’s go get their illegal guns. While the odds of that may seem small, the odds that Connecticut gun owners who haven’t registered their semi-automatic rifles or standard capacity magazines up to this point will do so – without some sort of threat and/or display of force – are nil.
The odds that Connecticut will repeal the Act are lower still. Don’t count on the U.S. Supreme Court to upend the recent federal court decision that the Act is GTG, either. In short, anyone who doesn’t see this situation as a powder keg is in deep denial – a fact that Courant writer Dan Haar seems to grasp well enough.
Lt. Vance compared the noncompliance to motor vehicle registrations, in which some people choose not to follow the law and pay the consequences. Lawlor compared it to speeding — the law is still the law even if many people flout it. But those are infractions and, at worst, misdemeanors. Here we’re talking about turning otherwise law-abiding citizens into felons.
No matter how you look at it, this will not end well.
There is one and ONLY one reason to register firearms: to eventually confiscate them. PERIOD. There is no crime fighting utility — gang members aren’t lining up to register their “assault weapon” (a.k.a. scary looking black rifle) — and there is no crime prevention utility in a registration. A deranged bugnut opens fire in a school and authorities make laws that… HASSLE THE INNOCENT. The law is a failure before it’s even a year old. Like the Canadian gun registry, it needs to be scrapped as soon as possible.
Actually, in some times and places registration was part of getting people enlisted in a paramilitary force.
All that is needed is a leader and a spark.
I actually believe Tony Guglielmo when he claims to have “honestly” thought more people would comply. His problem is that, as a politician, the world he lives in up in his head has no basis in reality and so he doesn’t actually know what his constituents want.
tl;dr: Honesty and incompetence are not mutually exclusive.
“Translation: the vast majority of Connecticut’s semi-automatic rifle and standard capacity ammunition magazine owners are practicing “Irish democracy”: ignoring a law with which they do no agree. ”
And to show his support, Robert is practicing Irish english!
+1
lol
SIG’s…junk….now that is some funny shit!
Conn. – the rest of us in the free states are watching… if the keg blows, we have your back.
It’s probably enclosed based bullets as well. Lead vaporization is what causes the biggest buildup of carbon and crud on cans. Any good ammo built for cans should be enclosed base.
Caveat: haven’t read entire review yet. Will do so later this evening.
Elevation doesn’t actually affect the speed of sound. It’s temperature that does. Handy calculator on this page: http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-speedsound.htm
It has come into play for me a few times with some .22 lr loads, specifically, that hover right around the speed of sound and are subsonic for me when it’s warm out and supersonic when it’s cold 🙂
I made this video back when I first got my Liberty Mystic suppressor, and the volume difference between supersonic and subsonic 9mm ammo is HUGE. The sonic boom of the bullet breaking the sound barrier is really loud. http://youtu.be/U_yhqnfSjXA?t=5m7s
I wonder how many rifles have already been tubed and buried in back yards in CT.
Powderkeg
and some elected idiot is waving the match around.
A few door kicking raids by SWAT and some public trials and the rest will submit to their lawful masters.
Yeah, I agree. I think that they’ll make an example out of some non-sympathetic types, then they’ll generously extend the deadline anywhere from 6 months to a year, and just about everyone will comply. These people aren’t stupid, they managed to get where they are today by knowing how to work on people.
The cop is really lucky the owner didn’t decide to defend his own animals and property against the perp.
I sometimes wonder if the NRA is as pro 2A as they have us all believe…
if ohio was joking they would have said moms against guns terrorist
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Ms. Lawlor is not “staying” anyone’s hand, nor is he the slightest bit inclined to. He’s a rabid Progressive who outright hates the 2A and firearms owners generally. He’s sooner see us in prison for life than give us the time of day. Just follow him on Twitter to see what I mean…..
What year did the British do this to a colony now known as the United States of America?
If they start cracking down, they should start with those that pay the highest in taxes. Once the state body realizes that some of their fundraising money comes from felons, they will sing a different song.
Doubt you want to go to this effort but…….
FWIW, if you recorded the two on a laptop and set the input level so that the impulse does not clip the input than you can determine what the relative SPL level difference is between the two and that is mainly what you’re after anyway.
When you get done you’ll most likely find out that “there was no discernible difference”.
One way to get your auto gain to play nice is to play a solid tone (say 440Hz or so) out the laptop speaker and use that to set your input level at a fairly low setting of maybe -40db or so. Then record a file where you shoot A/B/A/B for a few cycles. You need to then pull your waveforms into a freed editor with DB plotting on the amplitude. Record in PCM at 44K and 20-24bit if it has it.
When you get done after a few hours of messing around you’ll most likely determine that “there was no discernible difference”
I can understand being nervous around the dogs for some people, but shooting the dog was completely unnessescary. Tasering/ pepper spray is a better choice, if it doesn’t work then then shooting the dog would be a better choice. Personally, having dispatch call the house would have been the best choice.
As for the cop, if your that scared of the dogs you need to be done with law enforcement. I agree getting bit sucks, but if your that emotionally distraught by it you need to be done.
As for dog owners, teach your dogs not to be assholes.
15% compliance? This article estimates compliance in the four percent range. Of course, that includes outlawed magazines.
http://gunsnfreedom.com/uh-oh-connecticut-grasping-for-amnesty-deal-after-realizing-just-how-many-refused-to-register-assault-weapons-and-high-cap-mags/
And I thought Illinois sucked…
Kent State: push scared folks against a fence where they cannot escape and bad things happen.
Domestic Terrorist: would that apply to a uniformed force in combat with other uniformed forces?
Military style? Does that mean select-fire? Cool, everyone in Conn. can breathe easy now.
I’m actually not against the operating theory of microstamping – a unique marking is made on a shell casing that links it to a particular gun.
My biggest issue is that the technology, which seems to be extremely expensive to implement and gives so-so results, is defeated in less than 10 seconds with a metal file.
or a revolver
For me the same rule applies to new prescription drugs. The FDA lets some of them go to market too soon.
It’s especially effective with revolvers./sarc
Mr. Hussani also was a tad trigger happy in May 2010. He shot a suspect in the head. Markcus May.
Saw a Playboy sex survey years back said the two demographics with the best sex lives were jazz fans (the music, not the shitty NBA team) and gun owners.
More to the point of the author, if you read the Times article, you saw it was about traditional gender roles, specifically in housework. I’d assume that a couple who both carry would be very “equal”, but also more likely to be more traditional in their household roles. Ergo, more sex.
I haven’t read the requirements of the signs, but if they were the ones posted on this site just the other day they seem pretty damn dirt simple to me. Want a sign? Make it this by this and put it here….what does Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America (a wholly owned subsidiary of Mayors Against Illegal Guns) find so difficult?
I don’t normally watch videos, but the one from Oregon is excellent. The audio is wonky, but he has great stage presence.
I am so glad they are trying to make Ashland really really safe! It’s always for the children! Nobody needs knives over 4″ long either. /sarc
I’ve got a simple technology to reduce violence. It’s called “birth control”, and it should be used by anyone who isn’t willing to actually raise their children so they don’t become violent criminals.
Single most retarded gun accessory I have ever seen.
This video has me pissed off into scary blood pressure range.
It’s very clear that this is a happy, “I’m telling my master you are here” dog.
I am sorry for not reading all of the replies to see if I am repeating what’s been said.
The canines that I have been privileged enough to be family with were worth more than this dirtbags life.
This jack-wagon, musloid, badge wearing, jihadi, needs to be prosecuted in a very bad way.
I’ll leave it at that, as I’m too angry to say something I may regret.
Thanks for agreeing with me. Sorry I upset you so much for liking Taurus. If it’s any comfort to you my son carried a Glock 21 in Iraq(the green zone). Why do S&W, Ruger,Springfield,Kimber,etc. get a pass while Taurus doesn’t? At least R. Farago gave a very good review to the pt111g2. Did that offend you az? And I didn’t use the F bomb
Just worry when lumber and barbed wire are suddenly in short supply. All those prisoners have to be detained and undergo (enhanced) interrogation.
Everyone here is over-reacting. As an individual heavily involved in emergency planning for the largest US Air Force Base in an Asian country, we do two to four emergency management exercises per year. We’ve done active shooter, dirty bomb, insider threat, etc. In many instances the simulated perpetrator was a disgruntled or disturbed service member. For the Active Shooter scenarios, the role player with the gun pretty much has to be a military cop, because they are the only ones with viable access to firearms and ammo.
The scenario is frankly not important, and is often preposterous. The point of the scenario is the training involved in the respose to the threat, command and control, and casualty processing.
I always had a feeling my bathtub was going to kill me. The more you know…
<em"Or a protest over a confiscation gone wrong."
As opposed to one going un-wrong…
Sometimes truly problematic overreach my the State gets corrected, althoughim not holding my breath on this.
Are private sales still permitted in Connecticut?
“Hello there. We’re here for your AK74.”
“Yeah, I sold that a couple months back to a kid in a hoodie. Nope, didn’t get a name. Nope, didn’t really look at ’em. Him or her? Not really sure on that, either. Sorry, officer…”
Were I a carpenter in Connecticut, I s’pect I’d be putting lots o’ cache trapdoors in lots o’ houses ’bout now.
I’d like to think the snow pic would be better if she had a Mossin, SKS, or AK…
Maybe a member of Can Can Concealment should do the picking… its their product and advertising.
Facebook? Yeah… but no.
Friends Don’t Let Friends Facebook.
The 1911 is a great collector gun.
Glock 17 only handgun you will ever need….if you “need” to really use one.
I have a 1911 Traditional Scorpion 5 inch. It has had the same issues as this weapon in the article. It wont feed a round completely and lock up. I have put well over 1k rounds in it. Every 2-3 rounds I have to smack the slide with my palm to completely put it in battery. The image of you holding it with it FTF is exactly what mine does. I have tried 5 different magazines and several different ammos. I have already sent it back to Sig once, in which they said they “re polished the feed ramp” and had no more malfunctions.
Wrong.
Still does it. I am selling it first chance I get and replacing it with something actually reliable.
You know, a book written by a seriously addled congresswoman with NO EDITING could be entertaining.
The title might be more like “Enove: the Figgit to change Albuquerque to Alabama, and Super Golden Crisp, it’s Got the Crunch With Punch.”
Hand out clubs and knives, increase knife violence and blunt object violence, gun violence goes down. Please contact me for instructions on where to send that money.
Seriously does their dictionary not have the words “root cause” in it? I know it’s missing the word “freedom”.
It is a different world where hunters go forth on elephants.
Absolutely. I introduced my three sons to shooting and hunting at a very young age, and it is absolutely a unifying experience. The oldest is away at school now (soon to be followed by number 2), but he always asks me to reserve time at the range or arrange a bird hunt when he’s home on break. the four of us also communally rigorously research every potential firearm before we buy the “next” one.
which is actually, how we found this site.
State legislative nullification of federal gun laws = bad. State legislative nullification of federal pot laws = good.
Got it?