By CTSheepdog
Greetings from The Constitution State, though at times over the past year I have questioned whether that proud name is valid any longer. For those who live outside Connecticut, you may think challenges to our state’s residents’ natural, individual, US and state Constitutional rights to keep and bear arms are something that only popped up in the wake of the tragedy in Newtown in late 2012. However, serious restrictionist gun control goes back over 20 years, the most visible example – an “assault weapon” ban – put into place in 1994 . . .
That law, and much of the state’s restrictionist legislation has been promoted and lobbied for by Connecticut Against Gun Violence or CAGV. While representing itself as seeking “common sense” gun violence reduction, CAGV’s efforts invariably have more impact on law-abiding gun owners than on suicides or illegal gun use – causes that are responsible for over 95% of all gun injuries and deaths in Connecticut.
Does that sound more broadly familiar? If so, as you might guess, the majority of the gun restrictions promulgated by CAGV inevitably impact lawful, non-urban gun owners with little to no impact on those major causes of gun violence. As for CAGV’s idea of what constitutes “common sense”, in early 2013 they published their own gun law proposal that would have prohibited possession of all “assault weapons” as well as magazines of more than 7-round capacity with no grandfather provision. It would required existing firearms and mags to be either sold out-of-state, surrendered to LE or destroyed, with no compensation to owners. Do you now have a sense of what CAGV represents?
So now we need your help. In the wake of Newtown, a myriad of anti-rights organizations have arisen in Connecticut with the March for Change being the most visible, particularly via social media. The media-smart moms of March for Change brought social media sophistication to CAGV’s efforts that was previously lacking, but more on that in a moment.
As some of you may know, on Saturday April 5th, a massive gun-rights rally will be held in Hartford. This rally has caught the attention of CAGV/March for Change who plan to mount a virtual counter-rally via social media. Naturally, they know better than to call for a real, on-site counter-rally as they will be far outnumbered by Second Amendment supporters. Instead, they plan to bombard both Connecticut state legislators with phone calls as well pollute social media with messages in support of their anti-civil rights cause.
From an email this week to CAGV supporters:
| Things are heating up – and we need your help to respond!!Gun rights activists are holding a rally at the Capitol on Saturday, April 5, to protest the requirement that they register their assault rifles and high capacity magazines. They are demanding that the historic law we passed last year be repealed by May 7 or state-provoked chaos and violence could result; and they are targeting for defeat all legislators who voted yes on that bill.
They are even going so far as to encourage their supporters to attend the rally carrying handguns. |
Yes, the hoplophobes at CAGV are concerned that 2A rally attendees might actually exercise their right to carry handguns. They apparently haven’t counted on how many will have rifles slung over their shoulders, too. Evil “assault weapons” out in the open – oh my! The key point is that CAGV is asking their minions to use a particular social media tool to send out the following social media message all at the same time via use of this tool, Thunderclap:
Yes, yawn, a few thousand tweets and FB updates are nothing compared to the thousands of live human beings who will physically rally in Hartford that day. Usually such “noise” can be ignored but after I posted about this in a local CT forum, another forum member and outspoken supporter of gun owners’ rights decided two can play the social media game. Thus, to counter CAGV’s effort, Connecticut gun owners rights advocacy group, Connecticut Carry, has taken this idea and turned it on its head by starting its own Thunderclap.
As posted by Rich of Connecticut Carry:
Anti-rights groups have announced that they will protest a gun rights rally planned for April 5th using social media and creating a ‘thunderclap’.
Our response is to counterattack. We will need help from every single person reading this to make a thunderclap that makes their efforts look petty and silly.
First:
Go to the linked site and choose to ‘support’ this campaign with any of the following that you have an account for: Twitter, Facebook or Tumblr.
This costs you NOTHING. All you are doing is granting permission for the well known, secure site to post the message you see on that page to your social media account on April 5th at 12:00pm. It is easy as a few clicks to embarrass the anti-rights cultists that are hurting gun owners in Connecticut.
If you don’t have an account on one of these sites, please consider starting one. Social media is a very important tool for us.
Second:
Spread this link as far and wide as possible. The supporters currently say ‘of 250’. We do not plan to stop there. We will be increasing this number as we progress. There is no upper limit to our campaign.
People do not need to be in Connecticut to support this campaign, invite all of your friends, family and organizations in whatever states they might be in to crush these collectivists. Share this post with everyone on your friends list, and email to your contacts.
Your rights-supporting brothers and sisters in Connecticut really appreciate your encouragement via the Stand Strong Connecticut effort. Now I ask TTAG readers to consider further reinforcing us by clicking the links above and getting involved in this effort. For those of you who are not on social media, at least share these links with the like-minded who may be. Let’s make this viral as a show of nation-wide support for those of use who are dealing with the indignities of gun restrictionists’ laws in “The Constitution State”. Many thanks.
Never give up. Never surrender!
the only thing better than taking bitcoins would be taking bitcoins for the sale of just an upper equipped with their system. This would not require any records to be kept since its not a firearm.
RAS from Romania as well.
I don’t have a cell phone that has tweeting capability , but I am with ya’ll in mind and heart . Don’t know if I would carry firearms to this event , due to it giving law enforcement the ability to resort to force against the protesters , but then again this could lead to the spark that starts the bigger fight for taking rights back . No matter how this turns out now , down the road we do have a larger fight on our hands , and it could go violent if the government does not follow the wishes of the people , which in the end has all of the rights , not any government , the government only has the permission to rule by the people and when the people think the government that is in office is not working for the people then the people should rid themselves of said government by what means they have to take , no matter what unconstitutional laws the government has put in place to prevent the people from doing just that . Be prepared and ready . Keep your powder dry .
“But the .40 bridges that gap between 9mm and .45, highlighting the weaknesses of both rounds at the time. ”
What’s the “bridge”? What are the “weaknesses”?
Unless you like more flash and recoil, what exactly is is the compelling narrative for the 40S&W, given the remarkable improvements in 9mm self-defense ammo over the last 20 years to today’s exemplary performance (and I write that as a guy who carrie a 45ACP every day)?
.40S&W was THOUGHT to be a POTENTIAL bridge, and was THOUGHT to overcome PAST weaknesses.
The world has turned. What’s the place for the 40 today? Nowhere.
–Andrew, @LawSelfDefense
I checked out the FMK 9C1 at Turners and came away Interested. Also like the Century Arms Arcus 98DAC, can’t get it here in califarcia YET. But thanks to state “senator” leleand yee illegal M16 sting buy with FBI AND their violation of The Sherman Anti Trust Act, these Federal Violation “laws” will soon be at an end; as well as waiting 42 days for an additional pistol Per Pistol.
A few issues I see with the proposal (some of which others have pointed out):
(1) “Firearms” is a very limiting term (as there are many forms of “arms” other than handheld guns).
(2) “Congress and the state legislatures” does not include local governments or administrative agencies.
(3) The second amendment needs no “enforcement” … it simply needs an absence of infringement.
(4) I’m not sure how one would declare that a person has been “automatically impeached” … via a court order by a lawsuit? It seems very messy.
All of that said, I’m not sure anything like this would work very well, since politicians and judges are apt to ignore it anyway.
But, if I was going to propose something, I’d suggest something like this:
Amendment II.
To secure the natural right of persons to defend themselves and others, the right of individuals to keep and bear arms, including all types of small arms and military weapons and their accessories, may not be prohibited, taxed, licensed, or in any way restricted by any level of government under this Constitution.
Amendment IIA.
As a well-armed society is the best defense against internal and external threats to liberty, all states under this Constitution shall be obligated to provide training to all residents who wish to become members of the state militia.
A state militia may not be deployed outside of the United States without a Declaration of War by Congress, unless that militia is actively involved in repelling an invasion.
All adult citizens of a state who have been properly trained and have joined the state militia in either a combat or non-combat role shall be entitled to vote in all federal and state elections. Persons who have not joined the militia of their state of residence may not vote in federal or state elections.
I wrote another part too, but it’s more related to war powers vs. the RKBA.
Awesome.
Don’t take a likening to him. Use your better judgement.
NO, it is NOT. I have had to deal with faulty data matching more than once because there is someone else with my first name, last name, middle initial and date of birth in this Australian state. Also, I once had an almost identical street address to someone with my last name and initials in another suburb, who was right next to me in the telephone directory. Several things drive such “coincidences” and make them much less coincidental:-
– The birthday paradox. It’s not whether you have a 1 in 365 chance of a matching birthday, it’s how many people it takes for a pair to be likely to match – which is about 23 people.
– Skew distributions. People aren’t evenly spread, but their names etc. are likely to clump. A LOT of parents with my last name give their sons my first name – there were at least three of us when I was at university, and I am a member of a club that has another.
– Bayes’s theorem. A lot of people think it’s a one in millions chance (it isn’t), so it will be millions to one against happening again. No, the odds (much lower) are against your getting caught over and over, because those identifying details stay much the same – the odds don’t get re-run each time.
And that makes it hard on people like me when those details are “used as an I.D. for most medical and financial records” by idiots who don’t know what they are doing when it comes to statistics.
This one is in the back of my mind every time I pull the trigger.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×4393386
Same problem as when I looked at it before. Propriatary mags with 1 less capacity=nonstarter for me.
If I have to modify the follower that’s one thing. For training it’s not a terible tool. But, 1 less capacity is a no-go.
I’d rather not know and have one more bullet I’m not aware of then one less I am aware of.
The ammo hoarding portion of this article is sickening. It’s straight out of _Enemies Foreign and Domestic_.
At least you can still get 7.62×39. We’ve had that calibre expressly banned from import for over 15 years. Kind of ironic because converting old Lee- Enfields to 7.62×39 was a popular modification. I’m glad I converted mine to .223 instead
Be the last time that guy shoots at a tree again.
I like James Brown’s music.
@jug,
I can kiss your you know what?
Clearly you are not on our side if your asking me to do that, while at the same time posting on a social media site!
And if its stacked against us, why do we have more supporters with less outreach? Seems like we are beating the antis at their own game, and you wanna stand on the sidelines?
JBLM civilian foresters tell me that they have had instances of dozers working on fires at the base turn up grenades and mortar bombs.
You would think that WWII impact ranges on the base would have been mapped, but apparently it didnt happen.
If some guy open carrying was walking up my property to my front door, with hat and dark sunglasses no less, I would moving very quickly to my own gun and telling my wife and kids to go to the back of the house. I support open carry and I will open carry when hiking out in the mountains. But anyone who does it in suburbia, or goes door-to-door like this is actually setting us all back in our fight to protect our 2A rights and gives incredible fuel to gun haters. Some already think we’re sociopaths for loving guns. If you pull these stunts you prove them right.
5.56 just what pappi orderd in a bolt action and muzzle brake to and 1in 9 twist
Daddy, tell me the bedtime story again where Mr. Lee gets arrested.
April Fool or not THIS might be the ONLY reason I’d vote for Christie.
Dah!!! As an NJ resident I fell for this hook, line, and sinker…… Should have known it was too good to be true.
I was in the middle of emailing the news to my friends and trying to figure out how I could complete my application for a permit this very afternoon, when it dawned on me….
Oh.
Dang.
(That April Fools joke will be hard to top.)
God, I haaaaaaaaaate browsing the web on April Fools Day! The only fools are the clowns who publish this dreck.
You don’t have to fight to be a man, but sometimes you have to fight when you’re a man.
A barrel extension is not necessarily a supressor:
http://www.metrogun.com/how_it_works.html
It is so funny reading the “I don’t need no stinkin’ training crowd” have their little melt-downs.
Required training? No.
Wise to get training? Yes.
The arguments made that firearms are so easy to operate that all one needs is the user manual is just about the most absurd thing I’ve read to date in these debates.
The visceral hatred some display toward any kind of formal firearm training bespeaks a deep sense of insecurity and defensiveness on their part.
But, as always, makes for cheap entertainment.
Good job guys.