At a town meeting, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy addressed a lengthy question about the Constitution State’s post-Newtown civilian disarmament legislation. Malloy sums up the challenges to the law by telling an unhappy American gun owner “you lost” (4:48). The applause greeting his summation reflects the gulf between pro-gun control voters and the tens of thousands of gun owners who’ve refused to register their firearms and, thus, become, Class D felons. Whatever you think of Malloy’s justification for “strengthening” Connecticut’s gun laws – and “not much” just begins to cover it – the Governor isn’t backing up or backing off. With the letter threatening “charges” against non-compliant gun owners, the conflict grows more ominous by the day.
Someone needs to ask him when he plans to start enforcing this law of which he is so pleased. Bring it, your honor.
It’s hard not to feel like we’re tottering on some constitutional fulcrum and could very easily tip the wrong way, spilling us all into what we fear the most. If it was just one overreaching governor of one confused state, it would be easier to shrug it off. To me it just feels like a noxious snowball getting bigger and uglier by the day. Malloy is just one little bubble in a frothing sea of this shit. And now I’m out of metaphors.
“Arez Armor! We have ATF Agents in sector 47!”
“IT’S A TRAP!”
I’d like to know if this law is actually the will of the people, or the will forced upon the people.
Will of the people does not matter so much in this case…the law is clearly unconstitutional for several reasons.
I believe this is one reason why they have not even tried to enforce the law in the 2.5 months it’s been active.
Not sure I would hold a mag in my hand while the cops show up. Hold nothing with fingers spread and hands in the air. A kid in GA was shot by a cop as he opened the front door . . . . . He was holding a Wii remote. The kid is dead.
THIS is why I am afraid of cops.
“If you bought it prior to the law…… the legislature said you were allowed to keep it….”
Awww… it’s that sweet of them? They’re “letting” people keep legally obtained and owned property… until they don’t. Can’t let the proletariat have the illusion of property rights…
Looks like a Connecticut firearm.
Why hasn’t anyone thrown this moron out of office?
This is why it is so important to have encrypted records onsite and offsite. Linux is IMHO the best for record keeping. If someone tries to login 5X with wrong password the machine goes in to secure data wipe in the background. The longer they leave the computer running the more times the data is overwritten.
LET THEM KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF WHAT THEY DID!!!!
San Diego ATF field office that did the raid… (818) 265-3700
Don’t just sit there commenting on a post, pick up the phone.
Ms Malloy is a feckless idiot, and just the type of ass-wipe to start a war. It won’t be over until the last shot is fired.
This is what happens when a liberal is LOOSING the fight. They get confrontational. That is why we need to apply more pressure now.
SR9c loaded with Hornady Critical Duty is my EDC gun. Great minds think alike.
Congratulations and I hope he never has to use it. Just a bit of advice for future purchases that don’t have any time constraints, you could go someplace like here or here and pay WAY less than places like Bass Pro. Most FFL transfer fees range from $20 to $50. Mine charges $20. Even after paying a $50 transfer fee, you still would have saved nearly $130.
UR a good friend. I’m a big fan of safeties for home defense.
I still don’t get why they can’t do some kind of emergency request like the deal with Kennedy and California based on the idea that once the property is confiscated, you can’t guarantee the property will be returned when the law is struck down. None of it makes sense.
be a shame if he had an unfortunate accident with a non-firearm implement.
It’s SAO no need for a SRT.
Plus the SRT will not fit the SIG SAO pistols.
My concern here centers on the question of how long before those jerks reclassify AR uppers and try to visit PSA?
Oh, two little tidbits on these M-Wraps…
1. There is only ONE entrance point!
2, Sure it might be bullet proof but probably hard do drive or shoot out if the windows are hit with paint balls (turpentine base).
They are not as invincible as they would like to think.
This time around it appears that the next civil war might start above the Mason-Dixon Line , but that won’t matter it will spread across the nation , it will get very ugly for a lot of the politicians in the highly ravaged gun control states that went along with the plans , also for a lot of federal employees and elected officials that are for more gun control , they hemselves think they will be protected by military , law enforcement , and possibly UN troops called in to help stop the insurrection , but as for our military and law enforcement they will stand down , some not all though just the older folks that know better and some of the younger that have been schooled by the older folks , as for the foreign troops they will be blood thirsty won’t have to abide by the Constitution , but one thing that will be against them is that most Patriots won’t give them any quarter as the foreign troops don’t live here and as they wouldn’t take any prisoners neither will the Patriots , the arrogance of the Statists of not giving any ground on their gun confiscation plans shows that it is only a matter of time before all of this starts . Be prepared and ready. Keep your powder dry.
I’m open for a little violence…actually a while lot of violence. I’d like there too be a slaughter of all these people that want to impose such tyrannical Legislation
First let me say that the SR9c is a great pistol. It’s my go-to when I’m covering enough urban territory on foot to make me balk at pocketing a tiny .380 only.
Due to reliability I prefer revolvers for getting beginners started, but I’ve found that heavy double-action triggers turn off more petite women (particularly older ones with less grip) from shooting than anything else. So a pistol wasn’t a bad move…I’d be more interested in the non-C version for home (better recoil management and easier racking), but the full-size mag can be stuffed in there, at least.
If it’s going to be left loaded in a drawer or something, the only things to worry about is keeping the resident crumb-snatcher away from it (a drawer safe, maybe?) and making sure Mom’s firing grip is firm enough to allow proper slide cycling. Range time will help that. Might want to use some lower recoil ammo to start her off with…I know Federal HST 147gr. is listed as low recoil, but I’m not sure about cheap FMJ range stuff coming in that variety.
I see the BS regarding the gun club happen all over. Entity X has existed for as long as said community or thereabouts. Transplants from the big city move in nearby with FULL KNOWLEDGE that Entity X is there and has been there for some time and are told “it’s (noisy, smelly, draws traffic, etc). They say “no problem!” Then the first chance they get complain about the noise and try to get the place shut down. Gun clubs, farms, airports (I’m not joking). Seriously. You KNEW it was there, you KNEW there was going to be noise. If that was going to be such a problem, why in the name of God did you move there?!
The SR9c was my first handgun too. Still is my only centerfire pistol. When I bought it the only 9mm I could find was Hornady’s Zombie Max which is virtually the same as Critical Defense except for the green tip. I started reloading not long ago and after a few small 20 – 25 round batches of test rounds to dial in my recipe I’ve started cranking out almost more ammo than I can shoot… almost 😉
Something here should not be forgotten: the people of CT elected the representatives who enacted these ridiculous measures. Why not move to a place where people actually believe in some freedom? You are in the minority, and while the courts should protect it, there is no guarantee. I hear the reprise coming that ‘if you move, they’ll find you.’ Nope. This real BS legislation is limited pretty well to a few states and won’t spread past the blue ones unless the people of the gun lose a major cultural battle. And if it comes down to your ‘red line’ wouldn’t it be better to have it crossed with lots of like-minded individuals?
As to national legislation… the gun owners in CT have no political power to shape national politics. Why not move to a purple-ish state and push things there towards more freedom instead of less? Make it uncomfortable for the commuters in Virginia because they might see a gun now and then, maybe they’ll move to Maryland. We’ll have pretty much what we have already, states with no gun rights and states with good ones. The good states will balance out the bad ones nationally. And again, if they don’t, at least you’ll have a state behind you rather than those three guys from the gun club.
We’ll just have to see about that, Herr Governor.
He has won, in this state, unless the Courts stop him. This is Connecticut. Population 3.6 million. A small, rural blue state. I know a question I would have asked would have been about the whole definition of “assault weapon.” I’d have pointed out the nonsense of it, but I would also have argued that if he truly believes things like a pistol grip really make the weapon more dangerous, then why is he against AR-15s without a pistol grip? What is wrong with those?
I’d have explained that a loophole is if a pistol grip is outlawed and then someone finds a way to make a gun with the pistol grip still. But making the gun without a pistol grip is not a loophole. You say a pistol grip makes it an assault weapon, that it’s the pistol grip and the other “military-style” features that make it a more lethal weapon, so what is wrong with the weapon without any of those features?
It has stopped being about the ‘gun’ along time ago…It has always been about power and control….and those that use it for THEIR benefit…of which many of them now will pay the price for THEIR folly…imho
Even if they “erased” every hard-drive of every computer used for their business, unless they actually hard deleted the data, that data is still recoverable. Ordinarily, when we “delete” files on our PCs, that space is simply made available for re-write, and it may take days, weeks, or even months for that data to be over-ridden by another file. They would need a program or a piece of hardware to physically change all of the binary language (“1s” and “0s”) to all zeroes, thus irrecoverably erasing the undesired data.
Every person they sold a lower to throughout the country is now subject to an arrest by the rogue BATFE. I, on the other hand, bought mine privately from an individual, not a dealer, and there was no bill of sale. 😉
Are 80% lowers going to be the new brass knuckles? I don’t see a lower it’s a paper weight.
Lions, tigers, and bears, we don’t mind.
Lets find out where his opponent stands and if he is for the POTG, then FLOOD his campaign with $$$
Glad it worked out and you could run away. Could have turned out horribly differently.
Having some experience with ATF/Homeland Security Raids, I can say they consider the Constitution and your rights as completely irrelevant. If they want you, then they do whatever they want and the courts usually will do nothing about it. They know how to lie in an Affidavit and use weasel words to mislead Federal Judges to authorize a raid. If possible, they may well fabricate evidence after the raid. I wouldn’t put it past them to drill out some of the receivers themselves, then say that was how they seized them.
Shouldn’t she be wearing ear and eye protection?
Assuming:
(a) You personally watched a spree killer shoot multiple people that were obviously victims, and
(b) The spree killer is still armed and you can see him/her …
Then I see no benefit to yourself or society in verbally challenging said spree killer. Drop the spree killer with as many shots as are necessary to incapacitate him/her. That course of action is legally justifiable and avoids the liabilities associated with verbally challenging a spree killer and dealing with him/her if they surrender.
ACTIVE shooter. If I draw on him while still ACTIVE (gun in hand), he’s going down with no verbal warning.