Conn. gov's panel issues early gun control ideas

Yahoo! News / The Associated Press ^ | March 18, 2013 | Susan Haigh

[2ndDivisionVet]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — An advisory panel reviewing the deadly Newtown school shooting for Connecticut's governor on Monday recommended requiring registration of all firearms in the state and mandating all its K-12 classrooms have doors that can be locked from the inside.

There was also enough consensus among the commission members to recommend bans on high-capacity magazines and the possession, sale or transfer or guns — both military-style firearms and handguns — that are capable of firing more than 10 rounds of ammunition without reloading.

Other recommendations in an interim report from Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's Sandy Hook Advisory Commission include limiting the amount of ammunition that can be purchased at one time, requiring trigger locks be provide at the time of sale or transfer and requiring firearms in a home be stored in a locked container.....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Why even allow serfs to have weapons at this rate?

[matt04]

Remind me how registering Nancy Lanzas firearms would have prevented Sandy Hook, besides confiscation?

[shankbear]

These people need some serious medication. What nutjob or criminal gives a fat rat’s ass about registering a gun. A gun that was more likely than not, stolen. They want to look like they are saving the children. Appearance is reality in their world. Serious counter firepower would have saved lives at SH.

[lacrew]

Lanza fired 152 rounds....meaning he reloaded at least 5 times. This magazine capacity nonsense is a red herring.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Bruce Lee carried a .357 magnum everywhere once he became famous as the guy no one could beat in a fight.

Chuck Norris is well known as a pro-gun advocate, and in response to a reporter’s ironic question, “If someone broke into your house, would you use your roundhouse kick?” he replied, “No, I’d use my 10 gauge.”

[TigersEye]

We'd be more dan happy to come in and register our guns.

How does da tenth uh nevah woik fuh youse?

[Robert357]

The political correct nonsense of this report is best illustrated by the following.

"...the commonality of high-capacity firearms in violent crimes must be acknowledged. According to the 2011 Connecticut Uniform Crime Reporting Program, only two (2) of 94 firearm-related homicides in the state were committed with a rifle or a shotgun. It is the consensus of the Commission that firearm lethality is correlated to capacity, a correlation borne out not only in Sandy Hook Elementary School, but in other violent confrontations in and beyond Connecticut. Therefore, the Commission believes that the State of Connecticut should carefully consider:

10. Prohibiting the possession, sale or transfer of any firearm capable of firing more than 10 rounds without reloading. This prohibition would extend to military-style firearms as well as handguns. Law enforcement and military would be exempt from this ban..."

[TigersEye]

We'd be more dan happy to come in and register our guns.

How does da tenth uh nevah woik fuh youse?

[muawiyah]

Never have understood what value there would be in registration of firearms ~ beyond doing that just before confiscation for too much First Amendment stuff.

Think about it ~ guy goes in school; shoots kids. Cops look at the firearms and say "was this registered"? Or, Cops see dead kids and say "check all registered firearms".

Nothing happens that way, particularly when the perp is also dead.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

From what I have read, many of his magazines he ejected still had unfired rounds in them.
That means that if he ejected a magazine and someone tried to attack him, he still could shoot them because there was still a live round in the chamber.

[ConservativeInPA]

Another recommendation from the commission is a gun-transfer program. Understanding that illegal guns are usually obtained by the poor without the means to legally purchase a gun, the commission recommends that rich gun owners should be forced to turn-in their weapons and the weapons will be refurbished and provided to the poor. Additionally, a 300% tax should be levied on all ammo sales. The ratio of rich gun owners to poor is 1:3, hence the tax will be invested in ammo distribution programs targeted towards those with insufficient means.

Sarcasm tag for those in Rio Linda and CT.

[matt04]

What were the moron on the commission smoking when the came up with that? How many shots were fired in those TWO homicides where a long gun was used? In those TWO instances was a AR-15 ever used?

[jimsin]

''Chuck Norris is well known as a pro-gun advocate, and in response to a reporter’s ironic question, “If someone broke into your house, would you use your roundhouse kick?” he replied, “No, I’d use my 10 gauge.”

Im guessin it's a street sweeper as well...you cant be to careful now days....

In any case potential felons have prob. crossed his name off their list a long, long time ago....heh heh heh

[lacrew]

My understandingis that one of the video games he played taught him to drop magazines early...and some still had fifteem rounds. But that sort of detail makes a lib’s eyes glaze over. So to simplify it, whenever magazine capacity comes up....Lanza had to do at least five swaps....and it didn’t slow him down one bit.

[Cyber Liberty]

An advisory panel reviewing the deadly Newtown school shooting for Connecticut's governor on Monday recommended requiring registration of all firearms in the state and mandating all its K-12 classrooms have doors that can be locked from the inside.

Whoa. How clever can you get?

[CSM]

“mandating all its K-12 classrooms have doors that can be locked from the inside.”

Now the perps can hold more victims captive and an armed opposition can’t get to them...

[Robert357]

To answer your question, they are not morons they are political hacks. The language is suppose to “go down smoothly” to the low knowlege voter so they will say, “...Yes, we need to have bans on high capacity magazines...” without ever having to think. (/sarcasm)