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Dan Haar: Untold Thousands Flout Gun Registration Law
The Courant ^ | 2/10/2014

Posted on 02/12/2014 5:19:38 PM PST by Altura Ct.

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 state police by Dec. 31.

But few thought the figures would be this bad.

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, according to estimates by people in the industry, including the Newtown-based National Shooting Sports Foundation. No one has anything close to definitive figures, but the most conservative estimates place the number of unregistered assault weapons well above 50,000, and perhaps as high as 350,000.

And that means 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.

"I honestly thought from my own standpoint that the vast majority would register," said Sen. Tony Guglielmo, R-Stafford, the ranking GOP senator on the legislature's public safety committee. "If you pass laws that people have no respect for and they don't follow them, then you have a real problem."


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1 posted on 02/12/2014 5:19:39 PM PST by Altura Ct.
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"...conservative estimates..."

Heh, heh.....

2 posted on 02/12/2014 5:23:36 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Altura Ct.

Good for them! It takes guts to not give in. I would imagine many guns were lost in “accidents”


3 posted on 02/12/2014 5:24:06 PM PST by refermech
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To: Altura Ct.

“If you pass laws that people have no respect for and they don’t follow them, then you have a real problem.”

No sh*t, Sherlock.


4 posted on 02/12/2014 5:24:15 PM PST by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: Altura Ct.
""If you pass laws that people have no respect for and they don't follow them, then you have a real problem.""

Take it up with Bammy, dude.

5 posted on 02/12/2014 5:24:50 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Altura Ct.
"I honestly thought from my own standpoint that the vast majority would register," said Sen. Tony Guglielmo, R-Stafford, the ranking GOP senator on the legislature's public safety committee.

Uh, a little out of touch, are we? Dickhead.

6 posted on 02/12/2014 5:24:59 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: Altura Ct.

47,000 Lemmings registered their guns with the government? That’s a personal decision but what a self sell out. George Washington face palm.


7 posted on 02/12/2014 5:25:11 PM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: dynachrome
“If you pass laws that people have no respect for and they don’t follow them, then you have a real problem.”

And, hint: the "problem" isn't with the people!

8 posted on 02/12/2014 5:25:58 PM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Altura Ct.

“I’m runnin’. Po-lice on my back.”


9 posted on 02/12/2014 5:26:46 PM PST by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: Altura Ct.

“I honestly thought from my own standpoint that the vast majority would register,” said Sen. Tony Guglielmo, R-Stafford

Idiot.


10 posted on 02/12/2014 5:27:01 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Paladin2
""If you pass laws that people have no respect for and they don't follow them, then you have a real problem.""

I guess this rube never went to a city run by Democrats. Must never have visited the White House either.

11 posted on 02/12/2014 5:27:33 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: Altura Ct.

What a dumbass Republican. The President of the US doesn’t care about any laws, so why then should the people?

We have a real problem alright, it resides in the White House.


12 posted on 02/12/2014 5:28:17 PM PST by dforest
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To: Altura Ct.

“If you pass laws that people have no respect for and they don’t follow them, then you have a real problem.”

apparently this idiot never studied American history, like the Revolution and Prohibition....


13 posted on 02/12/2014 5:29:19 PM PST by rolling_stone
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To: samadams2000
47,000 Lemmings registered their guns with the government?

This is CT, sandwiched between ultra liberal NY and ultraliberal MA I'm surprised that there are only 47k who soaked their matresses

14 posted on 02/12/2014 5:30:34 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Altura Ct.

Haven’t these idiots ever heard of the Canadian gun registry? Or all of the criminals who’d never register? What the hell do they expect? Compliance with an unjust, unconstitutional law?


15 posted on 02/12/2014 5:31:12 PM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: from occupied ga

I saw the pictures of the line they stood in to register and it made me ill. They were very disturbing images. I wondered if they were also applying to be camp guards.


16 posted on 02/12/2014 5:33:11 PM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: Altura Ct.

“If you pass laws that people have no respect for and they don’t follow them, then you have a real problem.”

Yes, especially when it is guns that shoot real bullets. Blood will flow in the streets. What the Spartans said, if you got the guts.


17 posted on 02/12/2014 5:35:28 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Vote Democrat. Once you're OK with killing babies the rest is easy. <BCC><)
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To: from occupied ga

My ancestral roots are in Conn.
I’m surprised there at 47,000 total gun owners, LOL.


18 posted on 02/12/2014 5:37:30 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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-——Sen. Tony Guglielmo, R-Stafford-——

Guess you can’t fix stupid....


19 posted on 02/12/2014 5:39:14 PM PST by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Paladin2

In NY we don’t have even that much of an estimate about compliance with the Un-SAFE Act. I suspect less than 10% at best. Not even the rare gun owning lib is registering.


20 posted on 02/12/2014 5:41:13 PM PST by Dutch Boy
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