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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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To: Antoninus II

Bump on that.


41 posted on 02/12/2014 6:12:39 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: samadams2000
I saw the pictures of the line they stood in to register

one line leads to another

Politicians and police have long waited for a final solution to the gun owner problem

42 posted on 02/12/2014 6:15:05 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Altura Ct.

What needs to happen now is that some individuals who may or may not own such weapons, and who live in a conservative part of the state, should bravely step forward and admit they are violating the law, and they intend to continue to do so. Daring the state to arrest them.

And refuse to give the state their weapon when the state demands they do so. After making lots of videos showing them handling and even using their weapons in identifiable parts of the state.

The intent being a trial ending in jury nullification.

And they and their supporters need to take every opportunity to preach jury nullification of unjust and unconstitutional laws. To rub the state legislatures face in it.

That is real protest.


43 posted on 02/12/2014 6:26:07 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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To: dforest

Amen. Exactly what I was thinking. Glad to see it’s been said ;-)


44 posted on 02/12/2014 6:27:45 PM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: Altura Ct.
That 50,000 figure could be as little as 15 percent of the rifles classified as assault weapons owned by Connecticut residents,

15%

Right in line with the California SKS ban numbers.

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45 posted on 02/12/2014 6:27:53 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: from occupied ga
I looked at some of the other pics at your (posted pics) link. So sad....especially the one of the women and children heading off to the chamber. It's labeled "Unsuspecting Hungarian mothers and children walk on."

That's what's going on with these 47,000 in CT...unsuspecting.

46 posted on 02/12/2014 6:31:50 PM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

So this “republican” legislator in Connecticut is for the abolishment of the second amendment? How did he get elected?


47 posted on 02/12/2014 6:33:24 PM PST by OK_Sam (OK_Sam)
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To: Jane Long
Something about those who don't remember history being doomed to repeat it.

What is different about the USA that separates it from all of the murderous tyrannies of the past? Only the constitution, and 0 and his accomplices are eroding that as fast as they can. Human nature isn't any different here than in the USSR, Nazi Germany or Pol Pot's cambodia. Just look at the endless stories about police shooting people, dogs, violating peoples' right, etc and getting away with it. It starts gradually, and it's already started here.

48 posted on 02/12/2014 6:37:43 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: kitchen

I have to wonder about the thought processes of this so called (R), that he is surprised that people aren’t registering their guns.

What is the upside of complying with registration?


49 posted on 02/12/2014 6:47:14 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: from occupied ga

What is different about the USA that separates it from all of the murderous tyrannies of the past? Only the constitution, and 0 and his accomplices are eroding that as fast as they can.

___________________

Funny you mention our Constitution. I’d just re-read - from a link on another thread - the “How Far We’ve Fallen: Commie Goals (from 1963)”. Here are a couple of *goals* that stood out...

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”


50 posted on 02/12/2014 6:56:52 PM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: Smokin' Joe
the Government finally threw in the towel and shut down their long gun registry

Uh not exactly. The registry was introduced by the liberal party in 1993 and passed in 1995 with a deadline to register in 2003. The Conservative party campaigned against it for many years and it wasn't until they got a majority government that the registry was finally scrapped in 2012. To get this accomplished took a lot of effort and the battle is not over by a long shot. Some provinces still want the data and you can pretty much assume when the libs return to power they will try to implement it again. The gun control people are relentless and never give up. Never rest and assume a victory large or small makes things safe for our side. Anyone who back in the Bush years felt comfortable got a rude awakening with 0.

51 posted on 02/12/2014 7:01:41 PM PST by xp38
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To: kitchen

Apparently there are 12 ga. ARs.


52 posted on 02/12/2014 7:08:37 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Altura Ct.

50,000 - 350,000. Which means a 50%-88% non-compliance rate. Let them try taking it farther and see if we get to that magic 3% number.


53 posted on 02/12/2014 7:10:55 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: Altura Ct.
TRANSLATION: "Come and take them."
54 posted on 02/12/2014 7:12:01 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The only way women can "have it all" is if men aren't allowed to have anything.)
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To: Dutch Boy

New Amsterdam forever!


55 posted on 02/12/2014 7:12:33 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Jane Long
"American Founding Fathers." = TEA Party V1.0

The current "TEA Party" is but a dim shadow, to date.

56 posted on 02/12/2014 7:33:35 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: xp38
Evil will always lurk and work what it can until it is banished to the pit, once and for all. Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty, after all.

Here in the states the ATF was forbidden from keeping databases of background checks on the NICS system, even though they had been. Not only do I not doubt those records which were supposed to be destroyed still exist, but now the NSA has the details as well.

Any firearm purchased since the NICS started is registered for all practical purposes as a result. If/when someone in government decides to compile the data firearm owners will be on the list, along with CCW permit holders, even if their last purchase preceded the 1968 GCA.

57 posted on 02/12/2014 7:40:55 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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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. "If you pass laws that people have no respect for and they don't follow them, then you have a real problem."

Never issue an order that you know will not be followed.

58 posted on 02/12/2014 8:28:21 PM PST by zeugma (Is it evil of me to teach my bird to say "here kitty, kitty"?)
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To: Paladin2
Interesting. Not much use with less than 3 people per square mile.
59 posted on 02/12/2014 8:45:00 PM PST by kitchen (Even the walls have ears.)
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To: kitchen

Mags are easier to (pre)load than tubes.


60 posted on 02/12/2014 9:00:00 PM PST by Paladin2
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