Posted on 03/02/2014 12:54:15 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The war on liberty is coming to a head in Connecticut, where tens of thousands of gun owners have refused to comply with their state government’s gun registration laws. Officials have literally ordered those who failed to meet the registration deadline to surrender their firearms or face arrest.
The State of Connecticut is now demanding that gun owners across the state turn in all newly-banned, unregistered firearms and magazines or face felony arrest.
The State Police Special Licensing & Firearms Unit began mailing out notices to gun owners who attempted to register their firearms and accessories with the state but did not do so in time for the Jan. 1 deadline of Connecticut’s newly enacted gun control law.
The law bans the sale of magazines holding over 10 rounds and “assault rifles” manufactured after 1994 and requires that residents who possessed either before the ban to register them with the state.
It doesn’t take a stretch of the imagination to understand that the enforcement of this law can only come at the barrel of a gun. Therefore, we can conclude that we may soon see SWAT-style raids on the homes of suspected law breakers. Because we’re talking about gun confiscation, you can be fully assured that the state will not be knocking nicely, and they won’t be asking residents to exist their homes.
They’re going in full force.
But Americans simply don’t take well to being told what to do, especially as it relates to their Second Amendment rights.
These unreasonable demands, which have yet to pass muster with the U.S. Supreme Court, have prompted Mike Vanderboegh of Connecticut’s Sipsey Street Irregulars to go on the offensive. Earlier this week Vanderboegh publicly posted the names, addresses, phone numbers and provided direct access to pictures of all CT legislators involved with passage of the gun confiscation bill, saying that since the government has a list it “seems obvious to me that it is thus only fair to list those anti-constitutional tyrants.”
The Daily Sheeple reports:
Sometimes you just have to fight fire with fire. And that is exactly what Mike Vanderboegh has chosen to do. The state of Connecticut wants to make a list – a list of gun owners. So, Vanderboegh has created his own list – a list of those state legislators who are insisting that certain firearms be banned or registered.
Here is the post, A Sipsey Street Public Service Announcement: The Connecticut Tyrants List:
The state of Connecticut is making lists of firearm owners to raid. It seems obvious to me that it is thus only fair to list those anti-constitutional tyrants who will have blood on their hands the moment the first Connecticut citizen is shot by the CT state police while carrying out their orders. I will be sending these folks my own email later today.
CT State Senators voting Yes on “An Act Concerning Gun Violence Prevention and Children’s Safety, also known as Public Law 13-3 or Connecticut Senate Bill No. 1160,” 3 April 2013. List includes home addresses. Photos and home phone numbers of these tyrants are available here.
As promised, Vanderboegh followed up his list with an Open Letter to the Legislative Tyrants of Connecticut sent to all CT legislators where he extensively details the impact of Connecticut’s new law and which he closes with a plea to legislators in an effort to prevent the potential for violence that may result in the event of a state-mandated gun confiscation:
(Excerpts via Sipsey Street Irregulars)
To the CT State Senators And Representatives who voted Yes on “An Act Concerning Gun Violence Prevention and Children’s Safety, also known as Public Law 13-3 or Connecticut Senate Bill No. 1160,” 3 April 2013.
And, yes, I said tyrants. You bought it, in the form of the woefully misnamed “Act Concerning Gun Violence Prevention and Children’s Safety,” you own it, you are certainly — if you get your way — going to pay for it like it or not, so you might as well own up to it. Look in the mirror. That’s what a tyrant in the 21st Century looks like. Mather Byles, the Massachusetts Loyalist of the Revolutionary period — our first civil war — once famously asked, “Which is better – to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away or by three thousand tyrants one mile away?” The Founders themselves were just as suspicious of unrestrained democracy as a means of tyranny. This is why they gave us a republic of limited powers and the rule of law, to limit those who would misuse democracy to create a new tyranny. Yet that is precisely what you’ve done. Own it.
You know, in Greek mythology Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, was given the gift of prophecy. She could see exactly what was going to happen to her endangered city. Yet she was also cursed with the burden of never being believed. The frustration was said to have driven her mad. Never have I come closer to understanding Cassandra’s curse than these past months.
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We are at a crossroads. You, in the arrogance of your power and your ignorance of the people you seek to dominate are extrapolating from your own cowardice — you believe that just because the government orders these folks to knuckle under that they will do so BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT YOU WOULD DO. You mistake them, and your mistake is, in the fullness of time, going to get people killed. And who do you think these people who you victimize — these people who you will have state agents seek to round up and kill — who do you think they are going to blame for that? It doesn’t take Madame Lawlor and his crystal ball to predict that such people — victimized by their own state authorities in an unconstitutional law that likely will be found to be null and void anyway — will blame the people who sent the killers. Which is to say, you. (13)
This is deadly serious stuff, this foray into an undiscovered country that you have so blithely entered upon, like blind men and women tap dancing in a minefield you scarcely comprehend. Fully eighty-five percent of the people you targeted with the law — the people that YOU AND YOU ALONE made into lawbreakers — have just told you by their noncompliance to take your unconstitutional law and stick it where the sun don’t shine. Does that not tell you ANYTHING? These people are ARMED.They are familiar with the finer points of marksmanship. They are principled in a way that perhaps only the Founders would understand — at the risk of their own lives. So what part of “Oh, HELL no” don’t you understand? You have been playing with titanic forces. You are going to send armed agents of the state to their doors to work your collective and collectivist will upon THEM? You have unintentionally sown the wind and if things go predictably south you will reap the whirlwind.
BUT IT IS WITHIN YOUR POWER TO REVERSE. You own the weather machine, as it were. I’m not asking you to repeal the law, although that makes perfect sense to me. No, I realize that too much of your ego, your own false vision of omnipotence is wrapped up in it to do THAT. What I am asking you to do — no, what I am BEGGING you to do — is to use your power to suspend the enforcement of that Intolerable Act at least until it is ruled constitutional or not by the United States Supreme Court. “An unconstitutional law is null and void.” Do you really wish to risk death and destruction upon innocent people — upon us all — on a bet against the odds? Is your appetite for your own citizens’ liberty, property and lives that insatiable? Or now, as the likely unintended consequences of your actions have been directly explained to you, are you willing to reconsider the menu choices? What will your political fortunes be when the first shots are exchanged over this? When the first innocents are killed in carrying out your will? What will your arrogance, your ignorance, your insufferable pride be worth to you then? What will it be worth to any of us? Starting a bloody civil war seems an odd way to avoid “violence against children.”
Praying that my advice fares better than Cassandra’s, I am, sincerely,
Mike Vanderboegh
Smuggler and alleged leader of a merry band of Three Percenters
(You can read the full text here)
The importance of what’s happening in Connecticut and how its citizens are responding cannot be understated. What we have here is a government that has directly violated the Second Amendment of the United States of America by legislating forced gun registration with the penalty of confiscation of said firearms and felony imprisonment for those who refuse to comply.
They have now threatened all Connecticut residents with arrest if they refuse to turn over their firearms.
In coming days and weeks, unless Mike Vanderboegh’s warnings are heeded, we will begin to see police-state raids of homes belonging to anyone suspected of owning an unregistered firearm or accessory.
Keep in mind that this legislation has not yet made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, so Connecticut state officials intend to confiscate guns through the use of force and without a judiciary review of the Constitutionality of the laws they passed.
There will be those in Connecticut who surrender their firearms. But a growing sentiment across the United States suggests that there will be those who will simply refuse to submit to the will of the state.
If Connecticut goes through with this and sends heavily armed police personnel to the doors of Constitutional Law-abiding citizens it is not out of the question to suggest that we will see bloodshed and violence when these gun confiscations begin.
The people have had enough and many Americans are preparing to stand their ground.
They have no way of knowing WHO owns a rifle in the banned category.
You buy a rifle, it gets listed as a "long gun".
They can GUESS, but they would be wrong 75% of the time - no judge wants to be party to that, (not yet, anyway).
The law bans the sale of magazines holding over 10 rounds
Does it ban giving them away for free?
The whole idea in sending money and showing up at the rally and writing letters and calling is so we don’t get to the point where the armchair commandos tell us it’s time to water the tree of liberty.
Sadly, most will. Plenty of evidence that people will capitulate even though their rights are being infringed. Fortunately, it doesn't require many to take a stand. Look at the recent incident with Dorner in California. Now consider what a scenario would look like with a 100 Dorners spread across the entire state.
Two interesting scenarios that could be played out can be found in John Ross' book "Unintented Consequences" and Vince Flynn's "Term Limits".
So any guesses on how many guns will be turned in fro every “felon” that is gunned down by a SWAT team in front of their family? I’ll start 100.
“I live in CT, and there are a lot of conservatives especially where I work. We obviously feel like we have no voice.”
Take heart castlegreyskull, I think in this matter you will have a voice, and many voices will join you.
Gun rights will be an issue this coming November and our Gun Owners of the Rockies will be a great influence in this years election. In various areas of the country the people are fighting back and taking our country back using the means we legally can use.
Is it time yet ?
a marksman can still cause a lot of headaches with 10 rounds.
the M1 Garand held 8 rounds and it beat the Germans and the Japs.
Still, at that juncture, many will rush to turn in their banned weapons out of fear and hope for the best. But there are some who won't.
Once the State decides an example must be made of these newly minted "felons", the resort to force will result in a few dead "felons" and perhaps a few dead cops. Then some of the previously law abiding and peaceful "felons" will figure there is no good sense in waiting around for the inevitable neighborhood informer or records search, the 3 AM smashed in door, the dead family dog, the wife and kids held in terror by heavily armed black-clad gunmen, the family home ransacked, and being dragged from bed, beaten, shackled, and hauled off to jail for a long jail term which will ruin his life and family. I suspect at that point some small percentage of "felonious resistors" will reckon it's time for "asymmetrical warfare". Then it will get truly ugly.
These gun grabbers are purposely turning peaceful, law abiding American citizens into criminals simply for exercising their 2nd Amendment rights and they are willing to ruin their lives and families to do it. In the end it will not end well for the tyrants. Then they will discover what fear is really like as they become the hunted. There will never be enough police or bodyguards to protect them and their families.
They really are playing with matches and gasoline here but they delude themselves with their self-righteousness and uniformed allies. It is they who have turned their peaceful and beautiful State onto a police state and their fellow citizens into "felons" for their ideological reasons.
I’m thinking of getting a door breach alarm that instead of a siren or horn announces:
I AM A THIRTY SECOND BOMB! I AM A THIRTY SECOND BOMB! TWENTY-EIGHT, TWENTY-SEVEN, TWENTY-SIX...
It should make for a short visit.
I’ve learned that writing letters and calling falls on deaf ears and canned response answers. Both of which were beyond obvious here in Maryland when the emails, calls and letters were overwhelming against voting for the gun control law that was enacted. Politicians don’t give a damn about people their only concern is there own ass.
We’re past watering the tree of liberty. A little blood is needed to bring the point home. Government is controlled by the people not the other way around.
why would you warn them?
I’m a Heinlein fan...
But make the count down start at five, best of both worlds.
It’s the count Heinlein gave, who am I to tamper with art?
The Federal courts are going to uphold the CT law. The CT law is the same as the federal law that requires registration and paying of a tax for certain weapons.
Once the constitutionality of the law has been established, is the CCDL going to reverse its position?
Also, if the door kickers were also fans, then a 10 second. fuse on a 30 second countdown would indeed be a creative touch.
NO?
Judges are bigger control freaks than legislators.
Well... I do love surprises.
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