Posted on 03/10/2014 8:28:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
What I meant is that they have no other choice if they actually want to enforce this law.
Sure, they could go to the door of everyone they suspect of having one of these weapons, based on their records, and demand entry or surrender...but only a complete fool or idiot would accede.
They cannot obtain a warrant based on those background check records.
Now, what I personally would like to see is 10,000 of these rifle owners rally, with their weapons, on the Capitol Steps...taunting LEO, Elected officials and media.
They just better make sure these weapons are loaded.
There was an article posted which pointed out that 25 officers had signed an open letter in opposition to the gun confiscations. My suspicion is that the majority of officers want no part of kicking in doors to confiscate firearms from law abiding citizens. There was one officer who made a statement about how he can't wait to kick in a door, but thus far, at least publicly, he is heavily outnumbered.
Don't forget jury nullification. We have to educate conservatives in CT and nationwide on the importance of that power. If any decent person is called for jury duty in a gun rights case, it's important to get on that jury by being truthful but not helpful (think Bill Clinton under oath) and then to vote 'Not Guilty' regardless of the letter of the law. An unjust law is no law, and it's the jury's job to ignore such laws no matter what the judge or an unconstitutional written law may say.
I assume the government jackboots could not just kick your door in and look for unregistered guns. Wouldn’t they need a court issued warrant to do this? I also assume that there would have to be some due process to allow a court trial. If my assumptions are wrong and the government could simply kick in my door on the suspicion I had an illegal firearm and confiscate it on the spot and haul me off to jail, then a line has been crossed and the citizens of Connecticut are living in a police state. In that case resistance in any form is warranted.
The state assumed that folks would just do as they were told.
Now they have to answer the question of whether they want to enforce the law, which might take a lot of blood and money. You’re talking formal LEO funerals, life insurance payouts, a swollen prison population, courtroom costs, personnel payroll, uncooperative sheriffs, on and on.
Just the insurance costs alone for law enforcement is a game ender.
Uh, not quite. The writer is obviously unfamiliar with the New Jersey "assault weapons" ban jammed through the legislature by Gov. James Florio in the early 1990s. It BANNED the possession of a whole list of guns, plus any magazine capable of holding more than 15 rounds...and it is still on the books. NO GRANDFATHERING AT ALL!
Now NJ's rat-controlled legislature is about to give Gov. Christie a bill that outlaws any magazine over 10 rounds, and it'll outlaw tube-fed .22s that hold more than 10 rounds. We'll see what fat boy does - try to please his sheople in NJ, or try to not piss off Republicans around the country by signing it.
NJ never went door-to-door to collect anything - they just used the gutless way out, that of tacking on charges to anyone who the arrested who also had a prohibited weapon or magazine. I left that $hithole in 2000, and had about 200 years worth of prohibited mags sitting 18 inches behind my arse as I passed the "Welcome to Delaware" sign on the way out. As we passed the sign, I told my wife, "Now you won't have to bail me out of jail." When I explained why, she turned white as a sheet. She asked me, "They don't have laws like that in Texas, do they?" I told her, "No, Texas is in America."
The Left will pick and choose and select easy targets to intimidate the rest of non-compliers. They will publicize a high profile felony arrest and trial to show what they are prepared to do. The only way short of armed resistance to force this tyranny back is for gun owners and Second Amendment organizations to hound, follow, and confront the individual state legislators everywhere they go until this law is repealed.
Gun control for dummies - It’s common sense.
Good explanation of the 3rd Amendment and the BILL OF RIGHTS
http://www.youtube.com/embed/F584p5kJL-U?rel=0****
Defenders of the Alamo, also.
If, with the stroke of a pen, you pass laws that violate the Rights granted by the Creator to all mankind and turn upwards of a third of a million people into felons then you have a real problem.
Can you say "overreach"? I knew you could. This one's gonna blow up in their faces.
There are probably 10,000 of these rifle owners or many, many more who have owned them way before they needed papers to own them.
But there were NO REQUIREMENTS to have a paper trail for the sale or trade of ANY long guns - they may know who bought them, but have no way of knowing who HAVE them.
He may be outnumbered, but how does the homeowner know he isn’t the cop battering down the door or otherwise executing a warrant to seize your weapon?
I predict the state will attempt to enforce this by revoking driver’s licences and vehicle registrations.
They’re going to run out of cops much faster than they think they will too.
Have friends up in CT. One of them commented on the sudden appearane of pro-2nd Amendment bumper stickers on the civilian vehicles in the employee parking lot at his local police dept hq.
There have been a couple instance of a**hole cops talking smack about busting down doors. There are a heck of a lot MORE cops who are going to suddenly find somewhere better to be should confiscation orders be issued.
I'm not addressing whether the law is Constitutional.
I am saying ONLY that if they want to enforce it they are not currently empowered...nor are they likely to ever be...to go kicking down doors based on a list of background checks.
Do not think for a minute that I'm advocate for this law, nor for any LEO that is corrupt enough to attempt enforcement. No do I believe that it's legal under the Constitution.
"Dissent is patriotic." - Hillary Clinton
These coppers have got to understand that they have no protections that cannot be overcome. The locals whose doors they kick in and arrest the homeowners know who these cops are, where they live as well as about their families. I say families because cops do have a tendency to kill innocents in houses they bust into.
After all, the TV show “COPS” is where many of them learn the perceived attitudes and actions of the police departments.
http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/bracken-dear-mr-security-agent/
The Yellow Line: crossed.
The Red Line: crossed.
Running out of lines in CT.
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