Posted on 01/27/2014 9:49:32 AM PST by Politically Correct
At the beginning of the year, this column noted sadly that some Connecticut gun owners had spent the waning days of 2013 "rushing," "scrambling," and enduring long lines in the bitter cold, to register their so-called "assault weapons" and "high capacity" magazines (defined by gun ban zealots as having a capacity of 11 or more rounds), in compliance with the state law requiring their registration by the end of the year. Despite the inescapable evidence that the purpose of registration is to enable confiscation, thousands of gun owners submitted to this intolerable act of governmental domination.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
The rest of us traded them for tools, or gave them to friends in other states, or just lost them on hunting trips....
Some estimates are that 960,000 didn’t register.
Lets see 50,000+ weapons registered and only about 39,000 magazines registered? Gee I guess there are quite a few Connecticutians who don’t know their Ugly Black Assault Rifles need a Mag and are loading rounds one at a time! Each assault rifle should have at minimum 2 Mags if not a bunch more!
Can't register what we don't have.
Quiet, anonymous, and often complicitous, lawbreaking and disobedience may well be the historically preferred mode of political action for peasant and subaltern classes, for whom open defiance is too dangerous….One need not have an actual conspiracy to achieve the practical effects of a conspiracy. More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called “Irish Democracy”—the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal, and truculence of millions of ordinary people—than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs. Link
There is some evidence this is happening with Obamacare as well .... people are just not signing up.
On of the posters on the original article pointed out that you have to register one weapon on one form only but you could register all of your mags on one form... Which means if I had 1 AR-15 with 10 mags (which is certainly not unreasonable to me) I would only need two forms.
Now, I wouldn’t do it, like a lot of people, I’d rather bury them in the woods then let the government force me to do something unconstitutional, but there ya go.
They say that if it’s time to bury them, it’s time to dig them up.
I have a new-found respect for the free peoples of Connecticut.
A number of years ago I attended a speech by Jack Kemp. One of the things he spoke about was the American propensity to just ignore onorous laws.
He used the speed limit as an example. Said if there were such limits placed on the Autobahn Germans would obey it and then vote every politician who voted for it out of office st the next election.
Americans otoh will do everything possible to skirt, avoid and ignore the law. Except taking it out on the politicians who put it in place.
CT and NY are really playing with fire on this tho. This isn’t like getting a speeding ticket: if you get caught on this your life is going to be seriously f*cked. I expect that the dipsh*t Governor’s next move will be to make some examples, then offer an amnest. But there’s an excellent chance that some of those “examples” aren’t going to go quietly ... And even a few examples of armed resistance will cause a heck of a mess.
OK, this is slightly off-topic, but I simply cannot fathom the stupidity of that statement (not you, personally, just the statement made by "They"). Has no one ever heard of the idea of reserve weapons (and ammo, mags and accessories)? Has no one who ever made this statement ever considered giving up on paper guns while retaining - in a separate, secure location - other weapons?
>>Americans otoh will do everything possible to skirt, avoid and ignore the law. Except taking it out on the politicians who put it in place.<<
That’s because most Americans actually prefer to be told what to do. Why this is, I have no idea.
Conflict is inevitable; Combat is an option. Train for the fight.
It only takes one juror to hang a jury.
Where is the line between preemptive self-defense and murder? Do we have to let them shoot first?
I lost all mine in a tragic canoeing accident years ago.
The more they tell me i don’t need high capacity magazines, the more sure I become I absolutely DO need them.
“The more they tell me i don’t need high capacity magazines, the more sure I become I absolutely DO need them.”
Whenever someone makes any statement implying they have any right to dictate, or have me justify my “Needs”, I then tell them exactly what I think their “needs” are. And they don’t like it. Not one bit.
Two can play that game.
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