CT Sends Out Letters to Gun Owners: “Surrender, Destroy or Sell” Your ‘Assault Weapons’

The Gateway Pundit ^ | 2-27-2014 | Jim Hoft

[servo1969]

Only 15% of Connecticut gun owners registered their military-style rifles with the state this year. 85% of ‘assault weapon’ owners flouted the law.

Now, the Connecticut is sending letters to gun owners telling them to “surrender, destroy or sell” your “assault weapons.” Guns Saves Lives reported:

It looks like some gun owners in Connecticut who tried to register their “assault weapons” (that’s the state of CT’s actual term for these firearms), but missed the deadline are now getting letters instructing them to destroy or surrender their firearms.

According the letter, posted on several message boards and online media sources, residents who failed to register their firearms must now take the following action:

1. Render the assault weapon permanently inoperable. 2. Sell the assault weapon to a licensed gun dealer. 3. Remove the assault weapon from the state; or 4. You may make arrangements to relinquish the assault weapon to a police department or to the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection.

Those all sound like super fun options. So far, it looks like only owners who tried to register their firearms, but missed the deadline are getting the letters.

Here’s a copy of the letter:

[ZULU]

Rugers

[ZULU]

or once were

Maybe most of them moved. :(

[ZULU]

Right.

[TigersEye]

From the article I think that the letter went out to people who tried to register them but for some reason failed.

You are right and I missed that initially. I have said that those who begin the process of signing up for 0bamaCare but back out before finalizing the contract have just put themselves at the front of the line for harassment to get them signed on. It just isn't safe to volunteer any info at all to a gov entity.

[semaj]

"I read somewhere, heh, that these particular gun owners tried to comply but missed the deadline. They outed themselves."

Reminds me of that famous quote:

"Those who would give up essential liberty for perceived security deserve neither."

"Benjamin Franklin"

[King_Corey]

hopefully they choose a free state

[Sirius Lee]

Con is a smallish state and most people likely live close to the border. Rent a small storage unit in an adjacent state.

NY and MA are worse.

[sarge83]

You mean that nasty little 4473 you fill out each time to purchase a firearm? Why the BATF wouldn’t be retaining those in a database, that is against the law! And some laws are more important than others and some cannot even be enforced just ask Attorney General Holdup.

The moral of the story, never ever register your guns. And those I had oh they fell in the ocean on a fishing trip or I sold them to someone at an evil gun show in the parking lot and I didn’t get a name, so sorry.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Sarge, IIRC, they have that covered too. I believe it is a federal crime to not report a sold, lost or stolen firearm. If that is wrong, would someone please correct me.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks servo1969.

[sarge83]

Not in Kentucky or Tennessee you report nothing if a weapon is sold. As for a lost gun-it fell in the lake, if you want to file a police report for an insurance claim if it is insured you could. But if you file no claim then why file a report?

Theft would be the only way I report a firearm missing.