300 Thousand Connecticut Gun Owners Face Jail Time Under New Law

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  1. Right Wing

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    TownHall.com:
    This isn't from a foreign country. It's happening right here in America.

    Law-abiding gun owners in Connecticut were recently forced to line up and register their firearms with the state government by January 1 of this year.

    Now, citizens who either missed the deadline, or simply refused to submit to the blatantly unconstitutional law, are facing felony charges and up to five years in prison.

    In fact, anti-gun groups and their allies in the state media are outright campaigning for authorities to "use the background check database" to round up an estimated 300,000 gun owners, fine them $5,000, and put them behind bars.

    "If this can happen anywhere in America, it can happen everywhere," warns Chris Cox, Executive Director of the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA).

    "And right now, Barack Obama and his gun control allies in Congress are plotting new ways to bring Connecticut's freedom-crushing policies to every corner of America."

    Read the full column at TownHall→http://townhall.com/postrelease.html?prx_adv=&prx_ap=0&prx_rk=1395950085415&prx_t=88367367

    Round 'em up and disarm 'em! Inherent rights?! You don't have inherent rights! Constitutionally protected rights?! Why would we adhere to the Constitution? This is the fourth reich!
     

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    This has been an issue for awhile. Right now, we're waiting for SCOTUS to rule on the Constitutionality.
    This is causing rifts all through the State of CT. Gov. there is as afraid of instigating "the NEXT shot heard 'round the world" as they are of pressure from their own to take action. Unless the whole thing is repealed, it is expected to lead to a very ugly reckoning.
     
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    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No one will be hunted down.

    You guys need to relax and lose the chicken-littleness.
     
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    In order to have a 'well regulated militia' accountability is required. if it said ' thou shal not regulate arms' we would have a differnet story.
     
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    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    background checks, permits, and licensing is not an infringement, as it doesn't prevent anyone from owning firearms.

    ....unless they are criminals.
     
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    I hope those with take to the streets. Who in the (*)(*)(*)(*) here wants to live in a police state?
     
  7. Ronstar

    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    there should be a Godwin's Rule for falsely and ignorantly using the term "police state".
     
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    Methinks you don't know what the phrase 'well-regulated' meant to the men who wrote it.

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    Methinks you don't know what the word 'infringe' means.
     
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    The right of the people shall not be infringed means what it says and is not contingent upon membership in a militia.
     
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    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Infringement means prevention.

    If I can get my hands on a gun legally, my ability to get my hands on a gun is not being infringed upon.
     
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    The question is then what will they do about a law which 300,000 people ignore?
     
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    No, it doesn't.
     
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    yes, it does.

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    not very much
     
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    It's not just the antis screaming for confiscation. Quite a few assault weapon owners are calling the bluffs. "You want em, come get em" is no longer just internet bravado.
    Personally I think our stupid legislators acted without thinking. The citizens didn't just roll over and play dead. Now they wish this was just a nightmare that would go away.
    They created a nightmare and it's here to stay until they wake up. Just another law made by government that they're to scared to enforce.
     
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    Actually you are quite wrong.

    Infringement means to break or violate as in a persons rights.

    Several online dictionaries are avialable to look up words.
     
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    No, it doesn't. In the context of the 2A, it means 'to erode or lessen'.
     
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    Yes licenses and permits are in fact by definition an infringement of rights.

    A right is something which permission is not given for or to excercise.

    If a behavior, action or piece of property is licensed or permitted then it is not a right at all it is a privilege.

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    SO you have no idea and are just airing opinion
     
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    Then government makes you a criminal for owning those which is exactly what CT is doing.

    CT State Police Spokesman Lt. Vance says that state police would comply with an order from the state to conduct door to door gun confiscations.
     
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    Then your gun control schemes are an utter failure even when passed. Perhaps it's time the unconstituionalists admit yet another failure and leave the peoples freedoms alone.
     
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    Congratulations Connecticut. Damned good idea.

    What's "unconstitutional" about a state knowing who has guns? It's not trying to the guns away. Just recording who has them. You do it with cars, don't you?

    Is there something in your constitution that says "citizens have the to right bear arms in secret"?
     
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    let us know when the first CT resident is arrested and charged with a felony simply for possessing an unregistered AR.

    until then, I shall yawn. :)
     
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    Actually no.

    Cars are only registered and licensed for driving on the roads and streets which the government built and owns, which is reasonable.

    The government has no business demanding to know what I own in my home be it porn movies, bowling balls, a collection of barbie dolls or guns.

    Yes I know of people who have owned cars which are not registered or for which they have no license. They simply do not drive them on public roads. This is no ones business ESPECIALLY the governments.

    The only justification for mandatory registration is confiscation and the only justification for confiscation is to weaken those who have the capacity to resist.
     
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    Bwaaaaahahahahaha!

    Connecticut halts plans to round up firearms after finding most cops in the state are on the list

     
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    So the government should permit convicted felons and violent mental patients to own howitzers, right?

    How are you going to deal with it when the Latin Kings, the Crips and Bloods etc have FN90's and heavy artillery? They're really the only organizations with both the money and the inclination, and if we follow your definition of infringement we have to, it's their "right" too.
     
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