One of the more restrictive states in the Union doubles down:
The proposal includes new registration requirements for existing magazines that carry 10 or more bullets, something of a disappointment for some family members of Newtown victims who wanted an outright ban on the possession of all high-capacity magazines and traveled to the state Capitol on Monday to ask lawmakers for it.
The package also creates what lawmakers said is the nation’s first statewide dangerous weapon offender registry, creates a new “ammunition eligibility certificate,” imposes immediate universal background checks for all firearms sales, and extends the state’s assault weapons ban to 100 new types of firearms and requires that a weapon have only one of several features in order to be banned.
The newly banned weapons could no longer be bought or sold in Connecticut, and those legally owned already would have to be registered with the state, just like the high-capacity magazines
I have no idea how one is supposed to register a magazine, they don’t have serial numbers or even production dates. Hell I have a few magazines that have no markings on them whatsoever. Also looks like if you own an AR-15 or many other semi-auto rifles you’re going to need to register it, and if you want to sell it, or you die, it’ll need to be sold in another state.
Hey, it’s proven not to work, so why not do it more?
This reminds me I need to contact my state Senator and Representative. I doubt we’ll get any new restrictions but we need to keep pushing to expand our rights here in Texas.
Otherwise, we will become just another New York or Connecticut.
I really don’t expect any of these laws to survive challenges in the court (eventually) — but man is it going to suck until then.
Just remember folks in Connecticut/New York/Colorado — I run the 3 Boxes of BS Home for Unwanted, Unappreciated, Underused, Unloved and No Longer Legal Firearms and Magazines. It is a charity that will take in at no cost (to me; other then shipping/transfer fees) firearms and provide them with the attention and care the firearms should have.
So New York goes Insane, Colorado jumps on board next, Connecticut says “Me Too!”; so which of the New Warsaw Pact VolksRepubliks is about to have their Anti-Freedom Number called? Delaware, Rhode Island, Kalifornia or….Massachusetts?
Remember, these are all States that ALREADY had Anti-Freedom Laws in place that Don’t Work.
It’s kinda like saying “Well, Old Sparky does Kill the Criminals, but we need something that makes them Deader than Dead. Let’s bring back the Guillotine!”
This stuff better get to the Supreme Court ASAP.
I think we’re likely to get reamed in the ass here in Delaware…..
Actually, it is proven to work. Just not at what they say it will do.
It’s not about safety or reducing crime. It never has been. It’s about reducing/discouraging gun ownership and personal freedom. The peons (for the most part) have the means to challenge the elite-class knights (see: Battle of Agincourt), and the antis just can’t stand that. It’s well-documented and thoroughly demonstrated (see: NYC, LA, and Chicago crime/murder rates) that these laws do NOT increase safety, but they DO reduce rates of firearm ownership (see: legal gun ownership rates in those same areas). THAT’S their true goal, and these laws work very well at achieving it.
A warning to those newly-disarmed victims-to-be: you are now considered “acceptable losses” to these despicable cretins.
Connecticut doesn’t surprise me.
Colorado, on the other hand, I was floored. I have extended family in Colorado and they are rough-and-tumble self sufficient types. Hard to believe that they are living in such conditions of non-freedom.
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They are suffering from the same affliction other states are. The most populated areas are heavily liberal / Democrat and so they’re able to screw over the rest of the state with their leftist utopian BS.
That’s how it is here in DE too. The bottom 2/3 of the state is more rural, there are lots of farmers, and it’s solidly red. New Castle County is quite liberal, and since it outpopulates the lower two counties whatever NCC liberals say goes…..
Ditto for OR. The eastern HALF of the state is solidly red, most of the southwest is red, and a section in the middle of the northeast is red. Lane County (suburban State University area) and Multnomah County (heavily-populated urban area) are solidly blue, but Multnomah tends to carry the state.
Correction: a section in the middle of the northWEST is red.
They just don’t realize that they’re embodying the worst of what we feared they’d do.
Nor do they seem to realize that, since Sandy Hook, the ENTIRE NATION has been on a non-stop shopping spree for guns and ammo… because we expected them to do this. They’re proving that we were right to do so. They’re also proving that saying “we’re not coming for your guns” is a lie. If I own something and the politicians make it illegal, then yes, they’re coming for my property.
Oh, and for the record, every bad law that was passed from 2001-2009 was blamed on Bush, was it not? Even if it was a purely local measure, people screamed about the repressive environment that made such things possible. No matter what it was, it was Bush’s fault.
So whose fault is this?
To be fair, they aren’t “embodying the worst of what we feared” they simply ARE what we’ve been calling them all along. Gun Grabbers. They won’t stop until they ban them all (or at least have a full-on UK/Australia ban on our hands), and just as we said, President Obama, former Joyce Foundation Board Member, is indeed after our guns.
The big take away isn’t that they’re going too far in this push, but that they are ALWAYS pretending to hate guns and freedom LESS than they actually do.