Connecticut Gun Laws Go From Bad To Worse
BY Herschel Smith
11 years, 5 months ago
Connecticut lawmakers who passed strict new gun control measures in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre approved a package of revisions Monday to reduce confusion about the new rules and expand the list of officials who can legally possess restricted firearms.
Both chambers of the state legislature voted to adopt changes and exemptions to the bipartisan deal that strengthened the state’s assault weapons ban and banned the sale of high-capacity magazines.
The legislation emerged from a bipartisan working group that sought to refine the original gun control bill, which proponents hailed as one of the most far-reaching in the nation, in response to ambiguity that came to light in part through feedback from constituents and gun owners. A spokesman for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said he supports the changes.
The new bill allows individuals to possess and register assault weapons they purchased or placed on consignment prior to or on April 4, the day the gun control law was passed, but did not receive until after that date.
The bill also clarifies the status of .22-caliber rimfire rifles, defining them as assault weapons when fitted with a detachable magazine and more than one of several features including a folding or telescoping stock, bayonet mount or flash suppressor. With passage of Monday’s revisions, the firearm so constructed will no longer be available for sale in Connecticut, but consumers who purchased it since April 4 will be allowed to register and keep it.
The revisions expand the list of inspectors and enforcement officers who can legally possess and purchase the banned firearms to include sworn and certified officers at the department of motor vehicles, the chief state’s attorney office, the department of energy and environmental protection and some constables with police certification. It exempts such officers from the certificate requirement for long gun ownership, and allows them to maintain possession of assault weapons and large capacity magazines after their service ends by registering them.
Like the State Department of Energy or EPA needs weapons! So it looks like this bill expands the list of state employees and former state employees who can own banned weapons, and then puts .22LR rifles in the same category if they have scary features.
Hey. It’s Connecticut. What do you expect? I hope the state of Connecticut fails as badly as I hope that the state of Colorado fails. Utterly and completely. There is no better or surer teacher than consequences.
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On June 4, 2013 at 7:08 am, Phil III said:
I do not understand their infatuation with bayonet mounts. Well I don’t understand them at all, but anyway… Have their been a lot of bayonet murders I don’t know about? What am I missing? Fix bayonets! Charge! ?!?
On June 4, 2013 at 9:25 am, GunRights4US said:
Why does the DMV need ANY weapons at all! Let alone “assault weapons”. Truly asinine in every sense.
On June 4, 2013 at 11:13 am, Bill Quick said:
Been to a DMV lately?
My guess is that “when the revolution comes,” almost all of them will be burned to the ground first, as symbols of oppression.
It will take longer to hunt down the lairs of the tax collectors.
On June 4, 2013 at 1:05 pm, Paul B said:
Not sure about revolution. I feel it is the bunker mentality that government is showing more and more of. It is a self fulling prophecy when they deny the rights to us and reserve them to themselves that a violent correction will occur at some point.
We are currently at a place that has never occurred in history. Similar events, yes, but this is new territory in my book.
On June 4, 2013 at 6:08 pm, Don Holmes said:
This state along with many others are infested with elected FOOLS. They all have the child mindset of 5 year olds .( Sorry kids.) but Question your mind set when you keep voting for them?
On June 5, 2013 at 8:54 am, Raymond Miller said:
Oh gosh, don’t tell me that you never bayoneted anyone. We have had the anti bayonet lug law in N.J. for years and it must have worked because we haven’t had a bayoneting incident since it was enacted. When I was younger my friends and I would go bayoneting people on Sat. nights, It was a blast. It was the most fun when we would just walk down the street and bayonet people. Now I just sit home on Sat. and reminis.
On June 5, 2013 at 6:04 pm, DAN III said:
Perhaps STAG ARMS will get the hell out of Connecticut now ? Or will they knuckle under to the Marxists in Connecticut politics and modify their product to appease the ruling elite ?