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It’s Worse Down South – A Letter From Connecticut

Legislators just ‘doing something’, hastily crafted laws that ban popular rifles, making lawful gun-owners into felons…… And those citizens determining to quietly ignore the faulty law and keep their guns.

ccdl_logoCries of Molon Labe are being heard in bluest Connecticut, of all places. Police Chiefs are declining, for now, to attempt any weapon seizures. Talk of militias for mutual defense has begun. All parties fear a bloodbath.

Connecticut Citizens Defense League is at the heart of the fight, and has mounted a legal challenge to this, and other bad laws – I reached a long term member by phone this afternoon, and he shared this Letter to The Editor which he’d drafted, but for now declined to publish, in order to avoid being a marked man. We hope to have either him, or an executive with CCDL on GrokTALK! very soon.

A Letter From Connecticut:

We’ve all heard the old saying “the soapbox, the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box” to describe the four boxes of liberty. Last year I wrote to the “Citizen” and told how Public Act 13-3 affected the sport of bullseye shooting with .22 caliber pistols. Since then things have gotten worse- much worse.

Aside from the fact that Judge Covello accepted the state’s arguments and rejected the voice of Connecticut’s citizens in January – it could have been worse if he had sat on making a decision for many more months or years. The matter is now on appeal to the Federal system, but I digress.

Until April 2013 the original purchaser of a long gun was the only person to show up on Connecticut’s gun registry. At any time if you wished to sell your long gun you could to anyone wishing to purchase it without the need to involve the state. You can now see the issue with the state’s record keeping – and it’s inaccuracy.
{Ed Comment: This part is remarkably similar to gun grabbing attempts here in NH}

The fact of the matter is only a small percentage of citizens complied with the law to begin with – this should be of no surprise as Canada had the same issue when it passed their C-68 bill. Now, the rhetoric on both sides is heating up – fast!

With the December 31st 2013 deadline to comply with 13-3, some [members] of the citizenry missed the date for filing with their applications. So their standing is now that they have submitted a sworn and notarized statement to the Department of Public Safety attesting to the fact that they posses a now banned firearm – [the] mere [possession] of which makes them a [felon] under the new law.

The Connecticut Carry organization is calling the state out to either enforce the law against the self-admitted “felons” or repeal the law. In parallel to this – the names, home addresses and pictures of all state representatives and senators who voted for this law have been widely disseminated on the web and linked to Google Maps. The list of those who purchased the now banned firearms includes some 60% of all police in Connecticut!

Both sides are waiting for the other to blink and if there is bloodshed from a “dynamic entry” gone bad – this situation may be irreversible. With the Governor and Hartford Courant calling for the arrest of citizens on file for purchasing and not registering – we are precariously close to the fourth box.

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