Quoted from Henry

Funny you bring up Scalia every time like he somehow speaks for me, box he doesn't and I don't give 2 $hits what he says, my rights come from my creator not my government, sorry if you don't like it

Quoted from Box A Rox

LMAO!!!  OMG!  Henry's RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS comes from GOD!

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Quoted from 55tbird

This is pretty sad..

http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/206025/206025/

Even though there is a law on the books that prohibits it, Andy is OK with his Commissioners violating it

Quoted from Henry

Yup just like my right to free speech, I was born with them they were not given to me by a government, I know that part you really hate

Quoted from Box A Rox

Then the 2nd amendment is meaningless to you, since it gives you nothing.

Glad to hear that!  

Quoted from Henry

Yes you are correct the 2nd amendment gives me nothing as with the rest of the constitution, if the constitution was burned to ashes in a fire my rights would still exist.

Quoted from Box A Rox

Yea I've seen the "Sovereign Citizens" defend themselves in our courts with that very same
defense... then they went to jail!  

Quoted from CICERO

Nobody said the jails won't be filled with free people.  It wouldn't be the first time in human history
where rulers enslaved people.  I'm not so naive to believe this government won't commit mass
incarceration to further control people.  After all, there are plenty of people like you who will join
the cause.

Quoted from Box A Rox

Poor Cicero  
It's really too bad that our government won't oppress him... it's what he really wants.  How can
he be an actual VICTIM, when no one will oppress him.
Hang in there Cicero... some day, some how, he will achieve his desired 'victimhood' and his
life will be complete!

Quoted from CICERO

Not my victim hood.  US has the highest prison population on earth.  Plenty of victims locked up for non violent crimes.  The more laws passed, the more criminals created.  The American Way!

Quoted from joebxr

Well, live and learn everyday......
Now "victims" are locked up for non-violent crimes.
All this time I thought criminals were convicted of crimes (violent or other)
that were put in jail...guess in Cissyboy World VICTIMS go to jail and the criminal goes free!!!!
To top it off, our government is actually creating criminals....amazing!!!!!! So who is creating the
victims....can't be the government!!!!

Quoted from CICERO

Who's the victim of marijuana possession?  Who is the victim if a person doesn't register a semi automatic rifle recently outlawed?  Yes, an imaginary victim created by the government.

I understand authoritarians like you and box can't understand a person opposing criminalizing personal behavior.

Quoted from CICERO

Who's the victim of marijuana possession?  Who is the victim if a person doesn't register a semi automatic rifle recently outlawed?  Yes, an imaginary victim created by the government.

I understand authoritarians like you and box can't understand a person opposing criminalizing personal behavior.

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Dan Haar: Untold Thousands Flout Gun Registration Law

Everyone knew there would be some gun owners flouting the law that legislators hurriedly passed last April, requiring residents to register all military-style rifles with state police by Dec. 31.

But few thought the figures would be this bad.

By the end of 2013, state police had received 47,916 applications for assault weapons certificates, Lt. Paul Vance said. An additional 2,100 that were incomplete could still come in.
That 50,000 figure could be as little as 15 percent of the rifles classified as assault weapons owned by Connecticut residents, according to estimates by people in the industry, including the Newtown-based National Shooting Sports Foundation. No one has anything close to definitive figures, but the most conservative estimates place the number of unregistered assault weapons well above 50,000, and perhaps as high as 350,000.

And that means as of Jan. 1, Connecticut has very likely created tens of thousands of newly minted criminals — perhaps 100,000 people, almost certainly at least 20,000 — who have broken no other laws. By owning unregistered guns defined as assault weapons, all of them are committing Class D felonies.

"I honestly thought from my own standpoint that the vast majority would register," said Sen. Tony Guglielmo, R-Stafford, the ranking GOP senator on the legislature's public safety committee. "If you pass laws that people have no respect for and they don't follow them, then you have a real problem."

The problem could explode if Connecticut officials decide to compare the list of people who underwent background checks to buy military-style rifles in the past, to the list of those who registered in 2013. Do they still own those guns? The state might want to know.

"A lot of it is just a question to ask, and I think the firearms unit would be looking at it," said Mike Lawlor, the state's top official in criminal justice. "They could send them a letter."

An aggressive hunt isn't going to happen, Lawlor said, but even the idea of letters is a scary thought considering thousands of people are now in an uncomfortable position. At the least, the legislature should reopen the registration period this year with an outreach campaign designed to boost the numbers.

It could be a tough sell. On Thursday night, Guglielmo heard from a constituent at a meeting in Ashford, who said most of his friends with military-style rifles such as AR-15s had not come forward.

"He made the analogy to prohibition," Guglielmo said. "I said, 'You're talking about civil disobedience, and he said 'Yes.' "

But it's not just refusers. A reopened registration would help many who failed to come forward out of ignorance.

"There are a lot of people, they just do not know about this law," said Scott Wilson, president of the 12,000-member Connecticut Citizens Defense League, a Second Amendment advocacy group. "There are people finding out now after the fact."

The law was widely covered in the media and Wilson said his group sent information to its members. But gun owners can be an independent bunch.

Guglielmo, who voted against the sweeping gun control bill, said he intends to raise the concern at the next meeting of the public safety committee. Lawlor said Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration is willing to talk about solutions.

But Lawlor, an undersecretary in the state Office of Policy and Management, said that even if many thousands of guns remain unregistered and are now illegal, the law is not necessarily failing at its goal.

"Like anything else, people who violate the law face consequences. … that's their decision. The consequences are pretty clear. …There's nothing unique about this," Lawlor said. "The goal is to have fewer of these types of weapons in circulation."

The law was adopted after the December 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Its main provision was a dramatic expansion of guns classified as assault weapons banned for sale in the state. The ban now includes any semiautomatic firearm — that is, one that reloads a round after each pull of the trigger — if it has even a single military-style characteristic, such as a pistol grip.

Any semiautomatic firearm banned for sale could remain legal if its owner registered it by Dec. 31. Those that were made before the state's first assault rifle law in 1993, and were not deemed to be assault weapons in that law, do not have to be registered.

The AR-15, a type of rifle, not a brand, is among those that must be registered and represents 50 percent to 60 percent of all rifle sales in the United States in recent years, federal figures show.

Sorting out the number of potential new felons is a guessing game. State police have not added up the total number of people who registered the 50,000 firearms, Vance said. So even if we knew the number of illegal guns in the state, we'd have a hard time knowing how many owners they had.