The press officer for the Connecticut House Republicans confirmed that the bipartisan bill formalizing these proposals will go directly to a vote tomorrow (Wednesday, April 3) under emergency certification, which precludes referrals to committees and public hearings. That means nobody gets to raise any objections, such as pointing out that the guns Adam Lanza used were registered to his mother. She qualified to own firearms under the old rules and there's no reason to believe the new restrictions would have barred her ownership of guns in any way.
These bastards really don't like having to listen to what the voters think, or giving the voters a chance to find out what the hell they're doing, do they?
Also, I'm curious how they intend to register magazines that don't have serial numbers. Are the going to tell the cops to start engraving them? Or do they just want another way to throw people in jail?
You'll notice that violations of the new Connecticut gun laws
all seem to be felonies. Making something a felony is a modern
legislator's way of puffing out his or her chest and saying, "I'm
really serious." But, while there's no denying that being convicted
of a felony carries serious inconveniences in penalties and legal
restrictions, we're long past the point where making an act a
felony stigmatizes it in any way. Harvey Silverglate famously
estimated that Americans commit
Three Felonies a Day in the course of going about
their normal business. Connecticut residents, at least gun owners,
may have to assume they've upped their daily felony allotment to
four and just extend care to not be caught to more areas of
life.
I'll bet Biden and Obama and Bloomberg have been spending money and influence like water down a drain on these clowns; I wonder just how much their integrity and honor(assuming they had any) sold for?
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will Grigg has a good new piece up about the UN small arms control treaty, over at pro libertate
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