State (CT) Urges Gun Owners to Turn In Unregistered Weapons

[Common Sense Party]

Connecticut officials are urging owners of now-illegal assault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines to relinquish them to the police or make them permanently inoperable.

The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection announced Friday it had sent a letter to owners who had failed to register the items by a Jan. 1 deadline, part of last year's gun control law. Officials offered advice on what to do now with the weapons and magazines.

The letter says gun owners are in compliance with the new state law if their items are no longer in Connecticut or were sold to an authorized gun dealer.

Those who fail to comply face charges of possessing an unregistered assault weapon and/or high capacity magazine.

Commissioner Dora Schriro denied rumors DESPP is confiscating weapons.

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/State-Urges-Gun-Owners-to-Turn-in-Unregistered-Assault-Rifle-Weapon-Connecticut-250409491.html

This could prove to be interesting...

What say y'all? Turn in the guns or civil disobedience?

[NYC_SKP]

1. This seems to be a pretty clear example of registration leading to confiscation.

Something we are told would never happen.

[Jenoch]

2. If the owners of such weapons did not

register the their guns, how were they able to recieve threats via USPS?

[hack89]

3. They tried to registered their weapons but missed the deadline

the state has their applications. But instead of recognizing that they tried to meet the spirit of the law, their response was to label them as criminals.

[hack89]

4. The state has a huge problem on their hands

it is certain that they will fuck it up and make things worse.

[rrneck]

5. Sounds like the state's begging.

A law is a codification of popular consent. No popular consent, no law.

[Token Republican]

6. CT NY & NJ

Are all pretty much being told the new arbitrary laws will be ignored.

That's putting the governments in a tough place. Will they arrest somewhere between 300,000 to 3,000,000 people?

This is what happens when politicians pass laws that cater to gun control groups.

The party that's passing these ridiculous laws are creating a huge backlash which is predicted to be a game changer in the 2014 mid terms.

Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

[Eleanors38]

7. Civil disobedience works best when it is publicly demonstrated...

Certainly, these newly-minted "criminals" can stash the weapons and hope that confiscation rumors don't come to past, but I suspect there will be some creative political displays designed to challenge state authority; no one likes being made to feel criminal, esp. when the antis are so desirous of that prospect.

[beevul]

16. Indeed.

Protesters burn gun registration forms

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Nearly a thousand gun registration forms were turned into ashes Sunday.

The forms are used for people to register with New York State Police firearms that meet the state’s definition of military-style assault weapons. The deadline is April 15. Gun rights advocates gathered at the Saratoga-Wilton Elks Lodge 161 to burn the papers in a symbolic protest.

The event was organized by the NY2A Grassroots Coalition. NY2A co-founder Jake Palmateer said the goal is for people not to register their assault weapon as an act of civil disobedience.

“We are opposed to registration because the evidence is clear that registration leads to confiscation,” he said.

http://poststar.com/news/local/protesters-burn-gun-registration-forms/article_0f9d8442-ad59-11e3-a480-001a4bcf887a.html

[Lurks Often]

8. Interesting timing by the CT Senate President

One of the major forces behind the bill is retiring after being the longest serving President Pro Tempore of the CT Legislature.

http://wnpr.org/post/senate-president-don-williams-retiring-year

[mwrguy]

9. Time to show how law-abiding gun toters are

[fnctel]

10. Some folks disagree with you ...

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
― Aristotle

“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law”
― Henry David Thoreau

“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

[Common Sense Party]

12. +1,000 nt

[Nuclear Unicorn]

15. If obedience to unjust authoritarianism was a free citizen's obligation

your avatar would still be subject to arrest if he were to occupy a seat on public transportation deemed too close to the people who elected him.

[krispos42]

11. Or.... they can repeal the law and try to pass something effective instead n/t

[HALO141]

13. As far as I'm concerned

the state can go fuck itself.

[Lurks Often]

14. The law is blowing up in their faces

There has been massive non-compliance, which makes the governor and the legislature looking impotent.

Firearms manufacturers, a significant source of the CT's manufacturing jobs, are expanding in other states and people are moving out, taking all that tax money with them. Combine that with CT's already high cost of living, which isn't attracting a lot of new companies, the state is going to have increasingly bigger revenue problems.