Connecticut: Thousands Flout Gun Registration Law

February 13th, 2014

Via: The Courant:

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.”

Research Credit: RP

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2 Responses to “Connecticut: Thousands Flout Gun Registration Law”

  1. mangrove says:
    February 13, 2014 at 12:51 pm

    Maybe people are a lot more clued in to the Sandy Hook Hoax than the media are letting on, and/or tptb really underestimated what it would take to completely disarm law abiding citizens.

    New podcast interview with Wolfgang Halbig, who better be watching his back:

    AFP PODCAST: School Safety Expert Threatened for Questioning Sandy Hook
    http://americanfreepress.net/?p=15503

    Also, this is relevant:

    50 of Bloomberg’s Mayors Quit After Gun Confiscation Plan Leaked
    http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/50-of-bloombergs-mayors-quit-after-gun-confiscation-plan-leaked

  2. steve holmes says:
    February 13, 2014 at 4:22 pm

    Maybe the closet liberal GOP senator should look up “Ex-Post Facto” and stuff his law into a dark hole.

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