Connecticut’s new gun registration law specified a compliance deadline of December 31, 2013, but despite long lineups to register so-called “assault weapons” it appears many Gun Owners never showed up. Some estimate that only 15 percent of rifles the law arbitrarily classifies as assault weapons owned by Connecticut residents were registered before the deadline.
This means on January 1st, 2014 the law made the other 85% of those previously law-abiding citizens guilty of a Class D felony. That could mean anywhere between 20,000 and 100,000 people, according to The Courant.
State Senator Tony Guglielmo (R-Stafford) responded to the dearth of registrations: “I honestly thought from my own standpoint that the vast majority would register.” He then added, “If you pass laws that people have no respect for and they don’t follow them, then you have a real problem.”
There is no clear indicator for how many ignored registration out of civil disobedience versus how many simply failed to register out of ignorance of the new law’s requirements.
Either way, Mike Lawlor of Connecticut’s Office of Policy and Management says the law has not failed. Rather, because all the unregistered guns are “now illegal,” they are out of circulation, and “the goal [was] to have fewer of these types of weapons in circulation.”
Source: Breitbart
As Americans we have the right to bear arms…PERIOD! No American should have to register something that is our right! I don’t hapoen to own a gun, but I want the right to if I so choose!
Ginia is right…hate to use that now tired saying…..but if guns are criminalized…then only criminals….
The law is unconstitutional and jeopardises the security of legal gun owners,from Domestic terrorist which may target gun owners by using unsecured information.
Fools
Stand strong up there! If it gets nasty, there will be thousands there to hook you up!
If the law is blatantly unconstitutional, they have a patriotic duty to disobey it.
Still can’t find the I gotta register any damn firearm law in the Constitution? Anybody find it?
from what I’ve seen if you register it there next step is to confiscate itwhen you take something of someone’s that they paid for without their permissionthat is called STEALING
Good for them people don’t have to obey any law that go’s against our Constitution anyway. Any law that is past should reflect or Constitution if it doesn’t it’s illegal .
I hope every one with guns and rifles in every state do the same. So simple, just stand up and say NO. This is our country and if they don’t like it, they can leave.