State Police Receive First Registrations For Assault Weapons; Click Here for Forms
The state police have received their first applications from Connecticut residents seeking to register assault weapons under the controversial gun control law that went into effect April 4 — and some people are even bringing in their guns, which isn’t necessary.
Residents have until Jan. 1 to register assault weapons, as defined under the law. But the system is up and running and the state Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection is now processing the requests.
You wouldn’t want people to think you’re not a Law-Abiding Citizen, would you? Horrors.
Of course, before you fill out that request form (Really? Request? You’re going to ask them to oppress you?) you might want to ask any California gun-owner you happen to meet what happened when they “requested” the state to let them register their SKS rifles. That didn’t go so well for them. But while you’re doing the right thing, ask yourself how you got into a situation where you’re more afraid of the ‘good guys’ than you are of the bad ones.
H/T to Sipsey Street.
Registration there will work about as good as it did in Canada. The Canadian compliance rate was around 40%. The Canadian government even waived the fees and it still failed. The resulting cost burden and mismanagement caused the registration system to be so unworkable that it was scrapped as this program will be.
Canadians on a whole are much smarter. The sheeple in CT. will cooperate at a much higher percentage of compliance, they are that stupid. But stupid isn’t something that can be fixed, while on the other hand ignorance can.
I acknowledge my ignorance, and refuse their retraining, as I choose not to accept their rules.(btw: I don’t live in CT. but I do know a few that do.) I’m older and even more grouchy than Joel at times. I will defy, as there isn’t much left to do, as I won’t comply. I have tasted some freedom growing up in the 50’s, and I continue to live it here in my small fiefdom.
I gather the compliance figure in Canada included forms that were sent in, along with the correct fee, for people who didn’t exist, guns that didn’t exist, and people who did exist but didn’t have the guns listed on the form.
Afterall, many would question why a gun registration database should be any more reliable than a voter registration database.
perhaps to those individuals, the same maxim applies
Register early and register often
I confess that’s a twist on monkeywrenching that wouldn’t have occurred to me, Keith. It’s a maxim among American gun owners that national registration would be followed sooner or later by confiscation, and you’d better be able to cough up that gun you so pliantly registered. Under that scenario, registering nonexistent guns would certainly acquaint you with cops in a demanding mood at some point. What’s the upside?
Apparently some jokers did it in Canada. I’m not sure on what scale they did it.
The people whom they registered none existent guns too, either didn’t exist, or didn’t have guns.
You can imagine the confidence which the cops would gain in their database, when they showed up to inspect Mr Philias Kadogo’s guns at number 33 bridge street, when bridge street only has 15 houses.
and the next day they show up at the mayor’s brother’s house to see his none existent SKS.
For historical interest, this is the quote I saw, under the title [sounds like an ape] tactics you should never do!
Good ideas keith. But allow me to bring this up as a thought, because this technology didn’t exist back then. All printers that have been sold over the last 2-3 years use micro-printing to identify the printer. You and I can’t visually see it, but it allows the police state enforcers to identify the printer of origin.
I’m not mentioning this because I’m a super paranoid living like a Hobbit, I just saying to CYA if faced with the wonderful suggestion that you mentioned.
Guess I’l have to look for a used printer in a garage sale.
I’ve been mulling over my unease at that unknown Canadian’s apparent suggestion of registering real people.
I’m more than uneasy – it’s aggression to put anyone else into harms way, even if I’m not the goon who knocked their door down and shot their dogs – and I’m not the bureaucrat who sent them, or the politician who enabled them.
The quibbling sort of half justifications I thought through were that registration is targeting process, zooming in on and separating certain individuals from the whole population and marking them for future treatment – what’er that may be.
If those Canadians put real people who didn’t own guns onto the database, then it likely served to zoom out and reduce the resolution of the targeting process.
also, by airing the possibility that the database contains people who don’t belong on it – it gives those who are likely to be conducting raids due warning that they could be running up a big tally of wrong addresses
and it gives lawyers suing the goons who got a wrong address, something to roast the goons for – they should have known their database was unreliable, ’twas written about on teh webzez
Yeah. I understand the urge to register a whole bunch of scary guns in Michael Moore’s or Piers Morgan’s name. But all in all the tactic as described is petty and dangerous to people who probably haven’t done anything to deserve it, and I do believe I’ll refrain from using it.
I’m reminded of a couple of quotes that rattle through my head occasionally:
“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits”
Bill Burroughs
and:
“My neighbors’ passions frighten me infinitely less than do the law’s injustices, for my neighbors’ passions are contained by mine, whilst nothing checks the injustices of the law.”
Supposedly the last one was by the Marquis de Sade – but the only attribution I’ve ever seen for it was from R. A. Wilson…
D’oh
me trying to overthink the obvious and coming up dumber than…
putting a real human’s name on a form is the moral equivalent of snitchin on them for something they didn’t do.
now the even thicker attempt at over thinking
Is putting your own name on a registration (=confiscation and a good and hard future SWATting) form “self incrimination?