Rediculous CT gun bill.

[Leverdude]

Anti-Gun Bill Heard In Connecticut Committee



Friday, February 25, 2005

On February 24, a public hearing on the State Police Omnibus Anti-Gun Bill was held before the Public Safety Committee. The bill, now referred to as SB 1133, includes a ban on the private sale of long guns, and strict liability that would apply to any one person or manufacturer "transferring" a firearm. This strict liability provision is designed only to invite increased legal exposure and more frivolous lawsuits against private citizens and the firearms industry. Additionally, SB 1133 would give the authorities increased ability to permanently deem an individual a "person prohibited" from possessing firearms.

Also pending in that committee is SB 714, which would ban the sale of .50 caliber rifles. The committee could vote on these measures at any time. It is critical that NRA members contact members of the committee, as well as your own lawmakers, and urge them to oppose ALL of the bills cited above and ANY gun-related bills that come before the Public Safety Committee. We also encourage you to contact members of Connecticut’s Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus and ask them to oppose these measures. For a list of caucus or committee members and their phone numbers, please contact our NRA-ILA`s Grassroots Division at (800) 392-8683.

[Don Fischer]

Where is Warren Page when you need him!!! There's only one gun law that we need, "don't murder nobody".

[1911crazy]

leverdude;  I'm with ya here brother in CT. and were losing ground just like the other states because the NRA is only on a national level its the states that are going to beat us in the end unless the NRA joins the battle with us on a state level too.  What other people in other states don't realize the more we lose the more they will lose too because as this anti gun BS gains ground and is spreading like a small wild fire the winds are soon to pick up and its going to spread though out or great free nation.  The state of New York also has a problem right now too with the assualt rifle ban that may pass too so thats my point its spreading one state at a time but it may pickup the pace too.  What our problem is the more the crime rate goes up the more "We" the honest gun guys get picked on.  Banning the 50cal just gives them a false sense of security because there has been no crimes with the 50cal so why pick on that?  It just doesn't make sense??                                                 BigBill

[Leverdude]

Found this on another site.

This week, members of the Public Safety Committee did not vote on and effectively killed SB 714, which sought to ban .50 caliber rifles, but approved SB 1133, the "State Police Omnibus Anti-gun Bill." The bill was sent to the Judiciary Committee with substitute language. Although many of its original provisions, including a ban on private sales and transfers, and a ban on youth hunting and registration, have been stripped out, the substitute bill contains one provision that could make it the most dangerous bill gun owners and sportsmen have ever faced!

SB 1133 would make it a felony for anyone who has been denied a pistol permit or Certificate of Eligibility (COE) (one of which is necessary in Connecticut to purchase a handgun), to possess ANY firearm. The bill would require that those individuals who are denied a permit or COE be reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) as a "person prohibited" from purchasing and possessing firearms.

Since "suitability" is a factor considered by the issuing authority in Connecticut, this means that a local police chief could arbitrarily deny an individual a pistol permit or COE without justification, causing the applicant to lose his or her gun rights forever! Making SB 1133 even more dangerous is the fact that it now has the potential to be amended in the Judiciary Committee and used as a vehicle for the failed .50 caliber ban or any other anti-gun schemes the gun grabbers want to throw in.
Thus far, Governor Jodi Rell (R) has ignored your calls of opposition to SB 1133, and has shown no interest in protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen. Since the State Police is an agency of the Rell Administration, the Governor has the ability and obligation to stop the abuse of power that SB 1133 represents. Please call Governor Rell at (860) 566-4840 and your state lawmakers TODAY to voice your strong opposition to SB 1133.
 
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So you see, this ones pretty bad IMHO & anybody here from CT, Call everyone you can. If you never wrote a legislator before nows the time. Call the governor, make yourself heard.  

Cant move either as theyre putting your name in the national registry as a person prohibitted from owning firearms.

I dont know if its retroactive or not but if it is I'll be a felon the day it takes effect.  :x

[Mikey]

BigBill and leverdude - isn't this how police chiefs get shot down in their driveways or while they are sitting at dinner with their families???  Isn't this what has happened even here in the US following WWII and the Korean Conflict, when local cops began denying returning veterans the right ot keep and bear arms.  

I can almost see it now - Gee Chief, you denied me the right to go out and buy that new Winchester 30-30 for my son's birthday.  Now, your boy gets on the school bus every morning at 8:10 am, usually wearing his red sweatshirt and you usually sit down to dinner right in front of that big picture window of yours at almost 6:15 exactly every evening.................'

I think that's how the drift goes, if it even goes that politely.  Many police stations are literally armed fortresses, or so the cops think - why do you think they are that way?

There were some who were belittling the NRA, maybe this is just what the NRA should be used for.  Just a thought.  Mikey.