{"id":34895,"date":"2013-04-02T08:05:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T12:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34895"},"modified":"2013-04-02T08:06:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T12:06:38","slug":"cts-new-gun-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34895","title":{"rendered":"CT’s new gun ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

Old Trooper sends a link<\/a> about the new scary gun ban that has been introduced in the Connecticut legislature yesterday.<\/p>\n

The Connecticut deal includes a ban on new high-capacity ammunition magazines like the ones used in the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left 20 children and six educators dead. There are also new registration requirements for existing magazines that carry 10 or more bullets, something of a disappointment for some family members of Newtown victims who wanted an outright ban on the possession of all high-capacity magazines and traveled to the state Capitol on Monday to ask lawmakers for it.<\/p>\n

The package also creates what lawmakers said is the nation’s first statewide dangerous weapon offender registry, creates a new “ammunition eligibility certificate,” imposes immediate universal background checks for all firearms sales, and extends the state’s assault weapons ban to 100 new types of firearms and requires that a weapon have only one of several features in order to be banned.<\/p>\n

The newly banned weapons could no longer be bought or sold in Connecticut, and those legally owned already would have to be registered with the state, just like the high-capacity magazines.<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, a Fairfield Republican whose district includes Newtown, said Republicans and Democrats have understood they needed to “rise above politics” when they decided to come up with a legislative response to the massacre.<\/p>\n

“At the end of the day, I think it’s a package that the majority of the people of Connecticut I know will be proud of,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, there’s a registration process for existing magazines over 10 rounds capacity and, apparently, background checks for folks buying ammo. Good going, Connecticut, be proud of yourselves for making folks who’ve owned those things for years into criminals. But the law doesn’t go far enough for some folks in Connecticut, according to NBC News<\/a> in a link sent to us by Ex-PH2; <\/p>\n

Families of the Newtown victims objected, sending a letter to legislative leaders Monday saying more children might have survived had Lanza been carrying smaller magazines.<\/p>\n

Lanza “fired 154 shots in approximately 4 minutes, killing 20 children and 6 educators. Miraculously, in the time that it took him to reload in one of the classrooms, 11 children were able to escape and are alive today,” they said in the letter, which is reprinted below.<\/p>\n

“We are left to wonder, what if the Sandy Hook shooter had been forced to reload not 6 times but 15 times. Would more children, would our children, be alive today?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They want all magazines over 10 rounds capacity completely banned, not grandfathered.<\/p>\n

The two people who are responsible for the Lanza murders are already dead – so why are they so intent on punishing all of the gun owners in Connecticut who didn’t participate in the Lanza murders? And I don’t think that reloading 15 times would have deterred Lanza’s spree – he was a nut. He had plenty of time to reload as many times as he wanted – there was no one to stop him. It was a gun-free zone.<\/p>\n

I wonder how the folks who work at Colt feel about losing their jobs when the Connecticut manufacturer, one of the largest gun manufacturing companies in the world, picks up it’s marbles and goes somewhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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