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Related: About this forumState's gun law working as intended
A year after the General Assembly passed and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed historic gun legislation inspired by the killings in Newtown, there are strong indications the new law is doing what it was meant to do.
We hasten to add it is not doing what was never intended, from the illegal seizure of guns by the government, as feared by the most ardent misinterpreters of the Second Amendment, to making criminals of those who failed to register their weapons in the allotted time. They did that to themselves and are no different from those who choose to drive without a license.
The law bans the possession and sale of assault weapons, including the type used by Adam Lanza to kill 20 children and six adults in their school in a five-minute massacre. It also bans large-capacity magazines like those used by the killer, while permitting people who already own these magazines and weapons to register and keep them.
In addition, it requires background checks for purchasers of all categories of guns and a permit to buy from gun shows or other private sources, as well as from gun dealers. Convicted felons caught with rifle ammunition face the same penalties as those caught with the weapons.
http://www.theday.com/article/20140413/OP01/304139957
We hasten to add it is not doing what was never intended, from the illegal seizure of guns by the government, as feared by the most ardent misinterpreters of the Second Amendment, to making criminals of those who failed to register their weapons in the allotted time. They did that to themselves and are no different from those who choose to drive without a license.
The law bans the possession and sale of assault weapons, including the type used by Adam Lanza to kill 20 children and six adults in their school in a five-minute massacre. It also bans large-capacity magazines like those used by the killer, while permitting people who already own these magazines and weapons to register and keep them.
In addition, it requires background checks for purchasers of all categories of guns and a permit to buy from gun shows or other private sources, as well as from gun dealers. Convicted felons caught with rifle ammunition face the same penalties as those caught with the weapons.
http://www.theday.com/article/20140413/OP01/304139957
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State's gun law working as intended (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Apr 2014
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Straw Man
(6,622 posts)1. That's right.
Adam Lanza would never have been able to murder those children if his mother's AR-15 had been registered.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,475 posts)2. A nostalgic ode to...
I'll 'ave your spam; I love it.
hack89
(39,171 posts)3. What a stupid article
Because an extremely rare event hasn't happened again in CT, the law worked?
Lets remember that these laws would not have prevented Sandy Hook. That rifle was legal and registered.
mog75
(109 posts)4. gun law working as intended
Since this law has achieved it's desired goal, I guess there will be no reason to write any more gun laws, and we can now all live in peace and harmony?