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Connecticut Gun Confrontation Brewing Over Registration
Speculation about how the state of Connecticut would respond to the thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of gun owners who failed to register their firearms by December 31 ended when the state police sent out thisJanuary 2, 2014 letter to all those who registered late, but who in the process gave the state sufficient information to brand them as criminals: name, address, description of weapon or magazine, and date of ownership:
Dear Sir/Madam:
We are returning your application for assault weapon certificate and/or large capacity magazine declaration because it was not received or postmarked prior to January 1, 2014 as required by law.
As a result, you have the following options for your assault weapon …
1. Render the assault weapon permanently inoperable;
2. Sell the assault weapon to a licensed gun dealer;
3. Remove the assault weapon from the state, or …
4. Relinquish the assault weapon to a police department or to the [state’s] Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection….
Sincerely,
Lt. Eric Cooke, Commanding Officer, Special Licensing and Firearms Unit
This was the consequence promised by Mike Lawlor, an undersecretary of Connecticut’s Office of Policy and Management, who said: “Like anything else, people who violate the law face consequences.” What Lawlor didn’t make clear is what those consequences might be for those who ignore the letter from Cooke. What happens then? Is the state ready to amp up pressure on recalcitrants? What if such pressure moves recalcitrants into the category of resisters? Is this a game of chicken that Connecticut is willing to play?
Mike Vanderboegh doesn’t think so. A blogger at the conservative Sipsey Street Irregulars, Vanderboegh outlined possible consequences facing Connecticut State Police officers if they are called into action against the newly minted felons who were innocent on December 31 and became criminals in the eyes of the state the next day. Vanderboegh, the founder of the Three Percent movement (a reference to the three percent of the population who, he says, fought the British during the American War for Independence), carefully crafted a 16,000-word e-mail and sent it to every one of the 1,200 members of the Connecticut State Police and the Department of Emergency Services warning of the consequences they could face if they follow orders from superiors to begin confiscating weapons from owners by force. Wrote Vanderboegh:
Though this letter is certainly intended to deal with an uncomfortable subject, it is not a threat to anyone. However, it is important for everyone to understand that while we promise not to take the first shot over principle, we make no such promise if attacked, whether by common criminals or by the designated representatives of a criminal government grown arrogant and tyrannical and acting out an unconstitutional agenda under color of law.
History is a good guide here:
Gulag Archipelago Excerpt on resisting tyranny
An excerpt from “The Gulag Archipelago” … on how to resist fascism & tyranny. The lesson that is just as important today as it was half a century ago.
“During an arrest, you think since you are not guilty, how can they arrest you? Why should you run away? And how can you resist right then? After all, you’ll only make your situation worse; you will make it more difficult for them to sort out the mistake.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family?
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! We did not love freedom enough. Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.”
The Gulag Archipelago (Paperback) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Connecticut patriots should leave the state and come reinforce the Midwest. Lots of gun owners here.
This WILL get ugly and having Connecticut patriots move to the Midwest displays cowardliness and no desire to take a stand.
Connecticut patriots, gun owners, have been unfortunately chosen as the testbed for gun confiscation in America. Their actions or inaction’s will determine what the face of “freedom” looks like in the future.
Connecticut authorities have a carefully premeditated plan and course of action already in place and they will use it and you can take that to the bank.
Connecticut, the nations eyes are on you….
Send the same letter back telling that they will be disarmed, arrested for violating the Constitution and committing treason.
The Constitution stands, not some cockamine rule cooked up by some cretin liberal who decided he wanted to piss off some “We the People”.
Charge them also with harassment, dereliction of duty, treason, sedition, etc.
No kidding there MSG chicken, if any there were a time for decision making in the defense of liberty and our Bill of Rights, I can’t think of another in my lifetime. Behind this avenue all the way until they receive the proper message, “oh hell no you ain’t”, going to do jack sheet, bring it see what happens, some of us out here don’t cotton up to tyranny of any sort and will for damned sure send them a direct and meaningful message in return with a promise, the type one never ever breaks, it just depends on how they wish the outcome, take a chance if you dare. They’ve been warned, no further warnings will be issued anytime soon. Good luck and keep the powder dry, its almost time to pounce upon these tyrants.
Semper Fi 1972-2004