GoldCoaster
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I'd be interested in what CT residents would be interested in with regards to repealing useless or nonsensical firearms statutes.
My thoughts are as follows:
1. The CT Assault Weapons Ban is idiotic, all it does is keep law abiding folks from owning brand name AR-15's when you can easily purchase the same item made by different manufacturers OR pre-ban weapons.
Why is a muzzle hider one of the banned items but a muzzle brake not? strike it
Why is a bayonet lug one of the banned items ? who goes around with a bayonet?
Why is a collapsible stock one of the banned items? is 4 less inches really going to make a difference?
Face it, this statute is a "feel good" piece of legislation that does nothing to make the streets safer because nobody can run around with a new Colt AR-15 but they can with a Bushmaster clone? Nobody has bayonet lugs and how many people were killed with bayonets pre this law?
2. Defacto registration of firearms. With handguns there is no legal way to sell privately without filling out paperwork and getting authorization numbers. What good does this statute do? criminals pay cash for whatever they want, all it means is a way to slow down private transfers - oh and provide a confiscation list (of legal owners) when the powers that be decide we are not to be trusted with them.
3. What Grapeshot said in another posting state preemption of all local firearms laws. That would level the playing field no matter where you lived.
Any others people would like removed? How about things you'd like to see? Personally I'd like to see the mandatory requirement of a permit to purchase a pistol removed. The only "privilege" we should need to get permission for is concealed carry. Open carry should be able to be exercised as is OUR RIGHT, we shouldn't have to grovel to DPS to exercise our God given right to self defense!
Robert
I'd be interested in what CT residents would be interested in with regards to repealing useless or nonsensical firearms statutes.
My thoughts are as follows:
1. The CT Assault Weapons Ban is idiotic, all it does is keep law abiding folks from owning brand name AR-15's when you can easily purchase the same item made by different manufacturers OR pre-ban weapons.
Why is a muzzle hider one of the banned items but a muzzle brake not? strike it
Why is a bayonet lug one of the banned items ? who goes around with a bayonet?
Why is a collapsible stock one of the banned items? is 4 less inches really going to make a difference?
Face it, this statute is a "feel good" piece of legislation that does nothing to make the streets safer because nobody can run around with a new Colt AR-15 but they can with a Bushmaster clone? Nobody has bayonet lugs and how many people were killed with bayonets pre this law?
2. Defacto registration of firearms. With handguns there is no legal way to sell privately without filling out paperwork and getting authorization numbers. What good does this statute do? criminals pay cash for whatever they want, all it means is a way to slow down private transfers - oh and provide a confiscation list (of legal owners) when the powers that be decide we are not to be trusted with them.
3. What Grapeshot said in another posting state preemption of all local firearms laws. That would level the playing field no matter where you lived.
Any others people would like removed? How about things you'd like to see? Personally I'd like to see the mandatory requirement of a permit to purchase a pistol removed. The only "privilege" we should need to get permission for is concealed carry. Open carry should be able to be exercised as is OUR RIGHT, we shouldn't have to grovel to DPS to exercise our God given right to self defense!
Robert