I was reading where the good people of Connecticut,

 in compliance with recently passed state law have registered 30,000 semi-automatic weapons. 

Big deal. Sounds like somewhere between 5 and 10% if you ask me. 

Those that believe that this is a good thing are gloating about it as being a great victory to make the state safer. I call it a pille of crap as far as safety goes. I also see there that there are a lot of recently made criminals in Connecticut these days as I'd venture that that's a very small percentage of those firearms in the Nutmeg State.

Just before the registration deadline the governor got out and grumbled and made noises and half-hearted threats at the low turnout for mandatory registration. 

Registering 30,000 firearms sounds like a big deal until you think about the other God know how many that went unregistered and as a result are now contraband. Likely ten times that.

It would be interesting to find out how many people in Connecticut that own several semi-autos just registered one or two out of a large collection as sort of a 'rabbit garden' to show the state that they were 'good honest citizens'. They likely just registered their junk.

I can picture the police doing their Public relations thing in front of the cameras. "Here's a  good citizen that registered his firearm!"

Yeah, right. The guy just registered a piece of junk. The good stuff is hiddden in his attic.

"Hey, look, people! This guy registered three!" Here's a fine member of the Nutmeg State doing his duty!"

Meanwhile the guy, a collector has registered his junk and has forty of them in a vault in his basement.

The police administrator is beaming while the working cops are looking at each other with dubious looks. Working cops are not stupid. They know what's going on. In the back of their minds thay know that somewhere between 5 and 10% of the firearms that are suppose to be registered are not and the law is pretty much being flouted.

Connecticut just created a humongous glut of contraband firearms with the stroke of the pen. Now all of the unregistered firearms in the state cannot be legally traded or sold through registered dealers. They can not be brought above ground so to speak. At least legally.

Of course, these firearms CAN and likely will still be bought and sold illegally. Most owners will hold onto them but as time passes a few will sell them. Some will be stolen and being contraband, the thefts will go unreported.

This means that they will now be sold and traded through underground deals. There will be no bills of sale, just a cash and carry form of trade. No sales taxes will be collected, nothing. Deals will be conducted the same way drug deals are. Cash carry and quietly.

Of course if you ask any of the owners of these unregistered firearms if they own them, it's likely that every one of them will swear on a stack of bibles that they are keeping them legally stored somewhere out of state. Either that or brace for an awful lot of tragic boating accidents and overturned canoes.

As in "No, officer. I was out canoeing and the canoe overturned and I lost all of my guns. It was tragic."

One of the things that has to be thought of before a government enacts a law is the liklihood of it being obeyed. It looks to me like the government of Connecticut didn't do their homework when they enacted that one.

Why were they stupid enough to enact such legislation when they just KNEW it would be ignored by most of the people effected? Did they think that the people were stupid enough to register something so that later on they can be confiscated?

The truth of the matter is that the 30,000 firearms registered sounds like a lot the Connecticut government has to hoot, holler and claim it as a victory because the governor would look pretty stupid standing there screaming crying and making empty threats to the majority of gun owners that just told the governor to kiss their asses.




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