Isn't that what the Redcoats were doing heading to Lexington and Concord - picking up unregistered assault rifles? That worked out well.

On gun ownership. The founders knew that technology changed. They knew that rockets were part of artillery where they hadn't been some years before and they certainly knew that arms would improve. they didn't need to know there would be machine guns and assault weapons exactly but they knew that weaponry would improve. They didn't want any advanced weaponry in the hands of government only because with those weapons, the government could impose tyranny on its subjects. They always thought that militias would be an active part of any military force in addition to a professional army and they wanted the militias armed on par with the military thus blunting any effort to impose tyrany. Unfortunately, we have a president who has usurped the intent and the letter of the constitution and has decided that he's so popular that he can rule as a dictator. Just like all dictators, some things seem to work but overall, policies fail time after time.

The tea rtax that started all the uproar seems like a paltry amount. It was something like $.03 per pound. Doesn't seem like much does it? But tea came baled and it is difficult to know exactly how much each bale weighed including wrappings and such.. Say each bale weighed 100 pounds. It seems like a measly $3 but tea might have cost $.14 or $.15 per pound and it may have been more. Let's say $.15 because it's convenient. That's $15 per hundred pounds and the tax would have been 1/5 or 20% of the total cost. /there is a new requirement to register long-giuns in CA. The gun owner must pay for a background check and you can't register more than one gun per check unless they are considered obsolete military collectibles. There is a tax on each registration to be used for "efforts to control the spread and use of guns." I belong to the NRA and GOA and am an opponent of any gun control laws for anyone not convicted of a felony that includes violence towards another person. Everyone else should be free to own bazookas and rocket launchers if he or she want. There should be no restrictions on automatic weapons or weapons of any sort. Of course, if you commit a crime with one of your weapons, you lose them all.

If you go to Los Angeles, and go into an indoor range, you will see lots of women of every age and ethnic make up. A lot of women carry concealed in spite of laws against it and it's absolutely amazing how few of them commit crimes involving weapons.

I think that CA will be the first state to initiate searches for unregistered weapons. It will start in San Francisco or a surrounding small city that is very liberal. Then it will expand. Some years back 1999, I was driving through San Francisco and there were ads on the radio advising people to turn in assault weapons because they were no longer legal in CA. They got about 1 M of them which totally blew me away. People have no idea what they are giving up. Remember 1937 Hitler initiated gun confiscation to "Insure Public Safety." The Jews sure benefited from that.

All of my firearms and magazines which would require registration have been FFL'd out to Wyoming and are waiting for me there.

Are you active in the CCDL?

And when your house gets raided and they find the lost guns... you'll have yourself some legal trouble.

Words that should be grounds for impeachment - "we've got to do something".

It always is a prompt for liberal, socialistic politicians to violate the freedoms of honest citizens.

THAT is my fear as well. I do quite a bit of driving and have noticed military equipment movements seem to be increasing along the interstates. Just sayin'.

The article mentions nothing about the CCDL, a very large and motivated group of CT gun owners who are looking to bring the political pain to the CT legislature next election.

Why I am getting the hell out of CT the first chance I get.
My firearms are already out.

Failed to get shot you mean

I never get tired of watching that.