For our CT members

[wmenorr67]

http://www.nssf.org/share/blastLinks/ActionAlerts/2013/AA012113.htm

For our CT members, you guys look to be the guinea pigs.

[Hawkmoon]

http://www.nssf.org/share/blastLinks/ActionAlerts/2013/AA012113.htm

For our CT members, you guys look to be the guinea pigs.

I received that directly from the NSSF, and also from several other NSSF members by e-mail. Looks like the legislators in Connecticut have drunk the Kool-Aid and are really going off the deep end. Don't they have any attorneys in the Connecticut legislature? Most of this junk would never survive a constitutional challenge after Heller and McDonald.

[RoadKingLarry]

Making matters worse, Connecticut manufacturers including Colt, Mossberg, Stag Arms, Mec-Gar, OKAY Industries, Ruger and Metalform will be directly affected by this legislation. That means a loss of jobs and tax revenue to the state.

Time to vote with their feet.

[Jim147]

Time to vote with their feet.

And time for us to vote with our money.

If they don't move out of the state, if this passes, then we should stop buying their products.

jim

[Scout26]

Reading those bills sound like the ones that already tried (and are waiting to reintroduce at the end of the month) here in Illinois. 


It ain't over by a long shot.   However, I do hope that the Chicago contingent in Springfield spend so much of their time dicking around with Anti-2A bills that they never get around to passing a CCW/LTC bill by 9 June.   

[AZRedhawk44]

Reading those bills sound like the ones that already tried (and are waiting to reintroduce at the end of the month) here in Illinois. 


It ain't over by a long shot.   However, I do hope that the Chicago contingent in Springfield spend so much of their time dicking around with Anti-2A bills that they never get around to passing a CCW/LTC bill by 9 June.   

Sneaky, sneaky!  I like how you think.  Backdoor constitutional carry, huh?

[drewtam]

For you old timers, what was it like the last time around, back in '94?

Was there this much public resistance and vocal opposition to the AWB back then? Was it louder? Was it quieter?

So far I am very hopeful. It feels like the waves of emotion in support of gun banning are breaking against the rock of logic and steadfastness of the gun owning public.

From a history book perspective, the '94 ban passed without much public voice from our side. ABC/NBC/CBS wasn't going to air our side, CNN was in its infancy cooling off from its break out success during the Iraq war. Fox news didn't exist? Internet was not a viable voice.

Of course, I was very hopeful about a Romney win too, look how that turned out.


So again, how was it back in '94? Does this time around look and sound the same?

[lee n. field]

Sneaky, sneaky!  I like how you think.  Backdoor constitutional carry, huh?

d*** straight, skippy.

[lee n. field]

For you old timers, what was it like the last time around, back in '94?

Was there this much public resistance and vocal opposition to the AWB back then? Was it louder? Was it quieter?

Honestly, I do not recall.  For all the various life things going on (poverty and worse), I wasn't paying attention much.

So far I am very hopeful. It feels like the waves of emotion in support of gun banning are breaking against the rock of logic and steadfastness of the gun owning public.

A lot more people care now.

[Perd Hapley]

For you old timers, what was it like the last time around, back in '94?

Was there this much public resistance and vocal opposition to the AWB back then? Was it louder? Was it quieter?

So far I am very hopeful. It feels like the waves of emotion in support of gun banning are breaking against the rock of logic and steadfastness of the gun owning public.

From a history book perspective, the '94 ban passed without much public voice from our side. ABC/NBC/CBS wasn't going to air our side, CNN was in its infancy cooling off from its break out success during the Iraq war. Fox news didn't exist? Internet was not a viable voice.

Of course, I was very hopeful about a Romney win too, look how that turned out.


So again, how was it back in '94? Does this time around look and sound the same?

I was only 18, then, and not much of a gun person. But I think the gun issue is much more in the mainstream of the conservative movement now. And "assault weapons" are much more in the mainstream of the gun culture.

[RoadKingLarry]

For you old timers, what was it like the last time around, back in '94?

I've got pretty much the same answer

Honestly, I do not recall.  For all the various life things going on (poverty and worse), I wasn't paying attention much.

We didn't have the internet giving us near instant knowledge of what was going on in DC like we do now.
We did have the NRA calling the feds Jack booted thugs about that time which served to alienate quite a few people.

[Hawkmoon]

Look what already passed in NY. CT was the site of the Sandy Hook massacre, and has been solidly liberal for decades. My guess is that most of these screwball laws have a much better than even chance of passing this time.

The last time the CT legislature tried to pass some wacky anti-gun stuff, Colt testified that if the law passed they would move out of state. I think it is instructive that Colt recently established a small, satellite facility in Florida. Nobody knew exactly what that was all about, and nobody I know inside Colt is willing to say anything. My personal guess is that they foresaw something like this coming down the pike and decided to start putting a contingency plan in place.

Now, if we could also get S&W and Kahr/Auto-Ordnance to bail out of MA ... it would still be symbolic, because the anti-gun liberals in those states would just smile and clap their hands and say, "Good riddance."

[AZRedhawk44]

Ruger is welcome to close the New Haven plant and move the rest of its operations here to AZ.  Right to work and a solid pro-2A atmosphere out here.