Shocking! 2.4 million High-Cap Mags Missing

[Waitone]

http://www.publiusforum.com/2014/01/28/millions-high-capacity-magazines-disappear-connecticut/

I'm shocked, I tell you.  Shocked!

[Perd Hapley]

I wonder, are specific magazines registered, or could a person just register 5 out of their 50 magazines, and then give an appearance of legality by never having more than five in the vehicle, or keeping all but five magazines hidden somewhere, etc?

[lee n. field]

it was estimated that The Constitution State had at least “2.4 million” of the offending magazines within its borders. But now, after the new forced registration law set in, only about 38,000 high capacity magazines were registered. So, where did they all go?

Made my day.

I wonder, are specific magazines registered,

I don't know about the AR world.  Not a one of my AK magazines has a serial number I can find.  Play a shell game, "where's my magazine?".

[Balog]

Shockingly high rates of boating accidents.

[Tallpine]

Shockingly high rates of boating accidents.

Long Island Sound is dangerous 

[Fly320s]

Made my day.

I don't know about the AR world.  Not a one of my AK magazines has a serial number I can find.  Play a shell game, "where's my magazine?".

I have never seen an AR magazine with a serial number.  AFAIK, they don't exist.

[freakazoid]

It's kind of like California, it is still possible to actually own and use standard cap magazines if they were owned before the made illegal date and are used in a rifle set up a certain way. No real way to prove you didn't own a standard cap mag before the date. Well, unless the gun didn't exist before then , or you are like me and didn't even live in the state before then.

[Devonai]

I "declared" two mags because I needed them for work, and sent the rest of them to live with my friend in New Hampshire.  I have conformed with the letter of the law. 

[Perd Hapley]

Made my day.

I don't know about the AR world.  Not a one of my AK magazines has a serial number I can find.  Play a shell game, "where's my magazine?".

'Zackly

[Balog]

I "declared" two mags because I needed them for work, and sent the rest of them to live with my friend in New Hampshire.  I have conformed with the letter of the law. 

Sure you did. Wink wink. Nudge nudge.

[AJ Dual]

Hiding it is time to be using it.

[fifth_column]

I don't even like thinking of the possibility of forced compliance, and the likely results . . .

"Remember Connecticut!" just doesn't have much of a ring to it.

And the irony that this type of totalitarianism is occurring in "The Constitution State" is sickening.

[MillCreek]

Oh the noes! Tweakers stole all my magazines for the scrap metal value!

[Balog]

If the damn Canadians can't be made to comply, I find it hard to imagine any American state would. Even a liberal state like CT MA NY etc.

[Fly320s]

If the damn Canadians can't be made to comply, I find it hard to imagine any American state would. Even a liberal state like CT MA NY etc.

I enjoy your comedy.

[MechAg94]

If the damn Canadians can't be made to comply, I find it hard to imagine any American state would. Even a liberal state like CT MA NY etc.

I remember hearing commentary not long ago about the Australian gun ban.  The guy mentioned that they knew how many Ruger 10/22's and other specific firearms were imported to Austrialia before the ban, but records show that only a small fraction of them were ever registered.  They same could be said for a large number of different pistols and rifles.  They only mentioned a few types. 

[dm1333]

Maybe they got lost in the same place as the Charter of 1662!   

[dogmush]

If the damn Canadians can't be made to comply, I find it hard to imagine any American state would. Even a liberal state like CT MA NY etc.

My new Reserve unit is in CA (long story) but the result is I've had a chance to talk, in person, with quite a few CA residents about guns.  I was a little taken aback by how freely and nonchalantly they talked about owning, showed pictures of and shot weapons that I know are illegal in CA.  I'm starting to get the impression that gun law compliance among otherwise law abiding folks is a lot lower than I had thought.

[AZRedhawk44]

My new Reserve unit is in CA (long story) but the result is I've had a chance to talk, in person, with quite a few CA residents about guns.  I was a little taken aback by how freely and nonchalantly they talked about owning, showed pictures of and shot weapons that I know are illegal in CA.  I'm starting to get the impression that gun law compliance among otherwise law abiding folks is a lot lower than I had thought.

The laws were written as Jim Crow laws to be used to control the lower class riff-raff.

The "good people" know they aren't supposed to apply to them.

The police initially only enforce them against the riff-raff.

Time goes by, and the police enforce those same laws on everyone, regardless of social status or involvement in any malum in se actions rather than mere malum prohibitum actions.

This is why Jim Crow laws, along with any malum prohibitum laws, are so dangerous.