This is absurd and frankly it is downright scary that this could happen in America like Tucker Carlson stated. Isn't it amazing that the U.S. Constitution is non-existent in our nations capitol? This guy has had to hire an attorney and has already had eight court hearings with the ninth coming up. All this for an inoperable empty shotgun shell he had on his desk as a souvenir.
Prosecuted for possession of empty shotgun shell? | On Air Videos | Fox News
meanwhile
the new registration law in Conn for "assault" weapons and large magazines
is not turning out so good
looks like there are more patriots there then originally considered
Connecticut throws 'assault weapon' registration party, (almost) nobody comes - St. Louis gun rights | Examiner.com
With the numbers now available, however, it becomes apparent that many of us--and perhaps all of the forcible citizen disarmament jihadists in the Connecticut government--underestimated the state's gun owners' spirit of defiance, and perhaps by an enormous margin. The number of guns and magazines registered was so paltry, in fact, that state lawmakers are trying to spin the situation as a case of willing registrants trying to register on time, but failing to do so, because the post office closed at noon on New Year's Eve, thus causing them to be late.
So just how paltry are the numbers of those gun owners willing to submit to this atrocity, and how can anyone be so certain that it dramatically underrepresents the number of contraband guns and magazines (and owners)? CT Newsjunkie quotes Connecticut's Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection (so named because, presumably, that name sounds less alarming than "Department of Forced Defenselessness") announcing that 2013 saw the registration of 50,016 "assault weapons," and 38,290 "high capacity" magazines. Yep--almost 12,000 more guns than magazines (how likely does that sound--especially considering the fact that some people registered "dozens" of magazines?).
While by no means a hard number (which would be impossible to come by), Connecticut's Office of Legislative Research, using numbers provided by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, reported in 2011 that there could be tens of millions of so-called "high capacity" magazines in the state--and that number could only have grown since then--of which fewer than 40,000 are registered, as now required by draconian law.
The same article estimates hundreds of thousands, perhaps as many as half a million or more, firearms that would qualify as "assault weapons" under Connecticut's newly expanded definition of the term--suggesting a 90% non-compliance rate with the registration.
Connecticut throws 'assault weapon' registration party, (almost) nobody comes - St. Louis gun rights | Examiner.com
