They may mention my FOIA request .. you know "a person is trying to find out our capabilities" aspect.
Right now, the FIC has continued the hearing in this FOIA request to February. So this matter is not resolved.
And DESPP has written a directive letter under CGS 1-210(d) that notes that handgun information should be disclosed so the issue before the FIC is one of the rifles that were shown in a video that the town allowed a newspaper organization to record and then promptly put on youtube.
And DESPP acknowledged in their letter that they did purchase the rifles (duh?!).
So if anyone wants the video, I can email it to them .. shoot me a PM and I'll send it to you. I have offered this before and no one was interested ... I would show the video at the town meeting and say "why can't I have the guns and magazines that YOU have ... what? Why are you trying to disarm me so that I can offer no resistance to any potential or future paramilitary attacks by your police force?"
At least at the CT Town level, I believe the most effective approach is to focus on facts--SCOTUS ruling on fundamental rights and types of arms covered by the 2nd Amendment, the requirement that any government actions impacting a fundamental right has to be tightly (and
demonstrably/evidence-based) linked to a vital government interest
and be narrowly tailored to the problem at hand in the least restrictive manner, and finally (and probably most effective and "real" to town leaders) that the cost of inevitable litigation (and the high likelihood the litigants would succeed on Constitutional bases) cannot be justified. On the State level focusing on the SCOTUS rulings are the best defense, but I'm convinced that Hartford
is going to pass these absurd and ineffective laws and it will take years of court cases for all or most of these restrictions to be struck down on constitutional grounds. On the National level, I don't see any gun control regulations (other than mandatory background checks and improved reporting of mental disabilities to NICS) getting through Congress. All just my opinions, of course.