Reply from CCDL President
Riverdance/Dennis,
Last year CCDL was a prime mover of HB5245 to get it voted unanimously through the house. We also tackled ordinances that prohibited concealed carry in two fairly large cities here, as well as stopping other ordinances throughout the state.
Last year we wrote an entire proposal complete with statistical breakdowns on shall issue states, which included a FOIA report of all pistol permit holders in CT, including out of state permit holders. Those out of state applicants have an easier time obtaining their permits than many of our own residents. We had put this forth, as a manifest to support "Shall Issue" changes in CT. Sadly it did not go anywhere. This would have been a great advance, and much time and effort was put into it.
This year I/We have publicly stated in many interviews that we need legislation that undoes the gun free zones in our schools and in other places. What little legislation that has been put forth on that issue, we certainly support. When CCDL says "enforce the laws on the books". That doesn't mean we are not working to undo certain unjust laws to improve things for people here.
Right now, in CT, we have over 100 gun bills, most of which are not in our favor. It is very difficult keeping up the fight on these bills, and trying to find legislalators that are sympathetic to making things better for gun owners. Especially in an already anti-gun state coupled with a very recent mass murder of young children.
Dennis your claims are unfounded, if you are a logical person, you would have this thread deleted. I am not expecting you to, but we are not in favor of the majority of the laws on the books. It is a fact that the authorities here do not enforce the existing laws to the letter, but they do continually seek to add new ones.
Yesterday, with pressure from our organization, we were able to get the House Minority leader to pull out of the anti-gun rally at the capitol. This past week we also forced the legislature to hold hearings that will be up and coming on e-cert bills that would have bypassed this whole public process. This is not Virginia, we have had a very anti-gun legislature up here even before Sandy Hook, so often we have to play defense. Certainly more regularly than Virginia folks.
All the best
Scott Wilson
CCDL, Inc,.