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Connecticut Carry - Press Release - Either Enforce or Repeal 2013 Anti-gun Laws.

Rich B

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From: http://ctcarry.com/News/Release/41660b95-8f5e-4738-833c-cfe7ce437c73

To Officials of the State of Connecticut: Either Enforce or Repeal 2013 Anti-gun Laws.

It’s time for the State to enforce the tyranny they passed or repeal it entirely.

Rocky Hill CT, March 3, 2014: A recent media tidal wave based on false reports and bad journalism has proven a few things about the 2013 Gun Ban: people from Connecticut and around the nation are tired of being threatened; are ready to make a stand; and the State of Connecticut does not have the stomach to enforce the edicts and laws with which they threaten gun owners.

For years, Undersecretary Michael Lawlor, the upper levels of the State Police, and Governor Dannel Malloy have sought to disarm those whom they fear. The laws they passed show that they fear constitutionally and lawfully armed citizens. Despite thousands of gun owners showing up at each legislative session expecting to be heard by their ‘representatives’, government officials seized upon public panic related to the Newtown Massacre, as a means to exert legislative and executive fiats intent upon disarming gun owners who have harmed no one. The Connecticut Executive and Legislative branches showed their cowardice when they installed metal detectors and armed guards at the entrances to the Legislative Office Building (LOB) only for firearms-related hearings.

Gun hating officials now have their laws on the books in Connecticut. They dreamed up those laws, in their tyrannical dystopias, but it was NOT the majority of the public that supported such laws. Despite all the severe legal language that the government passed, there is still no open discussion of enforcing those tyrannical laws, as they stand. Throughout the Legislature and the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection (DESPP), there is only talk of "amnesty" and possibly boiling the frog at a slower rate.

It comes as no surprise that the talks of relaxing enforcement expectations go along with legislators trying to get past their re-election deadlines. If the anti-gun laws they passed are so good for everyone in this state, then why are elected officials requesting increased security, both at the LOB and at their private homes? The anti-gun legislators and officials are scared to implement their tyranny because they know that they did not have any sort of ‘consent of the governed’. Those officials violated their oaths of office, as the Executive and Legislative branches of our Connecticut government overstepped their moral and constitutional responsibilities by passing those laws: they acted and voted contrary to our Rights and against our Constitution.

Now, State officials look down the barrel of the laws that they created, and it is very probably that they now tremble as they rethink the extremity of their folly. Connecticut Carry calls on every State official, every Senator, and every Representative, to make the singular decision: Either enforce the laws as they are written and let us fight it out in court, or else repeal the 2013 Gun Ban in its entirety.

As many media sources have pointed out, there is very little compliance with the new edicts, and there is absolutely no way for the State to know who is obeying the law or not. State officials have made their bluff, and Undersecretary Lawlor has made his position clear, that the State will enforce the laws. We say: Bring it on. The officials of the State of Connecticut have threatened its citizens by fiat. They have roared on paper, but they have violated Principle. Now it's time for the State to man-up: either enforce its edicts or else stand-down and return to the former laws that did not so violently threaten the citizens of this state.

There is nothing that will so completely destroy faith in those edicts faster than the State-provoked chaos and violence that will be required to enforce the 2013 anti-gun laws. Connecticut residents should not have to live in perpetual fear of "the jack boot" coming down on them. Unenforced, frequently repeated threats fall on deaf ears. By passing laws that they cannot or choose not to enforce, State officials tell the public that this State is ignorant, immoral, blind, and impotent in its legal and decision making processes. The passage of such foolishly conceived, insufferable laws is an affront to every law-abiding citizen. Every official who supports such legal foolishness mocks our State and the Constitution they swore to uphold.

If the state does not have the stomach to enforce these laws, then the legislature has until May 7^th, 2014 to completely repeal these immoral edicts and let the residents of Connecticut return to their rightfully owned property and former exercise of constitutional rights and practices without any threat of State violence.

“From Governor Malloy, to Undersecretary Lawlor to DESPP, Commissioner Schriro, and Lieutenant Cooke of the firearms unit, and including Lt. Paul Vance, the state needs to ****, or get off the pot. The fact is, the state does not have the balls to enforce these laws. The laws would not survive the public outcry and resistance that would occur.” - Connecticut Carry Director Ed Peruta

If officials of the State of Connecticut opt to get ‘froggy’ (jumping on citizens) and start to enforce the new laws (as officials have claimed a desire to do), Connecticut Carry stands ready to do whatever it takes and whatever it can do to represent and defend anyone impacted by the State’s violence.

“As citizens of Connecticut, we have a right to bear arms. With that right comes responsibility. The responsibility to stand in defense of ourselves and our fellow citizens is paramount.” – Connecticut Carry President Rich Burgess
 

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Quote from your link that seems to back up what some have been saying that no letters actually were sent out:

"In an e-mail message to Examiner this morning, Burgess stated, “These letters, as far as anyone in Connecticut can ascertain, never got sent to anyone. The history of the letter is that it was apparently a 'proposed' response to people who sent in their registrations (with sworn affidavits) late. This means that those people were swearing to the state that they were felons per…state law. The letter was released through a (state) legislator's Facebook page back in early January. For some reason, they went viral just last week."
 

vaz11

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Good job Rich and Ed,I'm a member of CT CARRY and I have been handing out those legislature score card books left and right.Just getting the word out.Doing everything I can to help in this fight.
 

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Some new articles about the CT story:

Second Amendment Activist Warned: Cops & Politicians “Want You Dead”
by Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com, March 6, 2014

http://www.infowars.com/second-amendment-activist-warned-cops-politicians-want-you-dead/

Connecticut Carry to State Officials – We Dare You To Enforce Your Gun Ban!
Ammoland Shooting Sports News, March 3, 2014

http://www.ammoland.com/2014/03/con...re-you-to-enforce-your-gun-ban/#axzz2v0Oq0tZ1
 

davidmcbeth

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Some new articles about the CT story:

Second Amendment Activist Warned: Cops & Politicians “Want You Dead”
by Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com, March 6, 2014

http://www.infowars.com/second-amendment-activist-warned-cops-politicians-want-you-dead/

Connecticut Carry to State Officials – We Dare You To Enforce Your Gun Ban!
Ammoland Shooting Sports News, March 3, 2014

http://www.ammoland.com/2014/03/con...re-you-to-enforce-your-gun-ban/#axzz2v0Oq0tZ1

See? People think is no big issue. They are just fictional stories at this time.
 
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