Ref: Bill: 1094 BANNING LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION MAGAZINES
I wrote and called Mr Looney and my Senators and Reps about this
You can find yuor own officials here:
http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/menu/CGAFindLeg.asp
It has been referred to the joint Committee of the Judiciary
http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/menu/MemberList.asp?comm_code=JUD
I am in the process of writing to them all
Heres a copy of my letter to Looney
Dear Representative Ryan
There is no justification for this act. It is based on hysteria and has no logical basis in reducing gun related deaths in the state of Connecticut.
As my State Representative I really want to know your opinions and how you will vote on this issue. I look forward to your reply
I bring to your attention
Copy Of letter sent to Senator M. Looney
Date 03/01/2011
Ref: Bill: 1094
BANNING LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION MAGAZINES
Senator Looney
I write to express my sincere dissatisfaction with the introduction of Bill 1094.
You clearly do not understand that this Bill will serve no one in reducing gun crime in the State of Connecticut. You are just using The Sen. Giffords tragic shooting as a means to an end which is to subvert my right to go about my day, with or without a legally purchased weapon with a magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds for my own and my family's protection.
As Rahm Emanuel said "Never let a good crisis go to waste"
Your philosophy is flawed as you also fail to understand that a magazine capable of holding 10 rounds allows for 11 in the gun as a whole. Since once the magazine is loaded into the pistol and the gun cocked, the first round enters the chamber and then round 10 can be replaced in the magazine - so your choice of 10 is obviously purely arbitrary.
Do you know how fast an empty magazine can be replaced with a loaded one? Probably not. 3 - 5 seconds. So 10 shots becomes 20 in a matter of seconds. See, you have not though this through.
I come from the UK and have been in the USA for 10 years now. I'm proud of that and the freedoms it provides. The UK's gun crime spiked directly after law abiding gun owners had to surrender their sporting guns, all legal of course after sweeping legislation made it illegal to have guns that shoot more than two rounds. So either guns were sawed up and melted down with no compensation to the owners or for shotguns were required to be modified at the owners’ expense to allow only two cartridges to be loaded at any given time.
I take great comfort in the fact that there are legally armed citizens willing to put them selves in harms way to protect others from serious injury or death by an errant gun wielding assailant.
Why would you want to handicap them?
If some perpetrator wants to commit a gun crime are they going to care whether the magazine holds 10 or 15 rounds?
As a man whose sister is an Inspector with the London Metropolitan Police Force I can tell you that gun crime in London now out numbers those significantly to that of New York.
So Senator, my questions are:-
1. How will this reduce gun crime or deaths by shooting in Connecticut?
2. How will the state compensate me for my new gun that you will render completely useless since low count magazines are not available?
3. How will the state fund these pointless and extraordinary processes of having police confiscate, from law-abiding citizens the millions of magazines already in the state?
4. When did you last hear of a shooting in Connecticut where more that a couple of rounds were used?. I think the local press would have call it a hail of bullets if even 10 rounds were fired don't you?
5. Why 10 rounds?, Why not 8 or 6 ?
6. How many of the gun crimes that are committed in Connecticut are with legally owned weapons?
7. Will you admit that this is just a precursor to a complete hand gun ban within the state, but you know full well that to come out right now and say that would cost you too much political capital?
8. Will you also immediately introduce a Bill making it a Class D felony to own a pitch fork with more than two prongs? A mad farmer could go on the rampage killing people in a shopping mall.
My research shows that you are a distinct career politician who quite apart from doing what's right for the state, is into preserving you own position by pandering to anti-gun pressure groups and lobbyists
I will muster significant support to defeat this affront you call a Bill
Sincerely