“No one wants to take your guns”………….<\/p>\n
Incrementalism in Action: Anti-Gun Governor Targets Lawfully Registered Firearms for Seizure<\/a><\/p>\n There are two absolutes in gun control strategy, and both were on display recently when Gov. Ned Lamont (D-CT) proposed to renege on a promise twice made to the state\u2019s law-abiding gun owners: that they could keep their newly-banned firearms if they registered them with the state.<\/p>\n Connecticut has passed two bans on so-called \u201cassault weapons,\u201d one in 1993 and then an expanded version in 2013.<\/p>\n Each time, the law affected common and popular semi-automatic firearms already owned by law-abiding residents of the state. And each time, the state assured those gun owners that their lawfully-acquired guns would be \u201cgrandfathered\u201d under the law if the state were apprised of who owned them and where they were kept.<\/p>\n This led to the sad and ominous spectacle of gun owners who were under no individual suspicion of wrongdoing queing up to report their own identity and constitutionally-protected property to police. As a\u00a0news report noted<\/a>, \u201cThe application requires information such as the individual’s name, address, telephone number, motor vehicle operator’s license, sex, height, weight and thumbprint, as well as information about the weapon, including the serial number, model and any unique markings.\u201d It was eerily similar, in fact, to the information used when booking someone for a crime.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, some well-meaning but na\u00efve gun owners thought they were simply doing their civic duty by complying with the mandate. \u201cIf they were trying to make them illegal, I\u2019d have a real issue, but if they want to just know where they are, that\u2019s fine with me,\u201d one registrant\u00a0told a local news station<\/a>.<\/p>\n Readers of this website and other NRA publications knew better, however, as the Association has warned for years of the aforementioned absolutes: that\u00a0gun control advances incrementally<\/a>\u00a0and that\u00a0firearm registration leads to firearm confiscation<\/a>.<\/p>\n Following a gubernatorial debate in November, Lamont\u00a0told reporters<\/a>: \u201cI think those assault-style weapons that are grandfathered should not be grandfathered.\u201d He continued, \u201cThey should not be allowed in the state of Connecticut. I think they\u2019re killers.\u201d<\/p>\n Pressed for specifics on how he would go about enforcing his proposal or recovering the 81,849 \u201cassault weapons\u201d registered with the state, Lamont did not provide details. \u201cStart by making them illegal,\u201d\u00a0he said<\/a>. \u201cI think that would be a big difference. That is what you start with.\u201d<\/p>\n In other words, without any explanation of how his plan would work or promote public safety, Lamont is proposing to make tens of thousands of state citizens who complied in good faith with the registration requirements into criminals, with their guns summarily declared contraband and subject to seizure. To make matters worse, the authorities would already know who and where those citizens are.<\/p>\n Lamont ludicrously claimed that the grandfathered guns themselves are \u201ckillers,\u201d but he provided no evidence that their owners are. He did not cite statistics, or even examples, of lawfully registered \u201cassault weapons\u201d that were later used in crime. Meanwhile, registered or not, semiautomatic long guns of the types banned in Connecticut are rarely used in homicide, as we have noted time and again, including\u00a0here<\/a>,\u00a0here<\/a>, and\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Despite these facts, Lamont seems intent on executing his plan to reclassify peaceable Connecticut residents lawfully exercising their constitutional rights as felons. His example illustrates very clearly what the reassurances of gun control advocates are worth and how anyone who thinks its safe to rely on such reassurances will be in for a rude awakening.<\/p>\n Indeed, the month after Lamont announced his intentions,\u00a0an editorial<\/a>\u00a0in the Connecticut Mirror argued that constitutional assurances the right to keep and bear arms will be protected should themselves be repealed. \u201cIt is time to talk about repealing the Second Amendment,\u201d the author insisted. But he made it clear that his plan wasn\u2019t necessarily an alternative to incrementalism but a potential aid to it. \u201c[T]he very existence of a loud argument about the larger issue of repeal will make those incremental proposals seem more moderate, and therefore ultimately more achievable,\u201d the editorialist wrote.<\/p>\n Second Amendment advocates are often faulted for opposing supposedly moderate, \u201ccommon sense gun safety laws\u201d that fall well short of a comprehensive ban on all types of firearms. But the savvy ones know that punishing law-abiding people for exercising their constitutional rights does not stop criminals, and today\u2019s accommodation for the good guys with guns is tomorrow\u2019s \u201cloophole\u201d that will eventually close around their necks. This is even more so when the authorities already know who owns guns and where those guns are kept.<\/p>\n It\u2019s simple: The object of gun control is the outlawing and seizure of firearms from law-abiding citizens.<\/p>\n But don\u2019t just take our word for it.<\/p>\n Ask Gov. Ned Lamont.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “No one wants to take your guns”…………. Incrementalism in Action: Anti-Gun Governor Targets Lawfully Registered Firearms for Seizure There are two absolutes in gun control strategy, and both were on display recently when Gov. 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