Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
January 30, 2014
Gun owners in Connecticut have revolted against a new gun control
law, with just 38,000 out of 2.4 million high capacity magazines being
registered with authorities.
Image: Assault Rifle (YouTube).
Following the Sandy Hook shooting in December 2012, Connecticut
passed a law which banned ammunition magazines capable of carrying more than 10
rounds. Residents who had acquired such magazines before the law came into
effect were mandated to register them with state police by January 1, 2014. The
law also banned assault rifles manufactured after 1994, requiring them to be
declared to authorities.
Weeks after the deadline expired, authorities revealed that 50,016
assault weapons and 38,290 ammunition magazines had been registered.
CT
News Junkie reported that it is, “unclear how many gun owners own the banned
weapons and magazines, but chose not to comply with the registration
requirement.”
However, a 2011 Office of Legislative
Research study found that, “there are over 2.4 million large capacity
magazines in Connecticut that originated at the retail level.” This number
didn’t even include those not purchased at the retail level.
This means that the vast majority of high capacity magazines were
not reported to authorities by gun owners in Connecticut.
It’s a similar story when it comes to firearms. Just over 50,000
assault weapons were registered after the law came into effect. However, the
2011 study found that there were over 370,000 assault rifles in the hands of
Connecticut gun owners. This means that just 13% of assault rifles were
registered.
“So, where did these millions of magazines go?” asks
Warner Todd Huston. “All that can be said is that it appears that gun owners
in Connecticut are not quite the sheep that jackbooted government officials may
have imagined they were. After all, if there really were millions of high
capacity magazines in the state–and it is very likely that there are–and they
have now gone unregistered, that means that thousands of gun owners have refused
to bow to this un-constitutional, anti-Second Amendment law.”
These figures once again illustrate how gun registration is
pointless unless it is used by authorities as a precursor to confiscation.
The issue also serves to highlight the fact that gun control
advocates are not anti-gun at all, they are pro-gun so long as the state has a
monopoly on the possession of firearms. If people like “turn em all in”
Feinstein want to see Americans disarmed in places like Connecticut, we’re going
to witness a tragic bloodbath since the vast majority of gun owners will refuse
to hand over their weapons.
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