Anti-Gun Group Calls Out Legislative Leaders
by Hugh McQuaid | Mar 15, 2013 6:23pm
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Posted to: Public Safety, State Capitol
If there were any doubts that the legislature’s bipartisan gun control bill will upset advocates on both sides of the issue, Connecticut Against Gun Violence put the notion to rest Friday with a critique of lawmakers over the terms of a magazine ban they hadn’t publicly endorsed yet.
According to Connecticut Against Gun Violence, legislative leaders negotiating a bipartisan gun control bill are discussing “grandfathering” existing high capacity ammunition magazines. The group sent a letter to lawmakers calling anything short of a complete ban “intolerable.”
CAGV issued a press release Friday citing unnamed sources close to the ongoing negotiations between the Democrats and Republicans over bipartisan legislation on gun control. The group said that leaders have taken the option of banning ownership of existing large capacity magazines off the table.
Ron Pinciaro, the group’s executive director, said that even if lawmakers decided to prohibit the future sale of the magazines, it would be unenforceable if possessing them wasn’t also illegal.
“There are no markings on the magazines, so there is no way for law enforcement to know whether any magazine as been made before or after the ban. This provides an enormous loophole that renders the legislation completely ineffective,” he said.
Leaders have been working to negotiate a bipartisan response to the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School murders. Since the beginning of their talks, they have declined to detail the specifics of their discussions. On Friday evening they concluded their second week of negotiations.
Asked about the magazine ban, Senate President Donald Williams said they were “continuing to talk about everything.”
Legislative leaders will continue their talks next week beginning Monday, they said.
“A day at a time, we’re taking it,” House Republican leader Lawrence Cafero said.
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posted by: cnj-david | March 15, 2013 6:33pm
“intolerable”?
I find it intolerable that my legislature is seriously considering making it illegal for me to own property that I legally purchased.
I find it intolerable that most of the proposals in the wake of the atrocity committed at Newtown by Adam Lanza do nothing to keep similar future events from occurring, and do nothing to address criminal possession and use of firearms.
Adam Lanza murdered his mother first, then slaughtered 20 children and 6 adults at Sandy Hook.
How is criminalizing the possession of firearms and accessories that I legally purchased for sporting purposes going to help in any way?
Why aren’t we seriously focusing on keeping firearms out of the hands of the mentally unfit and those with a criminal history?
posted by: Nutmeg87 | March 15, 2013 7:26pm
These guys in CAGV really dont understand the real world… Maybe they just are slow…
Banning standard 30 rd magazines which are perfectly legal in every state but NY (in litigation though) in this Republic, as well as, knowing very well that Washington WILL NOT legislate this ban (No House & No Senate Maj Leader Reid support); will make enforcement virtually impossible (except after a crime - of course)... The only issue becomes HOW MUCH resources Law Enforcement wants to ration to go door-to-door and collect plastic boxes (these magazines are really no different than the variety used by NERF Guns - and you can get mags in virtually any color now, incl pink)... Law Enforcement in rural areas will NOT confiscate… Urban high-crime zones HAVE NO RESOURCES to do this (Norwalk & Bridgeport cant even solve current crimes)... In the Suburbs, it will be VERY POLITICAL, as jusisdictions will vary in enforcement… AND Furthermore , after inciting the extremists (well over hundreds of “threats” already reported throughout country by gun-owners) I dont think I know any Federal, State or Local Officer that is willing to go door-to-door to confiscate plastic mags from citizens that never committed a crime and obviously own guns… We cant seem to solve murders, rapes, and the high velocity of youth crimes involving guns, why do you want this added burden???
Criminals dont care that 30rd mags are a felony, when they are already involved in drug, extortion, prostitution, gambling, or gang-related murders in operating their businesses….And someone by de facto will not care that its a felony if they are mentally instable…
All you are doing is further inciting an obviously emotional issue that WILL NOT DETER ANY MORE GUN VIOLENCE THAN BEFORE, and just further polarize society and get nothing really accomplished in the long-run…
We already have enormous financial pressure from the economy, unemployment, underemployment, deep education divide, social & medical programs being cut, citizens already succombed to 2011 Malloy & Obama tax hikes… And Now the Federal Squester…
Get back from OZ…. This is a waste of time, resources, money and public attention that should be better focused on economy & healthcare & what to do about mentally unstable…
PS… Why is Bloomberg campaining all over country (I guess he’s got $25billion vs NRA $200 million) in crusading for bans & confiscation of guns… His ridiculous ban on Super size Soda got over-turned by the Courts and He has more dealths related to Mentally unstable people pushing innocent citizens in front of Subway Trains and stabbings on Subway platforms in NYC than we have lost in Newtown…
posted by: Noteworthy | March 15, 2013 8:40pm
Ron Pinciaro’s goal is to confiscate guns and turn law abiding citizens into felons. What American thinks that’s fair or right? This is what liberal do - they can’t win with logic and fairness, so they turn to the law where they only have to influence a handful of rather small thinking pols to side with them; and then sit back and demand the police come to your house and seize or property or close down your business. Pinciaro doesn’t care because all he wants, is what he wants. Damn anybody who gets in his way.
posted by: Chien DeBerger | March 16, 2013 8:13am
Ron- It is because we gun owners have the ability to protect you that you can stand at the capitol and call the leaders out.
posted by: sanecitizen | March 16, 2013 9:01am
CAGV is starting to sound like petulant children stamping their feet. The reason its drawing out is that it’s a very complicated issues, and whether Mr Pinciaro likes it or not, he lives in a country where the government just can’t take your legally owned property.
I hope he appreciates the irony of using one constitutional right to continually assault another.
I would politely suggest Mr. Pinciaro that there are many countries which utilize oppressive powers of government, you may be better served seeking one of those out.
posted by: JH_1 | March 16, 2013 6:54pm
I read somewhere Malloy’s chief of staff has been monitoring the ongoing negotiations between the general assembly leaders.
I’ll bet anything word of any compromise is intentionally being leaked by Malloy’s office to the gun control groups so they could respond by increasing the pressure on the democratic senate and house leaders.
If that’s true, I wouldn’t be surprised. It’s either Malloy’s way or the highway.
posted by: Joebigjoe | March 17, 2013 4:06pm
I watched Mr Pinciaro on TV the other day and he was so far out in LEFT field that I have to think that even some of the anti-gun legislators felt bad for him.
I lose all hope for this country when I see things like what his group stands for that could never happen without many thousands of people dead that would never give up their ability to give a good fight to a tyrannical government. On what planet do people in the United States that are law abiding stand back and allow people from the government to search their homes to look for a magazine yet the group that is for that would never allow that same government to take a seriously mentally ill person and require that they take medication.
