Registration Scheme Created Thousands of Instant Felons

In February of 2014, Dan Haar of the Hartford Courant wrote an article, "Untold Thousands Flout Gun Registration Law".  This article highlights the futility of such registration schemes, which serve only to inconvenience law abiding citizens, waste the resources of law enforcement and create felons out of otherwise law abiding people.

Photo by Bill Boylan, Rally at the capital, 20Apr13

Due to the recent calls for more of the same, and worse, outright bans, across the country, Mr. Haar's article bears repeating.  Also worth considering, is how such laws would be enforced, if even they are enforceable; as we know, criminals do not obey the law, and as the article points out, even otherwise law abiding citizens will engage in civil disobedience toward unjust, unconstitutional laws.

It is greatly feared by many gun owners, and non-gun owners alike, that that needless bloodshed could occur if and when the government attempts to forcibly uphold such laws.  Not just the blood of the gun owners, but the blood of law enforcement personnel and that of innocent spouses and their children!

Should it come to that, blood will lie on the hands of

Many CT Gun Owners Defying Call to Register

Anywhere from 20,000 to 100,000 gun owners in Connecticut became Class D felons overnight after failing to register their semi-automatic rifles with the state of Connecticut as required by a hastily passed gun control law last year. The deadline for registration was January 1, 2014, and it is now believed tens of thousands of gun owners chose not to register as an act of defiance...Continue reading at The Blaze.(video there also)

                    
                          Some CT gun owners line up to register their guns. Reminds one of Gun                                                            Registration in Weimar Germany.