Times are tough
In Connecticut, they’re restricting your right to arms on certain days by closing the state licensing office due to governor mandated furloughs.
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May 20th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Hey, that’s the same way Chicago and DC started their defacto bans.
May 20th, 2009 at 9:30 am
In FL they have 90 days to prove you’re not worthy after that they must issue.
Their fiscal irresponsibility, not ours.
May 20th, 2009 at 9:38 am
hotel, these are permits to buy. not carry.
May 20th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Uncle, you’re wrong, the permits issued by the CT state police are most definitely to carry. Unlike most of your readership I live in CT full time. (Yes, it sucks, but it beats NY and MD, my past states of residence.) CT does offer both a license to buy and a license to carry, but since the requirements are the same for each almost no one bothers to get a license to buy. Last time I heard a count there were just two (2) people in the entire state who had mere licenses to own.
As for the furloughs, they are just for this office. The furloughs are hitting every aspect of the state, including two of my deputy commissioner level political appointee friends. Our governor is serious about trying to avoid a budget crisis, but the unions and democratic controlled legislature is doing little, if nothing, to help.
Connecticans are serious about firearms ownership. We are a class III state, and (at last check) second only to Texas in total number of machine guns owned by private individuals.
May 20th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I did not know that. I thought CT required permits to own. Based on your description, I can see how I would have been confused.
did some googling seems they have an AWB but that it can be gotten around by getting some sort of license. Same thing?
Just curious.
May 21st, 2009 at 8:36 am
Oddly CT requires no license to own a handgun, so new residents moving into the state, or people inheriting firearms, do not face any licensing requirements. This makes moving to CT quite a bit easier for gun owners than moving to MA, NY or NJ.
CT does have a by name AWB, but it is pretty much toothless unless you have one of the listed models. If you have a listed model you have to have owned it in CT since the state ban went into effect, and I think there was some sort of record keeping required to prove this.
That said, gun stores in CT offer any and all flavors of your favorite black (or green, camo, pink) rifles.
There is one really odd hitch to CT gun laws. CT allows full auto but does not allow select fire, or at least no select-fire weapons since the AWB, I’m not sure when that restriction became active. There is a tiny cottage industry around converting select fire weapons to full auto only for purposes of bringing Class III weapons into CT.
(I just noticed a typo in my prior post. “As for the furloughs, they are just for this office.” should be “As for the furloughs, they are NOT just for this office.” I think its clear from the context, but just wanted to fix it.)
May 21st, 2009 at 8:39 am
A little more on Nutmeg gun laws.
Long guns require no licensing to purchase. If you have a handgun permit you can buy a long gun with an instant check. Since carry permits are so easy to get most everyone has one.
If you don’t have a carry permit the State Police get to take up to two weeks to do a background check before they approve a sale to someone who does not have a pistol permit.
So, quite a quirk here, if you have a handgun permit you can buy rifles and shotguns with no wait, but if you don’t you might have to wait up to two weeks.
Private party handgun sales are allowed, but require State Police approval.
Long gun sales I believe, though I’ve never really looked into it, are allowed and are paperwork free.