On that gun registry we don’t have
Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad bought a gun in Connecticut two months ago, about the time he put his attack plan in motion, New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday.
Per Wikipedia, there’s not a state registry in CT.
May 6th, 2010 at 9:05 am
Per Wikipedia, there are giraffes and arctic monkeys in Tierra del Fuego.
May 6th, 2010 at 9:13 am
PS: They didn’t need a registry, they had the actual, you know, gun.
“Ring! Ring! Hello, Kelt-Tec? We found your gun, S/N 123ABC, in a terr’ist’s car. We where wondering if you know how it got there? Oh, you sold the gun to Ellett Brothers? Thanks. Ring! Ring! Hello, Ellett Brothers?…“
May 6th, 2010 at 9:20 am
Obviously, they traced it.
May 6th, 2010 at 9:23 am
Bloomberg was testifying before congress yesterday and was using this as a reason to push for new firearm legislation (dont let a good crisis go to waste). He wants to close the “terrorist loophole” and make it impossible for terroists to buy guns — legally. He said that something like 1,000+ terrorists have bought a gun recently in this country and went on and on about how we have to keep them from getting guns…..
Did you catch that…. This dude drives a car bomb into Times Square and Bloomy wants to ban guns…. makes a lot of sense doesnt it.
If his statistic is even true, here is the REAL issue…. There are 1,000+ terrorists on U.S. soil! DO SOMEHTING ABOUT THAT! Dont focus your time and efforts on trying to keep them from buying a handgun or a rifle. If you know they are here and you know they have ties to terrorists, then ARREST THEM! Does he really think that a no-buy list is gonna stop some terrorist who is hell bent on getting a gun? Hey, maybe we should close the enriched uranium loophole and start a no-buy list for that stuff….. we dont want a terrorist to be able to buy enriched uranium do we? We should put their names on a list.
A the very least they should try to keep them from obtaining the items they need to make a bomb? But you will NEVER see a list of people not approved to buy propane or gasoline or fertilizer or cars….. that would be racist or something.
Bloomberg is using this as a gun-grab. Nothing more. Nothing less.
May 6th, 2010 at 11:05 am
I’m thinking we need to put the terrorists on a No Car Buy list. That would be a more effective countermeasure. Surely, someone would rouse the cops out of the donut shops if they saw a guy with a Radio Flyer hauling propane and fertilizer into Times Square.
May 6th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Lived in CT many years ago. They have a registry via indirect means. When you buy a gun from an FFL in CT, a record is maintained in the FFL’s books (I beleive they had one book for CT and one book for BATFE), the CT Dept of Public Safety and your town’s police dept (or first selectman if no police dept.).
Private sales of handguns must be done via an FFL transfer or by forms and approval from the CT Dept of Public Safety (you must maintain the paperwork also). Not sure if this applies to long guns, but it was also under consideration at the time I lived there.
I moved from CT back in 2004, so I am sure things have changed in the past few years and are undoubtedly worse or more difficult for the law abiding gunowners by now.
Anyway, that’s what I remember. But check for yourself, some details may not be completely correct.
May 6th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
If all guns are banned in the US, terrorists and criminals will still have all the guns they want.
Banning guns in the US would just be shipping more US jobs overseas. America gets heroin from Afghanistan, cocaine from Columbia, marijuana from Mexico. Criminals will just have Chinese- and African-made firearms instead of American- and European-made firearms.