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As the end of the year came to a close I wrote an article about how Connecticut gun owners who had “assault weapons” or “high capacity magazines” had to register by December 31, 2013.

Several things were pointed out in that article, including how low the number of registrations actually were.  50,000 ‘assault weapons’ and less than 40,000 people registered magazines.  Yes you read that right… for the entire state of Connecticut.

It would seem massive civil disobedience is alive and well in the North East and the politicians know it and are quaking in their jack boots over it.

Enter the classic ‘amnesty’ scheme because the “post office closed early on the 31st.”

That’s right, the legislators of CT would have us believe that tens of thousands of more firearms and millions of more magazines would have been registered if only ‘the post office was open for 3 more hours’.

As of now the Governor of CT isn’t accepting any late registrations until the legislators pass an amnesty bill.

Recognize the spin by the media and tyrants who passed that unconstitutional bunk being passed off as law.  This is damage control and a feeble attempt to get more registrations as they work towards their ultimate goal of confiscation.

It seems like any time an anti self defense politician from California holds a press conference about firearms they say or do something that shows how little they know about the items they want to ban and the Rights they want to deny you.  State Senator Kevin de Leon took that normal level of  ignorance to an entirely new level the other day.

The issue at hand?  “Printed” firearms.  I’ve covered them before so I won’t address them in this article except to say , we’ll just focus on the Senators complete ignorance of firearms in general.

“has the ability with a 30 caliber clip, to disperse with 30 bullets within half a second.”  Keep in mind, this man wants to ban something he knows nothing about.  He continues- “30 magazine clip, half a second”.

During the press conference you can see a man standing behind the Senator and to his left rolling his eyes repeatedly.  With claims of “thirty magazine clip, half a second”, you have to wonder why he didn’t smack the Senator in the back of his head and offer him a V-8.

Later in the debacle Senator de Leon holds up an AR-15 and starts referring to it as an “automatic sniper rifle”  He also claims it, like the other “ghost gun” was printed in someones garage.

It’s probably important to note the optic and various other items on them, such as an MOE stock and foregrip and harris bipod were not “printed in a garage”.

Anyone seeing the shiny stainless steel conspicuously protruding from the end of the “automatic sniper rifle” could also logically assume it wasn’t printed from plastic.

I have to be honest, I couldn’t make it through the half hour press conference.  I felt like I was losing an IQ point for every second that went by.

The 3D printer is the bane of tyrants everywhere.  While it hasn’t been perfected yet, it will allow citizens all over the world to create in their homes the tools of self defense necessary to prevent another Auschwitz or have a more successful Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

Like always the goal of those who support gun control is CONTROL.  It has nothing to do with keeping you or your children safe.

You can watch a clip of the Senators remarks here:

The story is a bit bizarre, a man entered a Dallas County Dollar General store and started waving a gun.  The motive isn’t clear yet but when made the clerk and another customer enter a back break room, the customer decided it was time to put and end to the insanity.

Initially the store has other customers inside as well as a delivery person but when Kevin McLaughlin pulled out a gun and started waving it around, they fled the store and several 9-1-1 calls were immediately placed.

It’s not clear why Marlo Ellis and the unnamed cashier also didn’t flee as well before being ushered towards the back break room.  McLaughlin allegedly threatened to “kill everyone”.

Ellis was carrying a concealed handgun at the time and shot McLaughlin once in the chest as they were being forced into the break room, preventing what may have turned into a hostage situation or execution.

McLaughlin was pronounced dead at scene and the Sheriffs office is not treating the shooting as a crime at this point and no charges have been filed, although the Dallas Co sheriff is investing and will forward the matter to a Grand Jury as a matter of procedure.

Interestingly the store has a sign banning open carry in the store.  Presumably concealed carry isn’t banned by the store.

We’ll follow up on the story and keep you updated on this story and reaction, if any, from Dollar General.  Security camera footage has not yet been released yet either.

A federal judge has ruled that Chicago’s ban on the sale and transfer of firearms inside city limits are unconstitutional.

The 35 page ruling by U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang had some notable quotes:

“The stark reality facing the City each year is thousands of shooting victims and hundreds of murders committed with a gun. But on the other side of this case is another feature of government: certain fundamental rights are protected by the Constitution, put outside government’s reach, including the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense under the Second Amendment”

I have to say, I’m impressed by the last portion of this quote in which he nails it: “fundamental rights are protected by the Constitution”.  It’s encouraging to see a federal judge using the proper terminology and recognizes that Rights supersede the Constitution and that the Constitution doesn’t ‘grant’ them.

He goes on to say:  “Chicago’s ordinance goes too far in outright banning legal buyers and legal dealers from engaging in lawful acquisitions and lawful sales of firearms.”

While a win overall, there are several issues I have with the ruling, the first is that the judge places a stay on his ruling until Chicago has a chance to appeal.

Again we have another judge and another court ruling something is unconstitutional but allowing it to stand, I covered that several months ago during the decision by the Illinois Supreme court that allowed a blatant violation of the peoples Right to self defense to continue because: ‘eventually people can get a license to defend themselves…’

These “stays” are outside of the authority of these judges.  One of the most famous court decisions ever, Marbury v Madison, settled that issue over two centuries ago:
“an act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void.”

Void.  Void as in never was and never should have been.  Some people would take this opportunity to point out this judge was appointed by the current administration…

We’ll continue to keep you updated, I expect the city of Chicago to waste more taxpayer money by appealing this decision.

You can see a great legal viewpoint from Judge Andrew Napolitano here:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/3023753750001/010714judgenap1310/