Rifle Registration: Upward Of 30,000 Gun Owners And Counting

[Roverron]

As the deadline for gun-owners arrived Tuesday, upward of 30,000 Connecticut residents declared that they own at least one assault weapon and registrations were still arriving in the mail.

The big question looking forward, which we’ll never be able to answer, is this: How many owners of military-style rifles didn’t register their weapons, thereby becoming criminals as of Wednesday? And what will state officials do about it?

State officials estimated 25,000 people registered as of Friday, and since then, thousands more came in by mail and in person at State Police headquarters in Middletown. Many owned just one firearm, said Lt. Paul Vance, state police spokesman. But, he said, “There are some who have many assault weapons.”

Separately, as of Friday, 17,000 people had registered magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, with many more coming in — and some declaring dozens of magazines.

Gun owners on the line who spoke with a Courant reporter on Friday did like having to register, and did not like the idea that the law is creating a new class of felons who were previously law-abiding citizens. Though an exact count of unregistered guns will be impossible to tally, there are records of retail gun sales, which could tell officials who in Connecticut owns a gun — assuming that gun had not been sold privately.

http://courantblogs.com/dan-haar/rif...-and-counting/
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I hope the bolded phrase was a typo and should have been "DID NOT LIKE HAVING TO REGISTER"

Had to wait all the way till the end to find the 'if it only saves ONE child' nonsense.
And so it begins.............

“At the end of the day the goal is to enforce responsible ownership,” Lawlor said. “The goal is to have fewer people getting shot.”------WTF DOES THIS HAVE TO WITH CRIMINALS WITH GUNS? SURELY THEY ARENT STUPID ENOIGH TO BELIEVE THE BAD GUYS STOOD THERE AND REGISTERED THEIRS TOO!