Originally Posted by
chistech
Living in CT you should know that there are plenty of legal gun owners that have never done anything wrong that risked being imprisoned because CT simply changed a law about "assault" type weapons. The state went from those legaly owning all years of manufacture to the following law. You should remember the lines of legal gun owners having to turn in weapons. Here's the law that made anyone who didn't want to comply, an instant criminal.
No person shall possess any "assault weapon" unless that person possessed that firearm before October 1, 1993 and received a certificate of possession from the Connecticut State Police prior to July 1994. The commissioner of public safety shall maintain a file of all certificates of transfer at the central office.
Again, notice the list (file as they call it). Again, my info came from a friend who works for an agency that uses the same techniques to track and compile "people of interest". It is he that brought the FAA's registration "requirements" to my attention. When the people who do this stuff for a living make you aware of others doing the same, I tend to listen. I'm not going to post again on this as most won't believe or even care.
Why does almost every discussion about Govt involve the gun issue? For gods sake there are more guns sold in this country over the past 10 years than ever before, the same in CT. I live less than a mile away from a gun store that has to have police direct traffic get in and out of there on the weekends. Plenty of guns, plenty of ammo. Please with the guns. And funny you mention CT...this is the same state that has no problem letting a kid with prior criminal issues strap a handgun onto a quad and fly around his yard shooting at things. And that not being enough, he now has one with a flame thrower. Ya...this state is reaaal tough on guns.
We all hear stories from "friends" about stuff..chances are you buddy has violated his agencies disclosure and confidentiality protocols telling you what they are doing. And he probably has very little understanding of the scope and ability of both private and government sector to gather and store info on us. But again, who cares, we are all on 50 different kinds of lists as of now, and more and more as time goes on.
Life goes on, we register, we fly.