CT: Please Call Speaker's Office SUNDAY! - Antigun Bill May Not be Dead Yet!

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Please call Speaker Amann's office at 860-249-8502 per message below. The 'stolen gun' bill may not yet be dead! This message was forwarded to me by Robert Crook of Coalition of CT Sportsmen.

Message text: There is a strong possibility that anti-gun activists and proponents of the "lost/stolen" legislation that was defeated on the floor of the CT House last night are planning a new assault on law-abiding gun owners. Now they are planning to use yet another parliamentary procedure to bring this terrible language before the chamber again!

It is critical that all gun owners call Speaker Amann to ask his support. Please tell Speaker Amann not to allow the sore losers to manipulate the process. Ask the Speaker to let this dangerous legislation STAY DEAD! No more "Gun Traffickers Protection Act," no more "Lost or Stolen."

Call the Speaker's office @ 860-240-8502. The legislature will be in all weekend so call immediately, call tomorrow and keep calling until this bill truly IS DEAD at midnight Wednesday. Please pass this message on
 
Issues: 1. Prima Facie guilt 2. "Proper Storage" Defense

Right, the issues are:

1. Proposed text 29-33 (i): "In any prosecution for a violation of [this law], evidence that a law enforcement agency sized or recovered a pistol or revolver that was not in the possesion of the owner thereof at the times of such seizure or recovery shall be prima facie evidence that such owner sold, delivered or transferred such pistol or revolver in violation of the provisions of this section."

The law specifies a 72 hour reporting to LEO. You come back from a two-week vacation, your pistol has been stolen and recovered from a criminal, you don't even know about it and you are automatically a felon.

2. It is an 'affirmative defense' in any prosecution that defendant "...did not act with criminal negligence in storing or keeping the pistol or revolver."

What is the minimum security storage standard that would meet the criteria for an 'affirmative defense'? How long before court rulings lead to case law that you had to keep your gun in a 'substanial' or 'heavy', 'safe' or other 'secure locking cabinet attached to the wall or floor'?


From the NRA ILA website about the bill April 14th:

http://www.nraila.org/CurrentLegislation/State.aspx?ST=CT

Legislation Subjects Connecticut Gun Owners to Criminal Investigations!

Friday, April 14, 2006

Please Contact Public Safety and Security Committee, Today!

As we have been reporting, the anti-gun crowd has ratcheted up the pressure on lawmakers to pass last year?s doomed proposal to make it a crime to fail to report the loss or theft of a firearm within 72 hours from when you ?knew or should have known? of the theft.

This year?s version is extremely dangerous for law abiding gun owners and must be stopped!

HB 5818 now includes language that would subject gun owners to criminal investigation and jeopardy of prosecution even if they report the theft because a court will now be given the ability to decide whether the firearm was stored in such a manner that provided ?substantial and unjustifiable risk? that it would be stolen. Even worse, if the police recover the firearm before the gun owner has discovered it missing and made the report, it will be considered automatic evidence of guilt of violation of this proposed law, as well as guilt of an illegal transfer. Conviction of the ?illegal transfer,? which is a felony, would permanently end your right to own a firearm!

In response to the large number of phone calls coming in from gun owners, Connecticut Against Gun Violence has put out desperate pleas to the anti-gun crowd asking them to write, e-mail and call lawmakers in an effort to drown out your voice
 
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