Connecticut: Handful of Gun Bills Introduced in the General Assembly

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U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- Since the start of the 2021 Legislative Session, the Connecticut General Assembly has seen the introduction of multiple firearm-related bill proposals.  A few of those measures have been outlined below.

Pro-gun Legislation:
HB 5077 – An Act Limiting Orders Related to Firearms and Ammunition During a Civil Preparedness or Public Health Emergency (Rep. Craig Fishbein)

  • Prohibits the Governor or any municipality from restricting lawful possession of a firearm or ammunition during a civil preparedness public health emergency.

SB 544 – An Act Prohibiting the Municipal Regulation of Firearms (Sen. Robert Sampson)

  • Prohibits municipalities from adopting ordinances and regulations to regulate firearms.
  • HB 5384HB 5709, and HB 5970 also do this.

Anti-gun Legislation:
HB 5531 – An Act Establishing a Tax on Ammunition (Rep. Jillian Gilchrest)

  • Establishes a tax on the purchase of ammunition by a business (for sale at retail).  The measure specifies a 2 cents per round tax on rounds .22 caliber or less and 5 cents per round for all other ammunition.  This is an egregious measure that would place undue financial burden on law-abiding gun owners and create a de facto tax on the exercising of one’s Second Amendment rights.

SB 125 – An Act Limiting Multiple Handgun Purchases in a Thirty-Day Period (Sen. Will Haskell)

  • Prohibits anyone from purchasing more than one handgun within any 30-day period. SB 125 unconstitutionally restricts the Second Amendment rights of Connecticut citizens who are legally allowed to purchase and possess firearms for personal use.

Your NRA-ILA will continue to monitor these anti-gun bills and keep you updated on any changes or hearings that come up.  Be sure to stay-tuned to NRA-ILA Alerts, and encourage your friends, family, and fellow gun owners to do the same!


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uncle dudley

Every state has their own problems facing the citizens and legal firearm ownership shouldn’t be on the list, or ammunition being taxed.
It’s past time that republicans, if they have any in the legislature, stand up and speak out loudly about who commits the crime’s with weapons, it’s not the law abiding firearm owners.
This is just another nail in the coffin of the constitution if these laws get passed and signed by the governor.

geomitch

Unfortunately the Republicans are so outnumbered the Dem’s just bulldoze right over them driven by our retarded governor.

nrringlee

Taxes on the exercise of an enumerated natural right come straight out of the Jim Crow era in our history. I find it so odd that folks attempting to pass themselves off as progressives fall in to such logical and legal traps. But then again, progressives hate our founding principles, view our Constitution and Declaration of Independence as antique oddities that must be discarded in favor of popularly supported common sense solutions. Their solutions lack sense and end up being popularly rejected but they still try. The problem we have in this country with our current politics is this: we… Read more »

dave399

True. A large number of politicians of both parties are bought and paid for and until the voters understand this, we are in deep trouble.

Stag

Why would you want to vote for politicians who enact and support arms control?

JNew

I’d like to see at least one public official go on camera, place two of those contrasting bills side by side, and ask the people of that state the obvious question of who is in favor of your rights and liberty and who is not. People need legislative acts like this spelled out for them, unfortunately.

Cruiser

The root of all the problems we have today is, no one was watching when our children were being taught by communists in our public education system.
They have rewritten our history, and dumbed down America.

Last edited 3 years ago by Cruiser
RoyD

And then there were some of us who were paying attention and were educating our offspring about the evils of this world. You won’t find either of my sons spouting commie crap. Now, their wives may be a different matter in some respects. The one who is a little inclined to the left will not ever have any children so there is that and the other one has two. Nobody ever promised anyone a rose garden in this life as the song goes.

JSNMGC

I shoot with some people in their 20s who have 12 years of public schooling, four years at state colleges, and some went on for two more years at state colleges to get their masters. They are far greater advocates of freedom than a dozen or so people posting on this site who beg for a bigger, more intrusive, more costly government, more gun control, and more forced redistribution of wealth. They don’t judge people based on their date of birth, their race, their gender, what they used to do for a paycheck, what state their daddy was born in,… Read more »

JSNMGC

Responded, but its on hold.

JSNMGC

While my original comment is being considered, something to think about:

  • Over 90% of the people who put FDR in power and kept him in power were born between 1850 and 1923. 
  • Over 90% of the people who put LBJ in power were born between 1870 and 1943. 
  • Over 90% of the people who put Jimmy Carter in power were born between 1886 and1958.
Last edited 3 years ago by JSNMGC
Morrigan

U.S. 42 5207 SHOULD obviate the need for all this ducking, dodging and weaving. America was appalled at the spectacle of a grandmother being wrestled to the ground and disarmed by on-loan CHP officers during Katrina emergency.

JSNMGC

I doubt it will though. “Officer Safety” seems to be used as an excuse for all sorts of egregious behavior by a certain portion of LEOs.

Filming LEOs is legal, but some hate it and claim “I don’t know who might see your video and come to the scene, so you have to stop recording for officer safety.”

Arizona Don

The public is beginning to understand restrictive gun laws do nothing to reduce crime and that is a provable fact. As a matter of fact the opposite may be true. If that were not fact why would certain areas with the most restrictive gun laws have the highest gun crime? However, restricting (reducing) crime is not the goal of those who write those laws, confiscation is! Therefore they actually do not want them to reduce crime. They want to be able to pass more and more laws until they get to the point of getting the public to accept confiscation because there is no other… Read more »