Skip, these laws will be a nightmare for you and your team who could easily have to devote much of their time now to enforcing gun regulations.
Anyway, some questions from me.
--Buying out of state. This has been asked earlier but what if I buy my ammo at a gun dealer in Pa. when I am at deer camp and bring it into Ct. when I return home?
--What if I do a gun transaction between a private seller and me in Pa. at deer camp having to do with a standard bolt action deer rifle, per existing Federal and Pa. law, that has no registration requirements in Ct. and then I bring it into Ct?
--What if I buy a gun at an out of state dealer with an FFL who does a standard background check. Does this gun purchase require the dealer to send the gun to a Ct. FFL for registration, background checks and does this require me to have the long gun purchase certificate?
--The Bill has a paragraph having to do with protection of the data bases for all of these registrations and certificate issuances. For instance, name and address of registration lists will not be published. But there is sharing. Sharing within the state is probably not an issue but sharing with Homeland Security at the Federal level where there are no limitations to the use of these data bases is highly problematic. Most Federal registries have very specific limitations on how long they can be kept such as NICS and the Brady Act but nothing exists protecting citizens from Homeland Security and the expansion of the Patriot Act. What is your understanding of our protections within these state registries and data bases? Is the state planning on sharing these registries and data bases with Homeland Security who is on record as labeling sportsmen, shooters, veterans and hunters as part of their "terrorist watch lists" whatever that means.
Thanks Skip,
George