Connecticut Student Questioned By Police Over Firearm Beliefs

...Last fall semester student John Wahlberg was asked to present an oral presentation for his Communications 140 class with a topic that had to do with a relevant issue in the media. The topic he chose to present to the class and Professor Paula Anderson was school violence, due to the recent Virginia Tech shooting the previous year.

One of the contentions that Wahlberg made was that if students were allowed to carry concealed firearms on a university campus the outcome of the Virginia Tech shootings could have been much different. The shooter would have been stopped much earlier in his quest. Wahlberg also discussed the problems with gun free zones on campuses. That evening after he gave his oral presentation to the class he was requested to come to the local campus police station. He was then read to by the police about the list of specific guns he owns! He was also asked where he kept these guns! The campus police told him the reason they were questioning him was that his professor (Paula Anderson, Lecturer: andersonpau@ccsu.edu ) complained that his presentation made other students “scared and uncomfortable”. You have to be kidding me, right?...MORE

Big Brother's New Target: Tracking Firearms

U.S. Representative Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) recently sponsored H.R. 45, also known as "Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act." The bill is, at its core and as its name implies, a licensing and registration scheme.

The measure calls for all handgun owners to submit to the federal government an application that shall include, among many other things: a photo; an address; a thumbprint; a completed, written firearm safety test; private mental health records; and a fee. And those are only some of the requirements to be licensed!

The bill would further require the attorney general to establish a database of every handgun sale, transfer, and owner's address in America. Moreover, the bill would make it illegal to own or possess a "qualifying firearm" -- defined as "any handgun; or any semiautomatic firearm that can accept any detachable ammunition feeding device…" [emphasis added] without one of the proposed licenses.

Additionally, the bill would make it illegal to transfer ownership of a "qualifying firearm" to anyone who is not a licensed gun dealer or collector (with very few exceptions), and would require "qualifying firearm" owners to report all transfers to the attorney general's database. It would also be illegal for a licensed gun owner to fail to record a gun loss or theft within 72 hours, or fail to report a change of address within 60 days. Further, if a minor obtains a firearm and injures someone with it, the owner of the firearm may face a multiple-year jail sentence... More

Connecticut Legislators Propose Package of Anti-Gun Bills

It looks like the hunters,outdoorsmen and shooters in the state of Connecticut are going to start paying more for their activities if the current legislation in the state House and Senate pass.

Governor Jodi Rell (R), State Senate Minority Leader John McKinney (R-28) and State House Minority Leader Larry Cafero (R-142), unveiled a package of proposals that will have an enormous negative impact on Connecticut’s hunters, sportsmen and law-abiding gun owners, both economically and otherwise. House Bill 6371 would double most hunting and fishing licenses and fees and eliminate the Conservation Fund, a fund spent on only wildlife conservation expenditures. Senate Bill 837, simply stated, would double pistols license fees. Finally, Senate Bill 839 would transfer operations of the currently independent Board of Firearm Permit Examiners to the Department of Public Safety. This action, if approved, would take away the autonomy of the Board and would mean that if an applicant were denied his license he would have to appeal to the very body, the Department of Public Safety,which rejected the application.

Please call Governor Rell and your lawmakers TODAY and respectfully urge them to oppose these bills. Tell them that you feel it’s unfair of them to balance the budget at the expense of your constitutional rights! For contact information for your State Representative, please click here.Please click here for contact information for your State Senator. Governor Rell can be reached by phone at 860-566-4840 (Greater Hartford Area), toll-free at 800-406-1527, or email Governor.Rell@ct.gov.

Once again it looks as if the politicians are trying to hang more fees on the sportsmen and then use that money for other expenditures. To double hunting and fishing licenses and fees and then take the money from the wildlife and conservation fund should not be tolerated! We have seen the two states of Illinois and South Dakota recently try to divert Robertson and Pittman funds to other state agencies only to be stopped. The sportsmen of Connecticut along with out of state sportsmen should stand up and fight against the over taxing and robbery of their wildlife monies. Search the links above to find the email address’ of these legislators and kindly urge them to stop this legislation. Not to mention that Senate Bill 837 and 839are pure and simple anti gun legislation packages!

Thanks Mike Adams from 'Up North Journal' for the heads up!

Aurora Young Marine headed back to class

Marie Morrow is heading back to class after the superintendent of the Cherry Creek School District decided that she has paid enough for bringing fake rifles to school. "I'm just glad to be back in school and have this whole thing over with," said Morrow, a senior at Cherokee Trail High School in Aurora... MORE

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Student faces expulsion for fake drill team guns

AURORA (from 9NEWS.COM) - A local school district has suspended a member of the Young Marines youth leadership group after students saw drill props in her vehicle. Marie Morrow, a 17-year-old senior at Cherokee Trail High School in Aurora, is serving a 10-day suspension. Her punishment could be extended at an expulsion hearing later this month. Morrow is a student leader in the Douglas County Young Marines, a group dedicated to teaching leadership and life skills. Cherry Creek Schools suspended Morrow after other students reported seeing guns inside her SUV, which was parked outside school while she was in class. The school also called police, who seized the three drill team guns made of wood, plastic and duct tape. Police told Morrow to claim them in time for her after-school drill practice off-campus. School administrators, however, were less understanding. The guns were declared "authentic representations of genuine weapons," triggering a mandatory expulsion statute in state law. "I have never been in trouble at all," said Morrow, who is planning to attend the United States Merchant Marine Academy. "I hadn't imagined in a million years that anything like this would have happened."... MORE

A Bill to Kill More Deer and Aid Food Pantries

VENISON stew and other dishes made from deer hunted in Connecticut could soon be on the menu at local soup kitchens. The General Assembly’s Environment Committee is considering a bill that would allow hunters to kill two more deer than current laws allow if the meat is donated to nonprofits that feed the needy... MORE