I really do not like that politicians are enacting "law" by executive order. Well, actually I really hate it. It is completely against what our country has always stood for. Our revolution was fought over a king that treated us the same way. EO's that make "law" ignore our system of 3 government branches. CT Governor Malloy will ban people in that state from buying a gun if they are on the federal "no fly" list with a stroke of his pen. Nothing like wiping out the 6th amendment right to a to a trial with a jury of our peers not to mention the great American legal tradition of "innocent until proven guilty". Actually he is denying both 2A and 6A rights to people who happen to fall onto an arbitrary government list that they: 1)don't know they are even on 2)have no real way to get off of the list 3)don't know the criteria to get onto the list.
I'm sure this will be challenged but why should it even have to be? How can this sh%$ even happen? Look for the other socialist governors to enact this too. What a load of b.s. "This is a moment to seize in America — and today I’m here to say that we in Connecticut are seizing it.”...don't let a crisis go to waste. It looks like he learned from the master.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/n...ales-to-those-on-federal-terrorism-lists.html
I'm sure this will be challenged but why should it even have to be? How can this sh%$ even happen? Look for the other socialist governors to enact this too. What a load of b.s. "This is a moment to seize in America — and today I’m here to say that we in Connecticut are seizing it.”...don't let a crisis go to waste. It looks like he learned from the master.
With the mass shooting in California last week focusing attention on terrorism and guns, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut announced on Thursday that he would sign an executive order that would bar people on federal terrorism watch lists from buying firearms in the state.
Mr. Malloy said Connecticut would become the first state in the nation to have such a measure.
“Like all Americans, I have been horrified by the recent terrorist attacks in San Bernardino and Paris,” said Mr. Malloy, a Democrat. “This should be a wake-up call to all of us. This is a moment to seize in America — and today I’m here to say that we in Connecticut are seizing it.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/n...ales-to-those-on-federal-terrorism-lists.html