Connecticut has a lot of gun control laws.

We're told that gun control works.

So if we were to break this down into a syllogism, Connecticut has gun control, gun control works, therefore Connecticut has no one gun crime.

The way syllogisms work, if the conclusion isn't a logical leap from the first two points, yet is still untrue, then one of the first two parts must be untrue.

With me so far?

Well, we know that Connecticut really does have gun control out the kiester. We know that we've been told that gun control works. So does Connecticut have issues with people doing illegal things with guns?

Uh...actually, yeah.

Bryan Joyce, of Southington, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of engaging in the business of dealing in firearms without a license, three counts of unlawful possession of ammunition by a felon, one count of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, marijuana, and one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana, according to federal authorities.

Citing court documents and statements made in court, authorities said Connecticut State Police in 2022 received information that Joyce was offering to sell assault weapons and other firearms, including privately manufactured firearms, or ghost guns, and ammunition and firearms accessories.

“On January 28, 2022, Joyce sold an undercover law officer a privately-made AR-15 style rifle, a privately-made 9mm handgun, and a box of ammunition, in exchange for $2,000,” authorities said in a statement. “On March 4, 2022, Joyce sold the undercover officer two loaded AR-15 style rifles and approximately 400 grams of marijuana, for $5,800.”

Joyce was arrested in Waterbury, where he met “the undercover officer who had arranged to purchase five more privately-made AR-15 style rifles and a kilogram of marijuana.”  A search of his vehicle turned up five firearms, marijuana, and numerous rounds of ammunition, authorities said in the statement.

Now this is just impossible. It simply cannot be!

Yet Joyce entered a guilty plea. While it's possible that he just plea-bargained to get the least sentence possible, as far as we can tell, he actually did what he was accused of doing.

Which is illegal, hence the whole "pleaded guilty" thing.

But we keep hearing how gun control works, and those laws aren't billed as being about punishing people for doing wrong, but from preventing them from doing it in the first place.

That clearly didn't happen.

Why, it's almost like the criminally minded don't actually follow laws.

That can't be right...can it?

I mean, we have anti-gun media seemingly trying to connect lawful gun sales with crime, even while admitting that they probably aren't or something. 

Yeah, they didn't make a lot of sense to me, either, and neither does the claim that gun control works.

Connecticut is a pretty anti-gun state and has been for ages. The fact that this could happen there is evidence of how little gun control really accomplishes, at least with regard to the bad guys.

Meanwhile, how many people in the state are left vulnerable because of the regulations put in place specifically to stop this very behavior? That behavior that the law didn't stop?

Too many.