Connecticut Arrest Shatters Tons of Gun Control Myths

"Gun control works."

That's the underlying message of everything that groups like Everytown, Giffords, or Brady push for. If it doesn't work, why should anyone do it? Do they believe it works? Who knows. What we know is that they claim it does, and they can show plenty of studies to say that they're right. We've talked about those studies before, of course, and why they're complete BS.

However, they keep saying it does, and to push for it, they like to trot out a lot of stories that show the supposed horrors of so-called gun violence.

And the truth is, a recent arrest--one of many throughout the nation--shatters the myths they love to perpetuate.

An 18-year-old Naugatuck man was arrested after police found an untraceable handgun with an extended magazine during a search in Bridgeport.

Detectives received information that 18-year-old Dan Muzemboko Yale of Naugatuck was potentially in possession of an illegal handgun in the week of February 18th, according to the police department.

Search-and-seizure warrants were obtained for a residence in Naugatuck, along with a vehicle and Yale himself.

Yale has been charged with carrying a pistol or revolver without a permit, weapons in a vehicle, possession of a firearm without a serial number, and possession of a high-capacity magazine.

Now, for once, it seems that the person in question isn't a convicted felon. Then again, because he's just 18, it's likely he hasn't had time. I'd love to see his juvenile record. I could use some material to read that'll take up the whole weekend, and I bet this would fit the bill.

Still, even with that, let's look at these laws he broke, including one he probably should have been charged with, but is likely to get away with.

See, at just 18, he can't lawfully buy a gun in the first place. Wherever he got the gun in question--and calling it "untraceable" means it was either privately made or it just has the serial number rendered unreadable, so we know nothing about its origin--he's too young to h ave bought it lawfully. That means he obtained it unlawfully. Connecticut has universal background checks, so there's no lawful avenue for Yale to have obtained the gun.

He had no permit to carry it, despite claims that permits are essential to keep criminals from carrying a gun. It was untraceable, and Connecticut has a law against those. He had a "high-capacity magazine," despite the laws against those.

At every level, every law created to keep someone like Yale disarmed apparently failed to do any such thing.

It's unlikely that someone from Naugatuck, a town of about 30,000 people, is somehow a gifted criminal able to obtain what no one else can, at the tender age of just 18, either. It's more likely he's just one of many who happened to get caught and nothing else.

Which means there are so many more people like this (allegedly) running around that town, to say nothing of the entire state of Connecticut, and the gun laws have managed to do absolutely nothing at all.

As per usual.

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