Imagine banning cars because someone made an aftermarket part that allowed them to do something the designers didn't intend. Let's say it allowed the car to, I don't know, go a whole lot faster than is safe and reach those speeds faster than most people can handle. Would lawmakers outlaw it? Since that kind of exists and they haven't, we know the answer.
But Connecticut views Glocks and similar firearms very differently.
The state's anti-gun sensibilities, or lack thereof, are so strong that lawmakers there did the most ridiculous thing they could have done. They just passed a Glock ban.
A bill that would ban certain Glock-style pistols from being sold in Connecticut cleared a final legislative hurdle as lawmakers’ session neared its end.
The bill was approved in the state Senate early Wednesday morning.
It had already passed in the House.
The bill, labeled HB 5043, now heads to Gov. Ned Lamont’s desk for his signature.
Advocates argued that bullets can be fired nearly three times faster when a switch gets added to a Glock-style gun.
Democrats said the bill addresses a public safety issue.
“I think we’re looking at new forms of gun violence that are causing cities and communities to be less safe and learning what’s working around the country,” said Sen. Matt Lesser, Democrat from the state’s 9th District.
Similar legislation exists in California, New York, and Illinois.
Keep in mind that the auto-sears that have supposedly warranted this ban are already illegal. They're banned under the National Firearms Act, which means they're not lawful for purchase without jumping through those relevant hoops; only, since they weren't invented until after 1986, they're illegal for pretty much everyone.
Lawmakers know that.
But because criminals found a way to get them or make them without any concern for the law, rather than focus on the criminality itself, Connecticut lawmakers opted to ban one of the most popular categories of semi-automatic handguns in the country.
And for what? It's not like criminals aren't going to get these guns just the same. Hell, they can't lawfully own firearms in the first place most of the time, and they still get them. Getting Glocks despite the ban will be trivial for them. They'll also get switches--which, again, are banned throughout the nation--and continue as they have been.
All they've done in Connecticut is ban an affordable, reliable type of firearm.
Which doesn't bother these anti-gun snotweasels in the least.
Unfortunately for everyone in the state, this was the last hurdle. The bill now goes to the governor, who, I have no doubt, is eager to sign it, and then everyone in Connecticut gets hosed.
What will follow are the inevitable lawsuits to challenge the law, and a court decision telling everyone who voted for this that they should go back and read the Constitution.
Well, it won't be in those words, but any reasonable court decision will boil down to that to some degree or another. Unfortunately, it'll just be followed by them trying to worm around whatever parameters are left to them.
And Connecticut might not be the first state to do it, but they won't be the last either, unless they're stopped.
Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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