This is insane. If this proposed law had been in effect previously, the Connecticut school shooters mother would have registered her clips and it would have changed nothing. As for this affecting criminals, it's unlikely. Can you imagine a criminal registering his guns or ammo magazines?
HARTFORD, CONN. (AP)
— Connecticut lawmakers announced a deal Monday on what they called
some of the toughest gun laws in the country that were proposed after
the December mass shooting in the state, including a ban on new
high-capacity ammunition magazines like the ones used in the massacre
that left 20 children and six educators dead.
The proposal also called for background checks for private gun sales
and a new registry for existing magazines that carry 10 or more bullets,
something of a compromise for parents of Newtown victims who had wanted
an outright ban on them, while legislators had proposed grandfathering
them into the law.
The package also creates what lawmakers said is the nation’s first
statewide dangerous weapon offender registry, immediate universal
background checks for all firearms sales and expansion of Connecticut’s
assault weapons ban.
“How will they register a magazine? It seems a little weird,” he said.
A new state-issued eligibility certificate would also be needed to
purchase any rifle, shotgun or ammunition under the legislation. To get
the certificate, a buyer would need to be fingerprinted, take a firearms
training course and undergo a national criminal background check and
involuntary commitment or voluntary admission check.
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