So I spent about four hours with Mike V. today. Figured a gun show was a good excuse to get together, and he announced on his blog that he was helping a friend by manning his table at the Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center for the Alabama Gun Collectors Association gun show. First AGCA gun show I've been to, and the first one at the BJCC I've been to also. It was like shades of LA gun shows. By Alabama standards, or at least N. Bama standards, it was HUGE. Sprung for a couple ammo cans at the show. That was all this time.
Don't think I've mentioned Mike's "
Toys for Totalitarians" here before, but some of y'all may be interested in participating. The project started when he sent a 30-round mag to CO Gov. Hickenlooper after the ban on them went into effect there. His reason was two-fold; one, to show the guv. how easy it will be for subjects of his state to get
standard capacity mags if they want 'em, and two, he also put a call into the State Police to inform them that he had personal knowledge that they would find a 30-round mag in the guv's office after he got notified that the registered package had been delivered. Nothing but harassment to give the guv. a feel for what he has wrought upon his citizenry, but not illegal for Mike to send from AL to people in the occupied territories, so he has no retribution other than empty threats to worry about from engaging in it.
He rinsed and repeated it for guvs. of NY, MD, and CT, and most recently has included NJ in his mailings (letters and Toys for Totalitarians). As the project caught a little attention from his readers, two classes of "Toys" were designated - freedom-fighter grade and tyrant grade, one, a new or near-new mag in good working order, and the tyrant grade working just good enough to qualify as an ammo delivery mechanism into the chamber of whichever tyrannically-regulated firearm it was made for so as to make it illegal for the official to be in possession of, but not working good enough to be reliable as a good defensive piece of gear. So you'll find addresses to send either class of mags if you're interested in participating at the link. Why not add to the 2
million+ as-yet unregistered mags in CT, and wish a Brother or Sister Patriot will use them in good health?
So Mike, another friend of his and I sat around talking at the table for about four hours. From that conversation I can say that I believe the confiscations have begun in CT. I won't go into detail, because there's a write-up in the works, but State Police have already visited homes demanding entry in search of guns. A well-respected blogger in the gun-rights blogosphere will be publishing about it in the coming days, and I will link it immediately when I see it.
I asked Mike how he thought it was going to end in CT, and it was about what I would've said too. He's not optimistic, especially in light of the above-referenced info. As calm as it may seem at present, there is a powder-keg sitting in CT just waiting for one side or the other to light the fuse. I pray the fuse stays cold, but if it gets lit, doesn't matter which side lights it, CT is not big enough to contain the explosion.
Blues