It’s looking more and more like Connecticut residents are refusing to register their guns under the state’s restrictive new laws. So far, around 50,000 firearms that are now legally classified as “assault weapons” have been registered in the state ahead of the December 31, 2013 deadline.
However, according to Dan Haar over at The Courant, the numbers of unregistered firearms might be pretty staggering,
That 50,000 figure could be as little as 15 percent of the rifles classified as assault weapons owned by Connecticut residents, according to estimates by people in the industry, including the Newtown-based National Shooting Sports Foundation. No one has anything close to definitive figures, but the most conservative estimates place the number of unregistered assault weapons well above 50,000, and perhaps as high as 350,000.
And that means as of Jan. 1, Connecticut has very likely created tens of thousands of newly minted criminals —…
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