If you own a gun in this state your name and address could become public under a bill introduced in the General Assembly by State Rep. Stephen D. Dargan, D-West Haven.
Dargan filed the proposal in response to the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown that killed 20 children and 6 women on Dec. 14. His proposal would overturn a law passed in Connecticut 20 years ago that keeps private the names and addresses of gun owners.
In an interview with the Hartford Courant, Dargan said he wants gun ownership information to fall under the state's Freedom of Information Act in part so that parents can know whether the parents of their child's friends have guns in their homes.
"Maybe their kids are going over to Johnny Smith's, and maybe they want to see whether they have guns in the house," he told the newspaper.
Dargan's proposal follows another bill that was filed recently that seeks to limit who can own gun ammunition in Connecticut and to keep such ammunition out of the hands of felons. Gun control issues are expected to dominate the General Assembly's winter session, which formally begins next week, in the wake of the Newtown massacre.
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Just open the door so the psyco's can start robbing these residences for these guns, real smart of you Mr Dargan. It was such a tragic event I do know someone that lost a precious 6 yr old love one in Sandy Hook. Printing names and all won't resolve nothing.
If this is true, (and, again, this is just from reading many comments and articles), why would it be so bad for the public or adjacent neighbors to know that guns were in this or that home? Wouldn't it be best for the community to be armed against intruders (assuming gun owners care about their fellows which I have no reason to believe they do not)? You might say, why don't they just get their own guns? But, if you had a lot of them, you can only shoot one to two at once while the neighbor could help by using their own number to defend the community. The methodology for knowing who has what, instead of printing this information in the paper (I find this unduly intrusive and somewhat offensive), could be a government (or whatever entity issues the permit for what) WEB site where looking up your neighbors would be strictly optional. That way, people who would want to be helpful would know and those that don't want to know or intrude would not.