“You can either surrender the weapon to us, destroy the weapon, or sell it to a federal firearms licensee. After that date (January 1, 2014) that hasn’t been declared or register is banned and if you get caught, you’re going to get arrested." -- Michael Lawlor.

Readers will recall my on-going search for the KGB file of CT Governor Dannel Malloy's favorite firearm confiscation "czar" Michael Lawlor. See also: On "Nightcrawlers" and Treason; and The Depraved Indifference of the "Prison Commissar"; and Of anti-Catholic jihads and spitting on your heritage; not to mention my letter to the Russian ambassador.

Well now Lawlor is back in the news, courtesy of Pravda-on-the-Potomac: States look to gun-seizure law after mass killings

Michael Lawlor, Connecticut’s undersecretary for criminal justice planning and policy, believes the state’s gun-seizure law could have prevented the killings of 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary in December 2012, if police had been made aware that gunman Adam Lanza had mental-health problems and access to his mother’s legally owned guns. “That’s the kind of situation where you see the red flags and the warning signs are there, you do something about it,” Lawlor said. “In many shootings around the country, after the fact it’s clear that the warning signs were there.”

Gun rights advocates oppose gun-seizure laws, saying they allow police to take people’s firearms based only on allegations and before the gun owners can present their side of the story to a judge. They say they are concerned the laws violate constitutional rights.

“The government taking things away from people is never a good thing,” said Rich Burgess, president of the gun rights group Connecticut Carry. “They come take your stuff and give you 14 days for a hearing. Would anybody else be okay if they just came and took your car and gave you 14 days for a hearing?”

Rachel Baird, a Connecticut lawyer who has represented many gun owners, said one of the biggest problems with the state’s law is that police are abusing it. She said she has had eight clients whose guns were seized by police before the required warrants were obtained.

Of course Lawlor and his master Malloy don't have the collective sack to enforce the Intolerable Act that they passed which now has an 85% non-compliance rate. Malloy, it is said, crapped his pants when told he would have to open up prison camps with tents, barbed wire and towers to accommodate the estimated 100,000 new felons they created. Photoshops of camp gates with "Arbeit Macht Frei" over them and signs on the wire that say "Dannell Malloy Permanent Holiday Camp for CT Firearm Owners" are just not the kind of optics you want when you are desperately trying to get re-elected. The whispered orders have gone out to the CT State Police, "Don't enforce this law until at least after the election."

"What's wrong with holiday camps for gun owners?"

Obviously Malloy thinks letting his attack dog Lawlor bark for this old CT law is non-threatening to his re-election or he wouldn't have let him off his chain to do so. We'll see how this plays out as it gets toward November. Personally, I'm glad to see that the CT tyrants are cocky enough to keep the firearm issue in any form in front of the voters. We are still just one government stupidity away from civil war in Connecticut.