Connecticut pistol micro-stamping update

The Connecticut Joint Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing yesterday concerning SB 353, an Act Concerning the Microstamping of Semiautomatic Pistols. Here is an update from the National Rifle Association. A strong showing of law-abiding gun owners spoke loudly yesterday in Hartford at the hearing on Senate Bill 353, a bill which would ban…

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More than 50% there. Update: 100% there.

Update: The show was taped on Thursday, and while he told Fox 61 he would not announce Sunday, he must have had a change of heart.  As of 10:35 Sunday night … the Courant is reporting that the AP is reporting that Simmons decided to jump into the race … apparently while watching the show? …

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Dodd … Stand By Your Friends

Chris Dodd is coming out but the answers still ring hollow. Connecticut’s senior senator tells Channel 3’s Dennis House: Hey, Countrywide’s Robert Feinberg’s lying … no sweetheart mortgage deal No I will not release my mortgage papers … everyone already saw em … for a day The Irish cottage thing … hey the appraisal said…

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Memo to Catholics: Game Not Over

(Posted by Tom Hynes) The outcry from Catholics all across the county at the Democrats thinly veiled attempt to reorganize the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Connecticut continues to produce blow back. Rep. Michael Lawlor (D-East Haven) and Sen. Andrew McDonald (D-Stamford) have been quickly trying to distance themselves from a bill and lay…

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Connecticut Tea Party – Update

UPDATE: I am an idiot. The credit for this protest, if it were not made plain, lies with the RVO chat room and most especially, I think, Rick from West Hartford. I say I think because I really am not the force behind this today. Rick is and his com-padres who put this together. Without…

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Dodd-Simmons: Game On?

Here’s the headline from the JI:  Simmons weighs run for Senate And about time. Dodd’s vulnerable … his tenure alone makes him vulnerable. Add to that his reluctance to come clean on his mortgages and his stunning lack of leadership at best and complicity at worst during the mortgage meltdown makes him a liability as…

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