There has been a spike in state residents enrolling in gun safety classes, a prerequisite for a permit. (Can you blame them – they live in a state which unleashes convicts.) According to a recent federal action, they can expect to have their constitutional rights trammeled by the state. Assigned to U.S. District Judge Vanessa Bryant, the complaint alleges a pattern of abuses by Connecticut State Police (CSP) officials bent on frustrating citizens’ rights. It seeks class action status and injunctive relief for all those ensnared in CSP’s purported hostility to private gun ownership.
The allegations are serious enough without considering they’re coming from the inside. The plaintiff is M. Peter Kuck, a member of the Board of Firearms Examiners (BFE), the very body that decides appeals from citizens denied a permit. Kuck offers a unique glimpse inside a rebellious law enforcement bureaucracy that won’t respect the law.
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