UPI/Pete Marovich
WASHINGTON, April 7 (UPI) — Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy called National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre a circus clown Sunday.
The Democratic governor signed a sweeping new gun control measure into law Thursday in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in his state.
The tough legislation adds more than 100 firearms to the state’s assault-weapons ban, including the Bushmaster AR-15 semiautomatic rifle used by Sandy Hook Elementary School gunman Adam Lanza.
It also requires universal background checks for purchasers of all firearms and prohibits the sale and purchase of large-capacity ammunition magazines holding more than 10 bullets, or rounds, such as the 30-round magazines Lanza used.
LaPierre criticized the new law, saying only law-abiding gun owners, not criminals, will follow the new regulations.
“I think the problem with what Connecticut did is the criminals, the drug dealers, the people that are going to do horror and terror, they aren’t going to cooperate,” LaPierre said on Fox News. “I mean, all you’re doing is making the lawbooks bigger for the law-abiding people.”
In an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Malloy said he thinks LaPierre is “so out of whack, it’s unbelievable.”
“Wayne reminds me of the clowns at the circus — they get the most attention. That’s what he’s paid to do,” Malloy said.
“I can’t get on a plane, as the governor of the state of Connecticut, without somebody running a background check on me. Why should you be able to buy a gun? Or buy armor-piercing munitions? It doesn’t make any sense. He doesn’t make any sense,” he added. “What this is about is the ability of the gun industry to sell as many guns to as many people as possible — even if they’re deranged, mentally ill, a criminal background, they don’t care. They want to sell guns.”
Copyright 2013 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
Well the public servant shows his stupidity as normal – Colt arms has been manufacturing in your state for a hundred years – well stupid their moving to Texas with open arms and taking their 1.7 billion dollar economy with them – don’t think your people losing their jobs will vote for a moron like you again -opps your dumb enough to believe they will ?
Sounds like a politician don’t want to finish his term, he keeps this up he won’t be govenor this time next year guess why.
@ Peewee: you sound like an uneducated version of Todd Blodgett, the nazi whose thinly veiled threats are the bane of the Globe-Gazette’s web site. Go over there, will you? Stop polluting NIT with your facistic stupidity and act like a tough guy elsewhere.
the only way that I would ever support a requirement for background checks on all sales is if they were done like how they do it in Iowa now when you buy at a store. Why not require evryone that wants to purchase a gun to have a permit to purchase. You get the card after passing a background check and then when you buy a gun there is no instant NCIS check. that way the government does not know if or what you may or may not have purchased. If I was going to sell a gun to someone else as a private party to private party sale I sure would feel better knowing they had passed a background check. All I hear on the news is that they want to stop the straw purchases, well they are already illegal to do so what are they going for? Universal registration only has two pourpases. Tax them or take them.
@whitey-long guns don’t require a permit as they are used primarily for hunting. They do require a license to hunt with but I don’t think you want to go there as you would be putting a lot of cost into hunting licenses.
What can I say about a govenor that has to use name calling to further his agenda… The two posts below say it pretty good. But I think that bloomberg is a communist…
You and Bloomberg are buttheads.
Hey dumbass, they’re STILL GONNA GET THEM. Just like drugs. Pretty sure those are illegal in your state aren’t they? If Wayne is a circus clown then you are the monkey with the little hat.
That’s funny. You nailed it on the head though.