Cop Censors Gun Activist

In addtion to banning guns on premises, DESPP headquarters is also evidently a First Amendment-free zone.

Gun owners waiting in line to register guns and magazines in compliance with a new CT  law.

 

Outrageous story from The Gun Examiner,

An officer of a Constitution State gun rights group says he was ordered Tuesday morning to stop passing out business cards to gun owners waiting in line to register guns and magazines in compliance with a new state law. Lenny Benedetto, a founding member and Vice President of the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, says he was threatened with arrest outside the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection in Middletown if he continued inviting those in the queue to learn more about his organization and how they could join and support the group’s lawsuit against the new law.

I got there around 8:30 this morning and during the time I was there handed out over 400 CCDL cards to people on the sidewalk waiting to enter the building. I also talked to them and told them about our group, why it was important to join, and especially about and our commitment to fighting the new law in court,” Benedetto told Gun Rights Examiner in a telephone interview this afternoon. “After about three hours, a State Police officer emerged from the building and approached me.

That officer, Benedetto says was “Lt. Cooke.”

This columnist checked the DESPP personnel directory and found a Lt. Eric A. Cooke, identified in media reports as Commanding Officer for Special Licensing and Firearms with the Connecticut State Police. Benedetto confirmed this was the same officer.

“Lt. Cooke walked up to me and told me what I was doing was considered solicitation, and that I could not solicit on state property, which the sidewalk was on,” Benedetto claimed.”He also told me I could not approach people in the parking lot, either.
Source: http://www.examiner.com/article/police-forbid-connecticut-gun-activist-from-soliciting-on-despp-grounds

So the Black Panthers can stand outside polling places, with baseball bats, shouting epithets, yet a peaceful American can’t pass cards on a sidewalk his taxes paid for? Constitution State my ass.

 

 

 

 

2 Responses to Cop Censors Gun Activist

    • I tend to respect the sanctity of people’s homes. But maybe a protest outside of where he works is a better idea, and far more embarrassing.

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