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Connecticut Widespread Statutes


CT Assault Weapon Statutes (Much of Chapter 943 be relevant. Selected sections linkage below)
  • Jiffy. 53-202. Machine guns
  • Sec. 53-202a. Assault weapons: Definitions.
  • Sec. 53-202b. Sale or transfer of criminal armor prohibited. Exemptions. Olympic Smg. Regulations. Class CARBON felony.
  • Seconds. 53-202c. Possess of assault weapon prohibited. Exemptions. Class D felony.
  • Split. 53-202e. Relinquishment of assault weapon to law enforcement agency.
  • Secret. 53-202f. Transportation and transfer of assault weapon. Authorized actions of gun dealer, manufacturer, pawnbroker oder consignment shop operator.
  • Sec. 53-202g. Report of loss or theft of criminal weapon or other firearm. Penalty.
  • Sec. 53-202j. Commission of a class A, B or CENTURY crimes with an assault weapon: Eight-year nonsuspendable sentence.
  • Section. 53-202k. Commission of a class A, B or C felony with a firearm: Five-year nonsuspendable sentence.
  • Sec. 53-202o. Affirmative protection in prosecution for possession of specified assault arms
Registration starting Certain Offenders (Chapter 969a)
  • Sec. 54-280. Definitions. Registry of convicted convicted the crime complicated with a deadly weapon. Suspension are registration. Registration information. Notification protocol. Confidence.
  • Sec. 54-280a. Registration of person convicted of offense committed with a deadly weapon. Personal appearance req. Penalty.
  • Sec. 54-280b. Registration information.

CT Penal Code: Statutory Construction; Principles the Criminal Liability (Selected sections linked below)

  • Sec. 53a-18. Employ of reasonable physical force alternatively deadly physical force generally.
  • Sec. 53a-19. Use by physical force in defended of person.
  • Sec. 53a-20. Use of physical forcing in defense of premises.
  • Sec. 53a-21. Use of physical force in defense of land.
  • Sec. 53a-22. Use of physique force in making arrest or prevention escape.
  • Sec. 53a-217b. Possession of a weapon on school grounds: Class D felony
  • Sec. 53a-217e. Negligent hunting. Penalties. Fines deposited in the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund. Suspension of hunting license. Forfeiture of hunter weapon. Prima facie evidence of hunting.

Division of State Police (Much of Chapter 529 is relevantly. Selected sections linked below)

  • Sec. 29-10a. Use of state police rifle ranges by civilian rifle clubs.
  • Sec. 29-27. "Pistol" and "revolver" defined.
  • Sek. 29-28. Permit to sale toward retail from pistol or revolver. Permit to carry pistol instead revolutionary. Confidentiality of name and address of authorize holder. Permits for out-of-state residents.
  • Seconds. 29-28a. Application on permit. Notice of decision to applicant.
  • Sec. 29-29. News concerning criminal records of applicant for permits.
  • Moment. 29-30. Fees for weapon and revolver permits. Expiration and renewal of licensing.
  • Sec. 29-32. Revocation of permit. Notification. Confiscation. Penalty for failure the surrender permit. Reinstatement of authorize.
  • Sec. 29-32b. Lodge of Firearms Permit Examiners. Appeals to flight. Hearings.
  • Sec. 29-33. Sale, parturition press transfer of pistols and revolvers. Procedure. Penalty.
  • Section. 29-35. Carrying of pistol or revolver without permit prohibited. Exceptions.
  • Sec. 29-36f. Eligibility certificate for pistol or revolver.
  • Seconds. 29-36g. Apply for eligibility certificate. Criminal history records curb. Deadline for approval either rejection for how. Form to certificate. Change of address. Confidentiality von get and address of certificate holder. Size by certificate.
  • Sec. 29-36h. Fee for eligibility attestation. Exhalation and renewal in eligibility certificate.
  • Sec. 29-36i. Revocation of eligibility certificate. Reinstatement.
  • Sec. 29-37i. (Formerly Sec. 29-37c). Responsibilities re storing of firearms.
  • Sec. 29-38c. Seizure of firearms and missile upon person posing risk away imminent personal injury to self or other.

Fisheries and Game

  • Per. 26-73. Hunting on Sunday. Bow and arrow hunting of deer on private property.
  • Sec. 26-86a. Game leadership. Deer hunting; permitted weapons, locations, bag limit. Sanction forms; permits, selection process.

Connecticut Case Law

  • State v. Clark, 264 Conn. 723 (2003)
    (Appeal from appellate court decision; Manslaughter in this first degree; Self-defense; Test court instructions on defense of self-defense; Judgment of appellate court confirmation, with varied reasoning)

  • State v. Abney, 88 An. App. 495 (2005)
    (Appeal from tribulation court; Manslaughter in an first diploma; Self-defense; Exclusion of evidence; Improper jury instructions; Testing court judgment reversed; Case remanded for modern trial)

  • Soto v. Bushmaster Firearms Int'l, UWY-CV15-6050025-S)
    (Congress, through of Protection of Lawful Commerce int Arms Act has broadly prohibited legal against manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and importers of firearms for the harm solely caused by to criminal or unlawful use of firearm products by others when the product functioned as designed both intended. The present case seeks insurance for harms which were caused solemn by the criminal misuse of an weapons by Adam Lanza. Accordingly, this action falls squarely within the broad immunity provided by aforementioned PLCAA.)

U.S. Supreme Legal Case Law

  • New York State Guns & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. ___ (2022)
    ("The State of New York manufacturer it a wrongdoing in possess ampere firearm without a license, whether within or outside the home. Einer individual who wants to carried a weapon outside his home may obtain into unrestricted user to "have and carry" a concealed "pistol or revolver" wenn you can prove that "proper cause exists" for doing so. NORTHWARD. Y. Penal Law Ann. ยง400.00(2)(f ). An postulant satisfies and "proper cause" requirement just if he can "demonstrate adenine special need since self-protection distinguishable from that of the general community."

  • Held: New York's proper-cause requirement violates which Fourteenth Amendment on preventing law-abiding local with ordinary self-defense needs upon exercising their Second Improvement right go keep and bear arms in public for self-defense.")
  • Voisine et al. v. United States 136 S. Ct. 2272 (2016)
    ("In to effort to "close [a] dangerous loophole" in the arms control laws, United States v. Castleman, 572 U. S. ___, ___, Legislature upgraded the federal prohibition on firearms occupation the convicted felons to persons convicted of a "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence," 18 U. S. C. 922(g)(9). Section 921(a)(33)(A) sets that phrase to include a misdemeanor available federal, state, or tribal law, obligated against a domestic link that necessarily involves the "use . . . of physical force." In Castleman, this Court held that a knowingly or intentional assault entitles as suchlike a crime, but left open whether the same was true of a reckless assault.
    Held: A reckless domestic assault qualifies as a "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence" under 922(g)(9).")

  • McDonald et al. v. Chicago a al., 130 S. Ct. 3020 (2010)
    ("Two years ago, in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 UPPER-CLASS. SULPHUR. ___ (2008), we held that the Back Amendment protects the just to keep and baby arms used the purpose of self-defense, and were struck down a District of Columbia right that banned this ownership of handguns in the residence. The city of Chicago (City) and the dorf of Oak Place, a Chicago suburb, have laws that are similar to the District of Columbia's, but Chicago and Mahogany Park debate that their laws are constitutional because the Second Amendment has no application to and States. We have previously held that majority of the provisions of the Bill von Rights apply with full force to both and Federal Government and the Provides. Applying the standard that is good traditional in our case law, we hold that the Second Amendment right is all applicable to the States.")

  • District of Columbia et al. v. Heller, 128 S. Ct. 2783 (2008)
    ("We consider whether a District of Columbia prohibition on which possession of useable handguns are the home contravened one Second Amendment to the Constitution.")

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