New Canaan, CT Police to stop issuing pistol permits

Mr Weebles · Jan 9, 2015

The New Canaan Police have suspended issuing temporary state pistol permits until the state makes it easier to find out if an applicant has a history of mental illness. A flaw in the application process compromises public safety, Chief Leon Krolikowski said on Thursday, Jan. 8.

“We are gravely concerned about the gun violence that has occurred in our state as the direct result of individuals that are mentally ill possessing firearms,” Krolikowski said. “As such, until the local authority is provided access to the VATS database, the New Canaan Police Department will suspend issuing temporary state permits; this is a very real public safety issue.”

BFYTW.

Hoover · Jan 9, 2015

Yeah chief because those nuts who shoot people go to daddy .gov to get a license first. What an asshat.

knoxy · Jan 9, 2015

So, all citizens are considered crazy until "proven" sane by the state?

atilla · Jan 9, 2015

lawsuit in 3, 2, 1...

(at least there better be)

not new guy · Jan 9, 2015

So did this cocksucker Leon Krolikowski not have to take an oath when he was sworn?

StevieP · Jan 9, 2015

“We are gravely concerned about the gun violence that has occurred in our state as the direct result of individuals that are mentally ill possessing firearms,”.....

individualS or AN individual (Adam Lanza) who stole his guns from his presumably NOT mentally ill mother.

SpaceCritter · Jan 9, 2015

atilla said:
lawsuit in 3, 2, 1...

(at least there better be)

The question is, is there a 2nd-friendly enough judge to issue a writ of mandamus?

Ringworm · Jan 9, 2015

WTF is a "temporary license"? What's with a 60-day license?

jho · Jan 9, 2015

knoxy said:
So, all citizens are considered crazy until "proven" sane by the state?

apparently so. There is no standard for sanity. I hope he gets booted.

bostonasphalt2 · Jan 9, 2015

Someone needs to go apply, get denied, and promptly pull out their cell phone and request a meeting with an attorney.

SpaceCritter · Jan 9, 2015

Ringworm said:
WTF is a "temporary license"? What's with a 60-day license?

That's how it works in Connecticut: you get a locally issued permit first, then with it in hand, apply for the state permit. In smaller towns, the First Selectman signs off on these.

shipwreck · Jan 9, 2015

Liberal CT being liberal CT. New Canaan is a breeding ground.

shipwreck - DTOM

cockpitbob · Jan 9, 2015

New Canaan is a very, very wealthy town. It's hard to find a house there that costs less than $1M. I'm suprised the cheif feels it's necessary and I'm suprised his wealthy subjects put up with it.

SpaceCritter · Jan 9, 2015

He changed his mind:
http://www.ncadvertiser.com/42839/ncpd-resume-issuing-pistol-permits/

invaliduser · Jan 9, 2015

SpaceCritter said:
He changed his mind:
http://www.ncadvertiser.com/42839/ncpd-resume-issuing-pistol-permits/

Krolikowski said he learned that his police department can check on the applicant’s mental health history through the state police department — something that apparently many local chiefs did not know. So, he said, he feels he helped bring this issue to the forefront and helped other police departments learn about what’s available to him.

Idiots.

SpaceCritter · Jan 9, 2015

invaliduser said:
Krolikowski said he learned that his police department can check on the applicant’s mental health history through the state police department — something that apparently many local chiefs did not know. So, he said, he feels he helped bring this issue to the forefront and helped other police departments learn about what’s available to him.

Idiots.

I could be completely wrong, of course, but it would not surprise me to learn that he was trying to pull a fast one (perhaps under guidance of certain political "leadership") and was promptly told, if you do this, expect to go to court and expect to lose.

cockpitbob · Jan 9, 2015

SpaceCritter said:
I could be completely wrong, of course, but it would not surprise me to learn that he was trying to pull a fast one (perhaps under guidance of certain political "leadership") and was promptly told, if you do this, expect to go to court and expect to lose.

Wouldn't suprise me. That is an enormously wealthy town with lots of rich lawyers living there. They aren't used to being pushed around and have the money to push back.

Dadstoys · Jan 9, 2015

I would say the course correction might have had more to do with a tidal wave of shit he saw bearing down on him than anything else.

Dean Crawford · Jan 9, 2015

Isn't CT “ The Constitution State” so apparently that is just a slogan,

Dean

cekim · Jan 9, 2015

Dean Crawford said:
Isn't CT “ The Constitution State” so apparently that is just a slogan,

Dean

sort of like Obama is a "Constitutional Scholar".

It is easier to destroy something if you study it in detail and find its weaknesses.

cockpitbob · Jan 9, 2015

Dean Crawford said:
Isn't CT “ The Constitution State” so apparently that is just a slogan,

Dean

More true than you know. The license plates say Constitution State, but hystorically it's The Nutmeg State. In 1958 they voted to make it the Constitution State, but for about 2 centuries before that it was the Nutmeg State. It gets better. Nutmeg comes from the East Indies, not CT. Much of the nutmeg sold by the yankee peddlers were counterfit wooden nutmegs.

SpaceCritter · Jan 9, 2015

cockpitbob said:
More true than you know. The license plates say Constitution State, but hystorically it's The Nutmeg State. In 1958 they voted to make it the Constitution State, but for about 2 centuries before that it was the Nutmeg State. It gets better. Nutmeg comes from the East Indies, not CT. Much of the nutmeg sold by the yankee peddlers were counterfit wooden nutmegs.

IIRC, CT became the "nutmeg state" by way of enacting the first consumer protection laws, forbidding the passing off of balls of wood as nutmeg.

"Constitution State" derives from the "Connecticut Compromise."

The5thDentist · Jan 9, 2015

Another measure that wouldn't have prevented anything.

Lank · Jan 9, 2015

CT sucks ass like ALL leftivist states

swatgig · Jan 9, 2015

cockpitbob said:
Much of the nutmeg sold by the yankee peddlers were counterfit wooden nutmegs.

So they went from counterfeit nutmeg to counterfeit constitution.

M1911 · Jan 9, 2015

SpaceCritter said:
I could be completely wrong, of course, but it would not surprise me to learn that he was trying to pull a fast one (perhaps under guidance of certain political "leadership") and was promptly told, if you do this, expect to go to court and expect to lose.

It wouldn't surprise me if Town Counsel had a conversation with the chief. I'm sure it was a very polite conversation that, in lawyer speak, went something along the lines of "WTF do you think you are doing you moron?"

bullseye · Jan 10, 2015

Yup, voting will cure it. When will you folks get it right, just kill the ****ers!

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Muzzies do it, must be the way to go, latest fashion statement.

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Okay, try the vote again in 16.

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Don't kill em yet.

New Canaan, CT Police to stop issuing pistol permits

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