Please check this out and do NOT take my word for it, as I really know nothing about CT law.
I had a Microsoft conference in NYC a couple of years ago and Hoffman's in CT had AR15 frames for a good price, so I had planned on stopping there on the way back home to pick one up.
I called first to make sure that they had them in stock. What I learned was the following:
- If you have no CT CCW, there is a 2 week waiting period. I would have had to drive back there 2 weeks later to pick it up. No thanks, not worth it.
- When I'm told this sort of stuff, I ask "what if" I find a C&R in their shop since I have a C&R FFL. I was told that even with a C&R FFL, unless I had a CT CCW, I face a 2 week waiting period for ANY transaction (pistol or rifle).
So, extrapolating the above and merging it with your question . . . I guess that nobody can ship a C&R gun to a CT resident (even with a C&R FFL) because they can't (or not allowed to) verify a CT CCW and no mechanism in place for invoking 2 week waiting periods.
Sounds a lot like MA, doesn't it?
Bottom line, I didn't bother stopping at Hoffman's and will probably never attend another CT gun show either.