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Police had received 47,916 applications for "assault weapons certificates" and 21,000 incomplete applications as of Dec. 31, Lt. Paul Vance told The Courant.
At roughly 50,000 applications, officials estimate that as little as 15 percent of the covered semi-automatic rifles have actually been registered with the state. "No one has anything close to definitive figures, but the most conservative estimates place the number of unregistered assault weapons well above 50,000, and perhaps as high as 350,000," the report states.
Needless to say, officials and some lawmakers are stunned.
Due to the new gun control bill passed in April, likely at least 20,000 individual people - possibly as many as 100,000 - are now in direct violation of the law for refusing to register their guns. As we noted above, that act is now a Class D Felony.
Comment: The government sure are embarrassed over this one! They'd better hope she doesn't plan on a daring escape from her highly secure jail.