Month: February 2017

Public Hearing On Increased Pistol Permits

CCDL/NRA-ILA/NSSF Joint Press Conference to address the potential Impact on Pistol Permit Holders (250,000+) via Governor Malloy’s Budget Proposal 2017 Facilitating this Event will be State Rep Rob Sampson and State Rep Doug Dubitsky and other Legislators who support the 2 nd Amendment February 17 th , 2017 Connecticut Legislative Office Building 300 Capitol Ave Hartford, CT06106 (Room 1C 11: 00am To address the potential financial Impact on Pistol Permit Holders (250,000+) via Governor Malloy’s Budget Proposal About This Event: The Connecticut Citizens Defense League, National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action and the National Shooting Sports Foundation will present information that counters Governor Malloy’s claims of increased revenue streams outlined in his 2017 budget proposal. This proposal includes the…

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Democrats Call For More E-Mail Protections

Washington, DC – Today the House passed the Email Privacy Act, a bipartisan bill led by New Dem Vice-Chairs Jared Polis (CO-02) and Suzan DelBene (WA-01). This bipartisan bill, highlighted in the New Democrat Coalition Prosperity Agenda: Winning the Future, modernizes America’s digital privacy laws by establishing protections against warrantless searches of private emails. All present New Dem Members supported this bill which was co-sponsored New Dem Chair Jim Himes, New Dem Vice-Chair Derek Kilmer, and New Dem Members Tony Cardenas, Gerry Connolly, Annie Kuster, Kathleen Rice, and Cedric Richmond.   The Email Privacy Act would update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) so that all government agencies must obtain a warrant to search Americans’ online communications. Previously, under ECPA,…

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Westport News: Conspiracy to Commit Larceny 6 th degree

#Westport Connecticut--In October of 2016, Westport Officers were dispatched to CVS Pharmacy, 397 Post Road East, on a report of a Larceny. A witness observed a male leave the store with 2 or 3 boxes of what looked to be expensive oral  roothbrushes. The male then got into the passenger side of a vehicle which then drove out of the back of the lot. The witness found this suspicious so she wrote down the license plate of the suspect’s vehicle. The witness also noticed a female driving the suspect vehicle. Upon reviewing the surveillance footage, Officers observed the suspect, Nabeel Abdallah, take several boxes out of the store without paying. Based on the information gained from the license plate, the…

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Congressman Introduces Darwin Day

Congressman Jim Himes (CT-04) introduced a bill to commemorate the 208th anniversary of the birthday of Charles Darwin on February 12, 2017 and made the accompanying statement:   In celebrating Darwin, the bill highlights the human curiosity and ingenuity he exemplified that has promoted new scientific discoveries that have helped humanity solve many problems and improve living conditions. The bill also warns that the advancement of science must be protected from those unconcerned with the adverse impacts of global warming and climate change, and that the teaching of creationism in some public schools compromises the scientific and academic integrity of the United States education systems.   “The efforts to understand our world and our universe through science are at the…

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