No Gun Restriction/Law Can Prevent This, None!

No gun law can prevent a motivated and law-ignoring person from getting a firearm, even if they make it from junk yard parts. 

[UPDATE: more details in this article.]

[UPDATE2: It turns out the teen has been making such guns "for years" according to this WFSB report.]

It is said, when there is a will, there is a way and that is proven throughout history. Yet, for some reason, the gun restrictionist lobby, which professes to want to get ILLEGAL handguns off the street, does not seem to appreciate this. 

Look no further than New Haven where police arrested three teens in connection with a couple of recent robberies, one of whom was in possession of a homemade “zip gun.” For those unfamiliar with "zip guns" they are crude devices usually made from a piece of pipe the approximate diameter of a bullet, a improvised firing pin (usually a nail) and some sort of spring mechanism to push the pin into the cartridge's primer to discharge the round. Usually only seen in old prison-related film noir, they are not usually seen in the real-world. This is in large part due to the danger they pose not only to the potential target, but also to the shooter, who is at risk of the entire contraption blowing up in his hand due to high discharge pressures and bad design/parts. Well, not usually seen unless some folk are REALLY desperate to have something that goes "bang" and can discharge a projectile. 

Back to the New Haven teens, after interviewing them, NHPD searched the home of another juvenile who was the actual maker of the zip gun, and recovered another assembled gun, a partially assembled gun and components intended for assembly. That individual told police he had made and sold more than a dozen of the improvised weapons.

So how well did our new CT gun law stop these enterprising law-ignoring entrepreneurs? Let see how many laws they may have broken/ignored:

• Illegal assembly of firearms
• Illegal possession of firearms
• Illegal transport of firearms
• Illegal sale/transfer of firearms