average shooter, you can't take your handguns out of your home without a permit...period. Locking them in the truck will get you arrested as quick as having it loaded and on your person without a permit
I did not check on the legal validity of this, but people always act like I am overly distrusting and skeptical of new "privilidges" for existing rights. It has been my opinion that carry permits will slowly be restricted more and more, from the locations they are valid, to where carrying even with one is not, to the price, procedures etc of obtaining one. That essentialy the new "privilidge" once it is common place will take the route of legal carry a little over a century ago. When carry went from legal in general, to slowly being restricted first from taverns and similar places slowly expanding to eventualy encompass towns and later society in general many places.
The worst part is though unlike then, the excercise of this same action today requires first documenting yourself on record as being one wishing to excercise this "privilidge". You must essentialy register yourself as a "gun extremist", or someone that keeps and carries for non sporting purposes
So if this is accurate carry permits have actualy hurt gun rights in CT. Sure you currently enjoy more "privilidges" with it now, but you lost some of your rights to get them. Trading rights for privilidges, yet many cheer that it is a success while it is being done. Privilidges can be taken away like this incident has reminded you of, much easier than a right.
It is almost ingenious in how it plays out. First require everyone to register to gain some additional privilidges. Then restrict those privilidges over time. Prior to severely restricting them though make people who have not registered to gain those privilidges find it necessary to register because thier rights as a non permit holder are increasingly dwindling.
Soon all serious legal owners are registered and paying fees to be registered, and eventualy will retain few additional rights from what an unregistered person had a couple generations prior.
I could not think of a better way to gradualy remove arms from a people that have so stubbornly refused to join the modern world and restrict or outlaw them
It will get everyone slowly accepting the government has the authority and moral and legal right to control ownership, and the old mindset can slowly be phased out. The criteria can later be changed, fees can be increased, renewal requirements strengthened and the noose can be tightened on legal ownership, transport, practice etc. By that time of course the only legal possession or use of an arm will be with a carry permit.
Great job you got yourself a FOID/FID system without ever seeing it coming. You can now join IL, MA, and NJ (did I miss any?) in requiring a license to excercise a right. The main difference is of course you never realized it was happening at the time.
All of it done in a way that does not require a head on battle between pro and anti groups. The right can just slowly fade away...
