Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals is, in a sense, a guidepost for leftists agitators world-wide.

It can be used to great effect by activists supporting Second Amendment rights as well.

Nobody needed to tell that to Connecticut gun owners after their governor signed an onerous gun control package following Sandy Hook.

The good guys there have used several of Alinsky’s rules against gun grabbers to great effect, including:

• “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.
• “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
• “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
• “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones.

How did they do it?

Read on, Grasshopper:

(Bridgeport Connecticut Post) – Someone in Connecticut owns 179 assault rifles, but if he’s your neighbor, you may never know.

Another state resident has 175 of the semi-automatic rifles that can fire 30 rounds in 15 seconds, like the gun Adam Lanza used to kill 20 first graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

A third firearms enthusiast keeps nearly 544,000 high-capacity magazines.

In fact, according to a Hearst Connecticut Media investigation into registration records, there were 51,763 assault weapons in private hands statewide at the end of August — enough to equip an army. In addition, 40,491 residents filed paperwork showing they owned ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 bullets.

It doesn’t cost anything to register gun and magazines in Connecticut following enactment of their do-nothing bill.

Do you really think someone in Connecticut has 179 semi-automatic rifles covered by the bill?  Doubtful, but perhaps.  It certainly increases the anxiety of gun-hating useful idiots who bitterly cling to their notion that gun ownership by the law-abiding is a danger to them and society.

Someone owning 544,000 magazines?  Make them enter data for 544,000 magazines then enjoy a laugh while ridiculing the government bureaucrats scratching their heads, asking themselves “We gotta make how many entries?”

Yeah, right.  Pretty sure not even manufacturers maintain that quantity.  A private individual?  Yeah.

A good tactic is one people enjoy, Alinsky wrote.

Indeed.  Trolling is satisfying and Connecticut gun owners are doing it well.

Best of all, they hoodwinked the not-so-useful idiots in the mainstream media at the Connecticut Post.

Let’s look at the records:  40,000 plus residents have full-cap magazines covered by the law.  But there are only 51,000 scary guns registered.  Hmmm.  Those numbers don’t add up.  At first glance, I’d say there are MANY unregistered guns floating around Connecticut.  Then again, New York State’s registration numbers suggest that only a tiny percentage of guns were registered.