A18 Friday, March 25, 2016
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Remington remains right on target Meriden resident Remington Have gun, will travel. No, this is not about a Perry Lyman, son of David gunslinger, mob enforcer or and Debra Lyman, owners of The Blue Trail Range, drug-related drive-by “Home of Champishooter. It’s about a onship Shooters” in young man, a Meriden Wallingford. resident whose profiRemember Blue ciency with a .22 calTrail Range? When iber target rifle and certain parties tried an air rifle, and how to get it closed, TV he has used this honnews were all over est, legitimate skill Mike the place. When Blue to carve a niche for Roberts Trail won the case, himself in the college Woods not another word ranks of champion’n’ Water about the firing range ship shooters. or the honest, legal He is on the Ohio State University varsity rifle firearms owners who used it team that has made it into the could be found. One has to marvel at the top 8 of the NCAA Division I Championships for only the accomplishments this young second time, the first being marksman has made as a target shooter, especially when in 1991! The young man’s name you consider that he entered should be familiar, he is his first competition at the
Remington Lyman practices at Blue Trail Range in Wallingford in August 2013. | Dave Zajac / For The Citizen age of 3 (yes, you read that right) and has since won several local, state, national, and international awards. Remington Lyman was in-
strumental in forming rifle teams at both Roger Sherman Elementary and Thomas Edison Magnet schools in Meriden. Suffield Academy
Meanwhile, other important issues have come before legislative committees. The Judiciary Committee recently held a public hearing on temporary restraining order legislation that essentially requires someone who has a restraining order filed against them to surrender any firearms they possess. Framed by its proponents as a domestic violence measure, it is deeply flawed, thinly masking another brazen attempt for more overzealous gun control legislation. The bill does not provide
for any due process before any legally owned firearms must be surrendered, and could, in fact, be used by a domestic abuser to disarm his victim, taking away the best means of self defense they may have available. Temporary restraining orders can only be processed during workdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. You can’t get them on holidays or weekends, or after hours. Advancing this bill takes focus away from more effective risk warrants, which require an immediate hearing, can be processed
coaches Anna McCarthy and Brett Vianney talked Remington into attending the academy for his high school years. In his freshman year, Suffield Academy won the High School League championship. In his senior year, he signed a National Letter of Intent with Ohio State. In his sophomore year at OSU, Lyman earned NRA Second Team All-American honors in smallbore and air rifle, was selected to the College Rifle Coaches Association’s Second Team, and earned a berth on the USA Shooting Junior Men’s Team. The latter had him traveling to the World Cup in Granada, Spain. There, he placed 35th overall individuSee Roberts / Page A34
Sampson Further, this proposal does not include the governor’s restore the $140 million in layoffs, but does include a 10 promised funding to the state percent pay cut to legislators, hospitals that the governor and a reduction in legislative has held hostage – funds de- caucus budgets for a total of rived from partial reimburse- $400,000. There is precious little ments for hospitals’ Medicaid expenses and care to those time for action, as this session will adjourn on May 4. most in need. From Page A17
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24-hours a day, 365 days a year and can be acted on within 24 hours. Under a risk warrant, there is due process, and anyone posing a threat will be ordered to surrender their firearms. I spoke in opposition to this flawed proposal during the public hearing, and will vote against it in its current form if it is called for a vote. Another issue you may have heard of is the proposed “lockbox” amendment. After decades of sweeping funds from the Special Transportation Fund – the account used to fund highway, bridge and road projects – for other budget priorities, majority party leaders are now saying we need an amendment to the state constitution to protect you from them. In that, we are agreed! What we really need is responsible leadership and the courage to vote to make the tough decisions including what our state’s priorities should be. I don’t know about you but I have had enough gimmicks. Rep. Rob Sampson, R-80th District, represents Southington and Wolcott in the Connecticut General Assembly.