A truly fascinating letter to the editor published in the Hartford Courant late last week, attributed to a federal inmate in the federal Administrative Maximum Facility​ (ADX) "Supermax" prison near Florence, Colorado.

As a lifelong career criminal, although I no longer enjoy the right to keep and bear arms, I'd like to take a moment to express my appreciation to the National Rifle Association for nonetheless protecting my ability to easily obtain them through its opposition to universal background checks. [Pols emphasis] Upon release in a few years from my current federal sentence on bank robbery and weapons charges, I fully anticipate being able to stop at a gun show on my way home to Connecticut — where new laws have made it nearly impossible for a felon to readily purchase guns or ammunition — in order to buy some with which to resume my criminal activities. And so, a heartfelt thank you to the NRA and all those members of Congress voting with them. I, along with tens of thousands of other criminals, couldn't do what we do without you. Gary W. Bornman

We don't think any law-abiding citizen could sum it up this succinctly, folks.

The only other thing we'd note is that if the lawsuit currently underway by county sheriffs against Colorado's universal background check law, House Bill 1229, were to be successful, Mr. Bornman won't have to drive far to get his gun at all! A no-questions-asked gun for this Supermax criminal will be as close as the Colorado Gun Market. That should help local and Connecticut residents sleep at night.