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Posted on 01/24/2017 6:52:07 AM PST by pabianice
The Massachusetts chapter of the National Rifle Association on Monday sued Governor Charlie Baker and Attorney General Maura Healey, contending the state’s ban on assault weapons is unlawful and should be declared “void and unenforceable.”
In a 33-page civil complaint filed in federal court in Boston, the Gun Owners’ Action League, along with several other plaintiffs, asserts the state’s definition of assault weapons is a “non-technical, entirely fabricated, and political term of uncertain definition and scope.”
The complaint, which also names the state’s public safety secretary and the State Police as defendants, maintains that the state’s ban illegally extends to the sale or possession of certain rifles, such as AR-15 and AK-47 models, that rank among the most popular in the country.
The lawsuit was in part prompted by Healey’s directive in July to toughen enforcement of the ban on so-called “copy-cat” firearms. The suit contends the directive “vastly expanded Massachusetts’ prohibition to ban an entire class of popular firearms commonly kept for lawful purposes.”
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They need to clone this suit and apply it to new york.
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Yeah, they had a law outlawing so-called ‘assault rifles’, which such legislation had them defined by certain features.
(h)AG Maura Healey arbitrarily decided that rifles WITHOUT such features were ‘copy cats’, and with no legislative amendment to the existing law, or any new law being put through the legislative bodies, just UP AND DECLARED THEM ILLEGAL.
This is pure tyranny. And if such a thing was left to stand, she could decide that revolvers, bolt actions, break-open single shot rifles, pistols, or cap-guns were also ‘copy cat assault rifles’.
In fact, she could decide that bags of miniature marshmallows were ‘copy cat assault rifles’ and ban those too.
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Hope it goes to SCOTUS and a precedent is set.
Yay for NRA!
Maura Healey is an Attorney General who considers it her right to invent the law as she goes along.
This is excellent news, but now it’s absolutely necessary that NRA/GOAL win.
Even worse, those of us who already own “copy cat” “assault weapons” actually, somehow, some way, committed a felony, by accident, without us or law enforcement or the state realizing. Luckily, Healey is foregoing prosecution of such dangerous felons, at least for the present. In her great mercy, of course.
It is the absolutely single worst example of bureaucratic lawmaking I have ever seen.
This act by the (h)AG was even worse than the Obamacare spontaneous lawmaking (after its passage).
Sweet!
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