Posted on 07/20/2016 3:28:37 PM PDT by marktwain
The Attorney General of Massachusetts, Maura Healy, has decided that she can dictate law without recourse to the legislature or the courts. She has decided to unilaterally change the definition of what is and is not an “assault weapon” in the law.
Crimes committed with all rifles are exeedingly rare in Massachusetts. 2014, is the lastest year we have records for in the FBI Uniform Crime Report. In 2014, no murders with rifles of any kind, let alone “assault weapons” were recorded in Massachusetts.
Yes, you read correctly. Zero. Ziltch. Nada. If there had been a single crime committed in Massachusetts with one of the rifles that AG Healy does not like, she would have shouted it to the world. She did not. In 2014, there were 3 murders recorded with hands and feet, and 34 recorded with cutting instruments in the State of Massachusetts.
Before the ineffective Clinton “Assault Weapon” ban expired in 2004, Massachusetts enacted a virtually duplicate law at the state level. There is no indication that the state law was any more effective than the failed Clinton law. The law has been in force in Massachusetts for over 30 years now.
But AG Maura Healy doesn’t like the law. She claims that it is not restrictive enough. There have been virtually no problems with these firearms in Massachusetts, and minimal problems nationwide (there were only 248 murders committed with *all* rifles in 2014, out of 11,961 total murders.
The state that had the most murders with rifles was California, with 40 in 2014. California has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation, particularly restrictive of so called “assault weapons”.
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Oddly enough Vt. has very liberal gun laws.
I think Vermont is a lot better. You could live real close to wherever you wanted in Rhode Island or CT.
Move to NH if you can.
Yeah, we have a worthless Rat Govenor, but she will be gone soon.
i work in Mass, but it is worth the drive each day to live in NH.
Heller does apply to the states, as the USSC decided in McDonald v Chicago.
Simply testing the waters. If she doesn’t meet resistance and/or gets away with it, look for more gun laws to follow. Ditto for other areas of your life where liberals want total control.
Yes, that is the pattern.
Is there a law that says our AG has to be an alcoholic? Because we’re three for three.
She is a dictator, like Fidel Castro, in Mass. Wonderful. How about banning pressure cooker bombs too, dictator, during the Boston marathon?
What’s their position on the shoulder thing that goes up?
What a See You Next Tuesday.
Can we not get rid of these people?
ban them - for the children
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