I’m not so sure it will be overturned. In fact, this will encourage the gun control idiots. Next will be a statewide “Assauly Weapon” registration of existing guns, followed in a few years by a confiscation, or at least a ban on possession. Re, CA and NY and NJ.
I wonder how many of those “Assault Weapons” sold recently in mass will be registered? I imagine they were bought with the intention of not giving them up.
Massachusetts has a de facto registry of gun owners in the form of every gun owner being required to get a permit (FID for rifles that hold 5 rounds, LTC for any handgun and “high-capacity” rifle that accept magazines that can hold a whopping 10 rounds, which is the limit unless you want to pay through the nose for hard-to-find MA-legal 30 round mags, which may have been rendered finally and totally illegal by the AG’s unilateral decree). There’s no registry of specific weapons, though.
Without registration there is no confiscation, unless police are ordered to start kicking in doors.
Things will turn bloody if that happens.
The difference between this “ban” and NY’s unconstitutional SAFE (sic) Act is that in the Massachusetts action, the AG is illegally expanding the law without having it modified to support the expansion.
The SAFE (spit) Act is applied as written, even though it clearly is unconstitutional.