It isn’t about safety or preventing shootings - it’s about banning something, anything to do with firearms. Any restriction even a trivial one is a step in the right direction for the tyrants and a step in the wrong direction for the rest of us.
Why doesn’t maura healey just issue one of her administrative actions to ban them?
No one attended because anyone who moderately pays attention knows that these hearings are for show. The pigs on Bacon Hill will do what they want, confident that their moronic constituents will reelect them if they spew enough politically correct nonsense come election time.
Anyone who modifies a rifle to increase its rate of firing would be punished by three to 20 years in prison.
The bills were passed quickly without any public hearing.
Sounds like they were also passed without any actual THOUGHT involved.
At Sandy Hook “fired 154 bullets in about five minutes” ... without a bump stock.
So, since no one showed up from either side, is that tacit agreement that Mass should ban or restrict bump stocks?
Ever read about hearings that were held that nobody knew about except the politicans ? Sounds like this is one of them. Best a look see into this before they announce the result.
Given that he was shooting for 10 minutes, 600 seconds, and assuming he took two seconds between shots and 10 seconds to reload after every 30 shots, he could easily have gotten off 240 aimed shots into a packed crowd. He would have killed a lot more than 58 people.