Posted on 01/19/2013 2:57:55 PM PST by smoothsailing
Massachusetts State Rep. David P. Linsky and Barack Obama
Massachusetts State Representative David Linsky has filed a new bill that would force gun owners to undergo mental health background checks, pay an additional 25% tax on all forms of ammunition, and require firearms categorized as “assault weapons” to be stored outside of their homes at government approved sites.
Natick Patch reported, via Black Listed News:
“This bill is a comprehensive effort to reduce all types of gun violence – murders, intentional shootings, accidental shootings and suicides. There is not one solution to reducing gun violence – we can’t eliminate it – but there are a lot of common-sense steps that we can take to significantly reduce the everyday tragedy of gun violence and deaths,” said Linsky…
…“I have spoken with hundreds of people over the past few weeks in developing this legislation – victims, police officers, criminologists, physicians, and yes – gun owners and sportsmen,” stated Linsky. “There are a lot of good ideas out there. We should all have one goal – reducing gun violence and trying to keep more tragedies from happening.”
Provisions in the bill include:
- Having one standard of the issuance of all gun licenses, giving local police chiefs the ability to evaluate all aspects of an application for a gun license.
- Requires proof of liability insurance for possession of a firearm, rifle or shotgun.
- Requires that all large capacity weapons and grandfathered assault weapons must be stored at gun clubs or target ranges.
- Requires live shooting as part of the curriculum for a basic firearms safety course; this is not a current requirement.
- Requires all applicants for gun licenses and FID cards to sign a waiver of mental health records for review to be destroyed after decision.
- Imposes 25% sales tax on ammunition, firearms, shotguns, and rifles; dedicates funds towards firearms licensing, police training, mental health services, and victim’s services.
- Brings Massachusetts into compliance with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
- Limits gun buyers to one firearm purchase per month.
That way if someone breaks in your house, all you have to do is run down to the local gun storage facility to get your guns.
It makes perfect sense.
BWWAHAHAHAHAHA!
You’re kidding, right?!
That’s funny... since gunpowder used to be so volitile and dangerous, citizens would store theirs together in centralized depots. Noteworthy depots, like in Lexington and Concord. Then, some despot thought he’d seize them...
The Bolsheviks are now trying to outdo each other.
In case people don’t understand, an “assault weapon” is every gun out there to these communists.
They can have the ammo first.
I love the whole mental health angle.
The attitude on the left is that you have to be mentally ill to own a gun so I am not sure I agree with the whole mental illness test thing.
The Soviets used the same concept against dissidents in the old USSR. The attitude was that person had to be insane to disapprove of the government and dissent, so they stuck dissidents into mental institutions in the Gulags.
I took a quick look and thought it was Obama and Bawnney Fwank !
Which one is the girley-man ?
I bet he has a ‘Man Purse’ with cosmetics in it !
/johnny
Turn over your guns to Obama so he can have more guns to turn on you!
Oh really?
Turn over your guns to Obama so he can have more guns to turn on you!
Oh really?
Sounds like college where we had to store our guns at the firing range on campus. Seems that after hunting season my freshman year they never quite got around to making it back down there.
I propose that morons who propose any legislation that is this stupid should be run out of town on a rail.
Yeah... Not gonna do it.
.... giving local police chiefs the ability to evaluate all aspects of an application for a gun license ===> define “ALL aspects”
.... all large capacity weapons and grandfathered assault weapons ..... ====> Very loose definition here
.... mental health records for review to be destroyed after decision ====> Those who believe this, raise your hand
.... 25% sales tax on ammunition, firearms, shotguns, and rifles; dedicates funds towards firearms licensing, police training, mental health services, and victim’s services ====> With all due respect, government has no credibility on what it promise to spend
Forget that idea. I will fight back first and I am not kidding.
Liability insurance?? That's nuts.
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