[Mulder]

In Mass, a person may transfer their firearms to a licensed friend or an FFL for safekeeping during the period of the restraining order.

They were even trying to make *that* illegal last year in some state (Pennsylvania, I believe).

Fortunately, some grass roots organizations up there got the word out and stopped it.

[Tinman]

For those that remember, I warned about this kind of thing happening, back in 1998.

It was the first thread I ever posted to FR and it involved my first hand account of how I came very close to losing my 2A rights, after being charged with "illegal discharge", while target shooting.

This all happened when I was still a legal gun-owning resident of MA.

Unfortunately, the thread, entitled "The Disarming of America", has long been deleted from the archives. However, some long-time FReepers may remember, not only the thread but the remarks I made, to a gathering of gun owners, at both Bunker Hill and the State House, in October '98.

Maybe some of the old N.E. FReepers can fill me in as to whether GOAL, or anyone else, fought this legislation.

Regards