Posted on 02/11/2006 2:31:02 PM PST by pabianice
On February 10, 2006, the Grafton, MA, Assessor notified the North Grafton Fish, Game, and Bird Club, Inc., that its maps indicate that the Town took ownership of the Club's land in 1997. According to a club member, the Town claims it was taken as town conservation land at that time based upon maps it had at the time. Reportedly, according to the Town, its deed is based upon a survey that used trees and piles of rocks to determine lot boundaries.
This is not the first time the Town has tried to close the club's outdoor target range, which has been at its current location since 1951. In 2004, the Town closed the club after a nearby resident -- who had purchased his home just several years before -- claimed that "bullets from the club flew through his yard, forcing him to throw himself over his pregnant wife to protect her." Despite the total absence of evidence to indicate that the neighbor's claim was true, the Town closed the club and it took six months, a lawyer, and thousands of members' dollars to get it reopened
In 2005, Grafton tried to implement a new set of laws that would have made it a crime for anyone who owned any weapon (gun, knife, nun-chuks, throwing star, sling shot -- I am not making this up) to do any business with the Town or to be on Town property. After sixty gun owners showed-up at the selectmen's meeting to protest, the proposal was "withdrawn for further study."
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Massachusetts? Figures!!
Aint' Communism great!!?? (sarc)
What a lie.
He threw himself over her - THEN she got pregant.
This sort of thing is happening at various places around the state on one pretext or another. Vague title claims, noise ordinances, hostile interptetations of enivironmental impact regulations, citizen (largely neurotic Yuppie) safety complaints, blah blah blah ad nauseum. It's all bogus, and the subtext is that the PC crowd hate the idea of anyone owning firearms and seek at every turn to make life unpleasant for anyone who has the temerity to oppose their elitist priorities. The law means nothing to them - just ask the Massachusetts State Attorney General, Tom Reilly. This putative law enforcement chief is the biggest law-breaker in the state where it comes to the Second Amendment, and has effectively circumvented the legislature to enact a de facto gun ban by executive fiat.
So, has the club paid taxes on this land since 1997?
Ping
"The range remains open as of this date."
In summary - those who seek to curtail the number of shooting ranges actually increase the potential of gun crime.
Go figure.
In some States the further you get from the city, the more conservative the community because they are more family oriented. Not so in the Boston area. The further out you go, the more likely you are to find liberals who have had such open minds for so long, their brains have fallen out. It is true that stupid people - even "educated" ones - are mean.
The soviet union of Massachusetts !!
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Indeed! As my old Swedish fishing buddy was fond of saying,
"Ya, I surrrre miss it -- but not veddy much!"
TXnMA -- escaped back home to God's Country in 2001... :-)
"Ya, I surrrre miss it -- but not veddy much!"
LOL
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