Posted on 12/10/2012 5:06:49 PM PST by marktwain
Way too much red tape.
That's the complaint of the Gun Owners’ Action League of Massachusetts, a group that is urging passage of a law that would abolish the requirement of having to renew a gun permit every six years, according to the Boston Herald.
For comparison, Massachusetts vehicle drivers' licenses need to be renewed every five years.
But the league says local police cannot keep up with timely gun permit renewals, and legitimate gunowners go license-less until the cops get time to do the paperwork.
The law now allows 40 days for turning around license applications.
In Boston, almost 1,000 people have applied for gun permits so far this year, with waits running about 10 weeks, the Herald quotes police spokeswoman Cheryl Fiandaca as saying.
The gun owners group is lobbying for a return to lifetime licenses; that a license gets pulled only if laws are broken, according to the Herald story.
The six-year gun permitting is part of a law passed in 1998 that resulted in Massachusetts having among the strictest gun control laws in the U.S.
According to a gun control lobbying group, the Violence Policy Center, Massachusetts also has the lowest gun death rate in the nation.
(Excerpt) Read more at roslindale.patch.com ...
Insane metric. Includes suicides.
Yes 1000x.
massachusetts should just go away and never be heard from again. in fact give new england to canada.
I agree! If all of the NE where to go to Canada they & we would be much happier.
Canada wouldn’t ... after a few months, they would want to give it all back.
“Should Massachusetts loosen gun laws”
NOOOOOOO...Make them come to Maine to get them!!!.....We’ll do the background check by via our standards....*G*
Nine comments at the site. Eight for loosening permit renewals and one nut against. I used to live in Boston. I never heard of this rag.
Nine comments at the site. Eight for loosening permit renewals and one nut against. I used to live in Boston. I never heard of this rag.
But I think most/strong majority or NE'ers would be happy to join with such a progressive country as Canada. And America would be alot better off without this bastion of arrogant liberal @$$h0les.
Yeah, but they are all in Springfield and Holyoke.
Never happen.
Marxachusetts’ control freak Leftists insist upon regulating everything from cradle to grave and all that lies between.
They’ve never seen a bill to control the sheeple they didn’t love, and will never cede control of anything.
And while we’re at it, if GOAL really wants to do something productive of the common weal, they can work on getting the Commissar Attorney General to stop banning guns unilaterally via the phony and quite illegal ‘safety regulations’; power politics at its worst and most transparently corrupt.
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