Posted on 01/19/2013 5:29:49 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Because you can never have too many laws, regulations and mandates, Massachusetts State Representative David Linsky has filed a new bill that would, among other things, force gun owners to undergo mental health background checks, acquire liability insurance, pay an additional 25% tax on all forms of ammunition, and require firearms categorized as “assault weapons” to be stored outside of their homes and only at government approved storage depots.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at shtfplan.com ...
Horseshit. What if they passed a law and nobody came/played?
That’s Amerika today. Laws upon liberal, idiotic, droolingly-moronic laws that NO one gives a damn about. I can make you a criminal with the stroke of a pen if I’m a Governor or POTUS.
Screw ‘em all. We don’t want to play any more. Pass your laws, assholes. See you in the streets.
Alinsky Rule 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have”.
Our opponents would be shaking in their boots if Republicans showed any backbone. Conservatives have been made out to be bunch of pussies by a cry baby speaker of the house. We have our guns, but the left doesn't think we have the will to use them.
I rather think they know all too well what April 19, 1775 was all about. They want to do it right this time, having learned from their errors a couple hundred years ago. Tyrants will be tyrants.
LOL
Folks should carefully look at the MADD example. It was not government making laws that changed the culture of drinking and driving but the costs imposed by insurance companies, lawyers, and ether's over a twenty year period that made the liability far to costly.
In my view its not the government but economics that will take the guns...
Why don’t they just ask for the gold and our bank accounts to keep in their little “warehouse?”
I keep saying it but few people seem to care.
The GOP holds a 3 branch majority in 24 states compared to the democrats having the same power in 13. That is a considerable power block. We should all be working together to get the states together to wield that power. We also need to regain state control over the senate.
Get out while you can..
And when the government lackeys open fire on the citizens, we have to ask them for the key to the gun storage to defend ourselves.
“Linsky is an idiot and his proposal will never pass.”
Larry, Linsky is a useful idiot and this is Massachusetts. I guarantee that there will be co-sponsors and traction.
Remember, we are responsible for the likes of Pocahantas Warren, Ted Kennedy (D-Hell), everybody’s favorite Frank, Barney. This is just a very small and embarrassing example of what we export to Congress, you should see the collection of grifters that stays home under the Dome on Beacon Hill.
I think Representative David Linsky needs a mental health background check.
What kind of gun will you use to force me to store my gun in your facility?
truly, the inmates have taken over the lunatic asylum...
Excellent point. How do “we” do that?
I think it is happening to some extent. I know the republican governors association encouraged Rick Snyder to oppose obamacare and it worked. We also pressured him from within the states.
I think we need to coordinate our efforts through social media.
The main depots will be at Lexington and Concord
Oh, but they’re not after the people’s guns are they?
/sarc.
August 31, 1774...General Thomas Gage sent Middlesex County sheriff David Phips to Brattle with orders to remove the provincial powder; Brattle turned the key to the powderhouse over to Phips. Gage also gave orders to ready a force of troops for action the next day, something that did not go unnoticed by the local population. At some point that day, General Gage, whether by his intent, accident, or theft by a messenger, lost possession of William Brattle's letter; the widely held story is that it was dropped. News of its content spread rapidly, and many considered it to be a warning to Gage to remove the provincial powder before Patriots could seize it.Early in the morning of September 1, 260 British regulars from the 4th Regiment were rowed in secrecy up the Mystic River from Boston to a landing point near Winter Hill. From there they marched about a mile to the Powder House, a gunpowder magazine that held the largest supply of gunpowder in Massachusetts. Phips gave the King's Troops the keys to the building [a Democrat, no doubt], and after sunrise they removed all of the gunpowder...a small contingent [of regulars] marched to Cambridge, removed two field pieces, and took them to Boston.
The field pieces and powder were then taken from Boston to the British stronghold on Castle Island, then known as Castle William (renamed Fort Independence in 1779).
This led to the colonists removing the stores of gunpowder in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Newport, Rhode Islandp Providence, Rhode Island; and New London, Connecticut and distributed to the militias in towns away from the coast.
It would seem we are headed rapidly in the same direction. Putting privately owned arms under lock and key so the government can easily confiscate them is eerily reminiscent of the Powder Alarms.
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