When there are concealed-carry citizens carrying pistols on a train to Boston, you KNOW the gun-grabbers have lost.
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How so? Before I escaped my "Massachussetts exile", my MA LTC read, For All Lawful Purposes". And I carried every day and everywhere -- including on the "T" (MTA) trains -- for 16 years...
The "enabling secret" was that our local police chief was a 2nd Amendment Supporter...
Conversely, I know a US Army Sergeant Major (with at least eight rows of combat decorations) who's been trying since he came home from Desert Storm -- and, still can't get a "permit" from his chief in an adjoining town...
MA is still a "may issue" State; your RKBA is in the hands of the local town police chief...) That's not much of a "victory"...