Posted on 07/20/2016 3:28:37 PM PDT by marktwain
The Attorney General of Massachusetts, Maura Healy, has decided that she can dictate law without recourse to the legislature or the courts. She has decided to unilaterally change the definition of what is and is not an “assault weapon” in the law.
Crimes committed with all rifles are exeedingly rare in Massachusetts. 2014, is the lastest year we have records for in the FBI Uniform Crime Report. In 2014, no murders with rifles of any kind, let alone “assault weapons” were recorded in Massachusetts.
Yes, you read correctly. Zero. Ziltch. Nada. If there had been a single crime committed in Massachusetts with one of the rifles that AG Healy does not like, she would have shouted it to the world. She did not. In 2014, there were 3 murders recorded with hands and feet, and 34 recorded with cutting instruments in the State of Massachusetts.
Before the ineffective Clinton “Assault Weapon” ban expired in 2004, Massachusetts enacted a virtually duplicate law at the state level. There is no indication that the state law was any more effective than the failed Clinton law. The law has been in force in Massachusetts for over 30 years now.
But AG Maura Healy doesn’t like the law. She claims that it is not restrictive enough. There have been virtually no problems with these firearms in Massachusetts, and minimal problems nationwide (there were only 248 murders committed with *all* rifles in 2014, out of 11,961 total murders.
The state that had the most murders with rifles was California, with 40 in 2014. California has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation, particularly restrictive of so called “assault weapons”.
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US citizens should flee communist states so they can exercise their rights.
The Law comes from her mouth? How Olde English.
It’s about getting gun proponents to expend resources to fight it. It cost her nothing.
The lesbian AG...how Massachusetts.
The liberals all think they are Obama now -
They can make up their own laws.
I’m in MA now, is RI or CT any better on this? If so, I’ll consider relocating.
Massachusetts law considers “assault weapons” to be part of a larger class of guns known as “large capacity weapons”. There are restrictions on possession, purchase and transportation of these guns and the penalties for using them in a crime are generally more severe. There is also a ban on “large capacity magazines” made after September 13, 1994.
The definition of “assault weapon” is the same as the federal law that went into effect on September 13, 1994. Specific guns are banned by name, and guns with certain combinations of features are banned:
a semiautomatic rifle that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has at least 2 of—
(i) a folding or telescoping stock;
(ii) a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon ;
(iii) a bayonet mount;
(iv) a flash suppressor or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash suppressor; and
(v) a grenade launcher;
a semiautomatic pistol that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has at least 2 of—
(i) an ammunition magazine that attaches to the pistol outside of the pistol grip;
(ii) a threaded barrel capable of accepting a barrel extender, flash suppressor, forward handgrip,
or silencer;
(iii) a shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel and that permits
the shooter to hold the firearm with the nontrigger hand without being burned;
(iv) a manufactured weight of 50 ounces or more when the pistol is unloaded; and
(v) a semiautomatic version of an automatic firearm; and
a semiautomatic shotgun that has at least 2 of—”
(i) a folding or telescoping stock;
(ii) a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon;
(iii) a fixed magazine capacity in excess of 5 rounds; and
(iv) an ability to accept a detachable magazine.’“
A “large capacity feeding device” is defined the same as in federal law, or:
“a fixed or detachable magazine, box, drum, feed strip or similar device capable of accepting, or that can be readily converted to accept, more than ten rounds of ammunition or more than five shotgun shells; ... The term “large capacity feeding device” shall not include an attached tubular device designed to accept, and capable of operating only with,.22 caliber ammunition.”
A “large capacity weapon” is basically any firearm, rifle or shotgun that is semi-automatic with a fixed large capacity feeding device or that is capable of accepting any detachable large capacity feeding device; or an “assault weapon.”
Ban on recently-manufactured “assault weapons” and “large capacity magazines.” State law clearly limits possession to pre-1994 items and exempts out only law enforcement and retired law enforcement:
Massachusetts - Hands down, the most perverted, godless state deserving of a mushroom cloud.
The days of Lot.
...spearheaded the state’s challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act. She led the winning arguments for Massachusetts in America’s first lawsuit striking down the law
The photo might remind one of the movie, “Planet of the Apes.”
Fixed.
I assume she has a pen and a phone.
If you're going to go through the trouble of relocating, my recommendation would be to get out of the northeast, period, understanding of course that moving thousands of miles to a totally different part of the country would most likely be quite difficult in and of itself, to say nothing of connected issues such as losing contact with family, finding employment, etc..
Can someone seriously explain to me why Heller versus DC does not apply to all the states, and yet Gay marriage does?
I mean not a snarky or joke answer, but one based on the law and legal foundations.
Marxachusetts has seen, for decades now, an unbroken series of Attorneys General who have grossly exceeded their authority in pursuit of various pet projects in the authoritarian socialist mold.
It’s pointless to hold one’s breath waiting for a chief law enforcement officer who has any respect for the law.
The statists want these weapons outlawed to ensure that there’s no effective resistance to their ultimate plans.
She’s a real winner....
.... the first shot fired by the Patriots at the North Bridge was the “shot heard round the world”...
Coincidentally, that shot fired when King George III’s Redcoats came to seize the Colonists arms and ammunition stored at one time in Massachusetts when he also decided their possession was illegal.
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