Posted on 03/18/2016 1:23:04 PM PDT by pabianice
Longmeadow Alert!
Longmeadow Massachusetts will be voting at town meeting on May 10th and could vote in some drastic anti-Second Amendment measures.
Please see the text of Article’s 26, 27, 28 from the 2016 town meeting warrant (see below). This was sent to us by a member. These articles are an outright assault on your Second Amendment rights. Article 26 would ban lawful carry of firearms on all town property including sidewalks. Article 27 would require gun registration upon renewal of license. Article 28 would ban many commonly owned firearms and magazines
Please know that the warrant is yet to be finalized.
Town Meeting begins May 10, click here for more information.
If you live in Longmeadow please plan on attending town meeting and voting NO on all three articles! See text below.
ARTICLE 26. Citizen Petition To see if the Town will vote to accept a bylaw for gun control on town property that reads, whoever possesses a firearm, rifle, or shotgun in any building owned by the Town, or on recreation area, conservation area, or other grounds owned by the Town, shall pay a fine of $300. The terms “firearm,” “rifle,” and “shotgun” shall have the meanings found in Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 140, section 121, or take any other action relative thereto. This proposed bylaw would prohibit anyone from possessing a firearm (defined under state law as a pistol, revolver, or similar weapon), rifle, or shotgun in a town building or on town property. ATM Warrant – May 10, 2016 Page 6
ARTICLE 27. Citizen Petition To see if the Town will vote to accept a bylaw for gun licensing requirements that reads, each person applying for, or seeking to renew, a license to carry a firearm or a firearm identification card with the Chief of Police or Police Department shall describe in writing each firearm, rifle or shotgun possessed by the prospective license holder. Such description shall include the serial number, make, model, and caliber of each firearm, rifle, or shotgun. The prospective license holder shall also certify that he/she understands and complies with the safe storage requirements of Massachusetts General Laws, chapter 140, section 131L. Whoever fails to provide a description for each firearm, rifle, or shotgun shall pay a fine of $300 for each firearm, rifle, or shotgun which has not been so described. Whoever fails to certify, or falsely certifies, his/her compliance with the safe storage requirements of Massachusetts General Laws, chapter 140, section 131L shall pay a fine of $300, or take any other action relative thereto. Under Massachusetts state law, licenses to carry a firearm (LTCs) and firearm identification cards (FID cards) expire after six years. This bylaw would require new applicants or those seeking to renew LTCs or FID cards to provide a description of each firearm, rifle, or shotgun possessed by the applicant. The bylaw would also require applicants to certify their compliance with the Massachusetts law that requires firearms, rifles, and shotguns to be stored in locked containers or to be similarly secured.
ARTICLE 28. Citizen Petition To see if the Town will vote to accept a bylaw for an assault weapon ban that reads, whoever possesses an assault weapon or a large capacity feeding device shall pay a fine of $300 for each day such assault weapon or large capacity feeding device is possessed within the Town. The possessor of an assault weapon or a large capacity feeding device shall pay a separate fine for each assault weapon and each large capacity feeding device. The term “assault weapon” and “large capacity feeding device” shall have the meanings found in Massachusetts General Laws, chapter 140, section 121. The possession of an assault weapon or a large capacity feeding device is unlawful even if such assault weapon or large capacity was lawfully possessed on or before September 13, 1994. The effective date of this bylaw shall be September 1, 2016, or take any other action relative thereto. Massachusetts state law prohibits the possession of assault weapons and large feeding devices (defined as devices holding large amounts of ammunition) but provides an exception for assault weapons and large feeding devices lawfully possessed on September 13, 1994. This bylaw would eliminate this exception and prohibit all assault weapons and large feeding devices in Longmeadow. The effective date of September 1, 2016 would allow owners of assault weapons and large feeding devices falling within this exception
Wow, the police are going to have to pay a lot of money from this.
*Hurumph*
Perhaps so, but don't tell me the libs wouldn't just love to disarm us.
Are these people in Longmeadow stupid or something? At the very least, they care nothing about the Bill of Rights.
But of course, Snopes is THE standard measuring stick for all truth. /sarc
City ordinances at that time were struck down by the courts who said only the state government could make such laws, not cities, municipalities or county governments.”
The state has preemption on laws regulating firearms possession. The cities are slowly doing an end around by individual cities banning mags over 10 rds and imposing restrictive storage requirements. Not quite as bad as DC was but close. Storage and mag restrictions have been ruled as permissible by cities. Sunnyvale, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are few examples
Anyone, especially politicians, who actively engage in actions to restrict or take away constitutional rights, are seditionists. They need to be arrested, charged with treason and sent to prison.
The only weakness in the Constitution is when individuals or groups violate the Constitution there are not mandatory arrest, due process trials, and if found guilty, minimum sentences.
That includes any lawmaker that submits any bill or votes for any bill that weakens or counters anything in the Constitution either directly or that would be “downstream”.
Gotcha, thank you.
You would have to be an idiot to live there. It’s Cuidad Juarez North. The place is undocumented and drug central.
We are not all idiots, but obviously a few are. I am a Longmeadow resident and pro-2nd!!! I just found out about this yesterday. Boiling about this and starting to gather a coalition of Longmeadow Patriots. Any Advice is appreciated! In my eyes this is against the law!
the law has nothing to do with it
Are you willing to spend your life savings paying for the lawyer to fight city hall?
Call the NRA and get an injunction postponing implementation for ever
Become a permanent fixture at town council meetings, run for political committee offices and take them over. Run for Boards of Education and take them over. Mobile other rational citizens.
This is the work of Communist "long marchers" working through the target institutions, holding hands and conspiring to get rid of dissenting opinion within a profession or institution of learning, then moving on into government.
The object is Orwell's hideous dystopian State run by diseased personalities and darkened intellects.
Thank you!
Thank you! I will try the NRA plan first as that was my initial thought. The first thing I did was go on the town website. They have the meeting scheduled but no agenda posted. Seems they are trying to push this through unnoticed. Where can I confirm this information so I have something concrete to give to NRA??
“Citizen Petition To see if the Town will vote to accept a bylaw for gun control on town property that reads, whoever possesses a firearm, rifle, or shotgun in any building owned by the Town, or on recreation area, conservation area, or other grounds owned by the Town, shall pay a fine of $300. “
Sounds like a ‘gun-free zone’. Easy pickings for the armed criminals from Springfield.
FYI:
Longmeadow is a very wealthy suburb of Springfield, which is a complete craphole with shootings/killings weekly.
“Are these people in Longmeadow stupid or something?”
A rich suburb of Springfield mostly Dr’s and Lawyers.
You can fill a freedom of information request on them, asking for copies of all meeting minutes, e-mails and correspondence related to this subject. Be prepared for delays and battles.
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