[pabianice]

Liberals love to make-up their own laws, don't they?

[Iron Munro]

Liberals love to make-up their own laws, don't they?

They need something to replace the real, legitimate laws that they ignore.

[DugwayDuke]

Gun makers need to invoke the Hillary Defense, ie, they had no intention to violate the law as evidenced by their attempt to comply with the law.

[DBrow]

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3451190/posts

Already posted.

[Yo-Yo]

This is what happens when uninformed people attempt to write laws on a subject they know nothing about.

Makes you wonder about the rest of the laws they pass, doesn't it? On second though, no I don't wonder at all.

[circlecity]

"They sell guns without a flash suppressor or folding or telescoping stock, for example, small tweaks that do nothing to limit the lethalness of the weapon."

The AR-15 is already one of the least "lethal" rifles manufactured. I don't know what else any manufacturer could do to make it less "lethal". It certainly is not a "high-powered" rifle.

[Sgt_Schultze]

It looks like one - it operates like one

Sot it is one

[circlecity]

"But gun manufacturers have taken it upon themselves to define what a “copy” or “duplicate” weapon is."

What choice do they have when the legislature specifically refuses to define the terms in the statute?

[Gaffer]

When the 1994 AWB expired in 2004 I was making damned good money. A lot. I also knew right down to my bones there were soul stealing bitches like this AG out there or coming up. I took advantage of the expiration. Very Good advantage, in fact.

[Billthedrill]

I love this. First they come up with an entirely made-up category, Assault "Weapon", then they try to define it, then when the definitions prove inadequate, they remove them and replace them with a vague "A is similar to B and we banned B" cop-out. If those definitions never did refer to the actual lethality of the gun, maybe it's because they were nonsense to begin with?

Now we have locutions such as "same operating system". What does that mean, that all direct-impingement gas systems are Assault Weapons? That gas piston systems are? Do those affect the lethality of the weapon any more than the laughable bayonet lug did?

Doubling down on stupidity is a liberal trademark, and this is quadrupling down.

[umgud]

Ergonomics or physical features don’t make a semi-auto rifle an assault weapon.

[Kenton]

The left loses the gun control debate every time some registered democrat uses a gun to kill a bunch of innocent people. Just take a look at the stats on new gun sales and gun manufacturers' equity stocks and weep.

They need to drop the issue and take up something more attainable, like forcing rent-a-potty mobile toilet dealers to offering a line of unisex extra tall porta-potties to accommodate the needs of transsexual giraffes.

My condolences to any Mass residents for the abuse of your Second Amendment rights. Remember, you can always move.

[archy]

The Massachusetts assault weapons ban mirrors the federal ban Congress allowed to expire in 2004. It prohibits the sale of specific weapons like the Colt AR-15 and AK-47 and explicitly bans “copies or duplicates” of those weapons.

If Hillary doesn't have to obey the law, neither does anyone else.

[TigersEye]

They market “state compliant” copycat versions of their assault weapons to Massachusetts buyers.

Darned sneaky of those manufacturers to comply with the law.

[Vendome]

“Barret 2.0”

[taildragger]

Isn’t it amazing, how they are so Pro 10th Amendment when it is in their favor ( not I that I believe it fits here, but stay with me.. ) but in other cases, not so much...

[Pearls Before Swine]

Healy is the AG in a Republican Governor’s administration.

That’s what you get in MA, even on the GOP side.

There’s more gun owners than gays, where’s our representation?

More than likely, this will lose in the courts. GOAL is on it already.

[DBrow]

““Governor Baker supports the Commonwealth’s assault weapons ban, believes our comprehensive state gun laws work well in protecting the people of Massachusetts, and believes that the attorney general has the authority to enforce the law to crack down on the sale of guns that skirt the assault weapons ban,” said Billy Pitman, the governor’s press secretary.”