Posted on 07/20/2016 3:25:35 PM PDT by Zakeet
After the usual "assault rifles" are "weapon of war" used by "mass murderers" anti-AR agitprop, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey dropped this bombshell at The Boston Globe.
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. But gun manufacturers have taken it upon themselves to define what a "copy" or "duplicate" weapon is. They market "state compliant" copycat versions of their assault weapons to Massachusetts buyers. 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.That will end now. On Wednesday, we are sending a directive to all gun manufacturers and dealers that makes clear that the sale of these copycat assault weapons is illegal in Massachusetts. With this directive, we will ensure we get the full protection intended when lawmakers enacted our assault weapons ban, not the watered-down version of those protections offered by gun manufacturers.
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Going by what I'm reading here, this new "directive" immediately bans the sales of all new AR and AK-style style rifles in The Bay State. I've called several Massachusetts gun stores (e.g., Worcester’s Pullman Arms above) and yup, they're pulling all their modern sporting rifles off the shelves. Every. Single. One.
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Don’t they have people in that state who actually make the laws not just one individual with a bent nose? She sounds a lot like Hitlary and can make her own laws.
Don’t they have people in that state who actually make the laws not just one individual with a bent nose? She sounds a lot like Hitlary and odumbo who make their own laws.
Dana characterized this as “effectively banning semi-automatic rifles and hand guns.”
Two words: Law Suit.
Dave, I guess she waves her hand, says “Make it so!”, and it’s done.
ha ha ha
Baker?
BWAHAHAHAHA
She did this because she knows the Supreme Court will not take this up until the next president. They want to make gun control an issue for Hillary. They do not fear the NRA and think this is a winning political move to help Hitlary. It will backfire on them. More independent voters across the country will see that the NRA is right and Obama, Hitlary and the Democrats are coming for our guns. So much for the wrest of you laughing at Connecticut, New York, and California stripping away everyone’s firearms. It is coming at a time when anarchy, muslim terror, drug wars, and society chaos reins across the land with people shooting cops and political elites answer is to disarm everyone. So when dos this lunacy reach your state until the Supreme Court upholds the basic right to keep and bare any type of semi-auto rifle of their choice no matter what it looks like. Good luck with that.
Might well be the Roe vs Wade for the second amendment that Hillery’s Supreme Court will decide.
This is straight up illegal and she MUST BE IMPEACHED OR FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM OFFICE IMMEDIATELY.
She’s following Asshole Obama’s example of “words mean whatever I want them to mean at that point in time” to enforce her desires by dictat.
This is NOT WHAT A FREE COUNTRY LOOKS LIKE.
This is NOT WHAT A COUNTRY OF LAW AND ORDER LOOKS LIKE.
This IS what a totalitarian state looks like and we must fight back NOW.
Damn, Arizona will have a population explosion.
Does he have the authority to do this? I sincerely doubt it.
NO NO NO we don’t want the here!!!
Healey demonstrates, yet again, the contempt for law evidenced by a succession of Commonwealth Attorneys General.
They make up the law to suit themselves and no one (among the Commonwealth’s Leftist elite) seems to object.
Good to know she can make laws...
If Mass. law is identical to the `94 Clinton ban,
Under the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994:
the definition of “semiautomatic assault weapon” included specific semi-automatic firearm models by name, and other semi-automatic firearms that possessed two or more from a set certain features:
A semi-automatic Yugoslavian M70AB2 rifle.
An Intratec TEC-DC9 with 32-round magazine; a semi-automatic pistol formerly classified as an assault weapon under federal law.
Semi-automatic rifles able to accept detachable magazines and two or more of the following:
Folding or telescoping stock
Pistol grip
Bayonet mount
Flash suppressor, or threaded barrel designed to accommodate one
Grenade launcher mount
Semi-automatic pistols with detachable magazines and two or more of the following:
Magazine that attaches outside the pistol grip
Threaded barrel to attach barrel extender, flash suppressor, handgrip, or suppressor
Barrel shroud safety feature that prevents burns to the operator
Unloaded weight of 50 oz (1.4 kg) or more
A semi-automatic version of a fully automatic firearm.
Semi-automatic shotguns with two or more of the following:
Folding or telescoping stock
Pistol grip
Detachable magazine.
I think CA has similar legislation. If the firearms lack the features set forth in the act, she can’t just arbitrarily decree that they are illegal anyway. Presumably she’s a lawyer and knows or should know better.
Yeah, and the communist states are the RED states, not the free ones.
Tired of this retarded BS where the commies get away with calling States controlled by the American Right Wing RED and our politicians do nothing about it.
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