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Posted on 07/23/2016 3:49:01 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
NATICK — Massachusetts gun dealers sold more than 2,000 military-style rifles Wednesday — nearly one-quarter of the total sold last year — after Attorney General Maura Healey moved to bar semiautomatic rifles that have been altered slightly to evade the state’s assault weapons ban.
The 2,251 assault rifles snapped up in a gun-buying frenzy represented a remarkable uptick from the 132 sold Tuesday and the 51 sold Monday, before Healey announced her ban. The numbers were first reported by Commonwealth Magazine.
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I’m not so sure it will be overturned. In fact, this will encourage the gun control idiots. Next will be a statewide “Assauly Weapon” registration of existing guns, followed in a few years by a confiscation, or at least a ban on possession. Re, CA and NY and NJ.
I wonder how many of those “Assault Weapons” sold recently in mass will be registered? I imagine they were bought with the intention of not giving them up.
The number of “Assault Knives” sold went unmoved?
Massachusetts has a de facto registry of gun owners in the form of every gun owner being required to get a permit (FID for rifles that hold 5 rounds, LTC for any handgun and “high-capacity” rifle that accept magazines that can hold a whopping 10 rounds, which is the limit unless you want to pay through the nose for hard-to-find MA-legal 30 round mags, which may have been rendered finally and totally illegal by the AG’s unilateral decree). There’s no registry of specific weapons, though.
Without registration there is no confiscation, unless police are ordered to start kicking in doors.
Things will turn bloody if that happens.
He had a speaker on taking about this. 200,000 gun owners have become essentially felons over night w/ Mz. Healey's decree that is so unconstitutional on so many fronts.IMHO?
This is not an accident, trail balloon IMHO from Leer Deeder and Kim Jung Shrill, how is anything done by the DNC not orchestrated.
Example given in Howie's show, guy buys 2 lowers the day of the ban, calls in the State of MA, they tell him to register them, he calls back anything else I need and their response was no because you are now a Felon.....
Even the supposedly-not-liberal Globe is calling semiautomatic rifles “assault rifles.”
The libs know the way you win battle for minds is by winning the battle for language, e.g. “reproductive rights,” “undocumented immigrants,” “homophobia/transphobia/Islamophobia,” et cetera.
Sounds like she is trying to beat out Obama as gun salesman of the year.
Timing wise, I added to the stats, albeit from Nevada. Bought myself an Eagle Arms Armalite AR-15 5.56 NATO, several extra magazines, and 1,000 rounds. Got to go shoot it first time yesterday. Sweet.
All the wailing about Trump being a dictator; now AG Maura Healey has shown how it’s really done. She didn’t need any laws passed by the Senate and House and signed by the Governor. They’re just window dressing on the fake representative government. They don’t even have the stones to stand up to her, and by all rights, if they actually gave a rat’s ass about their authority, would immediately call for her impeachment.
But no. They’re gutless enablers all of them, and as long as her dictate is the sort of thing they’re in favor of, but too gutless to actually vote on, they’re all in.
Since Haley has shown she can create laws out of thin air, and retroactive laws no less, what is to stop her from doing whatever she wants. Perhaps confiscation of bank accounts. Disbanding the Senate. But why bother. They like their fat paychecks and the illusion of power without the responsibility. Much like the later useless Senate of Imperial Roman.
All hail Caesar Healey.
If elected, she will not be inaugurated
Mmmm, the result was obvious at a particular moment in time. But recent history goes back a little longer than Peyton Place. From the 16th century to 1966, the Church maintained an "Index" of books the faithful shouldn't read--other than specialists and scholars and such who needed to for research. The banned books tended to be creepy, pornographic, atheistic, anti-clerical, or heretical in bizarre ways. Most ordinary Catholics avoided them.
The motion picture industry in the early 20th century lived or died by the pronouncements of the Catholic Church and influential Protestant ministers and state governors. There was a real problem, which was that many of the early movies were pornographic shorts, and many features from the 'teens and Twenties would shock us today. In their personal lives, actors and actresses were morally living off the grid, and there were prominent cases of rape and several deaths in Hollywood that increased calls for Federal censorship of movies. In addition, institutions like the Bank of America, founded and run by A.P. Giannini, a devout Catholic and Hollywood investor, were cutting their investments in the movies.
The industry's response was to create an office to give studios guidelines on how to stay out of trouble. The chairman, Will Hays (former chairman of the Republican National Committee), received in the mail one day a proposed set of guidelines on what should and shouldn't be portrayed in the movies. It had been written by Fr. Daniel Lord, a Jesuit priest, writer, performer, movie-fan, historian of drama and the arts, and advisor to Cecil B. DeMille. It didn't simply say movies shouldn't be dirty, but also that they should avoid being unpatriotic, disrespectful of religion, and should avoid portraying the triumph of evil. It's very positive and artistically sophisticated, and worth reading today. Hays and the industry adopted it whole.
By 1934, the movie industry was living by the Code, and no longer worrying about whether states would ban their movies or whether Christians would boycott them and dry up box-office receipts. And as it happened, most of the best movies ever made, were made under the Code.
Condemnation of immoral or evil-promoting works of art worked in those days because books and movies were not as easy to produce, distribute, promote, and consume. As those technological barriers dropped, it became easier to run around the authorities and distribute the product anyway. That had the effect of cutting the legs off moral authority of any kind, whether religious, governmental, or within families. By the 1960s, books and movies were using city, state, and religious bans as part of their marketing.
Now moral authority is enforced instead by the pack behavior of the Hollywood producers and writers themselves, who hate America, God, and families more than they love money. And by social media--which we have discovered is manipulated by multi-billion-dollar "authorities" at Facebook and Twitter. And ultimately by the Left's masters in a Federal government that has used our tax money to insert itself into every corner of our lives.
If the people take back their lives and institutions from the 0bama regime, moral institutions that know how to use modern media and production will gain back some of the influence they have lost. Perhaps they can help re-shape our culture toward God, rather than "Allah" or Satan.
“This will be overturned in court.”
The ban in CT is still in effect. The USSC refused to hear our appeal. Good luck in MA!
Already happening with the “war on drugs”. Wait until we have a war on guns.
It would be great if each of those people showed up at the capital building, and demanded resignations.
Not with their guns... but something to put the numbers together.
“If Hillary takes the whitehouse you will see the rise of the American Militia”.
Needs fixin...
If Hillary takes the whitehouse you will see the rise of the American Militia..in action.
There. Bet on it.
I held one of those last weekend. My son was looking for another rifle and spotted that one. Too many guns, not enough cash or places to put them.
Shouldn’t we have already seen the massive uptick in violent crime due to these guns hitting the streets?
yep, I hear ya.
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