Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has unilaterally banned whole classes of firearms from sale in the Bay State, with an edict she issued Wednesday, July 20th.
Via Mass Live:
Healey’s directive to gun manufacturers clarifies the definition of “copy.” Under Healey’s definition, if a gun’s operating system is the same as that of a banned weapon or it has components that are interchangeable with those in a banned weapon, the gun will be illegal to sell in Massachusetts.
Translation:
You know that Remington 1100 and 1187 shotgun? Under her new “interpretation”, they are copies of scary black guns and therefore illegal to sell in Taxachusetts.
Yep. The Boston Globe also reports the same as “Mass Live”:
The directive specifically outlines two tests to determine what constitutes a “copy” or “duplicate” of a prohibited weapon. If a gun’s operating system is essentially the same as that of a banned weapon, or if the gun has components that are interchangeable with those of a banned weapon, it’s a “copy” or “duplicate,” and it is illegal. Assault weapons prohibited under our laws cannot be altered in any way to make their sale or possession legal in Massachusetts.
Little Miss Healey, in her infinite benevolence, has decreed that existing owners of these guns can keep them.
For now.
That won’t last though.
It never does.
She’ll wait until the furor over this dies down before she pokes the sleeping bear again, while in the meantime proudly pretending to support and defend our civil rights.
What’s new?
Far left Democrats love to conceal their true agenda.
They lie. It’s what they do.
Especially around election time when it comes to guns and gun rights. “We’re not coming for your guns,” they say. “We respect your Second Amendment rights,” they say before then adding a “but” and then, as Hillary has done so aggressively of late, explained to us how the Heller Supreme Court decision was wrong.
Those gun hating members of the party of gun control won’t be happy until they take all guns. Then they’ll come for bows and arrows and then knives. Followed by sharp sticks and pointy rocks. All for our safety.
You probably don’t care because it’s “crazy Massachusetts”, but folks, if they try it successfully in one jurisdiction, they’ll try it in another. Illinois, we might remind you, has exactly one branch of government controlled by a pro-gun politician: our governor.
The Illinois Attorney General rabidly hates guns rights for the little people. The Illinois House and Senate are run by bitterly anti-gun tyrants. The Illinois Supreme Court leans sharply Democrat.
I bet that the good people of Massachusetts feel safer now knowing that the gang bangers of the Bay State have been denied use of the Remington 1100. Probably a place for this old gal in the Clinton cabinet.
Isn’t it curious how increasingly, the leftists are just making “laws” by a stroke of the pen instead of the normal legislative process. It’s like Obama ignoring the law on illegal aliens, for instance.
It makes me ill.
I watched bits and pieces of the RNC. They are right: help is on the way. I can feel it.
It’s just “THEM” and then there is ” U S “.
Leave it to to a the liberal filth to step way out of their Constitutional boundaries to write “laws” they never had the power to create in the first place. I bet our own stretch mark covered pot bellied pig Lisa Madigan wishes she could do such things.
The truly sad thing about all this, is that not one patriot or oath keeper is standing up to stop this. Where are they in MA? Or is it just a state full of liberals! What about the NRA?! Sam, I want believe that help is on the way, but not sure on that one. Other states will follow this lead, I feel that. Will Trump EO constitutional carry, eliminating permission slips? Or will he get rid of all the anti-gun laws being created? I already know the answer to that, just being wishful. As I have said before, if our founding fathers were alive today, we would already be ass and guts deep in a Revolution! Not one with words, rather one with live rounds heading down range to target. Here is a scary thought…..what if Trump loses!
Whatever happened to our Federal agencies like the BATFE that have been entrusted by Congress to be the sole decider outside of Congress of what is legal and what is not legal according to the guidelines set by Congress? With this kind of lunatic-thinking dictatorial power being usurped by the states, it won’t be long before mommy’s arrested for driving in a school-zone with a HUMVEE look-alike SUV (it has scary-looking doors and 4 wheels?) when they discover little Johnny’s water-blaster that has scary looking features like a pistol grip and sights on it, even though it has a blaze-orange cover over the muzzle.
Our Fore Father’s would have been shooting already!
Seems to me that a couple hundred years ago, some government functionaries took a notion to confiscate the peasants guns and got themselves shot for their trouble, right there in Massachusetts.
I suspect we are not far from those times again, for the same reasons.