Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more absurd… in comes Massachusetts and says, “Hold my beer.”
As if to prove to the world they weren’t quite restrictive enough in their approach to gun laws, Massachusetts recently passed some of the most intrusive and likely unconstitutional, anti-gun laws in the country. And if you believe their legislators (hint - you should), they’re proud of the fact that they did it and know full well they’ll get sued. If only we could all be so cavalier with the use of taxpayer funds to fight lawsuits for things we don’t happen to like or understand.
Massachusetts is already involved in ongoing litigation regarding their previous ban on so-called “assault weapons.” This new effort upped the ante on the rules surrounding that previous legislation and threw in some unconstitutional age-based gun bans, a ban on all magazines over 10 rounds, and while they were at it, put in place some overzealous licensing and training requirements for citizens to be able to even exercise their 2nd Amendment rights. In so doing, Massachusetts will effectively create a searchable database of gun owners, putting gun owner privacy at serious risk. And to cap it all off, if you plan to do business as a retailer in Massachusetts, you’ll have to share with the state a list of every firearm you have in inventory before you’ll even be allowed to sell it. That’s if you don’t go broke because you have a store full of now banned inventory it’s a crime to own. It’s a bureaucratic and policy nightmare. |
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