Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed the state's latest anti-bruen tantrum bill last week, with a headline claiming the new gun control laws will “save lives.”
Massachusetts prides itself on its strong gun control laws, but there is still much work to be done to protect our communities from violence.
This bill would reform our nation's firearms laws in response to the Supreme Court's erroneous Bruen decision.
This bill will address the issues I've long advocated for, crack down on ghost guns and 3D printed weapons, increase our ability to keep guns out of dangerous hands, and invest in communities to address the root causes of violence.
This legislation will save lives, and I thank Congress and gun safety advocates for their work to pass it.
A patchwork of new laws
Packed with gun control and habeas corpus dreams, this 116-page miscellaneous bill will likely endanger the lives of innocent, now unarmed Bay State residents rather than save lives. Criminals who once assumed their victims were armed and able to defend themselves against attack will now see them as defenseless prey and therefore vulnerable to predation.
This miscellaneous provision not only extends and expands the state's already long list of Second Amendment violations, but also adds new crimes.
The bill would expand the state's ban on so-called assault weapons, completely ban the possession of LCMs (large capacity magazines) that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition, expand the definition of “prohibited zones” (i.e. “gun-free zones”), add new training requirements for people seeking a permit to carry a concealed firearm, ban the manufacture, possession, sale, or transfer of so-called ghost guns, prohibit the use of 3D printers to manufacture ghost guns, expand the ban on “automatic parts” – any device that can modify a semi-automatic firearm so that it can fire multiple rounds with a single press of the trigger – and expand the number of people who can request the confiscation of a firearm under the state's “red flag” law to include physicians, RNs, LPNs, CNPs, psychiatrists, mental health workers, school principals or vice principals, and university administrators. The bill would convene a “task force” to study “emerging firearm technologies” and recommend additional regulations or restrictions to the Legislature as they evolve. It would create a new crime of discharging a firearm into an occupied building. It would require states' current firearms registries to provide their information to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and expand the federal agency's already unconstitutional registry of lawful firearm owners.
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John Rosenthal, founder of Stop Handgun Violence, repeated the falsehood that these additional regulations and restrictions on state law-abiding citizens would somehow save lives. He said the new gun control laws “effectively close dangerous loopholes in existing laws, saving countless lives and endless grief from preventable gun violence, without causing any inconvenience to law-abiding gun owners and athletes like me.” (Emphasis added)
“We are pleased to see that this legislation has been adopted by more than 10,000 Americans,” said Jim Wallace, executive director of the Gun Owners Action Alliance (GOAL).
(The new law) is just a tantrum over the Bruen Supreme Court decision. The people in power who supported this stupid law couldn't stand being told they were wrong by the Bruen Supreme Court, and now they're angry.
In fact, when Bruen's sentence was handed down two years ago, Governor Healey called it a “grave danger to the American people” and a “misjudgment.”
The Gun Owners Action League is preparing to sue Healey over the law, as is the National Rifle Association, and Gun Owners of America (GOA) is also considering a similar lawsuit.
Tyrants who oppose private ownership of firearms use the excuse of “saving lives” as a cover to hide their real purpose: disarming the population to prevent resistance to their planned tyranny. No one willingly boards a boxcar bound for a death camp; they must first be disarmed.
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