Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) signed an very extensive package of gun control measures earlier this year – the law will allow police chiefs to ask the courts to deny persons gun rights who the cops feel are unfit.
If you live in Massachusetts be sure not to upset police if you want to keep your guns. So Constitutional rights are now subject to the whims of law enforcement.
The legislation allows police chiefs to ask courts to deny firearms identification cards needed to buy guns to individuals they feel are unfit to obtain them, toughens penalties for some gun-based crimes, creates an online portal for background checks in private gun sales, carves out a firearms trafficking unit within the state’s police department and requires that Massachusetts join the National Instant Background Check System.
Gun control advocates hailed the measures as ones that make Massachusetts “a leader for the rest of the nation.”
“With the stroke of Governor Patrick’s pen today, Massachusetts is now a leader for the rest of the nation in passing common-sense gun reform while continuing to respect the Second Amendment rights we all value,” Molly Malloy, the leader of Massachusetts’ chapter of Moms Demand Action, said in a statement. “The single most effective thing we can do to keep guns out of dangerous hands and reduce the number of Americans killed with guns every day is require criminal background checks on all sales to close the loophole that allows felons, domestic abusers and the dangerously mentally ill to buy guns. Real leadership is what will keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, and we are grateful to have leaders on this issue taking action to protect our families in the commonwealth.”
State lawmakers from both parties agreed on the package of measures in July. The legislation was supported by both gun control advocacy groups and the Massachusetts Gun Owners Action League, though the National Rifle Association opposed the bill, arguing that government officials could abuse new licensing powers created with the legislation.
Businessman Charlie Baker, who is running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination to succeed Patrick, said in a candidate debate Wednesday that he would have signed the package of gun control measures, though he had previously avoided giving a definitive answer on whether he supported the provision allowing police chiefs to deny firearms identification cards to those they consider dangerous.
Patrick, who is considered a rising star within the Democratic Party and a potential future contender for the party’s presidential nomination, has said he will return to the private sector when his gubernatorial term expires in January.
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How can something so unacceptable happen?
say what ya want about rights , with the world as crazy as ever , I have no problem for the law any form of it to control who possesses firearms . All I want is a safer world and whatever it takes is no problem with me
What do you expect? He’s got big brother Obama who dictates how they want to run this country into the ground.
BS
Illegal, but Mass. voted socialist (Dumbocrat), so they get what they asked for.
he forgets who he works for
If a conservative does not want to own a gun, he does not buy one. If a liberal does not want to own a gun, he does not want ANYONE to own one.
there’s always the next election and a new governor and repeal of laws.
LOL whenever they have power they abuse it, the thugs DO NOT get guns lawfully your fuc)(# idiot…so lets keep guns out of the GOOD peoples hands…..the democratic way…well the uneducated, welfare seeking and ILLEGAL MEXICANS are who keep democrats in office…so they are just hurting those who are educated and KNOW THW TRUTH
Well, the people in the state famous for the Boston Tea Party as well as the opening fights of the Revolution have gone from firebrands to pussies and wussies and sheeple. I wonder if it is too late for them to renounce their traitorous past and rejoin the Crown?