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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MORE LIARS, who took an oath to keep and protect and protect the people…Taking a report of a crime already committed isn’t protection, it is pencil pushing like tiny secretary’s…
this is wrong again.
police states coming??
what constitution, they skip around it any way they can, this bill, like so many others are completely illegal,and i wouldnt in any way trust law enforcment
wrong.
John Adams is probably screaming in rage
Socialist, police stated is coming. BEWARE AMERICA
Let you go forth and take the guns from the bad guys before you mess with or even come close to taking from the good first. PERIOD!
Gotta love the south good luck taking our guns. You people up north just let them walk on your rights. Sad. Take Chicago guns are illegal but gun violence is so bad it’s nicknamed chiraq. So what does that tell you. Hmmmmmm doesn’t take a rocket scientist. If you remove guns from the hands of the good the only ones with guns are who. Say it with me now the OUTLAWS you f-in morons. Outlaws don’t follow laws. So let the people protect themselves it is or at least was y’all’s right.
That’s why I love Texas. I can carry my weapon in plain view and no one can tell me $#%&!@*.