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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That is how Hitler started ————
BS!
Brought to you by the same a-holes who kill the family dog, stomp on the homeless, batter the elderly, murder the young…
Like the good leftist he is, this governor adheres strongly to Obama’s assertion that us peons, us regular people, should not be allowed to own guns. And of course this “law” is just the first step in his quest to confiscate all guns from citizens. This tracks perfectly with the DHS efforts to militarize all our police forces, even in small cities and towns, to ready them for the big confiscatory exercise that may soon be coming. When you can’t protect yourself, who’s going to protect you from the police? Or the government?
HA HA HA , GOOD LUCK, SHALL NOT INFRINGE $#%&!@*S..
WDC had an aggressive Gun registration program for 3 or 4 years, the next year… DC came out and said “We know who has guns… bring them in to we will raid you homes, confiscate the guns, and arrest you.
No gun bill like this is a good sign… and just what “feeling” prevents you from getting a permit?
Wow… This is the start of something horrible.
Most police are unfit!
“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.”
— Thomas Jefferson
The government was set to protect man from criminals – and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
– Ayn Rand