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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Commie bull$#%&!@* !
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The law is not Constitutional and the Massachusetts Gov. along with the once that wrote the law have committed treason and show be huge by the neck until dead, dead, dead then tared run out of the USA on a blank .
So even if some one has charges in his past the police can say he’s ok ! He can have a gun I no he’s ok he’s my brother- in- law that’s not good !!!
America you need to get your $#%&!@* together…..we need to eliminate these pieces of $#%&!@* any way possible….they need to be exterminated or they are going to destroy your and my country…..get your weapons America….you gonna need them.
u have not the power to judge me.
The 2nd Amendment is a right not given to the cops whom they decide who and not who gets a gun. This is B.S.!
Try it.