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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I am starting to wonder about the police there. I understand that police officers are supposed to be schooled in the constitution. It was sad to hear a reporter questioning these police officers about the requirements associated with getting a permit. He said the second amendment was for when he British where coming and does not apply to us in this day and age.
Obviously this guy has no earthly understanding of our constitution and should move to Afghanistan.
criminals won’t give a rat’s a–
the kkk was democrat
Think the people of Mass need to remember bunker/breeds hill and what happened there.
That is not Constitutional. The Constitution all ready lays out who can and who can not own a firearm. The Constitution is clear in it’s writing of all US citizens no matter age, race, gender. or religion has the right to own a firearm. Making up laws that are illegal in the attempt to control any ones right is treason to the government of We The People. Any citizen living in Massachusetts has the right to arrest Gov. Deval Patrick on the grounds of willfully attempting to commit terrorist act’s an treason a pond the citizens of Massachusetts. We The People government with elected workers of said government. The elected need learn they work for We The People not them-self’s.
Hell no!
This is not right
false flaggy hook worked
“We the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts–not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
-Abraham Lincoln