If you live in Massachusetts, don’t labor under the misconception that you own your vehicle, or a boat or plane. Under a bill sponsored by a Democrat legislator, the Commonwealth would forbid you from adding a hidden compartment to secure your private property, such as a handgun, money or other valuables.
Designed as an alleged anti-drug law, the bill would punish those who add a hidden compartment after the vehicle is purchased with a two-year mandatory prison sentence, and five years for subsequent offenses.
Even worse, the law would empower police to seize the vehicle under civil forfeiture law. Lawmakers in support of the House bill claim it’s necessary to prosecute the war on drugs. State police officials have endorsed the bill as needed to discourage drug trafficking.
Learn how the bill lessens the burden of proof on the Commonwealth and effectively guts the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that protects citizens from unlawful searches and seizures. The disturbing details can be found on the next page.NEXT PAGE »
That ones heading to SCOTUS too. I wonder if I drive through with my vehicle, registered in another state where it is legal to have such a compartment, would I be a crime for having one driving through Massachusetts?
I’m gonna go get 10 of these for my truck.
Communist plot!
The war on drugs is a fraud anyway. Mena, Arkansas.
Next it will be your house. Priest holes came in pretty handy.
I believe that Boston is even more fucked up than California
“Intent to use” sounds like we can be charged for “thinking about killing someone who harmed your family” and never doing anything about it.
I smell AG Maura Healy.
Now I have to remove my glove compartment.
Kathryn Johnson. How about we take what you have and give it to someone who has less than you. That’s the democrats motto.