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 »
Typical of a DemonRat state.
Does moonshine count ?
You are an idiot and a tool ms transgender Johnson
Y’all need to get the hell out of that God-forsaken communist friggin state while you still can.
Having what? Stupid click bait
Don’t you and Barney Frank hide your poppers?
Who the Hell wants to live in a state that would elect Barney Frank? It just sucks.
This is a really big over reach.
Am I the only one who thinks this? It’s so broadly written that perfectly innocent people, plus useful and even essential means to protect expensive electronics, catch the eye of a cop and suddenly their car and possessions are being sold in auction to cops!! Shock.
Plus a lot of people buy used cars. I wouldn’t even know how to check to know if a car has any special compartment add ons. And what about the extra fuel tanks I have had on SUVs in order to be able to pull a boat to the lake and back for long weekends or summer trips?
But based on this broad wording I would lose it all …. Any cop could simply keep track of a cars vin they suspect was modified for smuggling….then just look it up on the VIN database to see who most recently bought it….seize it for auction and buy it cheap for himself or his kid.
This is getting out of control.
Bureaucratic over regulations are strangling our freedoms.
Massachusetts is a$#%&!@*run state
STFU!