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 »
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Joe Searcy Massachusetts is a very safe state. Like I said, I have no need for hidden compartments.
Yep!!! Hopefully Diego will get voted in and that$#%&!@*liawatha gets gone for good!!!
You’re a special kind of stupid, aren’t you!!
Another swipe at taking away Constitutional rights! Due process turned on its head and guilty until proven innocent….
The quoted section means that a defendant accused of violating this law is put in the position of having to prove a negative—that the compartment isn’t intended to transport drugs.”
You can’t prove a NEGATIVE!!! Fucking liberal assholes!!!!
Geoffrey Kane doesn’t need one, so nobody else should have one. Written like a true Dem.
Wow! I have a gear shifter EXACTLY like that one! Lol!
It has nothing to do about be a democrat or republican. The NRA and the right wingers screamed that our second amendment rights would be taken away by Obama. Nothing changed. We’ve got much bigger fish to fry than this c**p.
I have an idea go$#%&!@*yourself