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 »
These people are nuts.
Massachusetts legislators should be ashamed of themselves for even proposing such legislation!
If I bought a new truck and put a aluminum tool box on it it would fall under this law good thing I live in Texas instead of one of those communist states
Got to be f**e otherwise who could live in a state like that?
Eddy Wood politicians should be subject to random drugscreen!
yes something in the order of the patriot act!!!
what about W’s patriot act?
Some commie$#%&!@*there !
Under socialism there is not personal property or the rights that go with it.
Fucking hell, are the auto makers being required to sell different models of vehicles in these dumb$#%&!@*states? My wife’s jeep has a hidden compartment in the console that only the drivers key can open, the thing came that way, if a state has a problem with that they need to make it known before a vehicle is sold in their state. I mean, they could use common sense, but liberal states have proven thats not possible.