Posted on 08/19/2016 5:48:23 AM PDT by marktwain
The firearm industry group, based in Newtown, Conn., said it retained former U.S. attorney Michael Sullivan for the lawsuit, which will attack Healey’s interpretation of the statute that could be used to ban the sale of all semiautomatic guns.Healey has drawn considerable criticism for the move, which was done while the legislature was adjourned. She had not approached the legislature previously with any suggestions for changing the law.
Keane declined to detail the plans for the lawsuit and to name other parties joining the industry group’s legal fight, but he expects others to file lawsuits as well.
“For 20 years the requirements of the act were well understood by industry and consumers exercising their Second Amendment rights in the state of Massachusetts,” Keane said. “This attorney general, for purely political reason to advance her career, has chosen to trample on the rights of law-abiding citizens.”
“It’s going to take a lawsuit to put a stay on it, and it will take a change in legislation that we can get done next session,” Diehl said. He said about 100 state lawmakers from both parties have lined up against Healey’s crackdown.The Massachusetts legislature is heavily Democrat, currently 126 out of 160 in the House, and 34 out of 40 in the Senate. Bills have to move through the Democrat leadership, so it is uncertain whether such a bill would be able to gain traction. As a counterweight, legislators do not like to have their authority and power undercut by an Attorney General acting unilaterally.
If they do, it’ll be largely because they don’t want the AG to set a precedent of being able to strip away their power.
Learned a new word today.
A legitimate DOJ would prosecute every elected official that pushes gun control for violating the constitutional rights of its citizens. It must by the tyrant DNA in the gun grabbers system that makes them want to control objects instead of behavior.
It should be no concern to the government if I own a .50BMG pocket Glock AR-47 with a million round magazine clip and a silencer with a tripod, night vision radar and a high capacity bayonet. It’s what I do with it that matters.
BTW - If the leftie media read my gun description, I am sure they will start building support for a ban.
amen to that...
pre crime should not be the deciding factor in a free society...
yelling fire in a crowded theatre only has an effect on those who do not know the situation they are in or their responsibility to do such... ie, no smoke, no heat, no fire...
fourteenth amendment section 3.3 I believe.
pre crime would be yelling that there will be a fire in the theater.
Baning?
she looks like a lesbian in that picture.
Nailed it. IS a lesbian.
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