OPEN SEASON: Firearms fee an attempt to subvert gun rights
July 20, 2008 6:00 AM
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Gov. Deval Patrick filed a special appropriations bill for fiscal year 2008 that would drastically increase the fees for certain firearm licenses. The cost of the License to Carry Firearms would double under the proposal, jumping from $100 (for six years) to $200 (for six years). The non-resident License to Carry Firearms fee would jump from $100 for one year to $250 for one year.
Licensed firearm dealers will also feel the bite as their license fees would be increased from $100 for three years to $250. The governor then adds a $100 inspection fee in the second and third years of the license, which would turn the current $100 three-year dealer’s license into a $450 three-year license.
State sees economics of gay marriage
Senate to vote on repeal of 1913 ban on out-of-staters
Morality, personal liberty, and constitutional law have been the usual battlegrounds in the fight over gay marriage. Now Governor Deval Patrick’s administration is injecting something a bit more pedestrian to the debate: economic development.
A study conducted for the state’s Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development predicts that an economic boomlet in hotel bookings, banquets, and wedding cakes would result from repealing a 1913 state law that prevents gay and lesbian couples from most other states from marrying in Massachusetts.
Duh? Scumbag to protect his own?