Posted on 01/19/2013 5:29:49 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Because you can never have too many laws, regulations and mandates, Massachusetts State Representative David Linsky has filed a new bill that would, among other things, force gun owners to undergo mental health background checks, acquire liability insurance, pay an additional 25% tax on all forms of ammunition, and require firearms categorized as “assault weapons” to be stored outside of their homes and only at government approved storage depots.
Provisions in the bill include:
Having one standard of the issuance of all gun licenses, giving local police chiefs the ability to evaluate all aspects of an application for a gun license.
Requires proof of liability insurance for possession of a firearm, rifle or shotgun.
Requires that all large capacity weapons and grandfathered assault weapons must be stored at gun clubs or target ranges.
Requires live shooting as part of the curriculum for a basic firearms safety course; this is not a current requirement.
Requires all applicants for gun licenses and FID cards to sign a waiver of mental health records for review to be destroyed after decision.
Imposes 25% sales tax on ammunition, firearms, shotguns, and rifles; dedicates funds towards firearms licensing, police training, mental health services, and victim’s services.
Brings Massachusetts into compliance with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
Limits gun buyers to one firearm purchase per month.
(Excerpt) Read more at shtfplan.com ...
Storing guns in a government storage facility is confiscation.
Doesn’t the name Custer mean anything to these jokers?
This will do nothing to deter criminal activity in the state of Massachsetts and may even encourage it..
ARs which really are machine guns are already stored in NG armories so he must mean hunting rifles. Now this anti-hunting clown who is probably a vegan wants rifles, shot guns, and hand guns, to be stored at NG armories or away from owners direct control and gun owner hunters to pay extra insurance, and extra dedicated taxes (beside sales tax) kinda like the road taxes that get diverted to the general fund. The revenues from which wouldn’t cover the need for the extra facilities and manpower needed to run these “ NG storage units” for all this stuff.
It’s another attempt to blame gun owners using the 2nd amendment argument to blame gun owners for those in control and running the state inability to deal with the hundreds of gangland murders and shootings commited in areas under their solid control using illegally obtained firearms. Their solution is to seize and deny guns to those who have legally obtained them .
The Liberty Tree in Mass. is in need of a heavy watering.
Agree.
Too lazy or fearful to come and take them, they want us to bring them to them? Gee, and I didn’t think they had a sense of humor.
Massachusetts sounds like a land that needs liberating from the Stalinists who run it.
I might agree to this if dims/libs were put there.
There’s a man with a fail safe PLAN!! Treat all citizens as incipient, if not actual, felons.
Uh huh - and I’m sure that everyone who owns an “assault weapon” will meekly comply. I assume that the ultimate purpose of this crap is to turn otherwise law-abiding citizens into criminals that can be rounded up....
The states, but not the federal government, have always had the right to order “military grade” weapons to be stored in armories within their jursidiction. In addition, a local government, as well as a county government, may so order as long as these government’s orders do not conflict with their parent state.
The principle and practice of such storage, was grandfathered into the rights of the states and of the people of the states, from the militia laws of old.
A basic reason why the states have such power, is for organization - the people have the right to know the readily available martial power of their local, county, and state militia, by virtue of ordnance - what is its status.
That the federal government would attempt to seize any of these state (and within state) armories ... THEN we know the time has come to Call the Muster, because the federal government made the long-recognized first move.
In addition, there is a related matter having to do with how egregious New York State has been regarding people passing thru or visiting that state.
PROPERLY, what NY should do, is require that a gun be stored with the local armory ... and picked up on the way out of town. INSTEAD OF ARRESTING THE CCW CARRIER and making a big liberal media show of it.
Yes, these restrictions are a pain, but they DO NOT infringe on our right to keep and bear Arms, because the storage issue -— singled out of the news story above -— is part of the practice of being well-disciplined:
We have to be able and willing to demonstrate, that as a keeping and bearer of Arms, despite our displeasure, we are answerable to local, county, and state legislative bodies, in regard to how we exercise individual use as well as martial power when mustered.
The short of it is: That the people should not be alarmed by those who are disciplined at, and in, keeping and bearing Arms.
The badge on the uniform of a law enforcement officer within the state, does not make the sidearm safe.
It is wrong to assume that badge makes the gun safe.
It is wrong to assume that people who keep and bear Arms are not safe.
What makes both safe, is discipline.
We presume that the badge means that the LEO attends to discipline, but we as people must demonstrate that we, too, attend to the discipline.
What wounds most of us, tens of millions of us, is that we do attend to the discipline, but the leftists hell bent on establishing a police state, would have the people believe that ONLY THAT BADGE MAKES THE GUN SAFE!
If the local government’s legislative body (town council) ask you to store your “military grade” weapons in the town armory, you need to do that. You are demonstrating that you are determined to attend to the discipline and set the minds of your neighbors at ease.
You still can have your shotgun and hunting rifle and sidearm ... but if “military grade” means semi-automatic rifle - as was the case of the M1 Garand - then it goes in the armory. You get to retrieve it and use it, but it’s stored in the armory.
The federal gov’t has no right to infringe on your access to your M1 Garand, but your state laws can require you to store that “military grade” rifle where the state needs you to keep it.
How can any free person stand to live in that socialist hell?
bear arms meant own and carry including across state lines....
as far as keeping any
‘military grade” arms in a govt controlled armory, that defeates my right of self defense against a tyrannical govt.
as an option at my choosing-ok but not a requirement. if the police can have it so should I
“If the local government’s legislative body (town council) ask you to store your “military grade” weapons in the town armory, you need to do that. You are demonstrating that you are determined to attend to the discipline and set the minds of your neighbors at ease.
You still can have your shotgun and hunting rifle and sidearm ... but if “military grade” means semi-automatic rifle - as was the case of the M1 Garand - then it goes in the armory. You get to retrieve it and use it, but it’s stored in the armory.”
Complete and utter rubbish. If it is mine, it stays with me, period. If it belongs to the government, then they can store it and issue it as they please.
The law would violate the firearms protection act and if it passes I will file a lawsuit on those grounds (and others).
[[Because you can never have too many laws, regulations and mandates, Massachusetts State Representative David Linsky has filed a new bill that would, among other things, force gun owners to undergo mental health background checks, acquire liability insurance, pay an additional 25% tax on all forms of ammunition, and require firearms categorized as “assault weapons” to be stored outside of their homes and only at government approved storage depots.]]
How do you liek your reprsentatives now massaschussettes? Keep hiring htese thugs- but don’t whine to us when they trample your constitutional rights into the ground- Especially IF you’re gong to refuse to stand up for yourself agaisnt the tyranny of your local govenrment
In other news, massw, ny and washington all think owning and using Kassam rockets is just fine and need no regulation- especially if firing on innocent civilians- they must approve because noone from those states speaks out agaisnt hte palestinians for firing on jews- so I would assume they approve of rockets (unless you happen to be jewish- then thats’ a different story)- so when guns are banned, rockets will be still be allowed I guess
I think they Left the first letter “A” off his last name “Linsky”.
Just another Assachusetts red causing trouble. I think we got the state colors wrong re politics. Massachusetts is definitely a “RED” state. Their colleges provided the Soviets with more spies than almost any other one (New York is probably the later).
Nuff said!
Firearms were stored at Concord Mass in 1775 and the Brits tried to seize them. We know how that turned out.
Gen Gage also ordered the private arms of Bostonians to be collected and stored in Faneuil Hall. They were then seized and not returned.
Talk about infringing!
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