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Massachusetts' Plan to Ban, Confiscate Firearms, Ammunition
Gun Owners Action League | 1/25/13 | Wallace

Posted on 01/25/2013 1:30:57 PM PST by pabianice

Our Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms is under attack on many fronts.

Governor Deval Patrick, Representative David Linsky (D) Natick, and many others are in the process of, or already have filed new legislation which will severely restrict our second amendment rights while doing NOTHING to solve any real issues.

Once again our state legislators are committing "Blame and Punishment" of Massachusetts gun owners.

Among the many things our legislators are proposing:

10 round magazines loaded with more than 7 rounds, punishable by more than two years in jail.

Magazines containing more than 10 rounds, punishable by up to 10 years in jail.

Potential confiscation of lawfully purchased long guns and high capacity magazines (greater than 10 round capacity).

A complete ban on semi-automatic rifles with certain cosmetic features. (AR type rifles)

Up to 2 ½ years in jail for receiving more than 1 gun or magazine in a 30-day period.

Mandatory large capacity guns storage at gun clubs instead of in home.

Lawful private sales recorded on FA-10 forms will no longer be allowed.

Ban "high power" ammunition. (there's been no definition provided as to what that is)

Expanding local licensing authorities discretion to deny or restrict licenses to all guns including FID cards.

Mandatory insurance for all firearms owners. (see link for more info)

New proposed sales tax aimed at firearms/ammo purchase. (this has not been clarified)

Mental and physical health waivers to be signed upon applying for a gun license

Creating new crimes of assault with a firearm that requires no physical action by the lawful possessor


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 2damendment; banglist; domesticenemy; guncontrol; secondamendment
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To: pabianice

Anyone out there detected any “lines in the sand” yet?

No? Didn’t think so. Sorry to interrupt the posting.


21 posted on 01/25/2013 2:15:32 PM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: pabianice

As they continue to destroy this country, they are begging for a Civil War.

I am a peaceful guy and I believe that most conservatives are, but there is a breaking point and it could be around the next bend.


22 posted on 01/25/2013 2:16:45 PM PST by Gator113 (Leave my guns alone and REGISTER THE DAMN LIBERALS!!)
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To: pabianice

No insurance company is going to offer insurance. That means that this is equivalent to confiscation.

Notice how they are quick to create new crimes. Notice how eager they are to put innocent people in jail for what is not now a “crime.”

Notice how they don’t give one flying $h!i+ about taking guns from violent criminals.


23 posted on 01/25/2013 2:17:45 PM PST by I want the USA back
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To: sten
I was going to say that they're trying to turn the Minute Man into the Hour Man.

-PJ

24 posted on 01/25/2013 2:18:47 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: pabianice

Deval Patrick=a feral black in a suit.


25 posted on 01/25/2013 2:25:56 PM PST by Gator113 (Leave my guns alone and REGISTER THE DAMN LIBERALS!!)
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To: southernindymom

I guess some people like high taxes and oppressive leftist governments. I have been up and down both coasts and to all points in between. Massachusetts would be the last coastal state I would want to end up in. Similarly, California is beautiful but it just isn’t worth it. I would take southwestern deserts over Massachusetts beaches every time.


26 posted on 01/25/2013 2:27:17 PM PST by RC one (.From My Cold Dead Hands.)
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To: Salamander

I would side with Guns N’ Roses.


27 posted on 01/25/2013 2:29:06 PM PST by Gator113 (Leave my guns alone and REGISTER THE DAMN LIBERALS!!)
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To: pabianice

I’m sure the criminals that actually commit genuine gun crimes will comply.

You know, they’ve complied all along with the mountains of gun laws already passed.

this is just disarmament under the guise of ‘safety’ or ‘regulation’.


28 posted on 01/25/2013 2:31:04 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: I want the USA back

“No insurance company is going to offer insurance. That means that this is equivalent to confiscation.”

I agree. But what Linsky and Patrick know is that this amounts to a poll tax. In order for you to exercise your rights they would require you to pay a tax in the form of an insurance policy that would be unfair if no one could pay it. If I required an insurance policy for every person who would say or write something in a public forum, I would also be violating the constitution under the first amendment.

Whether or not a person chooses to exercise a right or not is up to that person. But a government that charges a fee or has some litmus test for a person to exercise their right, whether or not they choose to do so, is violating the law.

Patrick and Linsky know this and what they are doing is simply shameless political theatrics that are going to cost a lot of people a lot of money.

This should get interesting.


29 posted on 01/25/2013 2:41:10 PM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: TexasRedeye
Hope you meant that. We're heading that direction when we can get everything here sold.

So many healthcare jobs in the metroplex area, and housing looks wonderfully affordable to us.

30 posted on 01/25/2013 2:46:19 PM PST by MarMema
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To: I want the USA back
How soon we forget the speed with which Stalin's Soviet Union "imprisoned half the European continent," said Jennifer Siegel in The Wall Street Journal.

A book I just ordered, but the quote keeps coming to mind lately.

31 posted on 01/25/2013 2:49:01 PM PST by MarMema
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To: pabianice

And to think that the militia in Lexington, Mass once fought the government for trying to seize their guns.


32 posted on 01/25/2013 2:49:19 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There is no requirement to show need in order to exercise your rights.)
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To: reg45
Ironic for a state that celebrates the battles of Lexington and Concord on the third Monday in April - Patriot’s Day.

They should move the celebration to the first of the month, since they no longer take freedom seriously.

33 posted on 01/25/2013 2:56:30 PM PST by Pollster1
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To: Gator113

L.A. Guns?

Velvet Revolver?

;]


34 posted on 01/25/2013 3:02:33 PM PST by Salamander (Do not remove this tagline under penalty of law.)
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To: MarMema
So many healthcare jobs in the metroplex area, and housing looks wonderfully affordable to us.

I DO mean that! And come on into the Metroplex (or Metromess as we call it). The only people who don't have a job are those who don't want one.

35 posted on 01/25/2013 3:19:11 PM PST by TexasRedeye (Eschew obfuscation.)
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To: sten

36 posted on 01/25/2013 3:28:16 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: RC one

Personally, I’d take the loss and move...

Been there, Done that...

For me, it was the Gay Marriage thang.

Plus, the LifeTime FID Card, which suddenly became a “Renewable” FID Card.

You can’t even “TOUCH” a pistol at a gun store without a CCW, which is arbitrarily issued by the Chief of Police of your town...


37 posted on 01/25/2013 3:30:14 PM PST by Paisan
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To: Pollster1
On Patriots' Day, the NRA should present all the Massachusetts legislators and state executives with red coats.


38 posted on 01/25/2013 3:34:20 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: pabianice

Bump for later


39 posted on 01/25/2013 3:38:25 PM PST by painter (Obamahood,"Steal from the working people and give to the worthless.")
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To: reg45
Ironic for a state that celebrates the battles of Lexington and Concord on the third Monday in April - Patriot’s Day.

Oh it is worse, they have an old Flint Lock hanging on the wall way up high @ the State House. The Ship Dits putt a bleeping trigger lock on it. You have no idea of the Socialist Minds in Mass...

40 posted on 01/25/2013 3:41:34 PM PST by taildragger (( Tighten the 5 point harness and brace for Impact Freepers, ya know it's coming..... ))
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