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Did Healey’s gun ban backfire? (2,251 Armalite Rifles's sold in one day)
Boston Globe ^

Posted on 07/23/2016 3:49:01 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA

NATICK — Massachusetts gun dealers sold more than 2,000 military-style rifles Wednesday — nearly one-quarter of the total sold last year — after Attorney General Maura Healey moved to bar semiautomatic rifles that have been altered slightly to evade the state’s assault weapons ban.

The 2,251 assault rifles snapped up in a gun-buying frenzy represented a remarkable uptick from the 132 sold Tuesday and the 51 sold Monday, before Healey announced her ban. The numbers were first reported by Commonwealth Magazine.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; ma; massachusetts; maurahealey
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This will be overturned in court. In the meantime, record numbers of the guns hated by liberals are sold.

Liberals truly ae retarded.

1 posted on 07/23/2016 3:49:02 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

I would bet that a real percentage of the guns were sold to liberals.


2 posted on 07/23/2016 3:52:36 AM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: Red in Blue PA

That’s what we hoped in NY too but it never came. We are still waiting for sanity to return.


3 posted on 07/23/2016 3:53:17 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: immadashell

I would take that bet!!!!


4 posted on 07/23/2016 3:56:02 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: Red in Blue PA

There was a time when the catholic Church would instruct their followers on what they could read and see at the movies. They would “ban” a book such as “Peyton Place” or a movie such as the one in which Bridget Bardot made her debut because it was to explicit sexually.

The result of this was obvious. the book became a number 1 best seller and the movie broke box office records and made a star out of Bardot.

We see the same thing happening here when these weapons were banned in MA.


5 posted on 07/23/2016 3:58:23 AM PDT by billyboy15
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I bought mine years ago.

This woman is an idiot.


6 posted on 07/23/2016 4:15:37 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who died.)
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To: Red in Blue PA
If Hillary is able to steal the presidential election from Trump the amount of gun sales she will precipitate will make this look like a drop of water in the ocean.

She will easily surpass King Barack Obama as the greatest gun salesman of all time.

Imagine this lard-butt Troll as president:


7 posted on 07/23/2016 4:22:39 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: immadashell
I would bet that a real percentage of the guns were sold to liberals.

A lot of Massachusetts shooters will reflexively fill in the circle for the D on the ballot. Most people vote out of habit, without giving it any real thought. Most people don't weigh arguments and positions, they look for confirmation bias and vote their prejudices and preconceived opinions. Grandma couldn't join the same club as Henry Cabot Lodge, but the Kennedys were Catholic, therefore Republicans bad, Democrats good.

They aren't ideologically liberal, they are reflexively anti-Republican.

8 posted on 07/23/2016 4:24:28 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

The whole thing sounds gay to me.

9 posted on 07/23/2016 4:30:40 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Iron Munro

She looks like Jiminy Glick in that video.


10 posted on 07/23/2016 4:36:24 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: Red in Blue PA

If the weapons can not be “sold”, how about giving one away with a specially packaged -and priced- quantity of compatible ammo?

Does her edict perhaps miss this loophole?


11 posted on 07/23/2016 4:43:48 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (No such thing as micromanagement...It's usually microMISmanagement)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Another 2-3 battalions of militia.


12 posted on 07/23/2016 4:50:00 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Hank Jr. - (One of the great observers of human nature)

"My shades are chrome
My guitar is steel
If you think I won't
Then believe me, I will"

13 posted on 07/23/2016 4:54:08 AM PDT by shibumi (Just a Bias-Ply Guy in a Steel Radial World)
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Maura Healey may just have stock in the company making those knock-off rifles and thought an increase in sales was needed. Obviously it worked.


14 posted on 07/23/2016 4:58:01 AM PDT by DaveA37
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...that have been altered slightly to evade comply with the state’s assault weapons ban.

Fixed it.

15 posted on 07/23/2016 5:00:44 AM PDT by Dilbert56
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Even if the majority of the nation passes a constitutional amendment to ban something that NATURAL LAW and COMMON SENSE say otherwise, the people will find a way to do exactly that times ten. Now being illegal, behaviors associated with this illogical illegality will also abound, which will be another degree of other illegal activity. Such a bootlegging, speak-easy’s and rum-running. the justice system will be so clogged that it will become paralyzed so for other real serious crimes there will no law enforcement resources left to go after those infractions. The whole system implodes.

What happened with prohibition.


16 posted on 07/23/2016 5:08:40 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: Iron Munro

If Hillary takes the whitehouse you will see the rise of the American Militia.


17 posted on 07/23/2016 5:12:07 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Sounds like it may have been a good day for Armalite, but I suspect that the clueless reporter and editor(s) wouldn’t know an Armalite from a Colt from a AK-47. Etc.


18 posted on 07/23/2016 5:12:42 AM PDT by Afterguard (Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long as it's mandatory.)
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To: Iron Munro

Imagine this lard-butt Troll as president

No, please! I just ate breakfast!


19 posted on 07/23/2016 5:14:14 AM PDT by Duckdog (If your not on a government list, Whats wrong with you!)
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To: immadashell

If I were in a position to invest in companies, where my official actions and or words would drive my own personal profits ....... I’d do so “only” if I was a liberal socialist piece of shit democrat progressive hillary backing polidiot.......


20 posted on 07/23/2016 5:14:58 AM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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