Tag: Massachusetts

None Dare Call It Treason

In this bizarre and deeply flawed decision, the Court effectively said governments could ban every handgun make and model but one. [More]

And the cowards in the Senate approved Obama appointee Denise Jefferson Casper of Massachusetts by a voice vote.

[Via Jess]

Another ‘Commonsense Gun Safety’ Success Story

Man dies after being shot during confrontation at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, pond [More]

Wait… I thought “A-rated” Massachusetts had “some of the strongest gun laws in the country and leads the nation in investing in community violence intervention strategies…”

[Via Steve T]

Meanwhile, Over Where the Shot Heard Round the World was Fired…

SAF Challenges Non-Resident Carry Permit Process in Massachusetts [More]

Can you imagine explaining this to Samuel Adams?

[Via Jess]

ALSO from SAF:

The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners secured a major victory today after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a mandate overturning California’s “one-gun-per-month” restriction, setting a historic precedent.

I don’t see a link posted yet, but when it is you should be able to read the whole release here.

As the Amendments Fall

“The right to counsel is not a luxury,” said MACDL President Shira Diner. “It is a bedrock principle of our justice system, guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment and by Article 12 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights. When people are jailed without lawyers, the system ceases to be just—or constitutional.” [More]

Let’s try this again with a few word substitutions:

“The right to arms is not a luxury. It is a bedrock principle of our system, guaranteed by the Second Amendment and by Article 17 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights. When people are disarmed without being adjudicated with full due process and incarcerated, the system ceases to be just—or constitutional.”

[Via Edmund M]

We’re the Only Ones Keepin’ On Trucking Enough

Former Massachusetts state police sergeant found guilty of taking bribes to pass commercial drivers [More]

Lotta “Only Ones” posts today, no? Honest, I don’t go looking for these.

[Via Michael G]

As long as we’re talking about “Only Ones” in Massachussetts, WarOnGuns Correspondent Edmund M sends a reminder of our place:

https://www.mass.gov/how-to/apply-for-a-firearms-license

In a comment to article on boston.com on fraud within a Boston NPO, a reader recommended that others apply for a Massachusetts License to Carry Firearms (LTC) so that they could better exercise their right to self defense. A Massachusetts LTC is required to purchase or possess a firearm unless the gun owner is in transit through the state and has the firearm and ammo in a locked enclosure. Stop and stay? Felony arrest for possession of a firearm without a valid LTC with a possible mandatory one year minimum incarceration if found guilty. What is not obvious from the instructions is that a resident LTC is multi year while a nonresident LTC is for one year only. As a former Massachusetts resident who possessed and renewed a resident LTC several times, I know that that the right to keep and bear arms is not a right but a heavily taxed privilege with a higher rate of taxation for nonresidents. Even resident retired LEO possessors of a LEOSA issued license pay a tax, although at a discounted rate compared to other residents.

My friends and family in Massachusetts do not understand why I minimize my visits. Short of a SCOTUS decision that all licensing schemes by the various states are unconstitutional, null and void, I await Federal reciprocity legislation but fully expect Democrat Party controlled Massachusetts to pass some reactionary measures.

The government maintained site is defective as it does not specify that non-resident licenses are for one year only.

I do not recall that the U.S. Constitution with the Bill of Rights has so many categories for rights that in reality are taxable privileges at various rates that the government may or may not dispense once you pay the non-refundable tax. As a right, there should not be taxation or multiple categories of taxation. The majority of states already are in alignment with this by not requiring state or Commonwealth issued licenses or permits.

$100 per year is ornerous and is another argument for passage of reciprocity legislation at worst or for the SCOTUS to decide that all firearm licensing and permitting schemes are unconstitutional and thus null and void.

If any state or Commonwealth imposed these type of conditions, restrictions and fees before citizens were allowed to vote then there would be vigorous and loud opposition.

Forgetting Something?

SJC rules Massachusetts’ nonresident gun laws are legal after post-Bruen changes [More]

I take it no one argued Dred Scott…?

“It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased… and to keep and carry arms wherever they went.”

[Via Jess]

De-Authorized Journalists

Everett mayor wins $1.1M in defamation settlement, local paper agrees to shut down – Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria alleged The Everett Leader Herald knowingly fabricated quotes and published false accusations against him. [More]

The guy’s a goddam gun-grabber and they gotta make stuff up about him? That’s gotta be a real Democrat dilemma, when you can’t go after him for what he’s really guilty of because you share that agenda.

[Via Edmund M]

Gun Prohibitionist Warren Shows Creepy Hypocrisy by Minimizing CEO’s Assassination

The unfortunate CEO is a bellwether of what’s coming if Marxist citizen disarmers have their way. Elizabeth Warren and fellow gun prohibitionists are clearing that way. [More]

What’s the difference between mainstream Massachussetts Democrats and in-your-face Marxists?

Asking for a friend?