Massachusetts politician pushes personal agenda with abuse of her offical powers.

[dalesql]

But she is a democrat, wealthy and powerful. So she probably will avoid prosecution for malfeasance in office. It's all the trend now with Democrat politicians nowadays.

Specifically, today the massachusetts atty. general sent out revised definitions of what constitutes an "assault weapon" to all licensed gun dealers. The first public notice of this proposed change was yesterday. No public comment period, no hearings, no studies, nothing but her personal political agenda to remove all guns from the hands of ordinary decent citizens in this state. Oh yeah, it takes effect immediately. Timed to be released during the RNC convention, when many of the opposition party are out of state. Smooth move there Exlax.

The substance of the change is to add more cosmetic features to the list that defines an assault weapon in this state. Since there is no functional description of what is an assault weapon under the law, what the law lists is a bunch of rifles and pistols by make and model, and a list of various cosmetic features that if the rifle has enough of them, turns it into an assault weapon. So she has taken upon herself to expand the list of features. and try to ram it down the throats of massachusetts gun owners.

I have looked online, all I've seen is some fuzzy scans of the letter so far. No doubt folks who are much better informed will be finding a clear copy and doing the painstaking analysis to try and figure out what the actual effects of the changes will be. Meanwhile, massachusetts gun dealers who had expensive rifles in their stock that were legal to sell yesterday, now have their money sunk into unsellable rifles today. I hope that GOAL or someone files a lawsuit to overturn the order. The basic law was, IMNSHO, unconstitutionally vague, and also pretty clearly violates the Heller and McDonald precedents on the second amendment. This new rule also would constitute an illegal taking under the constitution, considering it's incredibly short notice.

But one of the ways she wants to disarm americans is to drive gun dealers out of business, and I expect that this loss of business and trapping of their capitol will drive a few more of them out of business. Catching them at just the wrong time.

I'm trying not to hate Democrat politicians as a class. But horseshit like this makes it harder and harder not to hate them all.

Comments

[tabbiewolf.livejournal.com]

You know what I hate?

Getting shot. I hear it's often pretty fatal. Not something I want to go through.

[dalesql.livejournal.com]

And if these so called assault weapons were used in more than a very very tiny percentage of all the violent criminal assaults, I may be more open to that argument. if they really were in it to save lives, then they should outlaw swimming pools, drowning is often pretty fatal, and claims way more peoples lives each year. Nor is it something I want me or any of my friends to go through.

[panzier.livejournal.com]

Heya, yes getting shot would suck but it often its not fatal. Statistics used to say across violent firearm encounters, not suicides/accidents/etc, average rounds fired was 3, 20% involved injury and 2% of injuries were fatal. Knives used for violence had 95% injury rate and 60% fatality. The real issue is folks like myself, law abiding people across the state, are being told they are now criminals, who followed the rules and now, are in violation of the law. The principle of this action by the DA is what's really important here. The action, if allowed, says that a states district attorney, can without deliberation or due legislative process, can enact and enforce laws at will in violation of Article 1, section 1 of the US constitution. To have someone, one person unilaterally be able to say, something like 'being gay is now illegal' and have that be enforceable, that's not how a constitutional republic works, what she is doing is violating the most basic tenant of this country.

[donnad.livejournal.com]

And if they make all guns illegal, there will still be illegal guns on the streets, probably more.

I'm with you on this one.

[panzier.livejournal.com]

For good or ill, guns are just tools albeit powerful and sensational. Evil actions come from the hand holding it. The media happily skates over the 100,000 deaths annually from drugs and alcohol as that's the seedy underbelly and would be in conflict with their advertisers wishes.