10/05/2024
This is commentary on an online article about the recent MA gun law HB-4885, which in my opinion is an all out attack on gun owners, not just in MA but also in the neighboring states.
"What we have witnessed in MA regarding HB-4885 is shameful. The legislature back in the summer of 2023 tried to pass an even worse version then, when most people enjoying the warm weather and summer vacations don’t pay too much attention. If not for G.O.A.L. sounding the alert, it could have been much worse. With this current version, many legislators were given very little time at all to read and digest what was there and the potential effects it would have. After passing both bodies, much of the reconciled language was done in secret, with no public access to even watch what was being discussed and then rammed thru with the Governor signing just a short time later. I would like to know where the so-call “public emergency” was Maura Healey referred to in signing the emergency preamble to the law. There wasn’t one two months ago and there isn’t one now. The fact is, gun owners had already obtained the necessary signatures to have a recall of the law on the Nov. 2026 ballot and were also approaching the threshold to suspend the law as well. The Governor and the rest of the Progressive leftists were not going to allow that to happen as you all have witnessed. Despite her denial that she didn’t do it to simply to stop them, nobody except the biased press and other far left progressives are buying it. So much for protecting Democracy. MA gun owners & other registered voters were exercising their rights under the law to address the serious concerns they had about it and to suspend it until all the voters in MA could cast their votes to keep or not. The Governor nullified those rights with the stroke of a pen. Thousands of hunters and other gun owners in MA that lawfully possessed semi-auto rifles/shotguns with an FID card previously, are now potential felons because the new law requires owners of any semi-auto fi****ms to have an actual LTC to possess them. It is also now illegal for any RI gun owner to participate in the shooting sports in MA unless they also have a MA non-resident LTC and have also registered any guns they intend to bring with the State of MA. Problem with that is there is currently no way to register as a non-resident. It is the opinion of many that Maura Healey has abused her authority under MA law and hopefully when she is sued in federal court, the court rules against her and suspends this abomination before otherwise innocent people have their lives ruined by progressive ideology."
John Francis
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