Mass Attorney General Brutally Cracks Down On Gun Ownership — Not A Repeat Of April 19, 1775

By James England

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS — Attorney General Maura Healy must not be a student of history or surely she would have stopped to think of the ramifications for instituting an unprecedented gun ban for so-called “copy-cat” assault weapons. Yet, here we are. And politicians are scrambling to virtue signal that they don’t agree with it — but they’re going to go through with it anyways.

via the Boston Herald

“There are a lot of Democrats who aren’t happy with her decision, but they don’t want to come out against one of the party leaders,” said state Rep. Colleen Garry (D-Dracut), one of 58 lawmakers who signed onto a letter opposing Healey’s ban.

The gun ban went into effect in July and it affects so called “copy-cat” rifles which are compliant with Massachusetts gun law but still appear similar to AR-15s and AK-47s. Compliance includes not having any of the following:

• No collapsible stocks
• No high-capacity magazines
• No features of “name brand” rifles or pistols
• If the gun has “key functional components that are interchangeable with those of a banned weapon” then it is considered a “copy-cat”

According to the Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ press release, despite a ban on “assault weapons”, nearly 10,000 …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation