Massachusetts AG Adds Insult To Injury In Defense Of “Assault Weapons Ban”

By Cam Edwards

AP Photo/Stephan Savoia

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is displaying her contempt for gun owners, firearm retailers, and even the judicial system itself in her latest defense of the sweeping order re-defining “assault weapons” in the state.

Healey now claims it should have been clear to anybody with “ordinary intelligence” that her ruling did not apply to seven types of semi-automatic rifles at the heart of the lawsuit filed by firearm retailers in the state. There’s just one problem with her argument. It isn’t true.

A review of some of the records filed with the court does not appear to support the notion that the status of the guns in question was always clear.

In his March 2018 ruling denying Ms. Healey’s motion to dismiss the case, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman wrote that the AG’s ”(enforcement) notice and subsequent failure to clarify arguably has resulted in a lack of fair notice of which conduct will be subject to criminal sanction.”

Additionally, AG lawyer Gary Klein wrote in a November 2016 email to one of the plaintiffs that the AG “has not taken a position on the sale of the Tavor as of this time.”

The IWI Tavor …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms