Massachusetts Gun Shop Owners Sue MA Attorney General Over ‘Copycat Ban’

By James England

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS — Gun shop distributors and owners have gathered together to file a motion in federal court over Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s unlawful designation and imposition of penalties upon the gun owners and shop keeps of the state.

Massachusetts has already kept the federal definitions from the 1994 Brady Act as their definitions for an “assault weapon”. If anything, they have imposed harder restrictions upon their residents in terms of the style and method of their own defense than almost any other state outside of Hawaii and New Jersey.

In July, AG Healey announced that in addition to the “assault weapons” ban, she was going to extend that to any semi-automatic firearm that accepted a detachable magazine and remotely resembled any of the firearms on the list. Enforcement effective immediately and if you’re caught in possession of that firearm, felony offense.

Here is Massachusetts’ definition of “assault weapons” as per the Attorney General’s office:

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“Assault weapon” is defined as a:

semiautomatic assault weapon as defined in the federal Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. section 921(a)(30) as appearing in such section on September 13, 1994, and shall include, but not be limited to, any of the weapons, …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation