‘NRA’s Worst Nightmare’ Taking Aim At Legal Gun Owners Once Again

By Cam Edwards

AP Photo/Yakima Herald-Republic, TJ Mullinax

Massachusetts lawmakers are poised to approve several new restrictions and regulations on legal gun owners next week when the legislature’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee meets to discuss more than a dozen different gun control bills, including “universal background checks”, more restrictions on magazine capacity, and a mandate that legal gun owners purchase firearms liability insurance.

“We’ve proven to be the NRA’s worst nightmare, and we can’t afford to cede any ground in this fight,” says John Rosenthal, a gun owner and founder of Stop Handgun Violence, a Beverly-based advocacy group that pushes for tighter gun control. “We’ve shown that gun laws can work without infringing on the rights of law-abiding gun owners.”

Rosenthal’s absolutely wrong when he says that Massachusetts gun laws don’t infringe on the rights of law-abiding gun owners. In fact, as we’ve noted here several times, gun control groups and pro-gun control researchers point to Massachusetts as an example of how the state’s gun laws prevent law-abiding residents from exercising their 2nd Amendment rights.

While a background check is more often than not quick and hassle-free, gun licensing in, for example, Massachusetts is a weeks- or months-long process …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms