In 1775 the British Army went to Concord & Lexington, MA to disarm colonists and the rest as you know is history. Well what the Massachusetts legislature has already done and the Attorney General today, in a similar way, is what King George and his army failed do: They have banned any and all sales of “copycat assault weapons”, in other words all semiautomatic rifles. What comes after banning something? More restrictions and then confiscation (aka disarming the colonists aka the people) without a shot being fired!
For the record the evil black rifle, the AR-15, is not a weapon of war. Nope, it was developed and marketed in 1963 by Colt as a hunting/ sporting rifle!
The US military adopted it 6 years later (M-16) along with having it modified to fire fully automatic and then to 3-round burst. An AR-15 is semiautomatic, it cannot fire in full auto, it’s no different from any other semi-auto weapon. It just looks scary and “shootier”! A red dot scope, folding stock, pistol grip, forward grip or any other “furniture” on said weapon does not make it more lethal.
Banning a weapon based on its appearance is discrimination isn’t it?!
The problem in the US isn’t with guns, it’s with the people who use them to do bad things. Punishing law-abiding gun owners will never stop criminals, killers, mentally ill and terrorists. All you gun grabbers are doing is empowering evil doers while making good people defenseless … their blood is/ will be on your hands!
People won’t like to hear this but if the Founders were here right now dealing with this corrupt, intrusive government they’d already be shooting!
Mass attorney general says she’ll crack down on assault weapons
BostonGlobe
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said Wednesday she was cracking down on the sale of guns that, she said, were designed to skirt a state law banning assault weapons.
Healey said she had put gunmakers and sellers on notice that they were not allowed to sell the guns, which she said were intentionally designed to circumvent the ban by incorporating “small tweaks that do nothing to limit the deadliness of the weapon.”
The attorney general said at a morning news conference that the law remained the same, but her office would change the way it enforced it.
While manufacturers have deemed certain weapons in compliance with state law, she said, her office had looked at the issue and concluded that they weren’t.
“The gun industry does not get to decide what’s compliant,” she said during the event, where she was flanked by law enforcement officials, community leaders and anti-violence activists. “We do.”…read more