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Live fire training requirement, ‘assault style weapon’ ban signed into law in Bay State

A statewide registration system was also added among a broad range of other provisions.

Jim Wallace, the Executive Director of the Gun Owners Action League, told The Boston Herald that GOAL will challenge the law in court.

According to Gov. Maura Healey, An Act Modernizing Firearms Laws is meant to respond to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, which overturned state laws making it more difficult to obtain a firearms license, and as a reaction to the growing prevalence of so-called ghost guns.

“Massachusetts is proud of our strong gun laws, but there is always more work to be done to keep our communities safe from violence. This legislation updates our firearms laws in response to the Supreme Court’s misguided Bruen decision. It cracks down on ghost guns and 3-D printed weapons, which I have long advocated for, enhances our ability to prevent guns from falling into dangerous hands, and invests in our communities to address the root causes of violence. This law will save lives,” Healey said in a statement.

The law, which passed with the support of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, was met with widespread praise from gun safety groups.

“For years, we’ve been on the frontlines, advocating for our lawmakers to enact this gun safety bill into law, and we couldn’t be more excited to finally see our hard work pay off as the Governor signs this critical legislation into law,” Moms Demand Action Massachusetts volunteer Maxine Slattery said.
“Today, Massachusetts can hold its head high: our reputation for strong life-saving gun laws just got even stronger,” Grassroots for Gun Violence Prevention founder Jennifer Robison said.

“Gun violence is an evolving challenge that requires a comprehensive set of solutions. Whether it’s stopping the flow of untraceable ghost guns into communities or banning Glock switches and other similar devices, this bill tackles those head on,” former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords said.

Wallace has described the law as a “tantrum” by lawmakers in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Bruen, which ended the state’s long-standing practice of leaving a person’s eligibility for a license to carry a firearm to the discretion of their local police chief and whatever hurdles they might imagine necessary.

According to GOAL’s review of the law, it expands the state’s “two feature test” for determining what qualifies as an “assault-style firearm” to effectively ban “every firearm that is semi-automatic centerfire utilizing a detachable magazine” and would prohibit the purchase, sale, transfer, or import of AR-15s or other similar-style weapons after August 1.

It would require gun owners to register all of their firearms with the state, including partially assembled weapons except firearms made before Oct. 22, 1968, to report ammunition purchases at the point of sale, and ban automatic weapon conversion tools like bump stocks and auto sears.

The new law will raise the age to buy a shotgun or rifle in the Bay State to 21, prohibit the carrying of firearms in polling places, government buildings, or schools, and broaden the list of people who can file for an “Extreme Risk Protection Order” to include school administrators and healthcare providers.

The law bans the possession of “unserialized” weapons, otherwise known as ghost guns, which can be made using a 3-D printer or assembled from a kit.

Under the new law, new firearms license applicants will now be required to participate in state mandated safety training, which will include live fire exercises and “disengagement training.” Current license holders will be “grandfathered” into the new law and will not have to complete live fire training.

According to the Harvard Law Review, in the wake of Bruen, the state’s decision to include a live-fire requirement may have gone too far.

“Jurisdictions that require applicants for handgun carry licenses to complete a shooting qualification test need to furnish affirmative proof that conditioning the armed self-defense right on a scored live-fire exercise comports with the historical tradition of firearm regulation — no such tradition exists,” the legal review journal wrote.

I shake my head at the US birthplace of Liberty. Just as here, it’s like banging one’s head against the wall; like battling the inexorable tide.

Yet, I’ll continue to battle, as must people in Massachusetts.

2 years and I’m out of this God forsaken place. Some will say we should stay and fight for our rights. There is no fighting these cocksucker heathens. They don’t care about our rights.

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The new law will raise the age to buy a shotgun or rifle in the Bay State to 21,

These are the same people that want to lower the voting age to 16

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The new law will raise the age to buy a shotgun or rifle in the Bay State to 21,

These are the same people that want to lower the voting age to 16

Or claim that 8 year old children are competent to take puberty blockers to transition genders.

More gun control laws = more gun crime. Mass. will see an increase in gun crime.

It’s a shame that the politicians are never the targets

I grew up in the northeast (CT) and it's got a lot of history and beautiful places.
My first big decision when I reached adulthood was to move south and I still have zero doubt 50 years later that it was the right move.
Things haven't improved since I left.

Of course they will enact more gun laws, instead of dealing with the real situation and put/keep real criminals behind bars.

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Mass. Bill is an Assault on 2A Rights

The Firearm Industry Trade Association (NSSF) is calling out Massachusetts lawmakers for a controversial bill that aims to downgrade Second Amendment rights to mere state privileges, bypassing industry input and ignoring criminal accountability in firearm misuse.

The Massachusetts House and Senate hammered out the contentious legislation behind closed doors, ignoring the firearm industry and rushing to pass a 111-page bill as the session winds down.

This “compromise” infringes on citizens’ rights to keep and bear arms by imposing unconstitutional age restrictions, magazine limits, and rigorous licensing, along with searchable databases that threaten personal privacy.

Jake McGuigan, NSSF’s Managing Director for Government Relations – State Affairs, criticized the bill’s hasty push.

“The legislature had the opportunity to do something truly special with a strong bill to address violence. Instead, the bill aims to suppress the exercise of the Second Amendment by implementing onerous training requirements just to purchase a firearm, bans all of the most commonly-used guns in America and implements a draconian gun registration scheme that criminals will ignore,” he said in a press release obtained by GunsAmerica.

“It even makes it illegal for a 15-year-old Boy Scout to use a .22 caliber rifle to earn a merit badge. Judges continue to set free criminals in the Commonwealth while the legislature makes law-abiding citizens immediate felons,” he added.

Provisions of the bill include:

• Full registration of ALL guns.
  
  
• Onerous licensing and administrative requirements on retailers. For example, all guns in inventory need to be registered with the state before they are even sold.
  
  
• Bans all legally-owned magazines with a capacity greater than 10 rounds. Those standard-capacity magazines already lawfully owned would be barred from transfer.
  
  
• State police would create a roster of banned semi-automatic rifles and database of all guns.
  
  
• Commissions to study “technologies” like microstamping that has already been proven by independent peer review research to be flawed and unreliable.
  
  
• Live-fire requirement despite the fact there are very few public ranges where this can be done.
  
  
• Publicly searchable in database of all lawful firearm owners.
  Creates another government database to issue serial numbers for all firearms.

Small, independent retailers will be saddled with inventory they can no longer sell.

Retailers, particularly small businesses, face the challenge of holding unsellable inventory under these regulations. Noncompliance with the registration mandate could lead to hefty fines or imprisonment, with penalties escalating for repeated offenses.

This legislative move follows the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision, reaffirmed by Justice Clarence Thomas, emphasizing that the right to bear arms publicly for self-defense is a robust individual right, not a privilege contingent on government approval.

The proposed Massachusetts legislation blatantly violates constitutional protections for adults under 21 and represents an overt assault on the rights of Massachusetts’ law-abiding citizens, treating them unfairly in the eyes of the law while doing little to address actual criminal behavior.

This bullshit will be struck down in court, but it will take time and lots of money. It will blatantly be struck down. These assholes should be billed when their "law" doesn't stand up in court.

I try not to make assumptions about laws like this, but I’m guessing it doesn’t apply to the police and certain other selected groups? Or does it affect everyone, and the police are got no to have to start stocking up on mini 14’s with 10rd mags?

- Bret

There is no method for a person to apply for a firearms license after 8/1 because the MA State Police do not have the system in place to do it and satisfy the new law. This is so unconstitutional and removes ones rights to apply to own arms.

I'm sure that will mark the end of shootings in Boston.

I was shocked several years ago and found all guns, even private sales are registered in MA.

I was given a look at the computer screen at the gun store I was buying a new gun. All my MA-purchased guns were listed. They are attached to your MA gun license in the database.

You guys learned all that garbage from us in NY.

Yet another reason not to live in Taxachusetts.

Sam Adams is rolling over in his grave.

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Sam Adams is rolling over in his grave.

Many of my ancestors from that area are rolling in their graves! Including one who was on the Lexington green to confront the government agents sent to confiscate civilian arms on April 19, 1775.

The Founders would not comprehend what has become of us. The politicians today who promote these obviously unConstitutional laws are traitors.

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firearms license

What does this mean? Carry permit? To purchase or possess?