Massachusetts: Lowell proposes "arsenal" law

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I love living in Wyoming more than ever when I read stuff like this. The other day I was blasting away at the hillside with my new Daniel Defense AR, a county sheriff drove by as I had this fierce-looking AR with a full magazine tucked to my body, and all he did was wave. Didn't even slow down. THAT is America.
 
Amazing how 1 state below you can be as different as night and day. Our laws in NH are totally different from theirs. We have ALOT more guns and 1/1000 the crime. Hmmm.
They even had a sign on the Mass Pike entering Boston blaming NH for their crime, because guns were easy to buy and own here.
 
Amazing how 1 state below you can be as different as night and day. Our laws in NH are totally different from theirs. We have ALOT more guns and 1/1000 the crime. Hmmm.
They even had a sign on the Mass Pike entering Boston blaming NH for their crime, because guns were easy to buy and own here.
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These liberal "intellectuals" cannot fathom the fact that legal gun ownership and crime are negatively correlated, not positively. This is why I could never live in those liberal hell-holes. No way, no how.
 
Red Cent said:
Massachusetts is the only state where lawmakers have actually banned the use of silhouette targets for defensive training..
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That is unreal. What is happening to this country? To think that Massachussetts tax payers are paying for such ridiculous laws to be passed.

Nanny laws :barf:
 
Massachusetts is the only state where lawmakers have actually banned the use of silhouette targets for defensive training. Home of Barney Frank. Now, it sems, we have another fr.........nut.
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thats one of those laws that was written on a whim and no one ever actually cares/ enforces it.......

kind of like those archaic laws that prohibit keeping a horse on the second floor of an apartment or prohibit throwing a snake into the wind on a thursday.....

go into just about any gunshop and you will see silhouette targets for sale.
 
No wonder why people are fleeing MA for New Hampshire
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and unfortunately, they bring their socialism with them and insist on all the nanny state services they had back in Taxachusettes.....

Now Maine and NH have both shifted from freedom loving independant red states to "I want my healthcare and wellfare!" blue states. But fortunately Maine just experienced had a major backlash in the last election, and NH starves the government with some of the lowest taxes in the nation (no sales tax and no income tax) so state officials can't get to far out of hand.
 
Even if an antigunner accepts some highly regulated gun ownership, it is only for self-defense and then they see no "need" for more than one gun. They accept and see guns only as weapons. So a "sporting purpose only" gun buff or gun collector with more than one "instrument of death" scares the bejeebers out of them.

I have shot guns since I was six, owned guns since I was fifteen, and bought guns when I was sixteen. I started with plinking with .22, then hunting, then civilian marksmanship, military history, muzzleloaders, back to hunting, and finally convinced by two detectives and a corrections officer that self defense was a legitimate reason for owning a gun.

So I own more than ten guns, and have seen national gun control groups raise this "arsenal license" idea before, and I would hate to see it revived again.
 
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This is really not about crime. The statists believes that the government should have a monopoly on the use of force and weapons in private hands are seen as symbols of defiance and a challenge to their authority.

I seem to remember a history lesson about a group of people fighting a revolutionary war over this very concept.:confused:
 
News flash:

"Religious Extremism" law requires people owning more than 7 religious texts in their home to notify FBI and police.

Those who have more than 9 things they would like not to be searched or seized illegally must immediately notify police or risk having them seized anyway.
 
Mississippi is a gun lover state, at a fast food drive up window you might here, would you like fries and a 45 cal. with that? I can literally walk into a gun store, pawn shop, and walk out with a hand gun in less than 15 minutes, including filling out the form and the background check. in our state if someone is kicking in your door, you can shoot them through the door legally, and we can carry a gun in the glove compartment of our car with out any form whatsoever. Out of respect, if we are pulled over, we tell the police officer that we have a gun, behind the seat, or whereever. Our vehicle is considered an extension of our home. Our crime rate with guns is not comparably high to the rest of the nation.
 
These liberal "intellectuals" cannot fathom the fact that legal gun ownership and crime are negatively correlated, not positively. This is why I could never live in those liberal hell-holes. No way, no how.
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Ditto. And I don't get the alarm system requirement part. If you have 10+ guns, why do you need an alarm system?
 
HOOfan_1 said:
Remember what the people of Massachusetts did the last time a government had a problem with arsenals? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles...on_and_Concord
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As someone from MA, I can tell you people ALLOW the state to pull this crap. Nobody REALLY fights back. At one point I'll wind up living back there and I'm sure once I make that move I'll regret it. You'd think they'll enlist some help from there brother to the north NH. It's sad that MA will be totally commie soon. Until then I'll enjoy my guns and freedom living down here in VA. Where it's still America. One thing I love about living in the south now is if state govt pulled the crap here they do up there.......SOMEONES GONNA PAY FOR IT!!!!
 
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As someone from MA, I can tell you people ALLOW the state to pull this crap. Nobody REALLY fights back. At one point I'll wind up living back there and I'm sure once I make that move I'll regret it. You'd think they'll enlist some help from there brother to the north NH. It's sad that MA will be totally commie soon. Until then I'll enjoy my guns and freedom living down here in VA. Where it's still America. One thing I love about living in the south now is if state govt pulled the crap here they do up there.......SOMEONES GONNA PAY FOR IT!!!!
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Back in the days of Lexington and Concord the makeup of the state was a lot different. These days, the ease of transportation and relocation allows a "settling out" effect with areas, where like-minded individuals have a tendency to move to areas that share their views. That's why you've got areas that are hyper-focused on getting rid of guns, and others aren't.
 
swiftak post#27
They even had a sign on the Mass Pike entering Boston blaming NH for their crime, because guns were easy to buy and own here.
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I hate it when they do that, because it provokes me to post this:
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Brady Campaign State Ratings v FBI UCR State Crime and Homicide Rates
Northeastern Old    New          2003              2006              2009
STATE        GRADE  POINT  CRIME  HOMICIDE   CRIME  HOMICIDE   CRIME  HOMICIDE
Connecticut    A-    58    308.2    3.0      280.8    3.1      298.7    3.0
Maine          D-     9    108.9    1.2      115.5    1.7      119.8    2.0
Massachusetts  A-    65    469.4    2.2      447.0    2.9      457.1    2.6
New Hampshire  D-     6    148.8    1.4      138.7    1.0      159.6    0.8
Rhode Island   B-    44    285.6    2.3      227.5    2.6      252.6    2.9
Vermont        D-     6    110.2    2.3      136.6    1.9      131.4    1.1
Brady gives high ratings (A and B grades, 44 to 65 points) to CT MA and RI for
having restrictive gun laws, including discretionary "may-issue" permit laws.
Brady gives ME NH VT bad ratings (D- grades, 6 to 9 points) for having lax gun
laws, especially VT carry w/o permit. CRIME is violent crime: homicide, armed
robbery, aggravated assault and rape and rates are per 100,000 population per
year; HOMICIDE includes murder and non-negligent manslaughter.
 
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