Politician proposes home searches for gun safety

[Brian4Liberty]

The next step after gun registration...

"It's for the children!"



“We’re from the government and we’re here to inspect your guns!”

In America, it sounds crazy. Here in Massachusetts, it’s just another day in liberal paradise.

Last week, Swampscott Selectman Barry Greenfield proposed the idea of mandatory home inspections for the town’s 600 licensed gun owners. He mentioned the Newtown massacre. He mentioned children’s safety.

There is no record, however, of Selectman Greenfield mentioning the Constitution.

Massachusetts law requires gun owners to store their firearms safely. Greenfield is frustrated with the inability of local cops to push their way into local homes and have a look around without all that “probable cause” and “search warrant” nonsense.

“We need the ability to enforce the state law,” the selectman said, adding that he’s discussed the matter with Swampscott Police Chief Ron Madigan.
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This isn’t a Second Amendment issue. It’s a Fourth Amendment one — unreasonable search and seizure. If Swampscott residents who don’t own guns sit back and allow this to happen, they’ll be playing their role in the famous parable of Martin Niemoller:

“First they came for the gun owners, but I didn’t own a gun … ”

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[Snew]

Watertown, USA

[ZENemy]

What we allow is what will continue.

[Christian Liberty]

This isn’t a Second Amendment issue. It’s a Fourth Amendment one — unreasonable search and seizure. If Swampscott residents who don’t own guns sit back and allow this to happen, they’ll be playing their role in the famous parable of Martin Niemoller:

Should the gun owners let it happen either? I don't think so. The Constitution is a higher rule of law than the government of this Mass. town.

[Brian4Liberty]

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[aGameOfThrones]

puerto rico has this

[limequat]

Lol, I say we encourage this.
Except instead of searching for legal guns that exist, search for illegal guns that don't exist. I.e; search EVERY home in Mass.
See how those fuckers like it when Officer Friendly's sniffing their wife's panties.

[presence]

Can you see it?

http://conservbyte.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/gun_barrel-300x142.jpg

[Elias Graves]

Can you see it?

http://conservbyte.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/gun_barrel-300x142.jpg

Looks safe to me.

[Tod]

Sounds like an inherently unsafe thing to be doing. A fellow could get shot messing with someone else's guns.

[mrsat_98]

Can you see it?

http://conservbyte.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/gun_barrel-300x142.jpg

You might have dope in it. Sorry wrong hole.

[ctiger2]

I think they should start with Barry Greenfield's house. No warrant/no probable cause necessary. Just barge on in at 3AM and proceed to sodomize his entire drug-hiding family.

[DamianTV]

... without all that “probable cause” and “search warrant” nonsense

Typical Neocon.

Be afraid of the Freedom to own Guns.

[Henry Rogue]

Wow, just wow.

[Henry Rogue]

This isn’t a Second Amendment issue. It’s a Fourth Amendment one — unreasonable search and seizure. If Swampscott residents who don’t own guns sit back and allow this to happen, they’ll be playing their role in the famous parable of Martin Niemoller:

“First they came for the gun owners, but I didn’t own a gun … ”

It isn't the military that protects people's freedom, it is the Gun Owners.

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

It was alleged that Ross Perot said something similar about drugs. He wanted to do drug sweeps in certain Dallas neighborhoods. I'm sure Perot will deny it to his dying day, but I'd bet a wheelbarrow full of money that he said it.

[eduardo89]

puerto rico has this

The US Constitution does not apply fully in unincorporated territories.

[Cleaner44]

What a douche...


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[Mani]

Hmmmmm.....


What could POSSIBLY go wrong with this????


Roided up cops showing up any time of the day or night...busting down your down looking for guns and hopped up on caffeine pills and adrenaline with the "KILL ZONE" mentality in their head...Just waiting to shoot someone....


Ya....I don't see what could go wrong with this scenario...

[Scrapmo]

This is why I have never bought a gun if I had to do a background check and have never applied for a concealed carry permit.

[bolil]

This is why I have never bought a gun if I had to do a background check and have never applied for a concealed carry permit.

By even saying that you may as well have done both. Just saying.

[Scrapmo]

By even saying that you may as well have done both. Just saying.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130711173509/clubpenguin/images/7/7a/Homer-simpson-doh.gif

But, if we are going to go that route, it was too late for me years ago.

[mz10]

They tried to pull crap like this in Westford and it backfired on them miserably. This bastard isn't gonna be a selectman much longer.

[Todd]

“We need the ability to enforce the state law,”

If you need to violate a person's rights in order to "enforce the state law", then that law is probably a violation of a person's rights to begin with.

[Pericles]

Sounds like an inherently unsafe thing to be doing. A fellow could get shot messing with someone else's guns.
I invite Barry to personally come by to inspect mine for proper function.

[Keith and stuff]

Makes sense. Folks in PR, MA, CA and IL want you to die. They want your guns to be taken, They want your money to enrich the local police. And they want your body to rot and then be eaten by maggots. These are the goals of the evil statists.

[aGameOfThrones]

Makes sense. Folks in PR, MA, CA, LA and IL want you to die. They want your guns to be taken, They want your money to enrich the local police. And they want your body to rot and then be eaten by maggots. These are the goals of the evil statists.

Hey, if a common criminal can come in to your house, check your guns, possibly take them for safe keeping, hurt you in the process out of safety concerns and all of that without probable cause or a search warrant, then the state's interest in licensing those actions is justified.

[jtap]

Barry Greenfield, Barry Obama and whomever else will stay the hell out of my house or else they won't have to go looking for my guns.

[jbauer]

Sounds like an inherently unsafe thing to be doing. A fellow could get shot messing with someone else's guns.

Oh hell, wait till the "peace officer" unintentionally discharges your legal shotgun and kills or hurts himself. Guess who's going to prison?

[ZENemy]

Bare arms. Not "have a rifle for hunting" BARE ARMS! The term was used for a reason as was this one:


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