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    Massachusetts Senate approves sweeping gun bill

    Massachusetts Senate approves sweeping gun bill

    BOSTON (AP) - The Massachusetts Senate approved a sweeping overhaul of the state’s gun laws Thursday, but not before stripping out a key provision that would have given local police chiefs more discretion over issuing firearms identification cards needed to buy rifles or shotguns.

    The Senate bill had initially included the measure - which is part of a similar bill passed by the House - but it was eliminated during debate. The Senate bill would maintain current law which limits chiefs to conducting background checks before issuing FID cards.

    The bill, which mirrored many other aspects of the House bill, was approved on a voice vote. That means the votes of individual senators were not recorded.

    Gun rights activists hailed the change.

    “I’m very pleased with what the Senate did today,” said John Hohenwarter, the National Rifle Association’s government affairs director for Massachusetts. “The bill’s in much better shape that it was when it came over from the House.”

    Gun safety advocates said the change guts the bill.

    John Rosenthal of the group Stop Handgun Violence, said giving police chiefs added discretion over the issuing of FID cards was the single most important aspect of the bill.

    “Without it, it’s not worth the paper it’s written on,” Rosenthal said. “Shame on the Massachusetts Senate. Sadly they voted against police chiefs and against public safety and for the special interest gun lobby and people will die as a result.”

    James Timilty, Senate chairman of the Public Safety Committee, said the change was in keeping with the Constitution’s Second Amendment.

    He rejected the idea that the Senate bowed to pressure from the gun lobby when it accepted the amendment on a 28-11 vote.

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    The state's most prominent guns rights advocate group Gun Owners Action League (GOAL) fought this bill tooth and nail as it was coming to a vote in the Mass House of Reps. Then at the last minute after a few minor changes to the bill, they released a press release declaring themselves to be "neutral". Absolutely shameful. It enabled Democrats in conservative districts where the 2nd Amendment is an important election issue to rely on the fact "Well, GOAL supported it, so how extreme could you be to oppose this bill?".

    It is disappointing how gun rights advocate groups are willing to watch our 2nd Amendment rights get stripped away so they can maintain political power.
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    Quote Originally Posted by donnay View Post
    Massachusetts Senate approves sweeping gun bill

    Gun safety advocates said...
    Yeah... right.
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    They can file that bill right next to this:

    PROCLAMATION BY GOVERNOUR GAGE.


    By the Governour — A PROCLAMATION.

    Whereas, notwithstanding the repeated assurance of the Selectmen and others, that all the inhabitants of the Town of Boston had, bona fide, delivered their Fire-Arms unto the persons appointed to receive them, though I had advices at the same time of the contrary; and whereas I have had since full proof that many have been perfidious in this respect, and have secreted great numbers;


    I have thought fit to issue this Proclamation, to require of those who have yet Fire-Arms in their possession immediately to surrender them at the Court-House to such persons as shall be authorized to receive them; and hereby to declare that all persons in whose possession any Fire-Arms may hereafter be found, will be deemed enemies to His Majesty' s Government.
    Given at Boston, the nineteenth day of June, 1775, in the fifteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord, George the Third, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.


    THOMAS GAGE.


    By his Excellency' s command:
    THOMAS FLUCKER, Secretary.

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