House Speaker Robert DeLeo and his gun-hating friends have developed a wicked wish list:
- Require background checks for private sales
- Increase penalties for failing to report lost or stolen guns
- Tighten regulations on rifle ownership
- Tax credits for the purchase of gun safe (i.e. corporate welfare)
- Join a fed program to share information about people “unsuitable” to own guns because of substance abuse or mental illness
- Do away with the Class B license (which allows open carry) since most gun owners routinely carry their firearms in the open (Class A licenses allow concealed carry)
- Closing a “loophole” in state law that allows people who have been arrested repeatedly but not convicted from purchasing firearms (guilty until proven innocent)
- Identification cards to buy rifles or shotguns even though the ycan be denied handgun licenses
“The report did not include a Patrick commendation to restrict a gun owner to buying one firearm a month. The committee said it didn’t believe it would help limit the flow of illegal weapons into Massachusetts from states where buying guns is easier.”
Source: http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2014/02/03/recommendations-on-massachusets-gun-laws/
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Gregory Smith