NRA files lawsuit over ban on assault weapons in Mass.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/23/mass-chapter-nra-targets-state-assault-weapons-ban-federal-lawsuit-against-healey/IX7YTBuknWbWxM7BFDJ8LO/story.html

The Massachusetts affiliate of the National Rifle Association on Monday sued Governor Charlie Baker and Attorney General Maura Healey, contending the state’s ban on assault weapons is unlawful and should be declared “void and unenforceable.”
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Jay Porter, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, who also include licensed gun dealers and owners in Massachusetts, said the suit was filed in response to what he described as heightened animus toward legal gun ownership in the Bay State.
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Porter added: "Our position is that the state doesn’t have the authority under the Second Amendment to ban firearms that are commonly kept by responsible law abiding citizens for lawful purposes. ... The Supreme Court has told us emphatically that the government cannot ban popular firearms which are commonly kept for lawful purposes."
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Jillian Fennimore, a spokeswoman for Healey, said in an e-mail that "the assault weapons ban keeps dangerous, military-style weapons off our streets."
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I personal welcome laws and criminal penalties having to do with STYLE.

[yagotme]

1. What, again, is military "style"?

Whatever AG Healey decrees it to be...

[ManiacJoe]

5. These days it is ugly black plastic furniture

Previously it was pretty wood furniture.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. Military "STYLE" is to "MILITARY" as...

...pissing your pants is to doing a good job.
They both give you a nice warm feeling but that's where the similarity ends.

[Puha Ekapi_2]

2. I hope...

...that they prevail in their suit. A positive outcome for the 2nd Amendment could see a similar action in California, where they recently enacted some draconian GC laws.

[friendly_iconoclast]

4. A close study of the FBI's "Crime in The United States" will put the lie to most of Healey's claims

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

7. "If the price I must pay for my freedom is...

...to acknowledge that the government was granted the power to infringe on them, then I am not free." - Poul Anderson

[pablo_marmol]

11. "........could see a similar action in California,........."

From your lips to Dog's ears.

[friendly_iconoclast]

3. Alternate facts and fearmongering- shame to see a Democrat indulging in such a Trumpian manner

Authoritarians tend to be more alike than different, varying only in what they wish to control

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

8. "There are men in all ages who mean to govern well...

...but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters" - Daniel Webster

[Eleanors38]

9. Heh. These controller laws are the equivalent of bell bottoms: They won't go OUT of style.

[yagotme]

10. I'm sure glad the bell bottom craze is mostly gone.

Hated them, and for a while, they were the only thing the store carried.