Mass. Assault Weapons Ban
The other biased Washington paper reports:
Lawmakers in Massachusetts have passed a ban on the sale of assault weapons in the state and also made it easier to own legal firearms.
The bill makes it illegal to sell semiautomatic assault weapons and shotguns with certain accessories, the Boston Globe reported Thursday. To win the support of gun-ownership-rights activists, the measure increases the gun license period from four years to six and allows for a grace period for expired firearm identification cards.
The Massachusetts House passed the measure on a voice vote Wednesday and the Senate has also approved the bill, which should be on the governor’s desk within a week, the Boston Globe reported.
Gov. Mitt Romney has not taken a stance on the legislation, but said he supported the federal ban when he ran for the U.S. Senate in 1994, the Globe reported.
Just how important are these certain accessories? They have no effect on the lethality of the weapons.
June 24th, 2004 at 8:35 am
Voice vote=”We want to vote for it, but we don’t want our constituents to know we voted for it, because if they knew we voted for it they wouldn’t vote for us.”
If you’re going to vote for something that blatantly violates the Constitution, at least do it for the record, so we can denounce you properly.