The Boston Globe headline says it all: “Mass. House swiftly passes changes to firearms law, aiming to protect state’s strict gun control regime after Supreme Court decision.” Long story short, anti-gun state legislators on Thursday are doing their level best to dance around the Supreme Court’s June 23 opinion in New York State Rifle & […]
Mass. Gun Rights Lawsuit Mirrors Growing NW Frustration
A federal lawsuit filed recently in Massachusetts reflects a growing frustration among gun owners as far away as the Pacific Northwest, where law enforcement agencies have “suspended” the application process for concealed pistol licenses. The Massachusetts lawsuit was filed by the Gun Owners Action League (GOAL) on behalf of Thayer Eastman against the City of […]
Mass. Women Appeal to Lt. Gov. for Help in Removing 2A ‘Roadblock’
Eighteen days after four gun rights groups joined several retailers and private citizens in a federal lawsuit against Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker over his COVID-19 shutdown that includes gun stores and ranges, two growing women’s gun rights groups in the state appealed to the lieutenant governor for help in removing roadblocks to their exercise of […]
Insult: Mass. Gun Bill Treats Ownership Like Disease
A joint state House and Senate hearing on a bill that would treat gun ownership like a disease was scheduled Dec. 10, and the Massachusetts Gun Owners Action League—an affiliate of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms—has been sounding the alarm. Rightly so, considering the language of this legislation, whose […]
Fiasco? MA Gun Owners’ Rights Collide with Fed. Law
The Boston Globe is reporting that Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration “is resisting a mounting number of court orders from judges charging that it overstepped its legal authority, or misinterpreted the law, when it pushed to strip firearm licenses from hundreds of people it previously cleared to own a gun.” The newspaper said […]
2A Activists Defeat Anti-Gun Licensing Bill in WA; Another Bill Targeted
Washington State Second Amendment activists are cheering Thursday’s defeat of a House gun control bill that would have required licensing of so-called “assault weapons” and “large capacity magazines,” but they face another hurdle with a substitute “safe storage” measure. House Bill 1387 was opposed by major gun rights groups including the National Rifle Association and […]