Washington, DC – -(Ammoland.com)- As we reported last week, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey unilaterally banned many common firearms via executive action.
AG Healey’s “enforcement notice” has now come under attack by officials within the Massachusetts government, including many from her own party.
“this recent directive, concerning so called ‘copies and duplicates’ of banned weapons in the current law is not only confusing, but the vagueness of the guidance has raised significant questions over which firearms are now banned or could be banned in the future.”
Signaling his belief that Healey had overstepped her authority, Rep. Naughton cautioned “I strongly believe that any such review of our gun control laws should be a legislative matter to be considered by both the House and Senate along with public input.”
Naughton was not alone in his criticisms. 58 of his colleagues in the legislature signed another letter calling in to question the constitutionality of AG Healey’s action where they wrote:
For the last 18 years, the law has been implemented and enforced consistently, both by your office and your predecessors. Your new directive, which has been presented by your office as nothing more than a closing of ‘loopholes’ in the current law, appears in fact to be much more than that: the enforcement of a whole new law that unfairly infringes on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding gun owners in Massachusetts.
Possibly the harshest critique of the substance of AG Healey’s new “enforcement notice” came from Daniel Bennett, the Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety and Security. Secretary Bennett paid particular attention to the vagueness of the two-part test articulated in the “enforcement notice.” He raised substantial concerns that the new test could be read to apply to nearly any semi-automatic firearm when he directly asked AG Healey “Does your enforcement notice mean that your office considers any weapon, even a pistol like the M1911 that has these characteristics to be an assault weapon?”
Supporting the concerns raised by Secretary Bennett, Governor Charles D. Baker further noted that “ambiguities in [the] notice require clarification for responsible gun owners who simply want to follow the rules and for thousands of gun owners who were told they were following the rules for eighteen years.”
While this widespread government opposition to the action of a sitting attorney general may seem surprising, it is indicative of the clearly unlawful nature and vagueness of the “enforcement notice.”
NRA continues to pursue all legal and legislative remedies to reverse this unilateral executive gun ban.
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Ammoland does censor comments, what else are they doing ?sorry to say but it’s true
Remember, this is part of the U.N. attempt to ban the 2nd amendment in the USA. The Democrats in most cases are the enemy of our Constitution. For example, notice how all of the so-called shootings only occurred during the Obama-nation regime. Never mind the fact that Hillary and Obama have and continue to arm terrorist in Syria. Yes, this is fact. Do the research. Attorney General Healey needs to be removed from office for violating her oath of office, and disbarred for violation of her attorney oath to the the Massachusetts Constitution. She is bought and paid for by… Read more »
Look up lucky larry silverstein as ammoland wont let it be posted….
Censorship on ammoland?
Larry silverstein owned the world trade center
1. Weeks before 911 he takes out insurance policy to include terrorist attacks
2. For yrs eats breakfast at top of wtc, but misses work that day saying he had doctors appoinment, he said it was cancelled on way so he walks around nyc instead…… missing attack
3. Daughter worked in wtc too, she wasnt at work that day
4. Son worked at wtc also but was late that morning…
Larry collected billions – and bush just happened to be reading to kids on tv…..
No different than lucky larry silverstien who owned the world trade center, had taken out an insurance policy weeks before 9-11 and had terrorist attacks added to policy, and the day of the attack he always had breakfast on the top floor but that day he had a doctors appointment (that was then cancelled he says) so he walks around city that day and missed the attack. His daughter Also worked in the wtc but, you guessed it she missed work that day, and his son worked in the wtc too, but was late that day….. larry made billions….. From… Read more »
Anyone can see the orlando was fake, all anyone has to do is see that those people are walking BACK to the club, and was phony…. all one has to do is look thru the pictures online and see that all the people are headed towards the club and the streets are closed off…. all fake, they shut down hospitals cause there was nothing to see but fake, they wanted the public records sealed because it was fake…. theres a video which shows them all heading towards the club, some with bloody -fake – clothes but yet headed towards the… Read more »
Maybe we should all say we are “Gay Gun Owners” and they’d fall all over themselves trying to protect our rights. Or at least they’d be so confused, they’d have to wring their hands more tightly while trying to figure out how to wriggle off that hook. I’d get a rainbow Cerakote job on my AR just to see the looks on their faces.
its very strange that this crackdown the AG “made up” came only a few weeks after the Orlando club shooting….. I think this was a personal attack on all law abiding citizens because of where the shooting occurred not because of what kind of gun it was or was not.
I also believe that to be true being as AG Healey is a Card Carrying member of the LQBT Society