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TELL US: Should Massachusetts Gun Control Laws be Loosened?
A Massachusetts gun owners group is lobbying for passage of a bill that would confer lifetime gun licenses — no renewals necessary.
Way too much red tape. That's the complaint of the Gun Owners’ Action League of Massachusetts, a group that is urging passage of a law that would abolish the requirement of having to renew a gun permit every six years, according to the Boston Herald. For comparison, Massachusetts vehicle drivers' licenses need to be renewed every five years. But the league says local police cannot keep up with timely gun permit renewals, and legitimate gunowners go license-less until the cops get time to do the paperwork. The law now allows 40 days for turning around license applications. In Boston, almost 1,000 people have applied for gun permits so far this year, with waits running about 10 weeks, the Herald quotes police spokeswoman Cheryl Fiandaca …
Steven Cavaretta
11:07 am on Thursday, January 24, 2013
Guys, guys the facts are in. The law abiding citizens who engaged in a gunfight in a college library were obviously Lefty Liberal Progressive Democrats. The perps could read and they couldn't shoot straight...we hold these truths to be self evident... more ›