Gotta love big city mayors

Myth: laws make criminals and insane people behave.

If he really wants to save lives he should outlaw red meats and pork.
 
"More than 100 mayors across the country have stood up to say, 'Enough is enough -- illegal guns don't belong in our streets,' " Bloomberg told a news conference in Boston.
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Yes, mayor -- "enough is enough." After all, we have never heard anyone propose getting illegal guns off the streets... Up til you said it, the theory was that we had NOT had enough of illegal guns on the streets.

Enough is enough, indeed. :rolleyes: What a moron.

And, um, how can you make gun control tighter in places where gun ownership is pretty much outlawed already?


-azurefly
 
I don't have anything to worry about - my guns are legal.

The article states "While Massachusetts laws are relatively strict, requiring a $100 state permit for each gun purchase" - is this true?
 
It would certainly not surprise me. In Suffolk county NY, when I lived there, it cost $5 to get a purchase order to buy a handgun.

You had to go to the shop and pick the gun you planned to buy. Record the make, model, caliber and serial number.

Bring that information all the way out to bum *#(@ Yaphank (way out the Long Island Distressway).

Pay the clerk in the Pistol License Bureau (which is unabashed about NOT wanting people to have guns) $5 with a postal money order.

Receive a purchase order.

Take the purchase order to the gun shop. Do all paperwork. Make purchase transaction.

Take gun back out to bum *#(@ Yaphank (way out the Long Island Distressway) and have the clerk type the make, model, caliber and serial number onto your crappy cardboard pistol license.

And don't forget to genuflect to the police who deign to allow you to have guns at all. :barf:


Oh, and this is all after initially obtaining a pistol license by waiting a FULL SIX MONTHS, submitting three character references (whom they never even called, in my case), paying a big fee, and being interviewed by anti-gun cops.

So no, I have no trouble imagining that of all places, Massachusetts would make it pretty damned expensive and troublesome to buy a gun.


-azurefly
 
yea, i did note they said "illegal," probably with the hopes they wouldn't tick off the people in their jurisdictions that are bright enough to make the money they want for their campaigns, as opposed to the people selling hi-points for $50 to put them to use for one night then toss 'em in the river.
i can see why chicago, more than new york, would be on with this. we (i'm still saying we even though i'm in cleveland now, doh) do have a ridiculous murder rate in spite of the oh-so-effective ridiculously anti-gun stance the city's taken. really doing a lot to prevent violent crime. to be fair, though, it's probably daley's crooked dealings that cause about half those murders, so adjusted for politics, chicago'd be a little closer to the national average.
 
rick_reno said:
The article states "While Massachusetts laws are relatively strict, requiring a $100 state permit for each gun purchase" - is this true?
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Fortunately, no. FID/LTC fee is $100 for (I think) four years. May be three, I'm too lazy to check.

Purchase requires $ for firearm and sales tax. That's all -- there is no per-purchase state fee.

Editorial remarks: While Mass sucks, if one lives in the right place (probably most of the towns in the state, certainly the western end), getting an FID/LTC isn't really a big deal. The rest of it sucks, tho - for example, the Mrs. and I moved back in '01 and had to report to more gummint agencies than the typical level three sex offender does. What's that about?

Also, MA does register firearms, though they lie and don't call it "registration". Gun owners and their firearms are registered with the "Criminal Systems History Board" via the form FA-10.

HTH, HAND

Peet
 
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