This is a repost from MAF, a Mass. firearms list, written by another.
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I went to the Gun Room in Shrewsbury today. A very sad visit. they are no longer selling any handguns, exc. for BP types. (This despite many models such as Glocks, Berettas, etc., visible in the display cases....) Long guns are still for sale. If I had the money, I'd buy a Bushmaster, but I can barely afford ammo right now.
I spoke with the owner who said he had just got off the phone with Shannon Bean (sp?) at the AG's office. (BTW another telephone extension for her: X2047- use it often!)
Three things stick in my mind from what he said she told him: A) gun shop owners may continue to sell handguns "but at the buyers' and sellers' peril", no private transfers are possible for handguns between any parties in MA any longer (I didn't know what to say about that one- I'm just reporting it....), and: Sens. Creem and Jacques have just filed a bill limiting personal ownership of firearms to one shotgun, one pistol and one rifle, tops, with a limit of fifty rounds for each firearm, period.
All in all a good day for the grabbers.
Something did come to mind, though, and I did ask him: if you guys close, and so do all other gun shops, where will the reenactors, so politically popular and correct in this state, get their black powder? They can't, he said. New gun shops (isn't that an oxymoron?) are prohibited by the BATF from acquiring licences to sell "loose explosives" such as BP. So, one one hand, my fellow reenactors who so blithely tried to distance themselves from the "gun nuts" a few years ago are going to get screwed as well, despite their indulgences sold to them by the Crown last year? (My heart bleeds
toilet water for such Judases....)
On the other hand, the eternal optimist in me says... if the reenactors start squawking about how they can't get BP anymore in MA, esp. since interstate transfers of BP to MA are not being done by most BP sellers and manufacturers due to lawsuit and violations concerns, this apparent loss of tourist revenue and commerce from loss of reenactments might come back to hit El Sinko Swimmi (Reilly) as it did Birmingham last year? Maybe we can use the reenactors as a stick to beat the AG about the head with?
Just a thought.....
[This message has been edited by Tracker (edited April 10, 2000).]
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I went to the Gun Room in Shrewsbury today. A very sad visit. they are no longer selling any handguns, exc. for BP types. (This despite many models such as Glocks, Berettas, etc., visible in the display cases....) Long guns are still for sale. If I had the money, I'd buy a Bushmaster, but I can barely afford ammo right now.
I spoke with the owner who said he had just got off the phone with Shannon Bean (sp?) at the AG's office. (BTW another telephone extension for her: X2047- use it often!)
Three things stick in my mind from what he said she told him: A) gun shop owners may continue to sell handguns "but at the buyers' and sellers' peril", no private transfers are possible for handguns between any parties in MA any longer (I didn't know what to say about that one- I'm just reporting it....), and: Sens. Creem and Jacques have just filed a bill limiting personal ownership of firearms to one shotgun, one pistol and one rifle, tops, with a limit of fifty rounds for each firearm, period.
All in all a good day for the grabbers.
Something did come to mind, though, and I did ask him: if you guys close, and so do all other gun shops, where will the reenactors, so politically popular and correct in this state, get their black powder? They can't, he said. New gun shops (isn't that an oxymoron?) are prohibited by the BATF from acquiring licences to sell "loose explosives" such as BP. So, one one hand, my fellow reenactors who so blithely tried to distance themselves from the "gun nuts" a few years ago are going to get screwed as well, despite their indulgences sold to them by the Crown last year? (My heart bleeds
toilet water for such Judases....)
On the other hand, the eternal optimist in me says... if the reenactors start squawking about how they can't get BP anymore in MA, esp. since interstate transfers of BP to MA are not being done by most BP sellers and manufacturers due to lawsuit and violations concerns, this apparent loss of tourist revenue and commerce from loss of reenactments might come back to hit El Sinko Swimmi (Reilly) as it did Birmingham last year? Maybe we can use the reenactors as a stick to beat the AG about the head with?
Just a thought.....
[This message has been edited by Tracker (edited April 10, 2000).]