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Ending F2F sales will suck. And those of us with half a brain can guess why.
NY is a lot more communist than MA is, believe it or not. Their legislature doesn't hate their governor nearly as much, either. Believe it or not, MA legiscritters, by and large, actually dislike Deval, even the ones who are Democrats. They have been butting heads with him for awhile. If Deval says "Here ram this through!" they're going to be like "yeah right, **** you. We might agree with you but we don't take orders from you. "
Please post this if you actually know what it is.
-Mike
PTSD-denied, anxiety-denied, depression caused by a death in the family-denied. That is far more infuriating and unconstitutional to me than a 7 round magazine per the 5th and 14th amendments.
No Compromise.
It's good to hear it will go through a normal legislative process and not be crammed through quickly. Although even if the entire thing is thrown out we still have the second most oppressive gun laws in the nation right now.
I think you missed the entire point of my post. Yes, we all know that Governer Patrick's bill looks like the NY bill. The point is, that this got passed through an overnight secret session and rapidly the next day. My Rep was explaining to me that MA legislature doesn't work that way - there are bills from the House and Senate, and lots of discussion/debate before a consensus bill. There is, as someone else said, a tendency for them to reject a lot of what the Governor proposes. So, the eventual bill probably won't look at all like the Governors Bill.actually, it looks a LOT like NY.
I think you missed the entire point of my post. Yes, we all know that Governer Patrick's bill looks like the NY bill. The point is, that this got passed through an overnight secret session and rapidly the next day. My Rep was explaining to me that MA legislature doesn't work that way - there are bills from the House and Senate, and lots of discussion/debate before a consensus bill. There is, as someone else said, a tendency for them to reject a lot of what the Governor proposes. So, the eventual bill probably won't look at all like the Governors Bill.
That is why I said the PROCESS (in caps) won't BE like NY. Not that the bill wasn't similar.
Thank you! Very civil response, and appreciated.apologies - I had just gotten done reading the notification from my club and skimmed the your post - my bad - I'll clean it up.
GWAR should be unleashed on all these politicians.
Why did the 1 in NY get pushed though so quick? Or how I should say? It seemed like that happened in like 2 minutes.
So their wonderful governor Cuomo could be the first in the nation to "Do something about gun violence" i can smell that 2016 presidential run already. Its nothing more than a personal pr thing for him
You have to realize, this is a negotiation. The bill has enough fat in it to be trimmed. Like the OP said, so it will look like a victory. I can see some crap happening with the mental health issue, the "gun show" loophole, and maybe some other crap, but I am also optimistic that some fat will be trimmed off this bill, and hopefully our magazine capacity is part of it.
For now, chin up, and don't speculate the worst.