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well hes for carry on campus, which surprised me after reading that disastrous excuse for an article.
The misinformation that is out there is amazing.
See I do not read this as a anti 2nd...I see this as a young poorly informed college student in a very liberal college swimming against the strong current....I did not grow up in a gun owning home and my mom thought guns were bad...still does...went to school with that mind set.
I think we have a kid with a rational that it is not guns but it is the people that commit crimes that are bad. With a little bit of experience and information, I feel he can be put on the right track...hopefully he takes the invite
See I do not read this as a anti 2nd...I see this as a young poorly informed college student in a very liberal college swimming against the strong current....I did not grow up in a gun owning home and my mom thought guns were bad...still does...went to school with that mind set. I think we have a kid with a rational that it is not guns but it is the people that commit crimes that are bad. With a little bit of experience and information, I feel he can be put on the right track...hopefully he takes the invite
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I will offer him a membership to NES and can only hope that he will be welcomed and not ridiculed for his attempt to stand up and be heard.
-Rick
All,
Let me shed a little light on this.
The author is a friend of mine who as you have surmised is young and is new to the shooting community. He is mistaken on many points in his article of this there can be no doubt.
He and his father were students in my Basic Pistol Course some time ago and have been recently licensed. I'll be quite interested in learning his source for some of the details.
I have heard John lament the anti-gun atmosphere that he finds himself in on a regular basis. I admire his willingness to go public and stand for his beliefs. John has requested training as an RSO and instructor in order to volunteer his time to teach shooting Merit Badges and is himself and Eagle Scout.
I will be seeing him in the next couple weeks and will offer him a membership here on my nickle but I must say that I offer that with a little trepidation.
Even with my credentials as noted in my signature I find myself scratching my head over MA laws. There are at least three lawyers we all know and love who concentrate entirely on gun laws which speaks volumes about the level of complexity within these laws. Many posts here offer opinions where the person posting specifies IANAL simply because there are few of us who feel strongly enough about the interpretation of the laws to feel our comments are on solid ground.
It is people like John who are willing to stand up who can be educated and coached by the rest of us that are the future of the 2A.
I will offer him a membership to NES and can only hope that he will be welcomed and not ridiculed for his attempt to stand up and be heard.
-Rick
Another thing, I recall a few posts where Scrivener was wrong on the gun laws, WRT the legality of SBS's in Mass. and BAC while carrying a gun. How sad is it when a seasoned Massachusett's firearms attorney still doesn't know all of the gun laws? When police departments, the crew at the CHSB, and everyone else in charge of administering and enforcing the laws can't make heads or tails out of it?
I think there are many aspects of these laws that will be decided case by case in courts. I think the laws were written to be esoteric, arcane, unfathomable and deliberately vague. I think that we Massachusetts gun owners have been played, and will be played again.
I have an acquaintance of many years who spent 10 years on MSP, and at least as many now with the FBI. He has a JD. When I asked him a question about Mass gun laws, he just said, essentially, "forget it ... I wouldn't presume to know the Massachusetts gun laws well enough to give advice... won't even try."
I think there are many aspects of these laws that will be decided case by case in courts. I think the laws were written to be esoteric, arcane, unfathomable and deliberately vague. I think that we Massachusetts gun owners have been played, and will be played again.
I think there are many aspects of these laws that will be decided case by case in courts. I think the laws were written to be esoteric, arcane, unfathomable and deliberately vague. I think that we Massachusetts gun owners have been played, and will be played again.
The uninformed writer needs to stick to topics he knows about.
I came across the article online while searching for something else, and I thought I'd share because it's just one more example of gun laws that no one can seem to figure out.
Another thing, I recall a few posts where Scrivener was wrong on the gun laws, WRT the legality of SBS's in Mass. and BAC while carrying a gun. How sad is it when a seasoned Massachusett's firearms attorney still doesn't know all of the gun laws? When police departments, the crew at the CHSB, and everyone else in charge of administering and enforcing the laws can't make heads or tails out of it?
I would like to see the author become a member here so that he can learn, because he has the ability to reach a greater audience than most of us here.
All,
Let me shed a little light on this.
The author is a friend of mine who as you have surmised is young and is new to the shooting community. He is mistaken on many points in his article of this there can be no doubt.
He and his father were students in my Basic Pistol Course some time ago and have been recently licensed. I'll be quite interested in learning his source for some of the details.
I have heard John lament the anti-gun atmosphere that he finds himself in on a regular basis. I admire his willingness to go public and stand for his beliefs. John has requested training as an RSO and instructor in order to volunteer his time to teach shooting Merit Badges and is himself and Eagle Scout.
I will be seeing him in the next couple weeks and will offer him a membership here on my nickle but I must say that I offer that with a little trepidation.
Even with my credentials as noted in my signature I find myself scratching my head over MA laws. There are at least three lawyers we all know and love who concentrate entirely on gun laws which speaks volumes about the level of complexity within these laws. Many posts here offer opinions where the person posting specifies IANAL simply because there are few of us who feel strongly enough about the interpretation of the laws to feel our comments are on solid ground.
It is people like John who are willing to stand up who can be educated and coached by the rest of us that are the future of the 2A.
I will offer him a membership to NES and can only hope that he will be welcomed and not ridiculed for his attempt to stand up and be heard.
-Rick
The author is very approachable and we had a chance to talk last weekend. I offered him an NES membership which he accepted and he is now green on the forum as jkthree.
I would encourage you all to welcome him as he is learning and perhaps even acknowledge that he stood in public (At UMASS no less) and spoke his mind in defense of the 2A.
-Rick
Short
Barreled
Shotgun
The term “short-barreled shotgun” means a shotgun having one or more barrels less than eighteen inches in length and any weapon made from a shotgun (whether by alteration, modification or otherwise) if such a weapon as modified has an overall length of less than twenty-six inches.
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