VetteGirlMA
NES Member
Dennis, when was the last time you were pulled over in your own driveway, or on your own property for operating a motor vehicle without a license?
If the answer is never, then you ought to get the point:
The license entitles your performance in public. It doesn't apply to your right to travel on your own property, or to bear arms for yourself.
The LTC "entitles the holder thereof to...possess and carry...firearms," see G. L. c. 140, § 131 ... " "in the performance of ... duties" see G. L. c. 147, § 8A or G. L. c. 147, § 29A. or officers "within the scope of his duties" see G. L. c. 140, § 131P.
Can you find me where it says "carry" for one's personal use?
With guys like you, who needs Maura to oppress us?
I think you have a compelling case and I would hate to see you become the test case for appeals. I don't like the idea of putting people in prison with no criminal records, acting non violently, exercising their rights fairly or as fairly as they believe it to be and then jamming people up with legal technicalities. The people doing the prosecuting don't care the lives that they ruin and the police don't care that they ruined lives and that to me is a fundamental problem with our justice system. A lack of accountability. They can pursue someone for years spending what amounts to limitless cash in order to destroy a single persons life and then afterwards they walk away scot free saying 'wut, I stand by what I did' when in a just world they would have been skinned alive.