MA House Bill 2091 - 5 Hours Live Fire Training To Get License

[AHM]

Said curriculum must include a minimum of at least 5 hours of live discharge of firearms, rifles, and shotguns at a the license gun club, ...

FTFY.
Because there is precisely one licensed gun club: Andover.

 

[thorin]

I know we want this to fail, and @a and all that. But it's pretty likely to go through so we should be thinking what we may be able to add to it that will benefit us and communicate that to GOAL.
I would suggest full "shall issue", an end to suitability, and an end to restrictions. The rational is that with all the background checks and the training these other items are not nessisary.

I DON'T LIKE THIS, but this is the way things are in MA and damage needs to be minimized.

Is it really likely to go through? July 31 is the last day of the session. Haven't heard about this bill since it got out of the Public Safety committee. Its got very few cosponsors. Are things happening in Ways & Means or have they realized how idiotic it is? No offense but your suggestions for amendment are dead in the water. "Compromise" from the legislature only means they take a little less, never give anything.

 

[42!]

Is it really likely to go through? July 31 is the last day of the session. Haven't heard about this bill since it got out of the Public Safety committee. Its got very few cosponsors. Are things happening in Ways & Means or have they realized how idiotic it is? No offense but your suggestions for amendment are dead in the water. "Compromise" from the legislature only means they take a little less, never give anything.

Maybe it's just fear based on history, it's not dead until the session end, they've pushed through last minute bills before

 

[MarkT]

FTFY.
Because there is precisely one licensed gun club: Andover.

That part of the chipping away process the libs just love. Next step, all ranges that offer training will be required to get a license.

 

[AHM]

That part of the chipping away process the libs just love.

Sure, sure.

Next step, all ranges that offer training will be required to get a license.

If Andover became the only existing place that training could occur,
there might be tremendous pressure upon the club
to relinquish their license in order to enable litigation against the state.

Because a state regulatory scheme mandating unavailable training
to exercise an explicitly enumerated civil right
would be tailor-made for a cert grant by SCOTUS.

 

[free]

Are you saying that the Second Amendment is a civil right?

I don't think so. Thanks

 

[voidoid]

Is it really likely to go through? July 31 is the last day of the session. Haven't heard about this bill since it got out of the Public Safety committee. Its got very few cosponsors. Are things happening in Ways & Means or have they realized how idiotic it is?

Hold your breath until 8/1. Anything can happen at the end of the session. Legistraitors sit on their hands for most of the year and then realize they have to pretend they do actual work, so there's a lot of stuff that can move at the last minute. Hopefully not this.