Does anyone think the gun laws will get better or are we doomed already and which gun laws do think might change.
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We will continue to make long slow steady progress, inch by inch, step by step until some event happens and then we'll be blown back by a yard and a half.
It's anyone's guess as to the whens and the wheres in the short term, but long term the constitution will prevail, or the constitution will be replaced.
After attending the annual GOAL Meeting in Springfield last Saturday, I don't think the other side will get everything they want. There will be some changes not to our benefit, but I do not see the current AWB policy or magazine capacity laws as they exist to change much, and I don't think a may issue FID is in the cards either. Other things like a ban on FTF sales may happen, and more in-depth background checks.
This is all IMO, YMMV.
Doomed. Most of what has been proposed so far will pass.
******Licensing may actually get mildly better. Any hopes for major change in our favor will have to come from litigation, not legislation, however.
Mike
These threads are the best.
After attending the annual GOAL Meeting in Springfield last Saturday, I don't think the other side will get everything they want. There will be some changes not to our benefit, but I do not see the current AWB policy or magazine capacity laws as they exist to change much, and I don't think a may issue FID is in the cards either. Other things like a ban on FTF sales may happen, and more in-depth background checks.
This is all IMO, YMMV.
*****This.
Most informed post without resorting to pure stupid-bearing levels of alarmism. None of the linsky/creem/etc garbage is passing, so people need to stop paying attention to all of that crap and start paying attention (and waiting) for the probable single Naughton/DeLeo bill to be produced and go from there.
-Mike
The most important firearms law decision in decades was handed down June 28th, 2010. In McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Supreme Court held, in a 5-4 decision, that the Second Amendment applied to all fifty states. This decision incorporated the Second Amendment, placing it with the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments as applying to state and local governments; not just the Federal government.
I don't think it will be replaced. Eventually it will simply be forgotten. Give it time.
Liscensing may get better because they are being sued.
Other than that, they will stuff shit down our throats. Its a one party state
I've been a gun owner in Mass for over 30 years, and there's only a single instance I can recall where an infringement was lifted, and that was the elimination of the ammo sales log book requirement by dealers in the mid 80's.