Mike, that skepticism has served you well in the past - right up to 7/20 - but we're in the middle of a paradigm shift with a great deal hinging on the outcome of the Presidential Election.
We know their game plan if Hillary wins as they've telegraphed it in several places already. Maura's wet dream is to impose fines for non-compliance that mean you'll quickly lose your house if you don't kneel to the King. This was one of the proposals for Longmeadow IIRC. They don't want to do this legislatively or by door-kicking, they want to do it administratively.
So I suggest we all overcome any reservations we have about Trump and hang together or we shall surely hang separately.
I honestly don't think this bullshit has anything to do with the election, other than healy's political aspirations. Like I said before, she knows the MA AG gig is a dead end job so she is trying to
get her ticket out. I guess if Trump wins thats a cute way of punching her in the face politically. But who gives a
**** about that, your vote doesn't count in MA anyways for president. This state was sold to hitlery a long time ago. We're pretty much powerless unless you have friends and family in the dozen or so swing states you can influence.
I like your conspiracy theory about gun registration and fines... but this is a state that can't even operate a gun registration system well, what makes you think they're going to administer a program like that that efficiently?
That's going to require a paradigm shift in MA legislature in terms of spending more money to hate guns, and I don't see that happening. (A big part of the reason past MA gun control passed is because it cost little money to implement). In order for this conspiracy of yours to come true Healey & co will have to amass support from the legislature in order to do it. I don't think that's coming anytime soon, given that she pissed on their shoes on the 20th.
The only saving grace in MA, if you've watched gun politics here, is that in relative terms, MA "sucks at being evil" compared to other anti gun states. This is because it doesn't spend money on gun control. Gun control that encompasses a wide scope of influence requires money to implement that. Good luck to Healey when she tries to pitch that someone doesn't need a new public school and we need more gun control instead.
-Mike