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I'm sure the requirements to fulfill for being a "DOJ approved vendor" are simple and have a very reasonable fee associated with them.
I remember thoses stories...not sure how true they were.
MA did try this with liquor and the NH state police arrested the MSP for trespassing and harassing customers. NH governor at the time told MA to screw off. This was also prior to the MA AG's office going full retard.
The Gun Parlor should open a store in CA.
Maybe that. But I was saying it because they hate online competition.Why? Did the CA AG put out an RFP for an illegal way to obtain 4473s?
They were doing the same with the fireworks stores as well.It was all very real including showing the events on evening news. MSP undercover cars stalked MA tagged cars at border area NH liquor stores then radioed to a marked cruiser on the MA side to stop and search the cars. I think they seized the liquor.
NH Gov'r told MA Gov'r that he'd arrest MSP for trespassing if this continued and MSP backed off. I remember it well. NH not only talks the talk but walks the walk on their state motto of Live Free or Die!
MGL does prohibit bringing ANY alcohol into MA from any other state or country. I originally found this in a US Customs document, tracked down the MGL and then confirmed with a former Mod here who owned some liquor stores in MA.
It was all very real including showing the events on evening news. MSP undercover cars stalked MA tagged cars at border area NH liquor stores then radioed to a marked cruiser on the MA side to stop and search the cars. I think they seized the liquor.
NH Gov'r told MA Gov'r that he'd arrest MSP for trespassing if this continued and MSP backed off. I remember it well. NH not only talks the talk but walks the walk on their state motto of Live Free or Die!
MGL does prohibit bringing ANY alcohol into MA from any other state or country. I originally found this in a US Customs document, tracked down the MGL and then confirmed with a former Mod here who owned some liquor stores in MA.
Westport’s Rep. Rodrigues caught buying alcohol at tax-free N.H. store
A Westport lawmaker who voted to hike the state sales and alcohol taxes was spotted piling booze in his car — adorned with his Statehouse license plate — in the parking lot of a tax-free New Hampshire liquor store, the Herald has learned.
Rep. Michael J. Rodrigues’ blue Ford Crown Victoria, emblazoned with his “House 29” Massachusetts license plate, was parked outside a Granite State liquor store on Interstate 95 South over the weekend, according to a witness who provided pictures to the Herald.
The witness, who requested anonymity, claimed he approached Rodrigues, noted his Statehouse plate, and asked if he was on personal or official business. Rodrigues, who was loading alcoholic beverages into his car, snapped ‘Mind your own business,’” the witness said.
The witness’s account was also posted Tuesday on Citizens for Limited Taxation’s Web site.
They were doing the same with the fireworks stores as well.
They got the same reaction from the NH AG.
We catch you , we'll arrest you.
Rumor has it they still do it now and then.
http://masscases.com/cases/sjc/454/454mass601.htmlAnd it doesn't end there.
It wasn't that long ago that the state was sending demand letters to tire shops just over the border (Town Fair Tires mostly),
requesting sales records for any customers with a MA address. Town Fair complied and those people got a tax bill in the mail.
I believe a judge later threw it out because the state couldn't prove that the tires were being used in MA.
The state also did the same thing with online cigarette sales business's.
The buissness's complied, and because some of the sales records might have gone back years, a lot
of people got a sizable bill for sales tax owed in the mail
The bulk of that bill was probably for the MA cigarette tax, not the sales tax.She'd go to NH because they are literally half the price there compared to MA, pay with her credit card. MA supoena'd(sp) records from the credit card company and sent my mother a bill for hundreds in sales taxes
I'm sure the requirements to fulfill for being a "DOJ approved vendor" are simple and have a very reasonable fee associated with them.
You would think knowing the supreme court is going to be swinging more conservative they would tone it down so as to not to end up getting bench slapped.
Genius has it's limits but stupidity knows no bounds.
I can't imagine the SCotUS putting up with that on the grounds that any state could ban residents from shopping for anything out of state as protectionist racket. Totally flies in the face of interstate commerce.