The shop that got in trouble for selling Glocks, that are on the "list" mind you...what was is that made them do that? Where was there fear for their livelihood or prison time? They where doing right by us and they got in trouble because there where the ONLY shop doing it. Now if every gun shop sells Glocks, then what?
They did it so they could make money. (Selling on list glocks as a dealer will NOT send you to jail, unless off list, just a risk of 10K civil infraction, as a dealer) The other shops don't do it because they'd rather make money selling guns/accessories than dealing with AG bullshit. It's a risk assessment they make. Not to mention you've probably lost sight of the fact that these shops aren't some hobby thing in a guys basement, they're businesses that people use to make money.
Also note- dealers fragrantly ignoring her bullshit has done nothing. There were a lot of dealers fragrantly ignoring the dumb laws in the past decade or so and the AG mostly ignored them because they were small enough to be ignored. They only ever got bagged from it when their head poked up out of the hole too far. None of that activity has changed the laws.
If "every shop did it" the AG's office would just pick the biggest fish and press the FRY button. And then the others would just fall in line after that, thinking that they would be "next".
The speed limit is 65 or so on the high way but everyone does 80 in the fast lane right in front of cops, no problem right? Now if everyone went 65 like they were told to the guy going 80 is getting pulled over...
There's a lot of people who have illegal mags, etc, in MA. I see that stuff all the time. That doesn't mean it's going to magically change the shitty law so that the "one off white guy" that got hit with a 209A doesn't get prosecuted for having a pmag or whatever. Massive civil disobedience is great to see memetically but in MA it does virtually nothing WRT gun rights. I can go to any half-busy, non fudd active gun club and find a half dozen or so felonies being possessed, but that isn't going to change the laws.
To use your analogy btw... a lot of highways people speed all the time, and many get away with it... but guess what, the guy going 80 is still going to get pulled over if he's not lucky. Shitloads of people speeding in MA hasn't changed the laws one bit.
Then again, it is kind of a shitty analogy anyways, there's a big difference between taking a risk for civil disobedience over a speeding infraction (which isn't even a criminal offense most of the time, absent other factors) versus a felony. If a postban mag was a $50 civil infrac, everyone would own them and every shop would keep them hidden behind the counter somewhere.
What you're suggesting is like saying that if everyone had a hotbox, cable television would be cheaper. Back in the 80s and 90s anyone that knew more than the average bear about electronics had at least one hotbox in their house. Despite thousands of these illegal units being in use, it didn't suddenly make cable television pay channels become free.
-Mike