The hearing was this morning, I wonder when this Bill will come up for a vote? I cant find anything about this on the news sites.
Nope BAD guys will do bad things no matter what law has been passed. I just would like to give a young person waving an air gun of any type a chance as opposed to a new young stupid cop putting a cap in his rear. Their are other ways to do this but no one seems to want to go back to ole school. I once asked Dave Camp(Congress) if any law he made and passed had ever stopped a crime/he had to say no in front of a lot of people. It did not stop him from passing more. And it is always for our safety etc.. If we could just save one child, on the other hand, we used to have natural selection.
The lame stream media doesn't "report" the news anymore. They propagandize it. They've circled their PC wagons pushing their liberal agenda, only telling half the story in some/most cases.
If it starts here in MA, and becomes law, don't think for a minute that YOUR State wont be next. This is one of the most important topics that as an airgun community that we not only make people aware of but doing whatever we can to protect our sport. I agree with GungaDin, if someone gets out of line handle it on a one on one basis. This is to important to ALL of us to even think of locking.
Another thing I forgot to mention, is Tamir Rice didn't have a gun that shot steel bb's he had an airsoft gun, which he took the orange tip off of. Now the politicians who wrote this bill thought they improved on that by mandating a painted stripe, but any kid willing to yank off an orange tip would certainly not be unwilling to wield a can of black spraypaint. "is marked with a non-removable orange stripe which is at least 1 inch in width and runs the entire length of the barrel on each side and the front end of the barrel; and (iii) has a barrel at least 1 inch in diameter that is closed for a distance of not less than one-half inch from the front-end of its barrel with the same material of which the imitation firearm is made. Maybe some more lawyerly people can explain the second part, it's a little confusing to me. For example, my crosman 1377 which was NOT designed to imitate a firearm, would no doubt be interpreted as such anyway. The barrel is definitely NOT one inch in diameter nor is it "enclosed" by anything. The fact that the barrel is so thin, mounted on top of the air chamber makes the 1377 NOT look like a firearm.Crosman isn't about to make a Massachusetts special 1377 with a full length metal barrel shroud. And it WOULD have to be metal, as that is what most of the 1377 is composed of. "with the same material of which the imitation firearm is made"I'd like to ask the admins please don't lock this thread, unlike a post on powder burner gun control it is VERY relevant and there are few other outlets to disseminate info on this bill that are likely to catch the attention of fellow Massachusetts air gunners. Facebook is the only other place I've seen info that was not biased in favor of the bill. If someone is consistently making what admins consider incendiary posts, maybe a week ban of that individual would be better served in this case. I don't exclude myself. I'd rather be banned from posting for a week than see this post locked.
Quote from: SSG Grampo on January 08, 2016, 02:12:00 PMIf it starts here in MA, and becomes law, don't think for a minute that YOUR State wont be next. This is one of the most important topics that as an airgun community that we not only make people aware of but doing whatever we can to protect our sport. I agree with GungaDin, if someone gets out of line handle it on a one on one basis. This is to important to ALL of us to even think of locking.I agree if can happen in one state it can happen in all.So please don't lock this thread.Dave
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