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First Circuit Court of Appeals: No Right to Bear Arms Outside the Home in Massachusetts

November 6, 2018 by Kat Ainsworth Stevens

“(T)he First Circuit of the US Court of Appeals ruled that the right to self-defense is at its “zenith inside the home,” and the right is “plainly more circumscribed” outside. “The “core right” protected by the Second Amendment is for citizens to use arms in defense of home, the court said in its decision. “Public … Read more

Getting 3D Printing Totally Wrong, Flipping and Flopping and Countering Corporate Gun Control — TTAG Daily Digest

August 31, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

The Judge in the Latest 3D-Printed Gun Case Got 3D Printing Totally Wrong No. Really? . . . The law that supposedly prohibits the posting of the schematic is an export control law, the Arms Export Control Act, so nothing stops Wilson from distributing the schematic inside the United States. But posting the gun schematic online necessarily … Read more

TTAG Daily Digest: America’s Toughest Gun Law, A Note of Defiance and Georgia’s Armed Teachers

May 7, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

This Is The Toughest Gun Law In America Putting up roadblocks in Massachusetts . . . A thirtysomething man sought to buy a rifle here last September, and if he had been living in almost any other part of the country, he could have done so easily. His record was free of arrests, involuntary psychiatric … Read more

BREAKING: Massachusetts’ Reinterpreted Assault Weapons Ban Upheld by US District Court

April 6, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

“The AR-15 and its analogs, along with large capacity magazines, are simply not weapons within the original meaning of the individual constitutional rights to ‘bear arms.’” That’s the considered opinion of U.S. District Judge William Young in slapping down a challenge to Massachusetts’ reinterpreted “assault weapons” ban. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey was sued by a … Read more

TTAG Daily Digest: Gun Warnings in NYC, Northam’s Failing Grade and Bipartisan Regulation in the House

November 1, 2017 by Dan Zimmerman

What, no skull and crossbones? . . . Gun permits may soon come with a health warning Gun ownership in New York City could soon come with a warning — it’s dangerous to your health. The City Council Public Safety Committee voted 6-1 Monday to require the NYPD to hand out written warnings about the risks … Read more

MA Gun Control Hearings: Time for Folk to Be Up And to Arm

June 15, 2013 by Dan Zimmerman

Never wanting to play second fiddle to anyone when it comes to restricting its citizens’ Second Amendment rights, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is currently considering a cornucopia of constitutionally questionable additional gun control measures. Reader LeftShooter, who’s playing the pro-gun electronic Paul Revere here, wants to get the word out to every Middlesex village and farm — not to mention you people in Worcester, Lowell, Chicopee and Brockton, too:

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

First (of 5) Public Meetings held by the Massachusetts Legislature Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security to discuss the approximately 40 bills that have been filed since January relating to firearms . . .

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