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What happens when liberals pass a law and it doesn’t have the desired effect that was so heavily touted to rally the votes for it? Why, they find ways to reinterpret or rewrite the law, whether they have the constitutional or legal authority to do so or not.
Such is the case for Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, who lamented in an op-ed for the Boston Globe that, gasp, people are still able to buy AR-15-style semi-automatic rifles in her state despite an “assault weapons” ban.
Healey took issue with a supposed “loophole” that has been “exploited” by gun manufacturers to continue selling the murderous “weapons of war” that, oh my gosh, were used a handful of times in a few high-profile mass shootings. (No mention of the thousands shot dead every year by handguns.) The horror!
The AG proceeded to discuss how her state banned the sale of AR-15 and AK-47-type “assault weapons,” as well as any “copy/duplicate” of the aforementioned banned semi-automatic rifles, and chastised the gun manufacturers for having the audacity to produce, market and sell “state compliant” rifles that met the arbitrary, and largely cosmetic, requirements of the ban that she herself admitted have no measurable effect on the weapon’s lethality.
So Healey announced that she will do what authoritarian progressives always do — reinterpret the law on her own to close this terrible “loophole.”
“On Wednesday, we are sending a directive to all gun manufacturers and dealers that makes clear that the sale of these copycat assault weapons is illegal in Massachusetts,” she wrote. “With this directive, we will ensure we get the full protection intended when lawmakers enacted our assault weapons ban, not the watered-down version of those protections offered by gun manufacturers.”
“The directive specifically outlines two tests to determine what constitutes a ‘copy’ or ‘duplicate’ of a prohibited weapon,” she continued. “If a gun’s operating system is essentially the same as that of a banned weapon, or if the gun has components that are interchangeable with those of a banned weapon, it’s a ‘copy’ or ‘duplicate,’ and it is illegal.”
She ended her piece with the typical liberal huffing and puffing about “if Congress won’t act, we must” because of some “moral obligation” that we have heard far too often over the past seven years.
Furthermore, this woman revealed that she had no idea about the guns she seeks to ban. The rifles she spoke of are “state compliant,” meaning they fully comply with the state ban as it was written and passed and upheld in court. She doesn’t like that, so she is now moving the goalposts, so to speak.
Furthermore, her redefinition of “copy/duplicate” to include firearms that use the same operating system would seem to encompass far more than just the scary AR-15s and AK-47s she is fretting about, as the overwhelming majority of modern firearms, no matter what they look like, have pretty basic operating systems across the board (with some exceptions, of course).
This gun-grabbing attorney general has overstepped her bounds, and will hopefully be put back in her place real quick once the avalanche of lawsuits she has invited with her extra-legal actions begin rolling in.
See you in court, Ms. Healey.
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