{"id":39627,"date":"2014-02-04T12:10:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T17:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39627"},"modified":"2014-02-04T12:13:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T17:13:23","slug":"panel-of-academic-experts-massachusetts-needs-more-gun-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39627","title":{"rendered":"Panel of academic “experts”: Massachusetts needs more gun laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link to the Boston Herald<\/a> which reports that a “panel of academic experts”, whatever that means, spent a year noodling over Massachusetts’ gun laws in the wake of the Newtown tragedy, and *surprise* they determined that Massachusetts needs more gun laws. <\/p>\n

The panel made 44 recommendations, including that Massachusetts join a national mental health database for screening potential gun owners, that it beef up firearms training requirements, and that it eliminate Class B gun licenses, which are seldom used.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It looks like a person with a “class B” license<\/a> is limited to open carry and can’t own a handgun that holds more than ten rounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, Massachusetts continues to be a leader nationally in efforts to reduce gun violence. The committee believes that even more can be done,\u201d the report said. \u201cThe committee recognizes that changes such as those proposed in this report may be challenging, but if adopted, provide a pathway to further reduce gun violence in the Commonwealth.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, so I hope that they explain how each of their 44 points will actually reduce gun violence. The mental health database is a good idea, since all of the shootings in recent memory were committed by people who should have been in the database, but weren’t.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/a> lists some of the 44 recommendations;<\/p>\n

\u2014 Requiring background checks for most private firearms sales.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Giving local police chiefs greater discretion to deny firearms identification cards.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Eliminating Class B licenses, which allow people to carry firearms in the open.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Requiring gun owners to sign affidavits stating they still own all the guns legally registered to them each time they renew their licenses.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Increasing penalties for failing to report lost or stolen guns.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Approving tax credits for the purchases of gun safes.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Requiring Massachusetts to join a federal program that shares information about people who might be unsuitable to own guns because of substance abuse or mental illness.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Banning convicted felons from receiving firearms identification cards.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Requiring employees of firearms dealers to pass background checks.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Encouraging schools to have access to two-way communication with local police departments for use in emergency situations.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Mandating that firearms training courses require the firing of weapons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Can anyone tell me how any of those things would have prevented any of the shooting of the last few years, let alone Newtown? Gun advocates say that they were effectively locked out of the task force, because, you know, who needs experts on gun laws and how they affect legal gun owners on their little task force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link to the Boston Herald which reports that a “panel of … Panel of academic “experts”: Massachusetts needs more gun laws<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}