{"id":68830,"date":"2017-01-25T12:44:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T17:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=68830"},"modified":"2017-01-25T12:44:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T03:59:27","slug":"nra-sues-massachusetts-assault-weapon-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/nra-sues-massachusetts-assault-weapon-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"NRA Sues Massachusetts Over &#8216;Assault Weapon&#8217; Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_62414\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Healey2.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nra-sues-massachusetts-assault-weapon-ban\" title=\"NRA Sues Massachusetts Over 'Assault Weapon' Ban\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62414\" title=\"NRA Sues Massachusetts Over 'Assault Weapon' Ban\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Healey2-400x239.png\" alt=\"NRA Sues Massachusetts Over 'Assault Weapon' Ban\" width=\"400\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Healey2-400x239.png 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Healey2-150x90.png 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Healey2.png 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maura Healey (<em>Photo: WGBH<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A group of gun rights advocates backed by the National Rifle Association has sued Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and Attorney General Maura Healey over the state\u2019s 1998 \u201cassault weapon\u201d ban and Healey\u2019s 2016 directive that cracked down on \u201ccopycat\u201d firearms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Massachusetts prohibits firearms it pejoratively defines as &#8216;assault weapons,&#8217; which is a non-technical, entirely fabricated, and political term of uncertain definition and scope,&#8221; the 33-page lawsuit contends.<\/p>\n<p>The suit also takes issue with Healey\u2019s directive last year that banned the sale of \u201ccopycat\u201d rifles. These rifles had been modified to adhere to the 1998 ban by removing the adjustable stocks or the muzzle devices.<\/p>\n<p>Healey\u2019s unilateral order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/state-attorney-general-puts-end-black-rifles-massachusetts\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nra-sues-massachusetts-assault-weapon-ban\" title=\"NRA Sues Massachusetts Over 'Assault Weapon' Ban\">called for an end to the sale of these rifles<\/a> but failed to provide sufficient guidance for gun dealers trying to comply with the directive.<\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s lawsuit, the plaintiffs argued that Healey\u2019s action \u201cbroadly expands the statutory definition far beyond what had been for almost 20 years the settled custom and practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The complaint says Healey\u2019s directive \u201cupends decades of settled custom and practice in Massachusetts, retroactively criminalizes decades of legal behavior and transactions\u201d and \u201cexposes the plaintiffs and other gun owners to criminal penalties for exercising their Second Amendment rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawsuits have been filed in federal court against other states with \u201cassault weapon\u201d bans, including New York, Connecticut, and Maryland, without success.<\/p>\n<p>But in light of Donald Trump\u2019s victory and the opportunity to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia with another pro-Second Amendment judge, gun advocates have reason to be hopeful.<\/p>\n<p>If this suit can work its way through the lower federal courts and be heard by the Supreme Court, the pro-gun community has an opportunity to score a massive victory, one that could lead to the repeal of other \u201cassault weapon\u201d bans in other states.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Porter, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, certainly seems to be thinking along these lines. He told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2017\/01\/23\/mass-chapter-nra-targets-state-assault-weapons-ban-federal-lawsuit-against-healey\/IX7YTBuknWbWxM7BFDJ8LO\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nra-sues-massachusetts-assault-weapon-ban\" title=\"NRA Sues Massachusetts Over 'Assault Weapon' Ban\">Boston Globe<\/a> that their case rests on the idea that AR-15s and AK-47s cannot be banned because they are in common use, an idea upheld by the Supreme Court and Justice Scalia in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/html\/07-290.ZS.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nra-sues-massachusetts-assault-weapon-ban\" title=\"NRA Sues Massachusetts Over 'Assault Weapon' Ban\">D.C. v. Heller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur position is that the state doesn\u2019t have the authority under the Second Amendment to ban firearms that are commonly kept by responsible law abiding citizens for lawful purposes. &#8230; The Supreme Court has told us emphatically that the government cannot ban popular firearms which are commonly kept for lawful purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe level of hostility to the gun-owning public in the state of Massachusetts has grown to be intolerable,\u201d Porter added. \u201cAt this point, it had grown to the level where litigation had become necessary. At some point, if you have a fundamental right, you have to protect it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Massachusetts prohibits firearms it pejoratively defines as &#8216;assault weapons,&#8217; which is a non-technical, entirely fabricated, and political term of uncertain definition and scope,&#8221; the 33-page lawsuit contends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":62414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,593],"tags":[132,607,309,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-jordan-michaels","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nra","13":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NRA Sues Massachusetts Over &#039;Assault Weapon&#039; 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