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Sweetwater · 06-28-2010, 12:28 PM

The Supreme Court has voted to limit the ability of local jurisdictions to ban the private ownership and possession of handguns. This basically means that the Supreme Court has reaffirmed our Second Amendment rights.

I will be interested to see if and how this ruling impacts Massachusetts handgun laws. Even though MA does not ban handguns (as they do in the city of Chicago), licensing is fully at the sole discretion of the local police chief. What this amounts to is unequal application of the law since if you have two equally qualified individuals one might be granted a license and the other not simply due to the town they live in and the disposition of local law enforcement.

I wonder if this ruling can be used as a precedent to outlaw such an arbitrary process and put a more equal application of the law in place for law-abiding MA citizens.

06-28-2010, 12:28 PM	#1
Sweetwater Ruled only by the tide iTrader: (0) Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Truro Posts: 801	Supreme Court and Gun Regulation The Supreme Court has voted to limit the ability of local jurisdictions to ban the private ownership and possession of handguns. This basically means that the Supreme Court has reaffirmed our Second Amendment rights. I will be interested to see if and how this ruling impacts Massachusetts handgun laws. Even though MA does not ban handguns (as they do in the city of Chicago), licensing is fully at the sole discretion of the local police chief. What this amounts to is unequal application of the law since if you have two equally qualified individuals one might be granted a license and the other not simply due to the town they live in and the disposition of local law enforcement. I wonder if this ruling can be used as a precedent to outlaw such an arbitrary process and put a more equal application of the law in place for law-abiding MA citizens.
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