On a hot and humid New England day, Massachusetts citizens awoke to a assault on personal liberty and due process. The Massachusetts (MA) Attorney generals (AGO, AG) office had just retroactively made thousands of MA legal gun owners, essentially felons in waiting via a Guidance letter published in the local liberal news rag, the "Boston Globe". The AG had reinterpreted the decades old MA Assault Weapons Ban, that mirrored the federal ban in the early nineteen-ninetys, word for word. This made a horrifying precedent that with a swoop of the quill, a government bureaucrat, could retroactively make citizens criminals for legally purchasing a firearm, that were legal under law. This is not only an abuse of power but a violation of due process. It is not clear what is going to happen for MA citizens, a lawsuit has been filed by the Nation Shooting Sports Foundation and several are pending because of the MA AGO demanding gun owner info from manufactures. It appears that this will be decided in the courts, if not the next legislative session.
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