Here’s a local story.
The robbery happened at the Guess store at the Wrentham Premium Outlets on Tuesday night, just as the clerks were closing up shop.
The man was reportedly looking at a jacket, and then hid somewhere in the store.
He took out a silver handgun and forced the employees into the fitting rooms, where he bound and gagged them with duct tape, police said.
One employee suffered a minor injury, but is expected to be okay.
Let’s run down on things. I Massachusetts we have a ban on all private sales. All gun owners need to have safety training and background checks before even buying their first gun…and they need a background check for that too! Furthermore all guns are registered with the state, and if you want to carry a gun that would be ready for self defense…or robbery, your police chief can deny that for any reason…and even if he wants prohibit you from owning handguns or certain long guns. No criminal past is needed for this restriction.
Now what do we have here? We have a guy who likely followed NONE of those ownership laws, not to mention those pesky laws against theft and assault.
We have a bunch of good people who were 100% defenseless.
We have a bunch of people bound and gagged, and one injured. The fact that nobody was killed, sexually assaulted, or severely injured simply because this morally bankrupt monster CHOSE NOT TO!
Gun control leaves the good people at the mercy of the evil.
This is the world the Antis want for all of us.
Weerd, a quibble, and I know where you’re going but given the nature of things, wanted to set the record straight.
MA does not ban private sales. MA requires that both parties be legal residents with valid MA gun permits and that the gun sold match the permit (i.e. no handgun to an FID, etc.). There are limits on private sales, certainly, but MA does allow them.
It is a minor quibble. I will rebut that You and I have engaged in what Massachusetts law calls a “Private Sale”…I will also note that we were both required by state law to report said “Private Sale” to the state within 7 days or be guilty of a State Felony.
A rose by any other name. You call something a “Private Sale” but have to tell the world about it, it isn’t exactly “Private”, and I refuse to call it that except in the pure legal jargon.