Mrs. Weer’d was late for dinner because he bus was stuck in traffic. She sent me the story.
A car chase that started on the Tobin Bridge this afternoon ended in Kendall Square after a state trooper fired at the alleged suspect, who drove away only to crash his car on the other side of the Longfellow, got out of the car, boarded the Red Line at Charles/MGH and then was pulled off the train at Kendall by waiting state troopers….State Police say the incident began when a trooper on the Tobin Bridge attempted to stop a car wanted as part of a gun investigation….Preliminary investigation indicates that the shots fired were discharged on Broadway in Cambridge by a trooper in self-defense after the suspect put the trooper in fear for his safety. The shots were fired at the vehicle.
I got held-up in Boston in a similar event. My case turned out it was one gang banger shot another, and then fled into the subway. I happened to be sitting on a bench reading the paper, when suddenly I saw TONS of officers, several with MP5s. I’d only had my carry permit for about a month, and this was one of the first time I was carrying my 1911 in an all-day outing, rather than just my J-Frame. I started to flop-sweat thinking I was printing, and somebody called the cops, and I was about to be proned out.
They caught the guy in another tunnel, and my train left the station without incident, besides being about 20mins late.
Mrs. Weer’d ended up equally fine. 20 mins late, but fine.
Still, Massachusetts is lousy for gun owners. Mandatory licensing, mandatory training, full registration, and no private sales. Cambridge and Boston have further restrictions that are even WORSE, such as added (illegal) fees, added (illegal) training, a habit for letting the mandatory minimum processing time lapse, often several times over .
Yet we still have this crap. Of course Boston has a lot of GANGS…but that couldn’t be an issue, could it?
Nahh!
What, you don’t mean that criminals misuse guns do you? I thought that we good citizens were the problem.
We sure do! But if you don’t fill out your transfer form for each one you’ve committed a crime!
It’s called a “Private Sale” but it isn’t all that “Private” when the government is 100% involeved by law!
Fair enough.
Some times I forget that words have meaning, and just because they call it private doesn’t mean it actually is (kind of like those child victims of gun violence who are really neither children nor victims).
No worries, That’s the name of the transaction by law, and I use that term when talking about it myself. Still now that the number 1 talking point of the antis is the “Gun Show Loophole” I’m trying to qualify that loaded term, or not use it at all. Jay and I swapping guns for fun and sport is 100% different from Gino the coke dealer accepting a stolen gun from a junkie in lieu of payment.
Of course both transactions are different even in free states, as its illegal to sell guns to felons, and its illegal to sell stolen property ect….but in Mass the anti-rights dream has more-or-less been achieved…and as all anti-rights laws the end result is good people unhappy and inconvenienced, and bad people committing crimes.
Clearly we need to implement more gun laws on YOU, so that society will be safer.
I propose that:
1) you have a full psychiatric exam, annually, at your expense
2) you are limited to one (1) bullet in your firearm and absolutely no reloads!
3) you are limited to a state-approved, single-shot .22 caliber pistol (painted a bright neon red) with a “loaded” indicator, a manual safety, a grip safety, a trigger safety, and a magazine disconnect
4) all ammunition is serialized with your finger prints and ID required to purchase
5) micro-stamping so that we can ID you quickly since it always works and is not subject to any abuses
6) your firearm is registered with national, state, and local authorities
7) you receive a mandatory 80 hour firearms safety/storage class
8) it is kept in a locked safe at home separate from that single round that you are allowed to possess so as to avoid the accumulation of ammunition to be an arsenal
9) concealed carry is forbidden since only criminals and killers would want to do that
Hmm…I think that about covers it. I feel so much safer now.
Please don’t ask me if any of these things actually work to reduce suicides, homicides, crime, impair defensive gun uses, or accidents. I don’t need any proof, I have feelings.