While I’m waiting for my permit renewal I’m reading about all the places that are messing up the Renewal process.
Gun ownership advocates are pushing for a return to lifetime firearm licenses, saying the state’s 1998 get-tough gun control laws have created a bureaucratic nightmare that turns them into lawbreakers, while cash-strapped police departments say they are swamped.
“It’s a license that’s mandated by a state that cannot supply it,” said James Wallace, president of the Gun Owners’ Action League of Massachusetts, which is pushing a bill to speed up the process by eliminating renewals — and instead just yanking licenses from people when they violate the terms. “It’s taking so long that people are technically illegal, and they’re scared to complain, because they’re illegal.”
Gun culture 2.0 is in full swing, and people are buying guns like crazy, and no-longer are gunnies contained to the hinterlands where the deer and the antelope play, but in the urban areas, and these people are getting their carry permits.
This means more demand on the system designed to turn around each application in a short time. Now with volume up….they make you wait, and in the case of Massachusetts where its an OWNERSHIP permit, potentially break the law.
Permits are nonsense. Let people exercise their 2nd Amendment rights like any other…if they abuse them THEN punish them, not before.
