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Mass. gun owners appeal for more information about Attorney General Maura Healey and her 'copycat' weapons crackdown

The Gun Owners Action League, a local affiliate of the National Rifle Association, is seeking more information from Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey after her crackdown on copycat weapons.

The group (GOAL) has argued Healey overreached when applying the crackdown, which came through an enforcement notice to gun sellers and manufacturers. Healey's office has said owners of copycat weapons before the notice was issued in July are grandfathered.

Looking for information that could shed more light on her decision, GOAL filed an extensive public records request in August, and months later received a CD that included gun manuals from different manufacturers. Healey's office cited several legal exemptions in limiting the response, including ongoing litigation.

Jim Wallace, the head of GOAL, said his group is continuing to press for more information and plans to file an appeal with Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin this week. Galvin's office includes a public records division.

Massachusetts AG Busy Defending Her Unconstitutional “Enforcement Notice” on “Copycat” Assault Weapons

Even though Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (shown at podium) knew that her unilateral expansion of an 18-year-old law to ban anything that looked like an “assault weapon” was likely to be challenged, she went ahead with it anyway. On July 20 of last year, she imperiously announced her “enforcement notice” to every gun maker and dealer in the state:

Here in Massachusetts, 10,000 assault weapons [i.e., semi-automatic rifles that often look like fully-automatic military firearms] were sold just in the last year.... In the week after the Pulse [LGBT] nightclub massacre, sales of [such] weapons jumped as high as 450 percent over the previous week — just in Massachusetts....

They are weapons used to commit mass murder. And they have no business being in civilian hands....

That will end now.

She expected pushback for her illegal actions: "We anticipate our directive may be … challenged … but our job is to enforce state laws and to keep people safe."

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