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Legislation to weaken gun laws advances
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Legislation to weaken gun laws advances
Associated Press
Wednesday, July 10, 2002
Legislation that would loosen the state's gun laws moved forward on Beacon Hill yesterday, a week after the fatal shooting of a 10-year-old girl sparked calls for an end to violence in Boston.
``This bill would be a giant step backward,'' said state Rep. David Linsky (D-Natick), a former Middlesex County prosecutor.
Linsky said the timing of the bill, coming on the heels of 10-year-old Trina Persad's death outside a Roxbury park and a spate of violence in Brockton, was ``appalling.''
The bill would create a new category of people eligible to own and carry guns. It would make it easier to obtain licenses for people convicted of violent misdemeanors such as simple assault, drunken driving and minor drug crimes.
Jim Wallace, spokesman for the Gun Owners Action League, said the legislation reverses a 1998 law that too narrowly defined ``violent'' crime as any crime punishable by more than one year in jail.
Supporters had praised the state's 1998 gun law as the toughest in the nation, and some credited it with helping to reduce violence across the state.
But Wallace said the weak economy, not lax gun-license laws, are the main cause of the recent violence. ``Do you think that guy who shot that little girl in the park ever had a license in his life?'' he said.
The House Ways and Means Committee approved the bill yesterday, and a debate on the measure before the full House could take place this week.
The bill would let people convicted of violent misdemeanors other than domestic assault apply for a firearms identification card or gun license seven years after the end of their sentence or parole. Current law bars anyone convicted of a violent misdemeanor from obtaining a license to carry a firearm or an FID card for life.
http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/ap_guns07102002.htm
Copyright 2002 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Associated Press
Wednesday, July 10, 2002
Legislation that would loosen the state's gun laws moved forward on Beacon Hill yesterday, a week after the fatal shooting of a 10-year-old girl sparked calls for an end to violence in Boston.
``This bill would be a giant step backward,'' said state Rep. David Linsky (D-Natick), a former Middlesex County prosecutor.
Linsky said the timing of the bill, coming on the heels of 10-year-old Trina Persad's death outside a Roxbury park and a spate of violence in Brockton, was ``appalling.''
The bill would create a new category of people eligible to own and carry guns. It would make it easier to obtain licenses for people convicted of violent misdemeanors such as simple assault, drunken driving and minor drug crimes.
Jim Wallace, spokesman for the Gun Owners Action League, said the legislation reverses a 1998 law that too narrowly defined ``violent'' crime as any crime punishable by more than one year in jail.
Supporters had praised the state's 1998 gun law as the toughest in the nation, and some credited it with helping to reduce violence across the state.
But Wallace said the weak economy, not lax gun-license laws, are the main cause of the recent violence. ``Do you think that guy who shot that little girl in the park ever had a license in his life?'' he said.
The House Ways and Means Committee approved the bill yesterday, and a debate on the measure before the full House could take place this week.
The bill would let people convicted of violent misdemeanors other than domestic assault apply for a firearms identification card or gun license seven years after the end of their sentence or parole. Current law bars anyone convicted of a violent misdemeanor from obtaining a license to carry a firearm or an FID card for life.
http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/ap_guns07102002.htm
Copyright 2002 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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