Comments on: It’s Worse Than That

By: Justin Buist » Blog Archive » Welcome to the ‘Real World,’ kid.

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:06:09 +0000

[...] Sebastian notes that in Massachusetts you can’t possess ammunition components without a license to own a gun. It’s a two year felony. Bruce has also mentioned the criminal nature of possessing an empty shell casing before. [...]

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:18:03 +0000

I am afraid that stupidity is not an excuse for the Massachusetts Legislature in this matter. This law was deliberately written to criminalize the unlicensed possession of reloading components. To what end? To make the internet sale or mail order sale of components more difficult (the Attorney General loves to threaten out of state suppliers with hefty civil fines). Why? Ultimately to legislate a complete ban on Citizens rights to Keep and Bear Arms in Massachusetts.

Our freedom is being consumed in a serious of nibbles. Perhaps no one will notice until we are totally consumed and totally powerless.

By: Mike Hayes

Mike Hayes — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:51:54 +0000

If there was just one sane individual in that school system he or she ought to push to the full extent of Mass. law for conviction and incarceration of the vet and the child. NOT UNTIL “EVERYONE” SEE THE STUPIDITY OF THESER LAWS WILL THE BE STOPPED AND/OR OVERTURNED.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:54:10 +0000

I wish I was. Massachusetts law is absolutely insane. And there’s a two year mandatory minimum if you’re ever convicted.

By: Kevin Baker

Kevin Baker — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:29:41 +0000

if you don’t have a license to have a firearm in Massachusetts, you can’t even possess ammunition or ammunition components. The truth is, this kid and everyone involved in this situation is lucky that it’s only resulting in a five day suspension. Under Massachusetts law, both the kid, the veteran who gave the kid the empty shell casing, and the teacher to took if from the kid could be looking at two years in prison for having ammunition components without a license.

You’re effing kidding me…

No, I don’t imagine you are.

And just how many felons (armed robbers, drug dealers, etc.) are actually charged under this law?

By: thirdpower

thirdpower — Sat, 31 May 2008 13:06:19 +0000

If you follow the argument by Bryan Miller, this kid should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and if we defend him we’re hypocrites.

By: B Smith

B Smith — Sat, 31 May 2008 03:14:25 +0000

I remember taking a 30-30 casing, which my dad had brought back from a hunting trip, to school when I was about seven or eight. They took it away from me— because I was blowing over the opening to make it whistle…heh. (No suspension, though.)
How times change. Kids today can’t even point their fingers and say, “bang”. We also used to take water guns to school, and that was a pretty serious infraction—but because of the DISRUPTION, not any implied threat. I feel sorry for kids today, and sometimes I’m really glad I don’t have any.