{"id":33382,"date":"2018-05-11T10:59:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T14:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33382"},"modified":"2018-05-11T10:59:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T14:59:46","slug":"is-the-second-amendment-real-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33382","title":{"rendered":"Is The Second Amendment Real In Massachusetts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The Boston Herald<\/a> posted an article about a rather odd incident in Boston<\/a>. The article deals with the confiscation of a legal gun of a private citizen because the police decided that the man was unfit to have a gun license<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

According to Evans\u2019 (Police Commissioner William B. Evans<\/a>) filing, the man received a license to carry from BPD<\/a> in March 2016, and had a gun in his car when he went to a party in Dedham<\/a> that November. Shots were fired at the party and the man took the gun from an unsecured area in his trunk and put it in his driver\u2019s side door.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dedham police confiscated the man\u2019s gun and BPD revoked his license. But the man appealed<\/a> in West Roxbury<\/a> District Court, which ruled that the man \u201cdid what most people would have done in the same circumstances\u201d and reversed the revocation, calling it \u201carbitrary and capricious<\/a>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Evans\u2019 appeal says the court misinterpreted the law and makes the city less safe.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe ruling of the West Roxbury Court ordering the Commissioner to reinstate (the) license to carry firearms adversely affects the real interests of the general public in limiting the access irresponsible persons have to deadly weapons,\u201d the appeal reads.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have a number of questions about this story. How did the police know the gun was in the driver’s side door? Did the police have permission to search the car? Were this man’s civil rights violated?<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see what happens next. The man committed no crimes. He had legally owned a gun for more than two years without incident. There is no evidence of a criminal record. Why did he lose his Second Amendment rights<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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