In the commie state right now! Trying to move to New Hampshire soon. Way too fucking hard to get a firearm here.

No reason I should have to pay for my rights!!

Polymer80s are cheap

But you're right

If you do choose to comply and you don't have much of a criminal record it's very doable, just takes $200 and three months

If you're staying in MA and want to shoot here it's tough to avoid

I was really scared of how shitty the process was- then I went through it and it wasn't bad as a practical matter. Of course they're still stepping on snek but I was surprised to find progun cops helping me

Yeah, I have the first two. Waiting the three months is gonna be a pain in the ass here. No reason I should have to take a safety class. I’m sure I learned plenty while I was in the Army

Even longer at the moment, most places aren't accepting applications

I just don't understand how it went from shall not be infringed to: pay for a class, pay for a permit, and then the head of the local constabulary will inform you of his decision on if you may exercise your god given right to defend yourself.

In 1974 Mass had a ballot question to ban the possession of handguns. If we didn't fight it, it would have passed.

How long and how deeply were patriotic citizens sleeping to allow it to get to this point....

Culturally we've been steppers since the Puritan theocracy

The puritan settlers had firearms. And would stoke out if they had even been asked why they needed a weapon let alone go through a bureaucratic system to get one

Its honestly what got me started on my journey from a relatively uninformed and uninterested tax slave. I wanted to buy a gun when I moved into my first apartment in Brockton. Seemed like a good idea after the 6 shots the clerk took at the 711 at the end of my street my first night in the nee place

So I suppose I should thank the system😂😂

I'm with you on that Madison. It's a natural human need to desire physical safety, but saying it out loud gets you weird looks here. Then the process is daunting. But those who don't like being told now will double their resolve

There are wayyy more ARs in ban states than before the bans. People don't like hearing no

In a way it helps us

Absolutely. Ive talked to at least 3 people who, with proper guidance and actual knowledge, went from complete disinterest in all things political to gun owning, upstanding and increasingly active citizens

Most dont even really know what the concept of natural rights mean. I'm always a little sad when I hear someway say "I can do that?" or even worse "they let you do that?"

Hey Massies! Im right next door in NY..Lets get some New York/New England love going. All those lines on the map don't mean too much anyhow.......except for what kind of guns you can own :/

Hey @Cowboy ! Good to hear from someone is alive in the pandemic state😂😂

And those rules only really apply to those who follow them btw

Ive given serious consideration to becoming a "resident" of one of the states that allows for easier access to our rights.

Same. My goal is to have a lake house in NH and spend weekends as a resident. ATF approved, surprisingly

Glad to have NY in the house

Damn right cowboy. states are too damn small up here. We should ask the admin to create a New England group

"is that even legal?!" I am so accustomed to hearing that when I break out the police scanner that it doesn't surprise me anymore when I talk guns

Convenient for when a new edict has the feds looking to make something else verboten. " sorry boys, it fell out the boat when I was day drinking and beating meat while fishing. Damnedest thing, seems to happen to me every other week now"😭

Even better, in a state with private sales and no registration nobody knows what to look for in the first place

@Pat.Henry Yeah but the problem becomes if we wanted to do anything irl, meeting up could take serious time...

That’s true. We could have state meet ups more often and then maybe once every three months have a meet up and cross train with other states in the region

In terms of meeting up, if its any sort of overnight or multi-day thing, Id drive up to 4 hours from Albany. For day long events, 2-3 hours.

Yup. Private sales are my preference. Nothing against the shops, theyre almost always great people, but they gotta follow the laws and I'm a fan of not doing than so

When it comes to meeting up, I got no issues with a drive, so long as it was a worthwhile trip. I'm happy to hang out and rag on y'all all day but if I'm driving more than two solid hours, its gotta be for a purpose. Id like to see something along the line of a monthly/bimonthly meeting to get together and exchange ideas, information and ideally, make decisions about actually engaging the system. We must exhaust all means of peacefully changing things before.....

I’m loving that idea. I’m located in northern Mass near Lowell

Sup you fakin loozah. Middlesex county

Holliston to be exact.

@EFFIN PSYKOno shit? I'm not that far away over in "the little town of Mendon"😂😂

Nice!