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« How to deal with REAL straw man cases | Main | Chicago digs in its heels »

Massachusetts quietly moving to double permit fees

Posted by David Hardy · 25 July 2008 07:47 AM

Story here. The firearm permit annual fee would go from $100 to $200.

· State legislation

7 Comments | Leave a comment

jon | July 25, 2008 8:51 AM | Reply

the hell they are. it was already unconstitutionally high.

i will openly defy this. i will not renew, and i will carry concealed.

Jack A | July 25, 2008 9:43 AM | Reply

Story
Gun owners protest hike in gun permit fees
Dealers could be hit with a huge increase if Patrick plan passes

http://www.patriotledger.com/news/x2109423054/Gun-owners-protest-hike-in-gun-permit-fees

excerpt
Last week, Gov. Deval Patrick proposed doubling fees for gun permits, from $100 to $200. Firearms dealers could be hit with an even steeper hike: their three-year licenses would increase from $100 to $250, with two $100 inspection fees tacked on, bringing the total cost to $450.

Cyndi Roy, the governor’s spokeswoman, said the increase in firearm fees has been proposed as one of several “revenue and savings solutions.”

This site Patriot Ledger takes comments

Rich | July 25, 2008 1:05 PM | Reply

I had a Firearms permit in NYC in 1968 which cost $5.00 then. When it renewed 3 years later it was $15 then it went up at then next renewal. The city used it as a source of revenue.

And the City was pretty upfront about doing that also. Nothing new in aspect.

jon | July 25, 2008 4:41 PM | Reply

rep. guyer has submitted an amendment:

http://goal.org/news/Legislative/DevalLicenseTax.htm

Jim | July 25, 2008 4:54 PM | Reply

For those of us in RI, which borders MA, and have non-resident permits, the cost would doubly to $200 annually!

Is it legal to charge non-residents 6 times as much as they charge residents?

mike123 | July 25, 2008 5:20 PM | Reply

When Romney was Gov., GOAL and the NRA supported to make Mass. Assualt Weapons ban permanent in exchange for longer license terms. See:

http://www.iberkshires.com/story.php?story_id=14812

Looks like any benefit they got of longer terms is now lost. Compromise never works.

Ken | July 27, 2008 5:23 PM | Reply

The Massachusetts AW ban always was permanent. A few of the usual suspects were running around pushing all sorts of expansions of the ban under the guise of protecting it from what they falsely claimed would be an end to the ban resulting from the subset of the federal ban. In order to get longer license terms and several other improvements in the law, GOAL (the state NRA affiliate) offered a meaningless amendment that reworded the state ban without any actual change except to incorporate the federal list of specific firearms not banned. Regardless, both Romney and the gun ban crowd have described this as "making the ban permanent" ever since. The claim is as Bogus as Carl T.

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