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From GOA today on Mass.HR 4885:

Last week anti-gun Democrats in Massachusetts passed a partisan bill antithetical to the very spirit of the Second Amendment.

H 4885 comprehensively restructures gun law in Massachusetts under one of the most vehemently anti-liberty laws we’ve ever seen. The 116-page legislation was purposely written in a complex manner that requires tedious referencing of the Massachusetts General Laws to fully understand. H 4885 includes, but is not limited to:

  • A complete semi-automatic firearm and “high-capacity” magazine ban with a grandfathering date of August 1, 2024.
  • Tougher penalties on homemade firearms — all frames and receivers are expected to be serialized.
  • Expansion of Red Flag laws.
  • Stricter testing/licensing standards, which creates a new training curriculum that includes injury prevention, suicide prevention, disengagement tactics, live fire training, and completion of a written exam.
  • An outright ban on “undetectable firearms.”
  • Allowing the Department of Criminal Justice access to firearm owners personal data by making changes to information protection law.
  • Bans the usage of 3-D printers and CNC milling machines to manufacture or assemble any firearm without a license to carry firearms.
  • Bans the sale of 3-D printers and CNC milling machines that have the “primary or intended function of manufacturing or assembling firearms.”
  • New permitting laws for pepper spray.
  • Expansion of the current Firearm Control Advisory Board.
If you didn’t think this was enough, House Speaker Ronald Mariano touted H 4885 as, “The culmination of a multi-year process that began after the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority issued their disastrous Bruen decision, which weakened the Commonwealth’s gun safety laws and endangered our residents.”

In the face of this monumental threat to liberty, the GOA and our legal team are exploring all options to fight this legislation until the Second Amendment has been rightfully restored in Massachusetts.
 
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Tips could still be reported & have SS+Medicare withheld but NOT income tax. No change to SS in New scheme

All true.

FWIW I'm not trying to raise concern about anyone cheating the system.

Ignoring and not disagreeing with the noise about social security is a sham or won't be around or what ever agenda anyone has against social security ...

Social security "benefits" are based on reported lifetime earnings. I don't *think* the amount withheld matters but maybe it does.

Point being that how taxes are avoided (as you pointed out), income not reported or reported income not taxed, might impact benefits down the road. Sounds good up front to not pay taxed on tips but if it translates into a reduction in "potential" benefits later maybe not a "great" deal.
 
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They protest for more government....

...get more government.
And got the fucking nerve to call Jan.6 an insurrection.
I'll bet money the folks at the Capital on January 6 would hand these fuckers their asses on a silver plate.
Time to start sending a shit load of insurgents back to their shit hole countries. :mad:
 
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Fuck!

When did this happen? I would literally be doing things that would likely land me in jail if I was physically present.

That can’t be recent, or the real Liberty Bell. Right?
Not the The Liberty Bell; but it's in Philly so who knows what will happen to it. This is the Freedom Bell:

Disgusting as $%#@ nonetheless.