Street wisdom has it that the aim of much gun regulation is to increase the level of inconvenience to the gun owner to the point where he decides that keeping a gun is not worth the effort.
But here's a new wrinkle: Massachusetts gun licensing laws have apparently reached such a level of complexity that issuing licenses is putting a severe strain on the time and finances of the POLICE. One town's solution? "Police Chief Raymond O'Berg said yesterday that due to budget cuts and lack of staffing, he has imposed a moratorium on new firearm licenses. "The department is now four months behind in processing permit applications, and O'Berg said the clerks in his office will not accept new applications until they clear the backlog. "...people whose gun licenses are about to expire will be left in a lurch. 'They will have to transfer their guns over to someone who has a license,' the chief said. 'I didn't want to do it.'" Full story at http://www.tauntongazette.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=9183859&BRD=1711&PAG=461&dept_id=24232&rfi=8 (Note: even the Town Council realized that this would boil the frog too fast, and ordered the chief to continue issuing licenses.) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://alum.mit.edu/www/tavares | RKBA! Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act. --THE TALMUD
