City of Lowell Storage Alert

[GOAL]

GOAL has just been made aware that the Lowell City Council voted last night on a local petition regarding the storage of firearms. This vote apparently came with virtually no notice to local residents.

GOAL is attempting to acquire a copy of the language and could use the help of any local Lowell residents.

According to a news reporter that contacted the office, the legislation would require any person owning more than 10 guns to install a vault, an alarm system and notify police about the storage.

Anyone aquiring the actual language please forward it to [email protected].

Thank you


http://www.lowellma.gov/depts/clerk/ma/agenda.2011-04-29.5612723009

 

[Nfdbrian]

I guess owning more than 10 guns is considered an "ARSENAL" in Lowell?? A vault??? Give me a break already!!

 

[GOAL C.M.]

Update, I just spoke to someone at City Hall, she is forwarding me the text of what was voted on later this afternoon.

We will keep you updated as things develop.

 

[bubbaj]

Glad I moved out of that city. It's moonbat central for the Merrimack Valley. Gets worse every year. -

 

[Horrible]

I don't see how this is Constitutional. Its like making you build a garage and install a car alarm in your vehicle. I probably shouldn't write this, it may give MA legislators bad ideas

 

[Billy2]

Wow

 

[chris_1001]

WTF? Really??? I'm sure that will totally stop crime, not! Guess the criminals will have to rob peoples houses in other towns to steal firearms...

 

[AngelKing]

really?

install a vault? is that the same thing as a safe or will these morons be coming up with building code requiremnts? are they planning to inspect said vaults for compliance?

smells like lawsuit.

 

[LoginName]

What little I could find (stuck at the bottom of an article concerning a proposed "muzzle law")...

In other business last night, the council:

* Voted to file a home-rule petition with the state Legislature to better provide for the safe storage of large numbers of firearms in the city. Look at tomorrow's Sun for more information about this petition.

http://www.lowellsun.com/ci_17989428?IADID=Search-www.lowellsun.com-www.lowellsun.com

 

[AngelKing]

Yeah...does that mean the LPD will muzzle its dogs? Yeah, I thought so. On a larger note, methinks this is a knee jerk reaction to that incident last year where a Lowell resident was robbed of several guns.

Stupid, but that' the likely culprit.

What little I could find (stuck at the bottom of an article concerning a proposed "muzzle law")...



http://www.lowellsun.com/ci_17989428?IADID=Search-www.lowellsun.com-www.lowellsun.com

 

[Len-2A Training]

I don't see how this is Constitutional. Its like making you build a garage and install a car alarm in your vehicle. I probably shouldn't write this, it may give MA legislators bad ideas

Don't you know that the Constitution does NOT apply in MA?

Seriously, cities/towns/MA gov't does what it wants, Constitution be damned. It takes a court case (ONLY in Fed Court, MA Courts are as corrupt as the politicians) to get them to change their ways. Sad but true!

The following says it all!

Originally Posted by SJC Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall (Comm. v. Powell (SJC-10783))
"we don't exactly follow the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court..."

 

[drgrant]

Why 10 guns? Does that mean critical mass is achieved at 11 and they all want to escape the house?

-Mike

 

[richc]

Better order one now before there's a run:

 

[mogarbage]

News on the street is anyone with over 10 pair of shoes is required to build dedicated closet.
Will NOT be acceptable to throw them in a pile or hang them off the back of door.

 

[Mr Weebles]

On a larger note, methinks this is a knee jerk reaction to that incident last year where a Lowell resident was robbed of several guns.

This is the first thing I thought of too.

You're probably right.

 

[yanici]

Yeah, the word "vault" is rather ambiguous. This is gonna get stupider and stupider [sic].

 

[Dench]

on to the supreme court we go.

 

[bfm]

Yeah, the word "vault" is rather ambiguous. This is gonna get stupider and stupider [sic].

I'm not sure I can fit them all in! http://www.gunvault.com/handgun-safes/microvault.html

 

[Bill Nance]

Thank God I moved.

 

[blindndead]

notify police about the storage??? Yea and how is that going to be a safety measure. Stupid!!!!

 

[davemata]

This is Lowell, if it ain't meth heads, it's idiots.

 

[davemata]

notify police about the storage??? Yea and how is that going to be a safety measure. Stupid!!!!

It's so they know who to no-knock with the team from Framingham.

 

[Ultimate]

10 guns? Really? What a joke. Awaiting full text...

 

[MichaelJR]

This same rule applies to all LEOs in the city, right?

 

[AngelKing]

Sooooo glad I abanoned ship in Lowell.

Gosh, I hope the Lowell cops arent like those in Lawrence - notify them and they're going to come over and do some shopping.

notify police about the storage??? Yea and how is that going to be a safety measure. Stupid!!!!

 

[Dench]

This same rule applies to all LEOs in the city, right?

arent you in Lowell now?

 

[jefftk]

I don't see how this is Constitutional. Its like making you build a garage and install a car alarm in your vehicle. I probably shouldn't write this, it may give MA legislators bad ideas

Not only is it basically against the 4th amendment, and indirectly against the 2nd amendment, the whole process is contrary to the philosophy of the constitution in the first place....

"Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority"
"By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community."
- James Madison, Federalist Papers No. 10

http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm

 

[MichaelJR]

arent you in Lowell now?

Nope I got her and I the hell out of there. Cool lofts, but Lowell isn't what I thought it was going to be. Not saying what city I technically reside in now lol, I don't trust the "outsider" viewers on this.

Thankfully I'm out of there, not sure how the management would feel about me installing a vault that would fit 18' ceilings hahaha.

 

[mass]

Looks like I may be renting my house out to section 8 crack heads and moving my hard working, tax paying azz to NH.

Funny thing is the guy who had all his guns stolen last year had them in a "vault" and not in a safe.

 

[Big_Red]

They want a gun vault? Here you go.