Massachusetts Mulls Limits on Gun Purchases

Already some cities such as New York and Washington have limits on the number of guns you could buy each month, and a similar measure was pushed through in New Jersey last year. Now Massachusetts is considering a similar bill, reports The Boston Globe:

“Proponents of the bill say it would make it difficult for gun traffickers to obtain weapons in bulk, then sell them illegally on the streets of Boston. Right now, people licensed to buy guns can buy an unlimited number of weapons. Gun control advocates said that allows for ‘straw purchases,’ in which people who are legally able to buy guns are hired by gun traffickers to purchase weapons.”

If criminals are indeed using “straw purchases” to obtain guns, and there is actually little proof this is as common as the mainstream media likes to make it seem, what is to stop the badguys from going across the border and buying guns in another state? Are there really gun traffickers who are supplying mass weapons illegally on the streets of Boston?

If the latter is true, why doesn’t law enforcement step up efforts to make the streets safer instead of putting new legislation that affects law abiding citizens, which criminals will just find a way around anyway? We fear this is just a step to eventually ban guns completely in Boston and eventually Massachusetts, a move that hasn’t actually worked out for crime-ridden cities such as Chicago.