Attorney General Maura Healey
BY: Stephen Gutowski
March 11, 2019 5:10 pm
On Friday, a federal judge denied Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey's (D.) request that a suit filed against her decision to unilaterally redefine "assault weapons" be stayed.
Healey had requested the stay because she believes a parallel case against her 2016 decision to expand the definition of banned "assault weapons" should be decided first. U.S. District Court judge Timothy Hillman ruled the federal case deals with factors beyond those at hand in the state case. "The Enforcement Notice warrants constitutional review for vagueness without reaching the state law issue," he wrote in his ruling.
Healey announced on July 20, 2016, that she would be reinterpreting the state's decades-old "assault weapons" ban to expand what are termed "copycat" gun designs. At the time she accused the gun industry of using such designs to circumvent the ban.
"The gun industry has openly defied our laws here in Massachusetts for nearly two decades," said Healey. "That ends today. We have a moral and legal responsibility to ensure that combat-style weapons are off our streets and out of the hands of those who would use them to kill innocent people.
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