Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey sends letter to gun dealers

[SecularMotion]

BOSTON – Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is ramping up enforcement and oversight of the state's gun laws, which were updated last year as a response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut.

The Boston Globe reports Healey sent out a letter Tuesday to the 350 gun dealers in Massachusetts and her office plans spot checks on Bay State gun stores to make sure they're not selling illegal guns.

"For me, this is a public health crisis and acting to address it is a moral imperative," Healey wrote in the letter, which was also obtained by MassLive.com. "There are simply too many guns that are too easy to obtain."

Healey noted that there were 102,081 sales and transfers of handguns, rifles and shotguns by dealers to licensed state residents in 2014, "more than double the number from 2006."

http://www.masslive.com/news/boston/index.ssf/2015/12/massachusetts_attorney_general_3.html

[Jerry442]

1. Vigorously enforcing existing gun laws.

Should be something we can all get behind.

[The Green Manalishi]

4. agree.

Regardless of where one falls on the spectrum of opinion, enforcing the laws on the books is a no brainer.

[Duckhunter935]

2. what's an "illegal gun"?

Shouldn't a journalist use correct terms and say selling firearms illegally? I should hope they enforce existing laws.

[Revanchist]

3. I would guess

They are referring to firearms that you can purchase in other states but are illegal under the laws in Connecticut.

[ileus]

5. Doesn't sound bad...unless they use this as a tool to extract revenge on

honest FFLs.