'Patchwork laws' create challenges for stopping spread of illegal guns

[SecularMotion]

BOSTON -- Public officials from across New England gathered at Roxbury Community College in Boston on Thursday for a regional gun trafficking summit organized by Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh.

Local and federal law enforcement representatives at the event gathered for a series of presentations and discussions on how to combat the spread of illegal guns through the region.

Many of those present acknowledged that though the six states of New England have different gun laws, they have a shared responsibility in addressing the problems of gun violence that affect communities across the region without regard for local gun laws.

Maine, for example, is a shall issue state with open carry laws on the books while Massachusetts is a heavily regulated may issue state that licenses carriers of mace. A gun license in New Hampshire costs $10 for four years while in Connecticut you have to pay $70 to simply operate a pistol, an additional $35 is required to obtain a license to purchase and transport a pistol.

http://www.masslive.com/news/boston/index.ssf/2014/04/new_england_gun_trafficking_summit.html

[blueridge3210]

1. So, what new laws or modifications to existing laws

would you propose. Is there something you would like to discuss?

[hack89]

2. So everyone adopt the most liberal and least repressive laws and move forward.

seems simple enough if it is that important.

[blueridge3210]

3. Well? (NT)

[Eleanors38]

4. Moving past the strangely-worded "Correction" in the OP's link,

perhaps the folks at this summit can move to enact uniform drug legalization/regulation laws, while at the same time go after repeat felons who have guns in their posession. Substantial sentences for persistently violent crims may reduce violence, gun or otherwise.