https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/10/01/healey-plans-to-use-executive-authority-to-beat-back-attempt-to-suspend-mass-gun-law/>Gov. Maura Healey plans to use her executive authority Wednesday to deem a gun bill she signed in July an emergency law, a move that effectively nullifies an attempt by Second Amendment rights groups to suspend the measure before it takes hold later in October.>Healey’s anticipated action, which her office confirmed Tuesday, throws into limbo a campaign led by a Cape Cod gun store owner to collect nearly 50,000 signatures from registered voters in Massachusetts by Oct. 9 to shelve the gun reforms until the 2026 elections.>”She … is literally interfering with the democratic process that is unfolding, a constitutional process that is unfolding. She had two months to do this before,” Leary told the Herald Tuesday morning. “If it was such an immediate need and a dire threat to this state, why did they wait until they knew that we were going to be successful in our campaign? This is only an effort to silence the voices of the 85,000 people that will be involved in this campaign.”>In a statement to the Herald, a spokesperson for Healey said the governor plans to sign the emergency language on Wednesday, which will put the law into effect immediately rather than on Oct. 23 and “ensure that law’s operation cannot be suspended by the referendum petition.”This is why I don't give a shit what the GOP or Trump does, I will always vote Republican because I fucking hate dems so fucking much
