LMAO, this is so incredibly absurd, the last paragraph whch states you have to register and get a license for a machete to cut vegetation.... hahahahaha I just lost it. My eyes are tearing and my stomach hurts from laughing so hard.

 

They can't be serious. I would use this opportunity to make some smartass comment about liberals, but I know that most of the liberals on here will even find this to be just absolutely ridiculous.

 

I am embarassed to have been born in such a f***ed up state.

 

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE POSSESSION OF A MACHETE

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

 

SECTION 1.

 

Subsection (b) of section 10 of chapter 269 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2002 Official Edition is hereby amended by inserting after the word ?inches?, in line 67, the following word:- , machete.

 

SECTION 2. Said subsection (b) of said section 10 of said chapter 269, as so appearing, is hereby further amended by adding the following paragraph:-

 

For purposes of this section, ?machete? means ?a heavy knife at least 18 inches in length and having a blade at least 1.5 inches wide at its broadest measurement. This subsection shall not apply to carrying a machete on one?s person or in a vehicle if the machete is carried for the purpose of cutting vegetation or if the machete is being transported for the purpose of cutting vegetation. In a prosecution of a violation of this subsection, there shall be a permissible inference that such carrying of a machete is not for the purposes of cutting vegetation. Such presumption may be rebutted.

 

Any individual who requires a machete for the purposes of cutting vegetation shall register the machete with the local police department on an annual basis and, upon payment of an appropriate annual registration fee as determined by the local granting authority, shall be issued a permit authorizing him to possess the machete solely for the purposes of cutting vegetation

 

http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/st01/st01384.htm

I own 2. Since I don't own a gun, I have them just in case there's a breakin, which happens in my neighborhood.

This law was enacted at the same time Friday the 13th came out, I'm betting.

Weird stuff...

Not many Cubans living in Masachusetts, I bet.

that's just the text of a bill from a year ago.

 

they haven't actually passed any law like that, have they?

 

That was the case as well in the Boston area, where a rise in gang violence involving machetes occurred in the past several years. The surrounding towns of Revere, Everett, Lynn and Chelsea have banned machetes, and there is now a bill before the Massachusetts Senate that would prohibit the carrying, sale and manufacture of the tool-turned-weapon.

http://www.huntingtonnews.net/national/060...s-machetes.html

That was the case as well in the Boston area, where a rise in gang violence involving machetes occurred in the past several years. The surrounding towns of Revere, Everett, Lynn and Chelsea have banned machetes, and there is now a bill before the Massachusetts Senate that would prohibit the carrying, sale and manufacture of the tool-turned-weapon.

http://www.huntingtonnews.net/national/060...s-machetes.html

That sounds logical... let's ban machetes instead of going after the root of the problem :plain.

 

I can just picture all the gang members lined up outside the police station ready to register their machetes like the honest law abiding citizens that they are!

i should have bolded the last fragment.

 

and yes, banning machetes is retarded.

I think they have a nunchucku and kubaton ban as well, I guess Mass. is trying to systematically ban every melee weapon possible, lol, very noble i guess.

Someone will argue this violates the second amendment.

Someone will argue this violates the second amendment.

 

 

 

 

It doesn't.

I heard they might have to ban the Burger King from crossing state lines there, too.

 

Turns out his knights templar carry swords that look disturbingly like machetes.