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on July 22, 2016 in World News

Attorney general launches new crackdown on rifles

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced Thursday the state will no longer tolerate the sale of semi-automatic “assault weapons” citing an old law passed in 1998 that made them illegal. Since there is no widely agreed-upon definition of what an “assault weapon” consists of, gun manufacturers have been able to get around the state bans by…

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