Posted: 01/18/2013 10:25:28 AM EST
January 21, 2013 5:13 AM GMT
Updated: 01/21/2013 12:13:28 AM EST


BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts gun owners would be required to purchase liability insurance in case their firearm was ever used to injure someone under a bill being filed at the Statehouse.

The initiative is included in a gun control measure which would also change standards for gun licenses and outlaw large capacity magazines.

Under the bill being filed Friday, individuals applying for gun permits in Massachusetts would have to show proof of firearms insurance.

The bill's sponsor, Rep. David Linksy, compared the change to the requirement that car owners have auto insurance before registering their vehicles.

Linksy said requiring insurance could create market-based gun safety incentives.

Gun owners could see their insurance drop, say, if they agreed to take a firearms training course and properly stored their weapons.

Gov. Deval Patrick is pushing his own gun control measure.


http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_224013 ... -insurance

This is common sense to me ~

Sooz

Which is all the reason the gun whackos need to whine about how it tromps upon their consitutshunal rites.

They can whine about it all they want but it doesn't "tromp" on anything other than their pocketbooks.

NONE of the current suggestions "tromp" on their rights ~ while quoting the "shall not be infringed" language, they virtually always conveniently ignore the "well regulated" language ~

Sooz

Convenient, innit?