I was working in Iraq in late 2004. A friend and I, both doing security work, started talking guns. He told me he was from Massachusetts and since his chief of police was a former Marine and he was a former Jarhead also, he got a CCW along with special endorsement for semi-automatic, special endorsement for hi capacity magazine, and a couple other things. I started laughing. He asked me what was so funny. I told him that in free states all the above can be done by any non-felon without any social permission. He really thought the was odd. People who live under a heavy yoke can't imagine what it is like not to.

Mass. residents please don't hammer me for my lack of knowledge of your laws. The above is the best of my memory of the conversation.

My question, though, is why do you live under these restrictions? New York, New Jersey, Mass, etc., why aren't those laws being struck down since Heller and McDonald?