Meway & Millis November 2017

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Stan and Carone Berman of Framingham, Senator Karen Spilka and Bonnie Mitchell of Ashland
Senator Spilka
Hosts Annual
Health &
Wellness Fair for
MetroWest
Seniors
On Saturday, October 14th, Senator Karen E.
Spilka (D-Ashland) hosted her annual Senior Health
and Wellness Fair at the Joseph P. Keefe Technical
School in Framingham. Over 200 MetroWest seniors
attended the morning event to learn about ways to
lead healthy and active lifestyles and enjoy a fun
morning out in the community.
“Staying happy, healthy and active is important
for everyone in our community,” said Senator Spilka.
“Each year I am honored to host this terrific day
of health and wellness presentations, screenings
and educational opportunities, and I always look
forward to seeing friends and neighbors from across
MetroWest.”
Mass. Passes Legislation Banning Bump Stocks
In October, the Massachusetts
House of Representatives
passed an amendment sponsored
by Representative David
Linsky to the 2017 Supplemental
Budget banning the sale, purchase,
or ownership of a “bump
stock” device.
The amendment adopted
by the House bans the possession,
ownership, or sale of any
device that attaches to a rifle,
shotgun, or firearm, other than
a magazine, which is designed to
increase the rate of fire of said
weapon. The legislation carries
a punishment of imprisonment
in the state prison by not less
than three years nor more than
twenty years, and goes into effect
six months from the passage of
the bill.
“This legislation will ensure
that no one in Massachusetts can
legally possess a ‘bump stock,’
a device designed to increase
the deadliness of these already
deadly weapons,” said Representative
Linsky (D-Natick). “These
devices were created by gun
manufacturers as a work-around
of the federal law banning the
sale and possession of automatic
weapons, and there is absolutely
no place for them in a civilized
society.”
A “bump stock” is a device
that uses the recoil of a semiautomatic
firearm to file several shots
in succession, mimicking automatic
gun fire. While the weapon
still fires one bullet for every pull
of the trigger, the “bump stock”
automates the trigger-pull process,
allowing shooters to fire at
a rate of 400 to 800 rounds a
minute. Twelve of the rifles the
gunman in the Las Vegas mass
shooting owned were modified
with a “bump stock,” allowing
him to increase the fire rate of
his weapon.
“Congress has continued its
failure to act in the wake of yet
another gun violence tragedy, but
I applaud Speaker DeLeo and
the rest of my colleagues in the
Massachusetts House for their
willingness to take a stand on this
issue of public safety,” said Representative
Linsky.
On October 11th, the Massachusetts
Senate unanimously
approved the bump stock ban.
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