"Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts.... These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people."...in 2004 after signing the first state level assault weapons ban, basically making permanent in Massachusetts the federal AWB which was sunsetting ... He is now trying to convince all of us he is a friend to the 2A movement. This pandering has to stop, and we have to stop tolerating it.