This coming Monday we will mark a state and federal holiday. To judge from car ads, calendars, and common conversation, more and more people have no idea what it is.
Those old enough to remember a simpler time will recall that the third Monday in February was known as Washington's Birthday.
BOSTON — A trio of citizens looking to overturn the commonwealth's ban on personal stun guns is taking the state's most active and vocal firearms enforcement authority figure to federal court — Attorney General Maura Healey.
In their lawsuit filed Wednesday, two Bay State residents and a self-defense activist claim the ban infringes on their Second Amendment right to bear arms and 14th Amendment right to equal protection of the laws.
